Digital Facts and Fiction

Digital Facts and Fiction
Saturday, April 4, 2009
San Angelo, TX

MEETING SPONSOR:
Advanced Health Education Center in Partnership with San Angelo Community Medical Center
phoosier@aheconline.com
8502 Tybor Drive
Houston, TX 77074
Toll-Free 800-239-1361
713-772-0157
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CONFERENCE CENTER:
San Angelo Community Medical Center
3501 Knickerbocker Road
Meeting room front of hospital next to chapel
San Angelo, TX 76904

MEETING BROCHURE:
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MEETING DESCRIPTION:
Digital: Facts & Fiction
Just go up 10 kVp for digital! Is this Fact or Fiction? Nowhere in medicine has the computer had more impact than upon medical imaging. In switching from analog to digital imaging you need to know more than the “knobology. You need to understand how digital images are created and how they are being used.
The rapidly developing field of medical imaging is creating new imaging challenges
and new careers. Join us for a full day of digital information that will increase your understanding and enhance your performance in clinical applications.
Course Topics
• Why go filmless
- The evolution of filmless imaging
- Economics of filmless imaging
- Healthcare benefits of filmless
• The Electronic Medical Record and PACS
- PACS Part of the EMR
- DICOM standards
- HL7 standards
- IHE standards

• How digital images are acquired and formed
- Pixel
- Voxel
- Matrix
- Cartesian coordinate system
- 3D Volume rendering
- Post Processing
• Computed Radiography & Digital Radiography
- CR and DR are different
- CR readers
- Photostimulable plates and cassettes for CR
- Digital detectors
- Flat plate
- CCD


INSTRUCTORS:
Friederichs

CME HOURS: 8

LECTURE TOPICS:
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ACTIVITIES: not listed