Accreditation Support

The ACR and the Accreditation Process 10

• Introduction to the ACR (Revised 12-12-19)
• What is ACR Accreditation? (Revised 12-12-19)
• Benefits of ACR Accreditation (Revised 12-12-19)
• Marketing Your Accreditation (Revised 3-31-20)
• The Accreditation Process (Revised 02-04-2021)

See all 10 articles

General Information: Contact, Payment, etc. 5

• ACR Response to COVID-19 (Revised 07-17-2020)
• Contact ACR Accreditation (Revised 12-12-19)
• Fees and Payments (Revised 10-15-2020)
• How To Submit Payment (Revised 3-30-2020)
• Browser Compatibility and System Requirements (Revised 12-12-19)

Registering 5

• Registering With ACRedit (Revised 7-2-2020)
• Registering with ACRedit Plus (Revised 7-2-2020)
• Registering with ROPA (Revised 12-12-19)
• Information Needed for Your Application (Revised 12-12-19)
• Information Needed for Your Application: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Managing Your Application 18

• Time Requirements (Revised 12-17-19)
• Time Requirements: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Managing Your Modalities in ACRedit (CT, MR, NM, PET, US, Mammography) (Revised 12-12-19)
• Managing Your Modalities in ACRedit Plus (Stereo, Breast US) (Revised 12-12-19)
• Managing Your Modalities in ROPA (Radiation Oncology) (Revised 12-12-19)

See all 18 articles

General Information: Personnel 7

• General Personnel Requirements (Revised 12-12-19)
• General Personnel Requirements: Documentation of Experience (Revised 12-12-19)
• General Personnel Requirements: Documentation of Continuing Education (Revised 12-12-19)
• General Personnel Requirements: International Medical Graduates (Revised 12-12-19)
• General Personnel Requirements: Medical Physicists/MR Scientists for CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine and PET (Revised 12-12-19)

See all 7 articles

Complete Accreditation Information: Breast Ultrasound 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: Breast Ultrasound 2

• Interpreting Physician: Breast Ultrasound and Ultrasound-Guided Breast Biopsy (Revised 04-30-20)
• Sonographer/Technologist: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)

Equipment, QC, QA, Reporting: Breast Ultrasound 3

• Equipment: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)
• Quality Assurance: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)
• Reporting: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: Breast Ultrasound 2

• Clinical Testing: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 09-19-2020)
• Preparing and Submitting Accreditation Materials: Breast Ultrasound (Revised 09-19-2020)

Complete Accreditation Information: CT 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: CT (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: CT 3

• Interpreting Physician: CT (Revised 12-12-19)
• Radiologic Technologist: CT (Revised 12-12-19)
• Medical Physicist: CT (Revised 12-12-19)

Equipment, QC and QA: CT 2

• Quality Control: CT (Revised 12-12-19)
• The 2017 CT QC Manual (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: CT 15

• Testing Overview: CT (Revised 1-27-2020)
• Clinical Image Testing: CT (Revised 6-8-2020)
• Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: CT - Adult Head and Neck Module (Revised 12-12-19)
• Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: CT - Adult Chest Module (Revised 12-12-19)
• Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: CT - Adult Abdomen Module (Revised 2-24-2021)

See all 15 articles

Complete Accreditation Information: Mammography 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: Mammography 4

• Lead Interpreting Physician: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Interpreting Physician: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Radiologic Technologist: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Medical Physicist: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Equipment, QC and QA: Mammography 3

• Equipment: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Quality Control: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Quality Assurance and Medical Audit: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Reporting, Record Keeping and Consumer Complaints: Mammography 3

• Reporting: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Record Keeping: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Consumer Complaints: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: Mammography 6

• Clinical Image Testing: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Phantom Testing: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Digital Breast Tomosynthesis (DBT) (Revised 12-12-19)
• Computed Radiography (CR) (Revised 12-12-19)
• Mammography: Questions for Screen-Film Units (Revised 12-12-19)

See all 6 articles

Complete Accreditation Information: MRI and Breast MRI 2

• Complete Accreditation Information: MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Complete Accreditation Information: Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: MRI and Breast MRI 3

• Interpreting/Supervising Physician: MRI/Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Technologist: MRI/Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Medical Physicist/MR Scientist: MRI/Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)

Equipment, QC, QA and Reporting: MRI and Breast MRI 4

• Quality Control: MRI/Breast MRI (Revised 10-21-2020)
• Equipment: Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Quality Assurance: Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Reporting: Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: MRI 11

• Testing Overview: MRI (Revised 5-27-2020)
• Clinical Image Testing: MRI (Revised 6-8-2020)
• MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Head and Neck Module (Revised 4-9-2020)
• MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Spine Module (Revised 4-15-2020)
• MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: MSK Module (Revised 12-12-19)

See all 11 articles

Accreditation Testing: Breast MRI 7

• Testing Overview: Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Clinical Image Review Categories: Breast MRI (Revised 12-12-19)
• Breast MRI Clinical Image Review Category A: Pulse Sequences and Image Contrast (Revised 12-12-19)
• Breast MRI Clinical Image Review Category B: Positioning and Anatomic Coverage (Revised 12-12-19)
• Breast MRI Clinical Image Review Category C: Artifacts (Revised 12-12-19)

See all 7 articles

Complete Accreditation Information: PET/Nuclear Medicine 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: Nuclear Medicine and PET (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: Nuclear Medicine/PET 4

• Interpreting Physician: Nuclear Medicine and PET (Revised 12-17-19)
• Technologist: Nuclear Medicine and PET (Revised 12-12-19)
• Medical Physicist: Nuclear Medicine and PET (Revised 12-12-19)
• Level 2 Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS) (Revised 12-12-19)

Equipment, QC and QA: Nuclear Medicine/PET 2

• Quality Control: Nuclear Medicine (Revised 2-22-2021)
• Quality Control: PET (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: Nuclear Medicine/PET 6

• Testing Overview: Nuclear Medicine and PET (Revised 1-4-2021)
• Clinical Image Testing: Nuclear Medicine (Revised 10-15-2020)
• Phantom Testing: Nuclear Medicine (Revised 2-4-2021)
• Clinical Image Testing: PET (Revised 9-23-2020)
• Phantom Testing: PET (Revised 11-30-2020)

See all 6 articles

Complete Accreditation Information: Radiation Oncology 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: Radiation Oncology 1

• Personnel: Radiation Oncology (Revised 7-22-2020)

QC and QA: Radiation Oncology 4

• Quality Control and Quality Assurance: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)
• Patient Census Forms: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)
• Continuous Quality Improvement: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)
• Practice Quality Improvement (PQI): Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: Radiation Oncology 2

• Site Surveys: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)
• Mini-Audit and Consultative Surveys: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)

Complete Accreditation Information: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy 3

• Interpreting Physician: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)
• Radiologic Technologist: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)
• Medical Physicist: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)

Equipment, QC and QA: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy 4

• Equipment: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)
• Quality Control: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)
• QA and Outcome Data: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)
• Special Cases in Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Quality Control (Revised 12-12-19)

Accreditation Testing: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy 5

• Testing Overview: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-12-19)
• Clinical Image Testing: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 09-19-20)
• Phantom Testing: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 12-20-19)
• Preparing and Submitting Your Accreditation Materials: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy (Revised 09-19-2020)
• Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Accreditation Checklist (Revised 12-12-19)

Complete Accreditation Information: Ultrasound 1

• Complete Accreditation Information: Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)

Personnel: Ultrasound 2

• Interpreting Physician: Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)
• Sonographer/Technologist: Ultrasound (Revised 11-30-2020)

Accreditation Testing: Ultrasound 6

• Clinical Image Testing: Ultrasound (Revised 2-16-2021)
• Exam Requirements: Obstetrical Ultrasound (Revised 2-24-2021)
• Exam Requirements: Gynecological Ultrasound (Revised 2-19-2021)
• Exam Requirements: General Ultrasound (Revised 8-3-2020)
• Exam Requirements: Pediatric Ultrasound (Revised 6-2-2020)

See all 6 articles

Shared QC Articles 1

• Quality Control: Ultrasound and Breast Ultrasound (Revised 2-11-21)

Shared QA Articles 2

• QA/Peer Review Requirements: CT, MRI, Nuclear Medicine/PET, Ultrasound (Revised 12-12-19)
• RADPEER (Revised 12-12-19)

Passing Results 3

• Passing Results (Revised 12-12-19)
• Passing Results: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Passing Results: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)

Failing Results 4

• Frequent Deficiencies (Revised 2-2-2020)
• Options Following a Failure or Deficiency (Revised 09-21-2020)
• Options Following a Failure or Deficiency: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Options Following a Failure or Deficiency: Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)

Maintenance of Accreditation 4

• Validation Site Surveys (Revised 12-12-19)
• Validation Cycles: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Annual Updates: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)
• Interim Accreditation and MQSA Certificate Extensions: Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Renewal of Accreditation 3

• Renewal Applications (Revised 12-12-19)
• Renewal Applications in Radiation Oncology (Revised 12-12-19)
• Renewal Applications in Mammography (Revised 12-12-19)

Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence (BICOE) 1

• Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence (BICOE) (Revised 12-12-19)

Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellence (DICOE) 14

• Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellence (Revised 12-12-19)
• Governance (Revised 12-12-19)
• Personnel (Revised 12-12-19)
• Facility Organization and Management (Revised 12-12-19)
• Physical Environment (Revised 12-12-19)

See all 14 articles

Lung Cancer Screening Centers of Excellence 1

• Lung Cancer Screening Center Designation (Revised 3-30-2020)