Omar Yusuf, IAEA Department of Technical Cooperation
During the Task Force meeting, new quality assurance protocols were elaborated to improve the quality of nuclear medicine services. Here, a head phantom is being aligned in the gantry of a Computed Tomography machine at the Allgemeines Krankenhaus in Vienna, Austria. (Photo: D. Calma/IAEA)
Working with the IAEA, African experts have succeeded in establishing the continent’s first harmonized quality control (QC) guidance for nuclear medicine and diagnostic radiology. Following a series of virtual events held as part of an ongoing technical cooperation project[1], the project team has developed protocols with practical guidance on how to perform routine QC measurements to monitor the performance of X-ray and nuclear medicine systems.