Guidelines Links to the most commonly recognised and implemented guidelines:
The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine - UK Guidelines Report 91 This document gives clear advice on which routine performance tests are essential and which are desirable, where to get information on how to do them, who should be doing them and how often they should be done.
The American Association of Physicists in Medicine - USA guidelines AAPM TG18 Published guidelines and acceptance criteria for acceptance testing and quality control of medical display devices.
German Standards Institute (DIN) - Radiology Standards (NAR) - German Guidelines DIN 6868-57 The document describes the acceptance test procedure for image display devices. This procedure contains the test of relevant characteristics data of the image quality. The test methods required are specified and an example for a test report is given. In addition ergonomic requirements and the connection with the brightness perception of the eye are mentioned.
