CASE STUDY SELECTION REQUIREMENTS AND INSTRUCTIONS:
General Nuclear Medicine, Comprehensive, PET and Multiple Sites
All cases must be contemporary and may be from up to one year prior. No more than one case per area or category is to be normal. Abnormal cases are preferred.
GENERAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE
(Excluding Nuclear Cardiology and PET):
For each area in which accreditation is requested, submit two (2) cases not to exceed 24 cases total:
- Gastrointestinal System: 2 cases
- Central Nervous System: 2 cases
- Endocrine System: 2 cases
- Endocrine System Non-Imaging (RAI Uptake): 2 cases
(Note: Only submit if not applying for endocrine system)
- Skeletal System: 2 cases
- Genitourinary System: 2 cases
- Pulmonary System: 2 cases
- Infectious Disease Processes: 2 cases
- Tumors: 2 cases
- Hematopoietic, Reticuloendothelial, Lymphatic: 2 cases
- Therapy: 2 cases
COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR MEDICINE (Including GNM and NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY and/or PET):
- For each area of General Nuclear Medicine in which accreditation is requested, submit two (2) cases (as described above).
- If also applying for Comprehensive with Nuclear Cardiology, submit three (3) cases (1 normal, 2 abnormal) for each area in which accreditation is requested (MPI and/or ERNA).
- If applying for Comprehensive with PET, submit three (3) PET cases for each area in which accreditation is requested.
PET (Oncologic, Neurologic and Cardiac) Only Applicants:
- If applying for PET accreditation and not GNM, submit five (5) cases from each category (oncology, neurology and/or cardiology).
- No more than one case per exam type should be normal.
MULTIPLE SITES:
- Select two (2) abnormal, contemporary cases of any imaging area in which the multiple site lab is applying. The two cases are in addition to the above requirements for the primary site.
NOTE: Screen captures of static images (for General Nuclear Medicine and/or PET applicants) may be submitted as JPEG, TIFF or BMP files or as equipment specific images with an embedded, image-specific reader (i.e. DICOM data with corresponding DICOM viewer).
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