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MRI Update for Physicists
Two Day Seminar
15 Hours CAMPEP Credit
About This Seminar
The technology of magnetic resonance imaging continues to develop with higher field systems, faster gradients, higher efficiency coils, faster scanning techniques, more sophisticated scanning protocols and improved image quality algorithms. These enhancements are driving a wide variety of clinical applications that continue to expand the diagnostic capabilities of this modality. Keeping up with this technology is a challenge for those utilizing MRI to image and interpret disease and provides an opportunity for those with this knowledge. This seminar will provide an opportunity to review and update your skills on the technology of MRI, including scanner operation, testing and QC. Participants are encouraged to bring their questions and concerns about supporting MRI units for an exchange with the faculty and other attendees. You will get an update on MRI unit accreditation and frequent reasons for failure. You will hear from a radiologist the important contributions that medical physicists can make to the clinical delivery of this service. This seminar will provide 15 hours of continuing education to fulfill the ACR requirement for personnel supporting accredited facilities.
Educational Objectives
At the completion of this
seminar attendees will:
  • Have reviewed the basic principles
    of MRI.
  • Understand the trade-offs of parameters affecting MR image quality and how to optimize them.
  • Learn numerous protocols and techniques to reduce scan time.
  • Be familiar with the current technology of MRI units and procedures for assessing performance at acceptance and ongoing quality control.
  • Understand both routine & special clinical applications of MRI.
  • Appreciate the role of the medical physicist in supporting a MRI
    clinical service.
  • Be updated on accreditation procedures and common pitfalls.
  • Have reviewed important MRI
    safety concerns and procedures.
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Seminar Format
Each session/presentation in the seminar will be given in lecture format using audio-visual materials. A syllabus with supporting material for each presentation will be provided to all attendees as well as a CD-ROM of the slides presented. The exchange of practical experience between faculty members and attendees will be encouraged. Bring your questions and experience to share with others.
Who Should Attend
  • Medical Physicists
  • Technically knowledgeable technologists
  • Other personnel working in MRI
  • Those interested in fulfilling the ACR continuing education requirement for supporting accredited MRI units.
Seminar Credit
An application for up to 15 hours of Medical Physics Continuing Education Credit (MPCEC) for qualified medical physicists has been filed with CAMPEP. An application for Category A credit for radiologic technologists has been filed. A certificate documenting attendance will be provided to all participants.
Program Director
J. Ed Barnes, PhD, FACR, from the Medical Technology Management Insitute.
Faculty

Ronald Price, PhD
Professor of Radiology
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Nathan Yanasak, PhD
Assistant Professor
Georgia Health Sciences University
Augusta, GA

David Jordan, PhD
Senior Diagnostic Medical Physicist
University Hospital Case Medical Center
Cleveland, OH

David Bluemke, MD, PhD, MsB
Radiologist-in-Chief
NIH Clincial Center
Bethesda, MD
Professor, Diagnostic Radiology and Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD

Seminar Schedule

Day One
7:30 am Registration and Coffee
8:00 am Review of Basic Principles of MRI ... Barnes
  • Basic concepts
  • Forming an image
  • Image quality parameter
9:00 am Optimizing MR Image Quality ... Price
  • Trade-offs of imaging parameters
  • Filling and manipulating K space
  • MR image processing
  • Recognizing and minimizing image artifacts
10:30 am Informal Discussion and Break
10:45 am Basic Imaging Protocols ... Yanasak
  • Spin echo
  • Inversion recovery
  • Magnetization transfer techniques
  • Fat suppression techniques
12:00 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:00 pm Applying MRI Techniques Clinically ... Bluemke
  • Review of MR clinical applications
2:00 pm Techniques of Reducing Scan Time ... Price
  • Fast/Turbo spin echo
  • Gradient echo
  • EPI
  • Partial Fourier
  • Fractional echo
3:00 pm Informal Discussion and Break
3:15 pm The Role of the Physicist in Clinical MRI: A Radiologists' Perspective ... Bluemke
4:15 pm Technology Review of MR Scanners ... Yanasak

  • Magnet design and shielding
  • Gradients
  • RF system performance and limitations
  • Coil design and performance
5:15 pm Questions and Answers with the Faculty
5:30 pm Adjourn for the Day
Day Two
7:00 am Coffee
7:30 pm Sources of MRI Artifacts ... Jordan
8:00 pm MR Scanner Performance Assessments ... Price
  • At acceptance
  • Ongoing QC testing
9:30 am Informal Discussion and Break
9:45 am Accreditation Overview ... Jordan
11:00 am Accreditation Pitfalls ... Jordan
11:30 am Lunch (on your own)
12:30 pm ACR Accreditation Update ... Price
  • Subspecialty accreditations
  • ACR Physics Advisory Committee
1:00 pm MR Safety Considerations ... Price
  • Accreditation requirement
  • In-house review
  • Safety program in place
1:30 pm Advanced Imaging Sequences ... Yanasak
  • Parellel imaging
2:30 pm Informal Discussion and Break
2:45pm Special Applications of MRI ... Yanasak
  • MR Angiography
  • MR Spectroscopy
  • Diffusion/Perfusion imaging
  • Functional MRI
3:45 pm Questions and Answers with the Faculty
4:00 pm Adjourn

Schedule subject to change

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