Sutter Medical Physics Center provides an extensive list of services throughout Northern California including performing evaluations of diagnostic imaging equipment for various accreditation boards and organizations, as well as offering radiation physics consulting services.
Radiation Physics Consulting
Sutter Health Medical Physics Center provides the following
consultation services:
- Compliance/performance/acceptance surveys of all diagnostic imaging equipment
- Radiation safety/protection surveys
- Quarterly, semi-annual and annual audits of nuclear medicine
- Radioactive materials license application preparation and amendment assistance
- Patient and fetal dose calculations
- Radiation safety training
- Nuclear medicine hazardous material worker training (DOT)
- Sealed source leak testing (SSLT)
- Radiation survey instrument calibration and repair
- Nuclear medicine thyroid uptake and well calibration
- Non-invasive evaluation of installed radiation shielding
- Medical radiation shielding design
Equipment Evaluation & Accreditation Testing
Sutter Medical Physics Center performs periodic evaluation of imaging equipment for American College of Radiology (ACR) and Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL) accreditation.
American College of Radiology (ACR)
- Diagnostic radiology
- Mammography (analog, full field digital mammography [FFDM] and tomosynthesis)
- Stereotactic breast biopsy
- Computed tomography (CT)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Nuclear medicine and pet imaging
- Ultrasound imaging
Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Laboratories (ICANL)
- Nuclear medicine
- Nuclear cardiology
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
State of California and JCAHO
Sutter Health Medical Physics Center performs routine periodic evaluation of imaging equipment to satisfy State of California, Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) and The Joint Commission (JCAHO) standards and regulations.
- General radiography and fluoroscopy
- Interventional radiology and cardiac catheterization labs
- Dental radiography
- Mammography
- Bone densitometry
- Computed tomography (CT)
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Nuclear medicine gamma cameras
- Positron emission tomography (PET)
- Ultrasound
- Nuclear medicine