relevant CT anatomy; definition of a nodule; and image artifacts. 3.2.2 Specification Parameter Actor Specification Shall fulfill the qualifications required by the American College of Radiology CT Accreditation Program. These include certification by the American Board of Radiology or analogous non-U.S. certifying organization; appropriate licensing; documented oversight, interpretation, and reporting Radiologist of the required ABR minimum number of CT examinations; and compliance with ABR and licensing board continuing education requirements. See: http://www.acraccreditation.org/modalities/ct ACR Accreditation Shall fulfill the qualifications required by the American College of Radiology CT Accreditation Program. These include certification by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists or analogous non-U.S. certifying organization, appropriate licensing, documented training and experience in Technologist performing CT, and compliance with certifying and licensing organization continuing education requirements. See: http://www.acraccreditation.org/modalities/ct Shall undergo documented training in performing CT image volumetric analysis of lung nodules in lung cancer screening by a radiologist having Analyst Image qualifications conforming to the requirements of this profile. Training Analyst Note: if the Image Analyst is a Profile-conformant Radiologist, additional training is not required. 3.3. Equipment Quality Assurance This activity involves quality assurance of the imaging devices that is not directly associated with a specific subject. It includes calibrations, phantom imaging, performance assessments or validations that are necessary to reliably meet the Profile Claim. 3.3.1 Discussion This activity is focused on ensuring that the acquisition device is aligned/calibrated/functioning normally. Performance measurements of specific protocols are not addressed here. Those are included in section 3.4. Conformance with this Profile requires adherence of CT equipment to U.S. federal regulations (21CFR1020.33) or analogous regulations outside of the U.S., CT equipment performance evaluation procedures of the American College of Radiology CT Accreditation Program (http://www.acraccreditation.org/modalities/ct), and quality control procedures of the scanner manufacturer. These assessment procedures include a technical performance evaluation of the CT scanner
relevant CT anatomy; definition of a nodule; and image artifacts. 3.2.2 Specification Parameter Actor Specification ACR Accreditation Radiologist Shall fulfill the qualifications required by the American College of Radiology CT Accreditation Program. These include certification by the American Board of Radiology or analogous non-U.S. certifying organization; appropriate licensing; documented oversight, interpretation, and reporting of the required ABR minimum number of CT examinations; and compliance with ABR and licensing board continuing education requirements. See: http://www.acraccreditation.org/modalities/ct Technologist Shall fulfill the qualifications required by the American College of Radiology CT Accreditation Program. These include certification by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists or analogous non-U.S. certifying organization, appropriate licensing, documented training and experience in performing CT, and compliance with certifying and licensing organization continuing education requirements. See: http://www.acraccreditation.org/modalities/ct Analyst Training Image Analyst Shall undergo documented training in performing CT image volumetric analysis of lung nodules in lung cancer screening by a radiologist having qualifications conforming to the requirements of this profile. Note: if the Image Analyst is a Profile-conformant Radiologist, additional training is not required. 3.3. Equipment Quality Assurance This activity involves quality assurance of the imaging devices that is not directly associated with a specific subject. It includes calibrations, phantom imaging, performance assessments or validations that are necessary to reliably meet the Profile Claim. 3.3.1 Discussion This activity is focused on ensuring that the acquisition device is aligned/calibrated/functioning normally. Performance measurements of specific protocols are not addressed here. Those are included in section 3.4. Conformance with this Profile requires adherence of CT equipment to U.S. federal regulations (21CFR1020.33) or analogous regulations outside of the U.S., CT equipment performance evaluation procedures of the American College of Radiology CT Accreditation Program (http://www.acraccreditation.org/modalities/ct), and quality control procedures of the scanner manufacturer. These assessment procedures include a technical performance evaluation of the CT scanner