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Successful accreditation is a team effort involving the lead supervising physician, stereotactic technologist, and qualified medical physicist (QMP). Other personnel (administrators, managers, etc.) may also be a part of your team, depending on your facility. This team should be agreed upon before beginning the accreditation process and should keep in close contact during the process. This will help ensure success.
In addition to the information included here, should you have additional questions you can contact ACR breast imaging staff .
There are three portions to your ACR Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Accreditation submission:
The Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Clinical Data Form is attached below.
You must utilize the services of a QMP for the Medical Physicist Report and oversight of your facility’s technologist quality control (QC) program. The ACR strongly recommends using the services of a QMP for the image quality control portion of your submission.
Every unit must apply to be accredited (in the case of add-on biopsy attachments used on more than one unit, all units that the add-on attachment is used on for stereotactic biopsies must be accredited).
All clinical examinations submitted must have been performed within 6 months of the date on the testing package that was released to the facility. No clinical images will be accepted for review that predate the testing package date by more than six months.
All phantom examinations submitted must have been performed within 14 months of the date on the testing package that was released to the facility. Phantom images from the most recent annual medical physicist’s survey may be used, provided they meet all other submission requirements. No images will be accepted for review that predate the testing package date by more than 14 months.
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