Mammography Quality Assurance and Control: Applying the American College of Radiology's New Guidelines
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Mammography Quality Assurance and Control: Applying the American College of Radiology's New Guidelines is organized by eRADIMAGING.,Release Date: 10/27/2017,Expiration Date: 11/1/2023,,Course Description:,Breast cancer is one of the most common malignancies reported in women and the second leading cause of their cancer-related deaths. Screening mammography, particularly with digital imaging, has greatly improved the early detection of malignant lesions, especially in younger women and in those with dense breast tissue. Maintaining high standards of quality control (QC) is essential to maximizing the image quality of mammograms. The most recent version of the American College of Radiology's (ACR) mammography accreditation program was released in 2016 as the Digital Mammography Quality Control Manual and was approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a substitute for the guidelines recommended by the manufacturers of mammography equipment. These voluntary guidelines, which standardize and streamline, the process of quality assurance, have the potential to improve the performance, documentation, and assessment of QC measures at mammography centers that adopt the ACR recommendations.,,Learning Objectives:,After reading this article, the participant should be able to:,• IDENTIFY the rationale and limitations of the recent US Food and Drug Administration's approval of the American College of Radiology's alternative standard for quality assurance.,• SUMMARIZE the objectives of the American College of Radiology's quality-control manual and its advantages for mammography facilities.,• EXPLAIN the purpose of quality control and why it is important.,• STATE the role of the radiology technologist in the quality-control team.,• EXPLAIN the purpose of quality-control testing along with the required frequencies and timeframes for corrective action.