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Hands-on Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Training Workshop
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Overview
About this Course
Digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) provides planar images of the breast without over and under lying tissue thus reducing false positives and improving diagnostic accuracy. Under MQSA rules, DBT is considered a new modality and requires 8 hours of training in the new mammographic modality. While the FDA recognizes there are some features that are unique to each specific DBT system, personnel need only to obtain training on one DBT system, or general DBT training, to meet the new modality training requirements before participation in the surveying and QC of these units.
This program includes over 8 hours of training on DBT, 3 hours on stereotactic breast biopsy and covers the unique features of the FDA approved Digital Breast Tomosynthesis systems. The hands-on sessions will include the DBT manufacturer specific QC, the ACR quality control programs and performance testing for stereotactic add-ons systems for the GE Essential and Pristina DBT units.
~ AAPM endorses the educational component of this program. ~
It does not however, endorse any product used or referred to in the program.
Educational Objectives
The educational objectives of this program are to:
- Recall the techniques for collecting tomosynthesis performance data.
- Appreciate the unit and detector performance
- Review the clinical advantages of DBT.
- Describe the role of DBT in screening and diagnostic applications
- Relate the factors affecting in plane and depth resolution of DBT
- Participate in the performing the approved QC tests on the GE Essential and GE Pristina DBT units including the stereotactic add on systems.
- Reproduce the data reporting procedures & interpretation of the QC tests.
- Review the operation and use of stereotactic add on systems for the GE essential Ge Pristina DBT units.
- Identify complimentary imaging modalities and clinical indications for use.
Schedule
| Day One - Saturday | |
| 7:30 am | Registration |
| 8:00 am | System Design & Quality Control (SAM)
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| 9:00 am | System Design & Quality Control (continued) (SAM)
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| 10:30 am | Informal Discussion and Break |
| 10:45 am | Mammography Modalities Overview (SAM)
Mammography Practice Perspectives
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| 12:15 pm | Lunch (provided) |
| 1:00 pm | Lab Session 1 - Saturday rotation of Labs A, B, C & D |
| 2:00 pm | Lab Session 2 |
| 3:00 pm | Informal Discussion & Break |
| 3:15 pm | Lab Session 3 |
| 4:15 pm | Lab Session 4 |
| 5:15 pm | Q & A and Discussion |
| 5:30 pm | Adjourn for the Day |
| Day Two - Sunday | |
| 7:30 am | Refreshments |
| 8:00 am | Review |
| 8:15 am | Lab Session 5 - Sunday rotation of Labs E, F, G & H |
| 9:15 | Lab Session 6 |
| 10:15 am | Informal Discussion & Break |
| 10:30 am | Lab Session 7 |
| 11:30 am | Lab Session 8 |
| 12:30 pm | Q & A and Discussion |
| 1:15 pm | Adjourn Course |
Hands-on Lab Sessions | Labs Rotated in the Saturday Session: Lab A - DBT GE Essential
Lab B - DBT GE Essential
Lab C - DBT GE Essential
Lab D - DBT GE Essentials/DS
Labs Rotated in the Sunday Session: Lab E - DBT GE Pristina
Lab F - DBT GE Pristina
Lab G - DBT GE Pristina
Lab H - DBT GE Pristina/Serena
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Audience
This hands-on training is designed for medical physicists to satisfy the 8 hour training required by MQSA for DBT units before performing surveys and QC and 3 hours of Stereotactic credit. Others interested in obtaining this training would include medical physics graduate students and residents, physics assistants, technologists, state and federal mammography facility inspectors and others.
Workshop Format:
This DBT workshop is comprised of didactic lecture and hands-on workshops. Attendees will be assigned to small groups and rotate through the hands-on labs. Eight lab sessions will be facilitated by faculty members and will be conducted on GE Essential and GE Pristina Units including Stereotactic add-ons.
Faculty
Name
James M. O'Brien Jr., MMSc, DABR
Vice President, Professional Services
Landauer Medical Physics
Delray Beach, FL
Name
Katie Hulme, MS
Diagnostic Physicist
Diagnostic Radiology
The Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland, OH
Name
Nicole Coates, RT(R)(M)
Breast Imaging Specialist
Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Name
Shayla Enright, MS, PSM
Medical Physicist I
Landauer Medical Physics
Delray Beach, FL
Credits
CAMPEP
This program provides 13.25 hours of continuing education for medical physicists. The program has been approved by CAMPEP for Medical Physics Continuing Education Credit (MPCEC) for qualified medical physicists.
CAMPEP credit pending.
ASRT Category A
This program provides 13..5 hours of Category A continuing education credit for radiologic technologists approved by ASRT and recognized by the ARRT and various licensure states. Category A credit is also recognized by CAMRT’s Continuing Education Credit Approval Program for CE credit in Canada. You must attend the entire program to receive your certificate of completion.
SAMs
SAMs
This activity includes 4 approved SAM credits for Physicists.
To cover approval, tracking and reporting costs, MTMI charges $30 for each SAM credit awarded. SAM credits may be purchased in advance or if at a live program, at the site.
The American Board of Radiology (ABR) as part of its Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program for diplomats in radiology, radiation oncology and medical physics with time-limited or continuous certificates, requires participation in LifeLong Learning and Self Assessment. The ABR requires each diplomat to attain at least 75 continuing education credits (CE) every 3 years which includes at least 25 self-assessment CE (SA-CE) credits. One form of SA-CE credits are ABR approved Self-Assessment Modules (SAMs). Participants are expected to self-report their SAM credits to the ABR. Go to www.theabr.org for more information about their MOC program and requirements.
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