Christiana Care Breast Center first in Delaware to earn ACR accreditation

Christiana Care Breast Center first in Delaware to earn ACR accreditation

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Breast MRI offers valuable information about many breast conditions that other imaging modalities, such as mammography or ultrasound, might not obtain. The Christiana Care Breast Center offers the region’s only dedicated breast MRI unit.
May 4, 2011
breast mri
Breast MRI offers valuable information about many breast conditions that other imaging modalities, such as mammography or ultrasound, might not obtain. The Christiana Care Breast Center offers the region’s only dedicated breast MRI unit.

The Christiana Care Breast Center at the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center has been awarded a three-year term of accreditation in breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) by the American College of Radiology (ACR).

The Christiana Care Breast Center is the only facility in Delaware to earn this accreditation. MRI of the breast offers valuable information about many breast conditions that other imaging modalities, such as mammography or ultrasound, might not obtain.

The ACR gold seal of accreditation represents the highest level of image quality and patient safety. Facilities achieve the award if they meet ACR practice guidelines and technical standards after a peer-review evaluation by board-certified physicians and expert medical physicists. The evaluation assesses image quality, personnel qualifications, adequacy of facility equipment, quality-control procedures and quality-assurance programs.

The Christiana Care Breast Center is the only facility in the region devoted exclusively to breast care, diagnosis and treatment. It offers the region’s only dedicated breast MRI unit.

The American College of Radiology is a national professional organization serving more than 34,000 diagnostic/interventional radiologists, radiation oncologists, nuclear-medicine physicians and medical physicists.

 

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