European Guidelines on Quality Criteria for CT

• Diagnostic requirements (image criteria)

  • specify important anatomical structures that should be visible in the image to aid accurate diagnosis
  • qualitative guide to the degree of visibility with set terms

• Terminology

  • ‘visualisation’: organs and structures detectable
  • ‘critical reproduction’: organs and structures critical for the particular study
    • ‘reproduction’
    • ‘visually sharp reproduction’