Help your team shine during ACR accreditation with Bella Blankets Protective Coverlets. Ninety-two percent of ACR accreditation failures in mammography are due to positioning. Improving this technique can make a big difference – for accreditation, image quality and patient care. Bella Blankets provide a secure, non-slip surface that helps keep breast tissue in place, allowing your team to get closer to the chest wall, achieve better positioning, and capture clearer images. In a clinical study1, patient images using Bella Blankets were compared to prior-year images where no protective coverlet had been used:
- 77% of patients had increased tissue acquisition
- When measuring the PNL in both views, the average increase was 0.41 cm
- 48% of patients showed improved visualization of pectoralis muscle
- Visualization of retroglandular tissue went from 86% PY (prior year) to 96% CY (current year)
- Visualization of IMF as “open” went from 67% PY to 87% CY
1 Gerald J. Randall, M.S. (DABR) (Certified Licensed Medical Physicist), “Mammo Protective Coverlets Testing”, March 3, 2017.
