About Us
Our company was established in 1995 and has been responsible for providing outstanding medical physics consulting services ever since. NPC provides physics services in the areas of Nuclear Medicine, Radiology, Accreditation, and Health Physics. Our specialties are in the area of nuclear medicine, X-ray, and MRI, radiation safety, and regulatory compliance.
Our highly qualified and experienced full time consultants provide consulting services to hospitals, physician practices, imaging centers, and industrial clients. Our regular customers particularly value our professionalism, thoroughness, attention to detail, accessibility, and clear, concise reports. We currently provide routine services in Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, S. Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. We have provided and will provide services to customers in other states
If you are not familiar with our company and your first contact with us is online, we would be pleased to hear from you! Please let us know what your needs and questions are, we will be more than happy to help.
Our Services
National Physics Consultants (NPC) is a regional consulting organization staffed by full-time professionals with over thirty years of experience in Nuclear Medicine and Radiology physics. NPC services both large and small medical facilities and non-medical facilities and has a proven track record of excellence.
Radiology Consulting
NPC provides radiology consulting services covering Radiation Safety, Regulatory Compliance, Certified Radiation Expert Services (Ohio Regulatory Requirement), Equipment QC and Acceptance Testing, Mammography QC, and MQSA Compliance, CT QC and Accreditation Support, MRI QC and Accreditation Support, Ultrasound QC and Accreditation Support, and Cone Beam CT QC.
Get our credentials | Click this button to access all our credentials. This is especially helpful for those mammo techs during an inspection! You will be directed to our cloud service where you can download or view all physicist CEU's and continuing experience. |
News
NPC has hired a new consultant, Mitya Barreto. We are excited to bring her talents to NPC and look forward to having her work at your site. Click here to check out Mitya's bio.
NPC has just hired a new consultant, Tommy Parsons. Tommy is based in Hurricane, West Virginia where he'll be positioned to improve accessibility to our numerous West Virginia Clients. He will also help us out in Ohio and other areas. Click here to check out Tommy's info.
Please join us in welcoming Mr. Daveid Hoeprich to NPC as our newest physicist / consultant. Click here to read all about him!
Yes FINALLY! The ACR has published its Digital mammography QC manual (but you can't start using it until 2017). The site can opt to use the new ACR QC manual or continue to use the manufacturer's manual.
The manual is being provided free of charge to accredited sites by the ACR. For more information visit the ACR website.
NPC endorses the use of the ACR manual, however it would require the site to purchase a new phantom. In some cases, using the new manual would result in less time spent by the technologist on routine QC, and in all cases, the amount of time spent by the physicist on QC would be reduced. NPC will reduce its physicist fees for sites using the new manual. Talk to or Email Bob Kobistek for more information about this.
Satisfied Customers
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Frequently Asked Questions
Accreditation (all modalities)
You should also visit the website of the accrediting body, the American College of Radiology, The Joint Commission, or the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission. For ACR accreditations, you should download the program requirements documents and read them over. There are also clinical imaging guides which you should eventually also read. Be sure to contact your NPC representative early in the process. We need to schedule visits for phantom imaging, and we can help answer your questions along the way.
Direct links to the ACR Program Requirements Documents are as follows:
We use a mobile service for PET, MRI, and/or CT. Who has to be accredited, the mobile company or us?
Mammography
- As in all mammography installations, everything has to pass before the physicist can provide a report to the ACR. Unlike the annual physicist survey, the testing performed after installation (called a Mammography Equipment Evaluation or MEE) does not allow for the 30 day margin in correcting deficiencies. All deficiencies must be corrected before the unit may be used clinically.
- Be sure all connectivity is enabled. The physicist must not only test the FFDM unit but also the radiologist viewing stations and the printer.
- If remote viewing stations are being installed, be sure arrangements can be made to have the physicist visit the various sites.
- Be sure the physicist has access to all pertinent QC manuals -- from the FFDM manufacturer, the soft copy workstation manufacturer and also from the printer manufacturer. Your physicist may request copies of these manuals in advance of the acceptance test in the event he is not familiar with the particular model.
Computed Tomography
MRI
Nuclear Medicine
"A physics survey must be performed on each Gamma Camera or PET unit at least annually." This includes the annual camera QC tests and the annual phantom scans for both routine nuclear medicine and/or PET. All test data must be sent to a qualified medical physicist for review and report preparation. Further, "the qualified practicing medical physicist should meet with the supervising physician and the QC technologist to review the results of the survey and the effectiveness of the technologist QC program, and to recommend any corrective action or repairs that are needed." NPC will be adding signature lines for the physician and the appropriate technologist in our reports to verify that all involved are aware of the test results. For you information" The supervising physician is responsible for assuring compliance with the recommendations of the medical physicist."
Also, the ACR requires semi-annual QC testing with the SPECT/PET phantom. "At this time, the ACR strongly recommends quarterly testing of each system with an appropriate phantom in addition to other tests recommended by the vendor. At a minimum, testing with the appropriate phantom must be performed semi-annually." This requires that the phantom is imaged and evaluated. The evaluation can be by the technologist.
NPC offers programs for either information review and report preparation or on site annual ACR testing. If you would like to change any of your current programs, contact your consultant.
Contact Us
Contact us by phone at (888) 456-5255, or use the form below to send a message to NPC. We recommend you use this feature for inquiries about our company, services, etc. Existing customers who need to contact their consultant should email the consultant directly or use the form below since that will permit us to respond more quickly.
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