Unwanted in Mammography Inspection

  1. Mammography quality control, medical physicist
    evaluations, supervising physician review of quality
    control, and/or phantom techniques nor patient techniques
    were not performed.
  2. Mammography AEC constant density or mammography kVp was
    inaccurate.
  3. Mammography quality control failed and/or phantom failed
    and did not cease performing mammography.
  4. Technique chart was incomplete.
  5. Records were not available for protective device test,
    machine compliance test, instrument calibration,
    mammography quality assurance/quality control, and/or
    mammography annual physicist evaluation.
  6. Regulations, operating and safety procedures,
    certification, correspondence, and/or radiation
    protection program were not available and/or Radiation
    Safety Officer quarterly audits were not performed.
  7. Mammography quality control corrective actions were not
    performed.
  8. Values on the technique chart were not used clinically.
  9. Certification was not available, not current, not
    complete or had expired.

From the Texas Conference on the Regulation
of Radiation on November 4-5, 1996 given by the Texas Department
of Health.