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TH‐A‐303A‐01: Practical Procedures for Achieving and Maintaining ACR CT Accreditation
Author(s) -
Pickens D
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
medical physics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.473
H-Index - 180
eISSN - 2473-4209
pISSN - 0094-2405
DOI - 10.1118/1.3182591
Subject(s) - accreditation , quality assurance , documentation , medical physics , medical physicist , acceptance testing , quality (philosophy) , medicine , computer science , engineering , medical education , software engineering , operations management , external quality assessment , philosophy , epistemology , programming language
Accreditation of computed tomography systems is increasingly important as reimbursements become tied to the successful achievement and maintenance of accreditation status. This presentation reviews the technical requirements for the medical physicist who will be in charge of performing quality assurance and ACR accreditation testing of a CT scanner. These duties include establishing schedules for routine quality assurance testing, performing pre‐submission and annual testing, and performing testing for the ACR submission. All of these are reviewed from a practical standpoint of performing the required studies in an efficient manner with appropriate record keeping and documentation. Learning Objectives: Attendees will gain understanding of the 1. Requirements for the physics testing for ACR accreditation 2. Practical aspects of testing CT systems 3. Performance of annual surveillance testing and pre‐application testing 4. Establishment of routine quality assurance protocols and record keeping