New Manual Helps Practices Stay Up-to-Date With CT Quality Control

The updated ACR CT Quality Control Manual assists facilities in testing and maintaining CT equipment within a continuous quality control program. The digital manual emphasizes a team approach to quality control, with step-by-step instructions for daily, weekly, monthly and yearly tests. Based on test results, you can review suggestions for corrective action.

What's New?
The manual describes which personnel are responsible for specific tasks and delineates methods for evaluating equipment performance. Updates include:

Radiologist Section

Radiologic Technologist Section

Qualified Medical Physicist Section

Qualified medical physicist responsibilities
Expectation of acceptance testing
Responsibilities of a CT protocol review and management team

Expectation of action limits
Expectation of testing after scanner repairs
Water CT number and standard deviation (noise) testing procedure and data interpretation and corrective action
Artifact evaluation test procedure
Quality Control Data Form and Laser Film Quality Checklist

Removed: Standard Artifact-Free Image section

Clinical protocol section
Radiation beam width recommended performance criteria and corrective action
Low-contrast performance data interpretation and analysis
CT number accuracy recommended performance criteria and corrective action
Artifact evaluation test procedure
CT number uniformity data interpretation and analysis and recommended performance criteria and corrective action
Dosimetry test procedure, data interpretation and analysis and timeframe for corrective action
CT scanner display calibration data interpretation and analysis and corrective action

Removed: Image thickness test

The new ACR CT Quality Control Manual is free to ACR-accredited facilities and facilities applying for accreditation. Others can purchase the manual from the ACR Catalog.

For More Information
To learn more about CT quality control resources, visit the ACR CT Accreditation page.