Image Errors on PET/CT Studies
Minor finding | Major finding |
Processing forms or worksheets missing or incomplete | Patient fasting time inadequate |
Date of study missing or incorrect | Patient glucose level too high (>200 mg/dL) |
Camera system used not recorded on images | Acquisition incorrect: not imaged at 60 ± 10 min after radiopharmaceutical injection |
Technologist initials missing from images | Wrong injection time, wrong dose, or wrong patient weight entered into SUV program |
Pharmacy label, or pharmacist or technologist initials, missing | Contrast dose missing, incomplete, or incorrect |
Checklists missing or incomplete | CT processed incorrectly or incompletely (field of view) |
Camera failure; patient moved to other system | Maximum-intensity projection missing or not done |