Objectives
- Recognize the appearance of equipment introduced artifacts.
- Recognize the appearance of processor introduced artifacts.
- Recognize the appearance of patient introduced artifacts.
- Determine if the artifact is coming from the processor or the mammography unit.
- Learn about processor pick-off and how to determine if it is pickoff or dust in the cassette.
- Troubleshoot film screen artifacts.
- Understand why equipment related artifacts happen.
- Understand why processor related artifacts happen.
- Understand why patient related artifacts happen and how to avoid them.