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
- 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
- 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
- Modalities with Low Volume or 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 Exam-Specific Parameters: Breast
- Large-Medium Phantom Testing Instructions
- MRI Small Phantom Testing Instructions
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 Designation
- Prostate Cancer MRI Center Designation