QUALImagiQ

WHY CHOOSE QUALIMAGIQ ?

• Interface without pull-down menus: just 3 buttons is all it takes, organised to guide you and accompany you in your work.

• In the automatic mode 3 mouse clicks is all it takes:
  • 1st click - Select the images to be analysed,
  • 2nd click - Analyse the selected images
  • 3rd click - Accept the analysis and generate 6 PDF reports, create a point in the trend curves and transfer the analysed images from the current work file to the archives file.

• In the step-by-step mode: you can completely parameterise the signal extraction masks in the images and/or the analysis methods. Even if it is MAGIQ (!) the software is not a mysterious black box, you remain master of your quality control and you can observe how QUALIMAGIQ carries out its analyses. This mode is also a wonderful tool to familiarise oneself with and train on quality control analyses.

QUALIMAGIQ analyses in a comprehensive manner, quickly and precisely

Developed in a partnership with the Video Image and Communication team of the Research Institute in Communication and Cybernetics of Nantes, as well as with various European health institutions, the majority of our analysis methods are the subject of research projects and international publications.

All of the signal extraction masks parameterisable by the user are systematically and automatically realigned on the images to be analysed, ensuring correct results even if the test objects have not been perfectly aligned with the imager.

You save precious time during image acquisition by eliminating the need to check and adjust by iteration the alignment of the phantoms with the imager.

Before analysis, the images are automatically sorted and controlled by the software, to make sure that they are in accordance with the protocols which you have declared. QUALIMAGIQ thus eliminates all risk of false positive or negative results.

When the QC measurements are images obtained with the « portal » imager of a radiation therapy treatment machine, applying patented methods QUALIMAGIQ systematically compensates for all of the imperfections of this type of image (sagging and geometrical distorsions of the imager, gantry flex).

Qualimagiq totally adapts to your specific needs

It is you who decides just what kind of quality control you wish to implement, as you can fully parameterize QUALIMAGIQ: parameterisation of the protocols, analysis methods, tolerances and target values regulatory references. You can however also use templates of quality control protocols and analysis method settings provided as a basis to facilitate start-up of the solution:  

• You can copy and paste the templates supplied with the system which are generally in conformity with the standards applicable in your country, or save your own personalized templates. 

QUALIMAGIQ recognises 5 USER LEVELS

• Basic users can import and analyse quality control measurements.
• The 2 intermediate level users can also validate or reject these analysis.
• Super-users can also set protocols, analysis methods, target values and tolerances.
• The program administrator can declare users and software paths.

QUALIMAGIQ'S ARCHITECTURE IS designed to easily provide you with assistance

You may if you wish grant us remote access to your host station. In addition, through a simple right click on any exam, QUALIMAGIQ automatically sends an e-mail request for assistance on this problematic exam to our after sales and deposits a compressed copy into your personal FTP server account together with all your program parameterization which is contained in a single directory automatically compressed by QUALIMAGIQ. Even without an internet connection our after sales can still function by providing us with this zipped directory which enables us to work in our office using your settings.

Over 95% of servicing consists in assistance setting analysis methods.

Furthermore, QUALIMAGIQ is designed to update its software on its own. A test mode is available which enables you to follow the evolution of the analysis results as the software versions evolve. 

Starting up qualimagiq is facilitated through on-site training and highly adapted documentation

• We send you all of the prescriptions associated with the QC (RTplan or ESF files) ahead of time and request that you take the first associated QC measurements.
• We parameterise the software to analyse these initial measurements and install it remotely (0.5 - 1 h).
• On site, we train you on the basic functions of the software (1 - 2 h).
• On site, together we acquire the QC measurements which deserve to be reviewed with you (1 - 3 h).
• Again on site, we finetune the software settings, instructing you on this parameterisation: setting protocols, image display, calculation methods, tolerances and target values (1 - 3 h).

By the end of the training session at your centre, overall quality assurance (not just QUALIMAGIQ) is operational: you need only continue routine application, repeating the acquisition which is a patient dossier!

To complete your training you can use QUALIMAGIQ in Demo mode, i.e. with a special database containing sample images for all types of devices and quality controls managed by the software. 

These SPECIFICATIONS correspond to QUALIMAGIQ in Standalone configuration.
note that QUALIMAGIQ is also AVAILABLE in a Client/server version. Please Ask us for FURTHER details concerning SPecifications with This C/S configuration.