Patent ID: 7298876

Claim:
A method for quality control in radiological image acquisition, comprising: receiving a radiological image of a patient acquired using at least one piece of radiological equipment at least partially controlled by a technologist, the patient being controlled by the technologies relative to the radiological equipment in acquiring said radiological image; processing the radiological image by computer to test the radiological image to determine if the radiological image meets a preselected standard relating to at least one of: technologist control of the patient relative to the radiological equipment during the image acquisition and technologist preparation of the radiological equipment for the image acquisition, wherein said preselected standard relating to technologist control of the patient relative to the radiological equipment during the image acquisition relates to one of (a) proper placement of anatomical part of the patient relative to a detector of the radiological equipment, and (b) controlling movement of the anatomical part of the patient relative to the detector during image acquisition; and recording the results of the testing in a manner that associates said results with said technologist for facilitating evaluation of a performance of said technologist.