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We recommend using the following citations to acknowledge the source, appropriate section and authors:
To cite the entire manual
Newell, MS, Destounis SV, Leung, JWT, DeMartini, WB, Lee, CH, Eby, PR. ACR BI-RADS® v2025 Manual. Reston, VA, American College of Radiology; 2025.
To cite Mammography
Destounis, SV, Friedewald, SM, Grimm, LJ, Poplack, SP, Sung, JS. Mammography. In: ACR BI-RADS® v2025 Manual. Reston, VA American College of Radiology; 2025.
To cite Ultrasound
Leung, JWT, Baker, JA, Hooley, R, Loving, VA, Rapelyea, JA. Ultrasound. In: ACR BI-RADS® v2025 Manual. Reston, VA American College of Radiology; 2025.
To cite MRI
DeMartini, WB, Strigel, RM, Pinker, K, Rahbar, H, Wang, LC. Magnetic Resonance Imaging. In: ACR BI-RADS® v2025 Manual. Reston, VA American College of Radiology; 2025.
To cite CEM
Lee, CH, Phillips, J, Sung, JS, Lewin, JM, Newell, MS. Contrast Enhanced Mammography. In: ACR BI-RADS® v2025 Manual. Reston, VA American College of Radiology; 2025.
To cite AOM
Eby, PR, Bennett, DL, Cohen, EO, Plecha, DM, Sickles, EA. Auditing and Outcomes Monitoring. In: ACR BI-RADS® v2025 Manual. Reston, VA American College of Radiology; 2025.
ACR® disclaims liability for any acts or omissions that occur related to an individual's or entity's use of ACR RADS, including but not limited to, translations of a specific RADS work.
Licensed software vendors who are approved for BI-RADS Atlas 5th Edition (2013) are posted in the ACR BI-RADS Licensed Software Vendors document.
Software vendors approved to submit data to the ACR National Mammography Database Version 3.0 are posted on the ACR National Mammography Database page.
Interested in licensing BI-RADS in your software? Complete the BI-RADS Software Vendor Contact Form or email us at RADS@acr.org.
Since 1999, the interpreting physician has been required to send every patient who receives a mammogram a written mammography report expressed in terms easily understood by a lay person. Failure to comply with this reporting requirement will result in a citation by the FDA.
These sample lay report letters are provided for your convenience; you may use these as is, modify them, or create your own lay reports.
Use of an ACR-approved computer-based reporting software is required for participation in the ACR National Mammography Database (NMD).
The NMD Data Dictionary describes all of the data elements for the National Mammography Database, including whether or not a field is required and what responses are valid.
