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EQUIP for Mammography
Enhancing Quality Using the Inspection Program Initiative
Location & Dates
- June 26. 2018 | 6:00 PM CT
- June 26. 2018 | 6:00 PM CT
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Overview
About this Webinar
Are you having a difficult time understanding the EQUIP program? If so, this webinar will provide you with information that will help you prepare and implement you EQUIP program.
The primary goal of the Mammography Quality Standards ACT (MQSA) is clinical image quality, and using the eight image quality attributes for clinical image review. Certified mammography facilities must continue to comply with the standards for clinical image quality according to mammography accrediting bodies.
The following will be covered in this webinar:
- Thorough explanation of the EQUIP program as outlined by the MQSA.
- What is it?
- How do we comply?
- Examples of how a program can be outlined for MQSA.
- Clinical Image Assessment
- Clinical image review utilizing the eight image quality attributes
- Positioning
- CC and MLO
- Tips and tricks to improve
Educational Objectives
At the completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Discuss performance of the CC and MLO views, and the variances in positioning techniques among technologists.
- Evaluate CC and MLO clinical images for radiographic landmarks.
- Assess patients presenting with wide range of body habitus, breast tissue composition, and diagnostic problems, and determine the most efficient way to achieve quality images.
- Demonstrate techniques to evaluate clinical images and assessment techniques.
Schedule
- Enhancing Quality Using the Inspection Program (EQUIP)
- Accreditation and Certification
- MQSA Regulations
- Mammography Positioning Skills for high quality images
- Basic Positioning Techniques
- Tips and Tricks
- Film critique and Evaluation of Image Quality
- Positioning
- Compression
- Exposure
- Contrast
- Sharpness
- Noise
- Artifacts
- Collimation
- Labeling
- Motion
Audience
- Mammography technologists
- X-ray technologists interested in mammography
Faculty
Name
Miranda M. Lyman-Hager, RT(R)(M)
Miranda has been a registered radiologic technologist for 19 years, specializing in mammography for over 17 years. She has spent the last 10 years as the Mammography Quality Assurance Manager at a multi-location imaging center in the Kansas City Metro area. As part of her responsibilities she provided initial training to technologists cross training in mammography. Miranda is passionate about teaching all things mammography from proper positioning to proper QC and how to understand the when’s, why’s and how’s of efficient mammography work flow. Currently Miranda is working as a mammographer for Truman Medical Center where she continues to provide initial training into the mammography modality.
Credits
ASRT Pending
Category A/A+ CE credit is pending approval by the ASRT. An application for 2 hours of credit for radiologic technologists recognized by the ARRT and various licensure states has been filed.
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