Guidance

Breast screening: calculate image quality parameters

Guidelines for calculating quantitative image quality parameters for x-ray detectors in breast screening.

• From: NHS England
• Published: 1 April 2009
• Last updated: 24 July 2025
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  1. 24 July 2025

     Changed lead organisation from Public Health England to NHS England.

  2. 1 April 2009

     First published.

Applies to England

Documents

Calculation of quantitative image quality parameters: notes describing OBJ_IQ_reduced

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Details

This publication sets out the procedures for using the NHS breast screening programme’s objective image quality software.