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Optimizing Day-to-Day MR Imaging through a Practical Approach
8 Hours ARRT Category A Credit
Kristan Harrington, RT(R)(MR), MBA
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.
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.
Locations & Dates
Orlando, FL Aug 14, 10
Minneapolis, MN Sep 18, 10
Phoenix, AZ Oct 16, 10
Washington, DC Nov 06, 10

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Who Should Attend
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.
About the Instructor
Kristan Harrington,
RT(R)(MR), MBA
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.
Seminar Credit
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.

Seminar Schedule
8:00 am Registration and Coffee
8:30 am 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)
9:00 am How to Create and Control Your Image Contrast
  • T1
  • - SE, TSE, GE
  • T2
  • - SE, TSE, GE
10:00 am Informal Discussion and Break
10:10 am 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
12:00 noon Lunch - (on your own)
1:00 pm Optimizing MR Image Quality
  • SNR
  • Contrast
  • Spatial resolution
  • Scan time
2:00 pm Recognizing and Preventing Artifacts
  • Phase mis-mapping
  • Aliasing
  • Chemical Shift (bandwidth/WFS)
  • Truncation
  • Cross excitation/cross talk
  • Zipper
  • Shading
3:00 pm Informal Discussion and Break
3:10 pm Practical Challenges and Solutions
  • Interactive scenario one
  • Interactive scenario two
  • Interactive scenario three
  • Interactive scenario four
  • Summary/close
4:30 pm Adjourn
Registration
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 ♦ AmountEarlyReg Door
Technologist   
MTMI Members171.00161.00179.00
Non-Members189.00179.00199.00


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Group discount for a group from one facility registering at the same time: 3-5 attendees 5%; 6 or more attendees 10%.
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Hotel Information
Orlando, FL - August 14, 2010
Florida Hotel & Conference Center
1500 Sand Lake Road
Orlando, FL 32809
407-859-1500
800-588-4656
http://www.thefloridahotelorlando.com
MTMI Guest Room Rate:  $119 Single/Double
Make hotel reservations by 7/30/10
Identify yourself as an MTMI attendee
Free Parking
Minneapolis, MN - September 18, 2010
Crowne Plaza Bloomington
5401 Green Valley Dr.
Bloomington, MN 55437
952-831-8000
http://www.cpmsp.com
MTMI Guest Room Rate $79
Make hotel reservations by 9/5/10
Please ask for the MTMI 9-18 group rate
Free Parking
Phoenix/Tempe, AZ - October 16, 2010
Sheraton Phoenix Airport
1600 South 52nd Street
Tempe, AZ 85281
480-967-6600
http://www.sheraton.com
MTMI Guest Room Rate:  $109
Make hotel reservations by 9/24/10
Ask for the Medical Technology Management Institute rate
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Washington, DC /Arlington, VA - November 6, 2010
Radisson National Airport
2020 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
703-920-8600
http://www.radisson.com/arlingtonva
MTMI Guest Room Rate:  $89 King
Make hotel reservations by 10/15/10
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Overnight Parking $20
Meeting Parking $10
Hotel information for other dates may not yet be available.
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