ACRIN research associates are likely to hear a number of the following acronyms referred to on conference calls or see them referenced in protocols or on the ACRIN Web site.
ACNP American College of Nuclear Physicians
ACOR Association of Cancer Online Resources
ACOSOG American College of Surgeons Oncology Group
ACR American College of Radiology
ACRP Association of Clinical Research Professionals
AIM Image Annotation markup
AIUM American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine
ASCO American Society of Clinical Oncology
BDMC Biostatistics and Data Monitoring Center
BIP Biomedical Imaging Program
CaBig Cancer Biomedical Informatics Grid
CALGB Cancer and Leukemia Group B
CAQ Certificate of Added Qualifications
CDUS Clinical Data Update System
CIP Cancer Imaging Program
CRA Clinical Research Associate
CRF Case Report Form
CT Computed tomography
CTC Computerized tomographic colonography
CTEP Cancer Therapy Evaluation Program
DCE-MRI Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI
DICOM Digital imaging and communication in medicine
DM Data management
DMC Data Monitoring Committee
DMIST Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial
DSMC Data and Safety Monitoring Committee
DWI Diffusion-weighted imaging
ECOG Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
FDG-PET Fluorodeoxyglucose PET
FIGO International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
GCP Good clinical practice
GOG Gynecology Oncology Group
GQA General Qualifying Application
HIPAA Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
IC Informed consent
IEC Independent Ethics Committee
IND Investigational new drug
IPC Institutional Participants Committee
IRB Institutional Review Board
MQSA Mammography Quality Standards Act
MRA Magnetic resonance angiography
MRgFUS MR-guided focused ultrasound
MRI Magnetic resonance imaging
MRSI Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging
NABTT New Approaches to Brain Tumor Therapy
NCCTG North Central Cancer Treatment Group
NCIA National Cancer Imaging Archive
NCI LSS National Cancer Institute Lung Screening Study
NCS Networking and Communications Subcommittee
NLST National Lung Screening Trial
NRC Nuclear Regulatory Commission
NSABP National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project
NSCLC Non–small-cell lung cancer
OHRP Office for Human Research Protections
PBTC Pedi Brain Tumor Consortium
PDRC Protocol Development and Regulatory Compliance
PET Positron emission tomography
PHI Protected health information
PI Principal Investigator
PLCO Prostate, lung, colorectal and ovarian cancer screening trial
PSA Protocol-specific Application
PTV Primary tumor volume
QARC Quality Assurance Review Center
RA Research Associate
RC Research Coordinator
RFA Radiofrequency ablation
ROC Receiver operating characteristic
RTOG Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
SAE Serious adverse event
SoCRA Society of Clinical Research Associates
SOP Standard operating procedure
SPECT Single-photon emission CT
SWOG Southwest Oncology Group
USPIO Ultrasmall particle superparamagnetic iron oxide
VIEW Virtual Imaging Evaluation Workspace
XIP EXtensible Imaging Platform
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