Revision History
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Accreditation Overview
General Information about the ACR and Accreditation
- Introduction to the ACR
- What is ACR Accreditation?
- Benefits of ACR Accreditation
- Marketing Your Accreditation
- The Accreditation Process
- Questions About Accreditation?
- Contact ACR Accreditation
- Fees and Payments
- Resetting Your Password or Login
- How to Submit Payment
- Browser Compatibility and System Requirements
Submitting/Managing Your Application and Testing Package
Information about the application process, registration and payment
- ACR Login and Multifactor Authentication
- ACR Login Setup
- Multifactor Authentication Enrollment Instructions
- Enrolling in OKTA Verify
- MFA Enrollment Using SMS Authentication
- Enrolling in Google Authenticator
- Using Securty Key or Biometric Authenticator
- How to Unlock Your Account
- How to Set Up Multifactor Authentication for 30-Day Prompts
- Information Needed for Your Application
- Time Requirements
- Managing Your Modalities in ACRedit
- Adding a new/replacement or loaner unit or withdrawing a unit in ACRedit
- Mobile Unit Multi-Site Policy
- Changes in Facility, Personnel, Modality
- Testing Package and Image Submission Overview
- Image Submission: Upload with ACRedit Web Client
- Image Submission: Upload with TRIAD Windows Client
Personnel
Required Personnel Documentation and Qualifications
- General Personnel Requirements
- General Personnel Requirements: Documentation of Experience
- General Personnel Requirements: Documentation of Continuing Education
- General Personnel Requirements: International Medical Graduates
- General Personnel Requirements: Medical Physicists
- General Personnel Requirements: Supervising Physicians
- Interpreting Physician: CT
- Radiologic Technologist: CT
- Medical Physicist: CT
Accreditation Testing
Detailed guidelines for clinical and phantom testing
- Testing Overview
- Clinical Image Testing
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Adult Head/Neck Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Adult Chest Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Adult Abdomen Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Adult Cardiac Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Pediatric Head/Neck Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Pediatric Chest Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Pediatric Abdomen Module
- Technique Parameters and Anatomic Coverage: Pediatric Cardiac Module
- Phantom Overview: CT
- Phantom Testing: CT
- Radiation Dosimetry: CT
- Phantom Scoring: CT
- Special Considerations in CT Accreditation Phantom Testing
Centers of Excellence
Further information on how to be designated a Center of Excellence
- Comprehensive Breast Imaging Center (CBIC)
- Diagnostic Imaging Centers of Excellence (DICOE)
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Governance
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Personnel
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Facility Organization and Management
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Physical Environment
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Equipment
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Radiation and General Safety
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Quality Management
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Patient Rights
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Medical Records
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Infection Control
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Communication
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Utilization Review and Appropriateness of Services
- DICOE Areas of Assessment: Emergency Services
- Lung Cancer Screening Center Designation
- Prostate Cancer MRI Center Designation
Revision History for this Article | ||
Date | Section | Description of Revision(s) |
12-12-19 | All | Article created; FAQs incorporated; No criteria changes |
9-2-2021 | Forms | Updated clinical data form link |
1-11-2022 | Forms | Updated CT phantom order form link |
11-10-2022 | Submit/Manage; Forms | Added links related to the registration process; Updated site visit forms |
12-16-2022 | Resources | Removed external links to forms now attached to CT articles; 'Forms' button renamed 'Resources' |
1-24-2024 | Centers of Excellence | Updated CBIC, Lung Cancer Screening and Prostate Cancer MR Center Designation links |
4-9-25 | Fixed broken links | |