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
(The Phantom Laboratory, Salem, NY)
- Pixel size measurement
- Spatial Resolution – PSF
- Slice thickness and Slice incrementation
- Reconstructed image uniformity
- 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