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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.
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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Amount
Early
Reg Door
Technologist
MTMI Members
171.00
161.00
179.00
Non-Members
189.00
179.00
199.00
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received at least 3 days prior to the seminar. Cancellations received
within 3 days of the seminar will receive a credit toward a future
MTMI seminar, minus the $30 processing fee. No refunds will be
made after the seminar.
Registration Discounts
Group discount for a group from one facility registering at the same time: 3-5
attendees 5%; 6 or more attendees 10%. Group discounts for MTMI
Institutional Members can be as high as 25%, please contact MTMI for details
(discount is not applicable if the tuition is paid by purchase order). For
student rates, contact MTMI. Members of MTMI receive a discount. Only one
discount may be applied.
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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
Free Parking
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
Identify yourself as an MTMI attendee
Overnight Parking $20
Meeting Parking $10
Hotel information for other dates may not yet be available.