Acceptance and Use of the SMPTE Medical Diagnostic Imaging Test Pattern for Television Monitors and Hard-Copy Recording Cameras

Grayscale calibration and quality assurance of diagnostic monitors in a PACS system

“…This phantom image contains inserts suitable to verify the absence of significant flaws in a short time, such as contrast or resolution loss and the presence of artefacts. The TG18-QC pattern results from the wellknown Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) phantom, which is currently the industrial standard to test television chains; the use of this pattern is recommended by the international literature for day-to-day QA [12,13]. were within the recommended tolerances.…”

“…Questa immagine fantoccio contiene inserti atti a verificare in tempi brevi l'assenza di difetti importanti, quali cali di contrasto o di risoluzione e presenza di artefatti. Il pattern TG18-QC deriva dal ben noto fantoccio SMPTE che è attualmente lo standard industriale per la verifica delle catene televisive; l'utilizzo di tale pattern è raccomandato dalla letteratura internazionale come controllo di qualità giornaliero [12,13].…”

The SNMMI and EANM Practice Guideline for Tele-Nuclear Medicine 2.0

“…For the SMPTE pattern, the lines should appear linear and all line pairs of different widths should be visible and have the same contrast (8). A test pattern such as that of the SMPTE may be used to check gray-scale linearity.…”