[The Quality Assurance (QA) and the Quality Control (QC) of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Image]

Positron emission tomography (PET) is widely used for image diagnostics; making judgments for early diagnostics, differential diagnostics, staging and treatment effect. As for undertaking the large clinical trial and the multicenter study using several diagnostics, the quantitative standardization of PET images is important. We should maintain the safety and the accuracy of daily clinical images. Moreover, we have to develop a safety treatment manual for instruments, apparatus and radiopharmaceuticals in order to produce PET studies of the highest diagnostic accuracy. In addition, daily quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) are very important in order to achieve efficiency and safety of PET studies. The importance of the QA and the QC have been recognized from the view of clinical incident protection points. PET will become more advanced in the future, and therefore the QA and the QC for PET images will continue to important in our work. In the view-risk management, we should reaffirm the importance of both QA and QC. Furthermore, we underline the importance of the constant management system and organization in order to gain the quality enhancement of PET imaging.