Future of quality management of medical imaging

ABSTRACT

After the enactment of the laws for special medical devices, quality assurance for medical imaging devices such as computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, and mammography has been widely performed in Korea and the results of quality assurance tests for these imaging devices also have been markedly improved. However, this is not the end. The ultimate goal of quality assurance for medical imaging might be the overall quality improvement over the whole process of imaging studies in medical fields. From this point of view, quality assurance of medical imaging has a long way to go. In this review, we will look some future perspectives of the quality assurance of medical imaging.