ICANL or ACR?

Nuclear Accreditation - ICANL or ACR?

Currently both ICANL (Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Laboratories) and ACR (American College of Cardiology) offer Nuclear Accreditation. Which accrediting organization is right for your lab?

There are many factors to consider when choosing the accreditation process that is right for your lab. Cost, equipment requirements, clinical requirements are just a few factors to consider. Review the table below for a brief overview of the comparisons of the two accrediting organizations. Both ICANL and ACR provide additional information on their websites.

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NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY ACCREDITATION
Requirements	ACR	ICANL
Phantom testing	Mandated	Optional
Purchase phantom	ACR approved phantom needed	Phantoms not needed
Case studies	Normal only	Mostly pathology, only one normal allowed.
Opening an application	Fees must be paid at time of opening application	No fee to open application
Submission Time Frames after opening an application	45 days ACR mandates submission of all testing material (clinical and phantom images) within 45 days of application request.	No time frame. The online application can remain open and active
Case study time frames	60 days All phantom and clinical images must be from the same 60 day period and within 30 days before or after phantom images.	1 year All cases must be selected from within one year prior to the date of submission.
Pricing schedule	Base: $3300 Additional Fees: Additional sites: $750	Base: $1200 Additional Fees: Per imaging unit: $600 Phantom (SPECT) $1521
Submission of policies with application	No Policies are not submitted with the application.	Yes. Certain lab policies must be submitted with the application.
Submission of Quality Assurance with application	No	Yes At a minimum one quarters worth of quality assurance must be completed and submitted with the application.

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