Revision History
Whether you have a specific question regarding Nuclear Medicine and PET 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 Nuclear Medicine and PET 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
- 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
- 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 Physician: Nuclear Medicine/PET
- Technologist: Nuclear Medicine/PET
- Medical Physicist: Nuclear Medicine/PET
- Level 2 Core Cardiology Training Symposium (COCATS) Training Program
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 |
04-05-21 | Forms | Separation of PET and Nuclear Medicine Testing and QC Forms |
11-10-22 | Submit/Manage; Forms | Added links related to the registration process; Updated site visit forms |
11-18-22 | Accreditation Testing | Added Planar, SPECT and Nuclear Cardiology article links |
12-16-22 | Resources | Removed external links to forms now attached to PET/NM articles; 'Forms' button renamed 'Resources' |
1-24-2024 | Centers of Excellence | Updated CBIC, Lung Cancer Screening and Prostate Cancer MRI Center Designation links |
8-2-2024 | Submitting/ Managing Your Application/Testing Package | Updated the name of the Modalities with Low Volume or Emergency Use link |
4-9-2025 | Updated broken links | |