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- Increased Throughput: Many sites try to increase the number of patients scanned per day by shortening the time allowed for each procedure. While this will accomplish the goal of having more patients on the schedule each day, inexperienced or inadequately trained technologists are not able to keep up with the schedule. Obviously, as with large airports and weather delays, once the schedule is delayed, it only gets worse over the course of the day. This only results in angry and frustrated patients.
- Repeat Studies: Having to call a patient back for additional sequences impacts the facility in several ways. The most obvious is again dealing with patient satisfaction. The patient is inconvenienced and may well have increased anxiety thinking that something bad was found on the original study. In addition to the patient issues, the final report to the referring physician is delayed creating an additional dissatisfied customer. Lastly, the time slot is lost with regards to a billable procedure.
- New Procedures: As MR technology improves, the number of applications increase. If the technologists are unable to perform the studies, or even worse, perform them poorly, the facility is unable to grow their business. Why spend upwards of 1.5 million dollars on a piece of equipment, and not invest in educating the staff in the efficient use of the system?
Seminars are available in half day or full day formats.
Half Day consists of up to 4 hours of educational lectures. This may be a single lecture repeated 4 times or several different lecture
topics up to 4 hours duration.
Each 50-minute lecture topic will be pre-approved for category A credit.
If it is desired that the presentation(s) be given over the course of a day such that the speaker is required to be on-site for more
than 6 hours, then the full day rate will apply.
Full Day consists of 5-8 hours of educational lectures. This may be a single or several lectures repeated multiple times or several
lecture topics up to 8 hours total A credit.
Each 50-minute lecture topic will be pre-approved for category A credit.
ASRT approval will be obtained for all lecture materials and sign-in logs will be obtained per ASRT requirements
Materials will be made available prior to the scheduled lectures in PDF format on CD-ROM, so that handouts can be produced prior
to the lecture if desired.
A certificate will be provided to each attendee as proof of attendance.
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Staff Efficiency Can Be Easily Improved Through Education
Single Lecture Topics:
- MR Safety
- Body MR Techniques
- MR Contrast Agents
- Low Field vs. High Field MR
- Optimizing Low Field Image Quality
- Selecting an MR System
- Marketing Your MR Services
- Basic MR Principles
- MR Image formation
- MR Image Contrast
- Fast Imaging Techniques
- Cardiac MR
- MRA (all techniques)
- Contrast Enhanced MRA
- MR Artifacts
- Optimizing MR Image Quality
- Optimizing MR Throughput
- Optimizing Neuro MR Imaging
- Echo Planar Imaging
- MR Pulse Sequences
- Overview of MR Spectroscopy
- Diffusion/Perfusion Imaging
Multi-hour or Multi-day Topics:
- Basic Principles of MRI
- MR Registry Review
- MR Angiography
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