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About this Seminar
Most digital radiography seminars discuss how the equipment works
and the physics behind it. This seminar is designed to give
technologists practical knowledge to help them use their CR and DR
equipment. With over 250 images the presentation will
feel like a "hands-on" workshop.
This seminar will confront
the universal problems and concerns with digital radiography. You
will learn why you should be using 15-20 kVp higher and one third
the mAs required for film/screen. Little training exists to provide
an understanding of the use of magnification modes and
the Dose Exposure Index (DEI) number. These will be discussed
throughout the seminar.
Using film/screen, radiographers once worried about a film being too
dark or light, now they need to be concerned about acceptable
quantum mottle and over radiating patients. This will lead to a
better understanding of how to utilized this new technology to
improve the art of radiography and science.
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Educational Objectives
At the completion of this seminar,
attendees will be able to:
- Select appropriate technical factors to optimize image acquisition, consistent with ALARA.
- Describe at least three different ways to critique a digital image.
- Discuss the concept of acceptable mottle.
- Identify what is needed to change the technique chart for digital systems.
- Describe why a Ferlic Filter is beneficial on a cross table lateral hip view.
- Explain how to set up a tube at the proper angle for a portable chest.
- Explain the newest information concerning lead shielding.
- Explain the legal implications of not marking images, post processing collimation and changing algorithms.
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Locations & Dates
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Kansas City, MO |
Mar 31, 2012
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New York, NY |
May 19, 2012
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New Orleans, LA |
Jun 16, 2012
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Indianapolis, IN |
Jul 14, 2012
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Montreal, QC |
Sep 22, 2012
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About the Instructor
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Dennis Bowman, RT(R)
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Dennis talks about this seminar
Dennis has been an active radiologic technologist for over 30
years. He has been employed as a Staff Technologist at the
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey,
California since 1990. He has also been the Clinical
Instructor for the Cabrillo College Radiology Program since
1991. With a digital dosimeter and a vast array of body
phantoms, Dennis has put in hundreds of hours researching,
studying and putting into practice, digital techniques. In
addition to the weekly classes he gives his students, Dennis
has traveled nationwide lecturing on how best to use and
critique digital radiography. As a "shooting tech", Dennis
fully understands all the problems techs encounter and is able
to help them solve those problems with humor. He is
experienced, knowledgeable and brings an enthusiastic teaching
style you will enjoy.
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Who Should Attend
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- Radiologic Technologists
- Medical Imaging Specialists
- Educators
- Vendor Personnel
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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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Introduction to Digital Radiography
- What is the new Digital Paradigm
- - the "new" digital CR Optimum kVp's
- the latest Universal Digital Technique chart
- Differences between Indirect, Direct and Film/Screen
- - direct radiography exposure of the abdomen
- of QC monitor station uses
- grid use
- Corrupted Dose Ecposre Numbers (DE#'s)
- - thorax phantom experiment
- elbow phantom experiment
- Ferlic Filter explanation
- Cassettes and plates
- - different pixel sizes
- erasing plates
- The first 6 months
- - things that can and will go wrong
- our worst mistake
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10:10 am
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Informal Discussion and Break
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10:20 am
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Advanced Principles in Digital Radiography
- Optimum kVp's
- - What do mAs and kVp do?
- How do you critique a digital image?
- - quantum mottle
- understanding DE#'s
- Automatic Rescaling
- - skull images from Fuji, Kodak and Agfa
- mAs dose creep
- - How much can you over expose?
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11:10 am
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Art of Techniques and the AEC
- AEC technique strategy
- - plus and minus density buttons
- Densities (film and digital)
- Changing techniques for digital images
- - mAs is directly proportional
- kVp is indirectly proportional
- the 15% rule with chart
- the 7 1/2 rule
- Techniques for portables
- - Inverse Square Law
- SID's
- different technique choices in mAs and KvP
- Extra technique "Good things to know"
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12:00 pm
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Lunch - (on your own)
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1:00 pm
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Adaptive Radiography: Tips and Tricks
- The coconut experiment
- Ribs
- Trauma oblique C-spine
- Prone bilateral sunrise
- Two lengthwise 14x17's for wide abdomen patients
- PCXR's
- - using the correct tube angle for all patients
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2:40 pm
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Informal Discussion & Break
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2:50 pm
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Extras
- Level and windowing in CR and the PACS stations
- - how markers are changing
- Bowman Breast Shield
- How much radiation gets through lead aprons?
- - chart and graph
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3:40 pm
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Analyzing the Mysteries of Digital Radiography
- What actually is digital radiography?
- Universal CR Technique Charts
- - What is a Universal Technique Chart?
- What needs to be done to create & use one?
- How did vendor set up your QC viewer?
- correct dose exposure # (DE#) range
- Making your own technique chart
- - how to drop the dose for new DE# range
- Reducing patient dose
- - increase the kVp and decrease the mAs
- using a lower DE# range
- my new version of ALARA
- acceptable mottle
- DUKE chest phantom images
- - how mAs and dose directly correlate
- how some systems cause anatomy to disappear when over exposed
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4:30 pm
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Adjourn
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Registration
All prices for dates in the US are in US dollars.
All prices for dates in Canada are in Canadian dollars.
| ♦ | Amount | Early | Reg Door |
| Technologist | | | |
| MTMI Members | 171.00 | 161.00 | 179.00 |
| Non-Members | 189.00 | 179.00 | 199.00 |
| Montreal, QC | | | |
| MTMI Members | 219.00 | 199.00 | 219.00 |
| Non-Members | 239.00 | 219.00 | 239.00 |
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