Abstract:

The quality assurance of all the radiographic instruments is very important for ensuring its proper and better functioning. Quality assurance (QA) is a management programme that ensures that diagnostic image quality is maintained with the least amount of risk and distress to patients. Periodic quality control tests, preventative maintenance procedures, administrative systems, and training are all part of the programme. The present study is a prospective study and the aim to conduct is study is to evaluate the quality control. It is a prospective study which was carried out on seven X-ray units of Radiology department at Maharishi Markandeshwar Hospital, Mullan, Ambala, Haryana. In this study seven units of X-ray units were evaluated in which five were fixed and two were portable for their quality assurance through different test such as Congruence of radiation and optical fields, Focal spot size measurement etc. The results of the study revealed the good quality and proper functioning of all the instruments used in the present study.