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About this Seminar
Full Field Digital Mammography (FFDM) holds promise to improve a
host of new imaging applications for your breast imaging practice.
FFDM will improve image quality, increase patient flow, decrease
patient dose and reduce retakes. The advantages of this new
technology account for the proliferation of commercial FFDM units in
the clinical setting.
This seminar provides an opportunity to
learn from an experienced faculty about this new technology and its
appropriate utilization in a breast imaging practice. Practical
considerations for making the transition to digital imaging will be
emphasized, and new applications that are facilitated by the digital
image format will be reviewed.
The Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA) requires 8 hours of
training on FFDM before operating these units. Attending this
seminar fulfills this requirement.
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Educational Objectives
At the completion of this seminar,
participants will:
- Define the principles of digital mammography.
- Compare analog to digital mammography.
- Describe digital imaging detectors.
- Explain the operational differences between hard and soft copy displays.
- Identify ACR/MQSA requirements for accreditation.
- Formulate appropriate testing for digital mammography QC.
- Relate digital mammography to the latest emerging technologies for the breast.
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Locations & Dates
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Milwaukee, WI |
Mar 23, 2012
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Milwaukee, WI |
Jul 20, 2012
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Milwaukee, WI |
Sep 21, 2012
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Milwaukee, WI |
Nov 9, 2012
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Who Should Attend
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This seminar is designed for radiologic technologists working
in mammography, as well as supervisors, MQSA inspectors,
vendor personnel, and others interested in FFDM. It will
provide a good introduction to digital imaging technology as
it relates to breast imaging and will provide 8 hours of
training on FFDM as required by MQSA before working on a
Digital Mammography Unit.
This training is one day of
MTMI's 5-Day Mammography Course and is offered here as a stand
alone seminar. Those enrolled in the 5-Day Mammmography Course
will be in attendance along with those attending this 1-day
seminar on its own.
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Faculty
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Wendy Marshall, RT(R)(M)
Thomas Aufdemberge, MS, DABR
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Seminar Credit
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This seminar provides 8 hours of Category A continuing
education credit for radiologic technologists recognized by
the ARRT and various licensure states. It also provides 8
hours of training in digital mammography as a new modality as
required by MQSA. A certificate of attendance will be provided
for each individual upon completion of the course. Attendees
must attend the entire course to receive full credit.
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Seminar Schedule
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8:00 am
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Registration & Coffee
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8:30 am
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Introduction to Digital Mammography Principles
- Comparing analog to digital mammography
- Understanding digital imaging detectors - wide area, scanning slot
- Operational differences
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10:20 am
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Informal Discussion and Break
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10:30 am
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Digital Mammography Image Display
- Hard copy display devices
- Soft copy display devices
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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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Digital Mammography Q.C.
- Image quality and artifacts
- Quality control guidelines
- Radiologist, medical physicist and technologist testing
- Radiation Dose
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2:30 pm
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Informal Discussion and Break
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2:40 pm
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ACR/MQSA Requirements and Accreditation
- Application process
- Training requirements - technologist, radiologist, medical physicist
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3:45 pm
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Application of Digital Mammography
- Computer-aided detection
- Computer-aided diagnosis
- Tomosynthesis
- Dual-energy imaging
- Contrast media mammography
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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.
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| MTMI Members | 175.00 | 166.00 | 185.00 |
| Non-Members | 195.00 | 185.00 | 205.00 |
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