what test is done monthly?
what test is done daily?
100
law passes in 1992 to standardize the quality of equipment and quality of trained technologists and interpreting physicians in mammography across the country
What is MQSA?
100
Are mobile units eligible for MQSA?
yes
100
Lead interpreting physician
Medical physicist
Quality control technologist
Who is in charge of the Quality assurance piece?
100
best view to evaluate a suspicious lesion in the 2:00 position of the right breast, close to the chest wall
What is cleavage view?
200
0.1 focal spot
air gap technique
longer exposure times
What is magnification view?
200
who is eligible to participate in MQSA?
any facility that conducts breast screening or diagnostic clinic, breast procedures.
200
accredited by fda approved acrreditation every ?
MQSA clearance every ?
3 years
annual
200
image quality assessment using phantom
screen cleanliness
view box cleanliness
What quality control tests are done weekly?
200
decreases overlapping breast tissue and helps better seen if anything is hiding behind the breast tissue
What is spot compression view?
what is tomosynthesis?
300
what does adequate breast compression do the scatter radiation?
decrease
300
30 days
MQSA requires that a dacility send each patient a summary of the MG report in how many days?
300
960 interpretations per 24 months
What is the continuing requirement for the interpreting physicians?
300
4 large fibers, 3 specks and 3 masses should be seen on the image
how often do you do this test?
what is phantom image?
weekly
300
37 year old female with palpable mass
What test will you do?
400
Beryllium is used in the mammographic x-ray tube as?
What material is at the window of the tube?
400
what do you include in the letter that is sent to the patient?
breast density
assign assessment category in mammo reports
400
what is the eligibility criteria of the interpreting physicians?
state license
240 MG interpretation in 6 months or within 2 years of residency training
ABR, AOBR
60 hours of category 1 CME in mammography
400
Located in the inferior aspect of the breast on MLO view
it should be minimally seen on the MLO view.
What is inframmamary fold?
500
family history of breast cancer in mother at the age of 41. what are the screening recommendations?
start screening mammogram at age of 31
500
Technologists qualifications?
state license or certificate by ARRT
40 hrs of mammo training
25 exams performed under direct supervision
8 hours of training in each mammographic modality
500
what makes a good CC view?
retromammary fat and pectoralis muscle seen on this projection
nipple in profile
within 1 cm from the PNL
no skin folds
500
length of the PNL on CC and MLO views should be within?