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7.2.1.6. Time frame for corrective actionImmediately: If the review workstation is not performing acceptably, corrective action should be taken beforeany further patient images are acquired using the acquisition workstation; if the acquisition workstation is notperforming acceptably, corrective action should be taken before the acquisition workstation is used for patientimages.Note: Failure of a radiologist review workstation monitor to pass this test does not mean that patient imageacquisition must cease, only that interpretation of patient images using that monitor must cease untilthe problem is corrected.Failure of the acquisition workstation monitor requires the cessation of patient imaging, unless thereview workstation is located close enough to the acquisition workstation that each image can bechecked before the next is taken.55