The Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) of 1992 requires that all mammography facilities in the United States (including those using full field digital mammography [FFDM] equipment) be accredited by an approved body, certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and...
TU-A-18C-01: ACR Accreditation Updates in CT, Ultrasound, Mammography and MRIdoi:10.1118/1.4889229A goal of an imaging accreditation program is to ensure adequate image quality, verify appropriate staff qualifications, and to assure patient and personnel safety. Currently, more than 35,000 ...
In particular, the ACR (American College of Radiology) mammography phantom has been used for accreditation and routine QC for many years. Recently the FDA approved the use of the new ACR (2017) phantom to accredit DBT systems. While the old ACR phantom has been used to ensure adequate image...
While mammography accreditation is required by the FDA under MQSA, facilities seeking ACR accreditation in the other diagnostic modalities have done so voluntarily but for a variety of reasons including the MIPAA mandate requiring the providers of advanced diagnostic services that bill under part B of...