Revision History
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Submitting/Managing Your Application and Testing Package
Information about the application process, registration and payment
- Registering with ACRedit
- Information Needed for Your Application
- Time Requirements
- Managing Your Modalities in ACRedit
- Resetting Your Password or Login
- 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
Forms
Links to Forms Relevant to CT Accreditation
- Administrative:
- DMAP Login Change Request Form
- DMAP Ownership Change/Modality ID Designation Form
- Consumer Complaint Notice to Patients
- Testing, QC and QA:
- CT Clinical Data Form
- CTAP Phantom Data/Dose Forms
- CT ACR Phantom Order Form: Updated 1.11.2022
- CT Equipment Quality Control Data Form
- Laser Printer QC Form
- CT Annual System Performance Evaluation Summary Form
- Prepare for Site Visits:
- Toolkit for Validation Site Surveys (MIPPA)
- Toolkit for Validation Site Surveys (Non-MIPPA)
- Personnel:
- CME/Continuing Experience Record for Physicians
- CME/Continuing Experience Record for Medical Physicists/MR Scientists
- CEU Record for Technologists
Centers of Excellence
Further information on how to be designated a Center of Excellence
- Breast Imaging Centers of Excellence (BICOE)
- 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 Centers of Excellence
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 |