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Quality assurance is an organized process to establish and monitor the performance of the diagnostic imaging system. The justification for introducing a programme of quality assurance testing is to enable the production of radiographs of a consistently high quality but with minimal radiation doses and without incurring unnecessary costs.
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Price, R. (1985). Quality assurance of diagnostic X-ray equipment. In: Equipment for Diagnostic Radiography. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4930-0_15
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