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About this Seminar
The technical capabilities of magnetic resonance imaging continue to
present significant challenges to optimize the clinical examinations
and produce high image quality. This seminar will address the
critical information you need to master to be a successful MRI
technologist. The seminar will feature practical clinical scenarios
the technologist faces and how to deal with them. You will come away
with useful applied information to help you take maximum advantage
of the capabilities of your scanner and provide the best images to
answer the clinical question for each patient.
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Educational Objectives
At the completion of this seminar,
participants will be able to:
- Know the critical questions to ask about their MR unit.
- Understand how to create and control contrast in MR images.
- Have reviewed the various MR pulse sequences and the role of each.
- Learn to optimize MR image quality for various purposes.
- Recognize MR artifacts and how to prevent and control them.
- Have learned how to address the practical clinical challenges faced
by the MR technologist.
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Who Should Attend
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This seminar is for practicing MR technologists. It would also
be helpful to students, vendor personnel and radiology
residents wishing to understand how to apply the technology of
MR imaging.
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About the Instructor
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Kristan Harrington,
RT(R)(MR), MBA
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Kristan has been in MRI since 1995. She has experience as both
an MRI technologist and an MRI educator. Her current position
is Associate Professor at Emory University School of Medicine
in Atlanta, GA where she teaches MRI to technologists. She
brings her extensive knowledge of MRI and her ability to train
the practical clinical application of this technology to
provide a very enlightening educational experience.
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Seminar Credit
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This program provides 8 hours of Category A continuing
education credit for radiologic technologists recognized by
the ARRT and various licensure states. A certificate of
attendance will be provided for each individual upon
completion of the seminar. All attendees must attend the
entire seminar to receive full credit.
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Seminar Schedule
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8:00 am
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Registration and Coffee
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8:30 am
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Know Your Magnet - Questions You Need Answers to in Order to Optimize
- Introduction to objectives and goals of program
- - technologist versatility/adaptability
- Program overview
- MRI machine critical questions - What tools do I have to be successful?
- - vendor/release level
- field strength/gradient strength/slew rate
- packages available
- coils and coil type (linear, quadrature, multi-channel)
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9:00 am
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How to Create and Control Your Image Contrast
- T1
- - SE, TSE, GE
- T2
- - SE, TSE, GE
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10:00 am
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Informal Discussion and Break
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10:10 am
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Understanding All of the Pulse Sequences and Which One to Use?
- SE
- TSE/FSE
- IR
- STIR
- FLAIR
- GE/FFE
- Steady State
- Steady State Free Precession
- Balanced GE
- Fast GE
- EPI
- Pulse Sequence Acceleration Technique
- - parallel imaging
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12:00 noon
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Lunch - (on your own)
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1:00 pm
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Optimizing MR Image Quality
- SNR
- Contrast
- Spatial resolution
- Scan time
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2:00 pm
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Recognizing and Preventing Artifacts
- Phase mis-mapping
- Aliasing
- Chemical Shift (bandwidth/WFS)
- Truncation
- Cross excitation/cross talk
- Zipper
- Shading
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3:00 pm
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Informal Discussion and Break
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3:10 pm
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Practical Challenges and Solutions
- Interactive scenario one
- Interactive scenario two
- Interactive scenario three
- Interactive scenario four
- Summary/close
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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