[Intl_DxMedPhys] Seeking Daily CT and MR QC Automated Software [EXTERNAL]

Mon Aug 18 14:19:28 EDT 2025

Hi All,

I second the suggestion of using MS tools.

Myself and our physics team at MUSC are piloting an online CT QC application written in Power Apps.

We have the basic license tier (does not include MS CoPilot) and everything works quite nicely. Charts and other analytics are made through API calls to Quickchart.io. I like PowerBI but have found it to be a pain for simpler display tasks.

The annual cost is only my time.  Data storage, reporting, alerts, etc are handled using the other MS cloud apps like SharePoint and Power Automate.

Happy to share this solution

Jon

Jonathon A. Nye, PhD

Professor, Department of Radiology and Radiological Science

Medical University of South Carolina
99 Jonathan Lucas Drive, MSC 184

Charleston, SC 29425
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Good morning Listers, I wanted to chime in on the discussion about automated QC software for daily CT and MR QC. An alternative to consider is building your own system. With the Microsoft tools available at most institutions, automating QC for

Good morning Listers,

I wanted to chime in on the discussion about automated QC software for daily CT and MR QC. An alternative to consider is building your own system. With the Microsoft tools available at most institutions, automating QC for multiple modalities is quite straightforward.

During my time at the Cleveland Clinic, we had two outstanding programmers develop our radiation dose monitoring system, QC system, testing workflow, and inventory management system, among other systems. While it's true that not every institution has the financial resources of the Cleveland Clinic, it was more cost-effective to develop and maintain these solutions internally.

Nowadays, the cost-benefit skew might be even more favorable with tools like MS Copilot, MS Power Apps, and MS Power BI. These applications can facilitate much, if not all, of what is needed. Even with these tools, having a knowledgeable programming professional may be prudent to expedite the process and overcome any personal bandwidth limitations, but not absolutely necessary.

Just some food for thought!

Best regards,

Kevin

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Subject: Re: [Intl_DxMedPhys] Seeking Daily CT and MR QC Automated Software [EXTERNAL]

We use Atirix QC Track for lead PPE inventory and are planning on incorporating CT QC into Atirix next (and hopefully MR down the line). I have received good feedback from other users about using QC Track for CT QC (no MR feedback yet). Thanks,

We use Atirix QC Track for lead PPE inventory and are planning on incorporating CT QC into Atirix next (and hopefully MR down the line).

I have received good feedback from other users about using QC Track for CT QC (no MR feedback yet).

Thanks,

Andrew

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Hi, We use the WAD-QC package from NVKF (MedPhysNL / wadqc — Bitbucket). It takes a bit of work to setup, but you can write custom analysis modules that is triggered when images are sent to the dicom server. We currently use it for CT and DX,

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We use the WAD-QC package from NVKF (MedPhysNL / wadqc — Bitbucket<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/bitbucket.org/MedPhysNL/wadqc/wiki/Home__;!!KGKeukY!xW7Lq0njVJcZl8z4I30T3PAQSSNKcVxB9BFLXugbDZp7IwENkUR82GFdebIHISTo9JA95yhm4wywj5oxHkJC2XQ6sGwEsjJD6i78fuLPMPgFGkucjw$>). It takes a bit of work to setup, but you can write custom analysis modules that is triggered when images are sent to the dicom server. We currently use it for CT and DX, the tech run daily QC and sends the images to a dicom server, triggers an analysis and results are available after a couple of minutes on a (selfhosted) website.

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I'd take a look at Atirix too, I've been impressed. They have Nuc Med. Jeff On Fri, Aug 15, 2025 at 11: 37 AM Januseski, Daniel via Intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list <intl_dxmedphys_wd_osu_list@ lists. osu. edu> wrote: This message was sent

I'd take a look at Atirix too, I've been impressed. They have Nuc Med.

Jeff

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Hi Joe,

We use ZapIT daily for routine CT QC and all weekly MRI QC.  The process is super simple – we have preset protocols for the tech to run daily (CT) which include automatic forwarding to a DICOM service which processes and then sends to ZapIT.  In about 2 minutes, the tech can open a ZapIT session, run the daily water/uniformity test, and the results are populated from the analysis program.  There is also full control to open and examine the images, with full DICOM headers and ROI/distance measurement tools for making manual verifications.  It is platform agnostic (we send both GE and Siemens test images), and because in NJ we have to keep the images for 30 days we have permanent retention in ZapIT.

Process is the same for MRI and the analysis covers the whole suite of phantom tests, including transmitter gain and CF.

This has really been a benefit for our staff in time saving and consistency; I actual gave a talk about our experiences with at AAPM 2 weeks ago and showed how it even exports ACR-format QC logs same as is on the ACR website.  And tech support is very fast, friendly and successful.

They do not, to my knowledge, have a nuc med solution at this time.  But we use almost exclusively GE cameras, and our daily floods are analyzed on-camera with quantitative results.  The staff just documents them in NMIS, so we don’t have a great need on the nuc side as it is fairly easy already (and the logging/reporting of long term QC results for the Discover-family scanners is not bad).

Dan

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Subject: [Intl_DxMedPhys] Seeking Daily CT and MR QC Automated Software

Hello list serv, Do you know of any commercial software that does the following for Daily/Weekly QC: Automatically processes the: ACR MRI phantom Vendor specific CT QC phantoms. GE CT and Canon CT. Daily QC DICOM save screens from our GE Gamma

Hello list serv,

Do you know of any commercial software that does the following for Daily/Weekly QC:

  1.  Automatically processes the:

     *   ACR MRI phantom
     *   Vendor specific CT QC phantoms.  GE CT and Canon CT.
     *   Daily QC DICOM save screens from our GE Gamma and PET scanners.  It would be nice if the program could make direct measurements from the NM daily QC images.
     *   Can add other phantoms as needed.

  1.  Allows the technologists to log in, review the phantom scans for artifacts, and the quantitative results.   Afterwards they would indicate that the results have been reviewed or what actions were taken to address any issues. We would want them to be able to ww/wl, pan zoom etc.

  1.  Configurable email alerts.

  1.  Plots trends of the Daily QC analysis and perhaps predicts if maintenance will be needed… CT number drift, tranmit gain increases, etc.

Samuel Brady has developed Matlab code that processes all of our phantom scans on a chron job.  It sends out automated emails when there are issues with Daily QC.  This works very well for us, but we want to offload the upkeep of this program onto a commercial product.

Thanks for your suggestions,

-Joe Meier

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