Revision History
Whether you have a specific question regarding MRI accreditation, or need comprehensive information to help you prepare your application, this page will be useful in providing links to all articles relevant to the MRI accreditation process. Click on a button below to find the articles most relevant to your needs.
Accreditation Overview
General Information about the ACR and Accreditation
- Introduction to the ACR
- What is ACR Accreditation?
- Benefits of ACR Accreditation
- Questions About Accreditation?
- Marketing Your Accreditation
- The Accreditation Process
- 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
- Registering with ACRedit
- 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
- Units for Emergency Use
- 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/Supervising Physician: MRI/Breast MRI
- Technologist: MRI/Breast MRI
- Medical Physicist/MR Scientist: MRI/Breast MRI
Accreditation Testing
Detailed guidelines for clinical and phantom testing
- MRI Accreditation Testing Overview
- MRI Clinical Testing Instructions
- MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Head and Neck Module
- MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Spine Module
- MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: MSK Module
- MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Body Module
- MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: MRA Module
- MRI Exam-Specific Parameters: Cardiac Module
- MRI Large Phantom Testing Instructions
- MRI Small Phantom Testing Instructions
Forms
Links to Forms Relevant to MRI Accreditation
- Administrative:
- DMAP Login Change Request Form
- DMAP Ownership Change/Modality ID Designation Form
- Consumer Complaint Notice to Patients
- Testing, QA, QC and Equipment:
- Clinical Data Form
- Large Phantom Order Form Updated 10-1-2021
- Large Phantom Guidance
- Large Phantom Data Form
- Large Phantom Weekly MR Equipment QC Form
- Small Phantom Order Form Updated 10-1-2021
- Small Phantom Guidance
- Small Phantom Data Form
- Small Phantom Weekly MR Equipment QC Form
- Medium Phantom Order Form New 9-17-2021
- Medium Phantom Weekly MR Equipment QC Form
- 7T Phantom Order Form New 9-17-2021
- Weekly Laser QC Form
- MR Weekly Visual Checklist
- ***Coming Soon***Large/Medium Phantom Data Form
- ***Coming Soon*** Large-Medium Phantom Guidance
- ***Coming Soon*** Medium Phantom Grace Period Guidance
- MR Annual Equipment Evaluation Summary Form
- Prepare for Site Visits:
- Toolkit for Practice Sites (MIPPA)
- Toolkit for Practice Sites (Non-MIPPA)
- 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