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Keep in mind no matter which application you use to create your images store them on a seperate drive/partition that does NOT get de-fragged ...image files hate this.
Also most of the image apps...at least the paid ones have an image verifying tool built in.
This takes approx. the same amount of time to run as creation of the original image file but it should always be used prior to burning an image to CD/DVD.