NM Tool Kit™ (v1.1) IRIS QA, LLC.
Nuclear Medicine gamma camera software package

NM Tool Kit is a Nuclear Medicine gamma camera software package supporting routine QC testing for SPECT and NEMA¹ based acceptance testing procedures.

This application is a simple windows based interface that supports DICOM 3.0 image data. Automatic output of results in an Adobe^® Acrobat file format (pdf) with an option to print hard copies. The single page report contains the following information; the site, system, data acquisition parameters, test results along with a thumbnail of the processed image.

NEMA processing tools available:

Intrinsic spatial resolution²
Intrinsic spatial linearity²
Multiple window spatial registration³
System spatial resolution with scatter⁴
System spatial resolution without scatter⁴
Spect reconstructed spatial resolution without scatter
Spect reconstructed spatial resolution with scatter⁵

NM Tool Kit provides the following analysis for the Specphan™ phantom
(The Phantom Laboratory, Salem, NY)

Pixel size measurement
Spatial Resolution – PSF
Slice thickness and Slice incrementation
Reconstructed image uniformity

Utility functions available:

Multi-Frame processing - extract and sum a series of images using a multi image file (e.g. transaxial set of data). This application would be manipulating slices from a SPECT phantom as is required for ACR accreditation
Pixel calibration tool - requires two line source image (defined by NEMA in the 'System Spatial Resolution' procedure 3.2.3).

NEMA Standards Publication NU 1-2007
Requires NEMA x and y slit masks
Requires NEMA specified lead container with center 5 mm diameter hole
Requires Capillary Line Fixture(ECT/CLF/A) – Data Spectrum
Requires NEMA Spect Triple Line Source Phantom (ECT/NEMA-TRI/P) – Data Spectrum

NM Tool Kit™ (v1.1) IRIS QA, LLC. Nuclear Medicine gamma camera software package

NM Tool Kit™ (v1.1) IRIS QA, LLC.
Nuclear Medicine gamma camera software package