Things You Should Know About Digital Mammography

Things You Should Know About Digital Mammography
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Minneapolis (Bloomington), MN

MEETING SPONSOR:
Advanced Health Education Center
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MEETING DESCRIPTION:
Things You Should Know About Digital Mammography
Often applications specialists demonstrate the “how-to” but they do not have the time to explain the “why”. Understanding how to select the best techniques and optimize the use of your equipment requires understanding the “why” behind each selection you make. New technology requires new technique protocols, QA, and QC.
Join us to learn how digital imaging can be integrated into your existing mammography practice with minimal hassle and maximum results! You will be surprised to learn that the transition is easy and there is a new world of information that can be acquired using digital technology.
Course Topics
Introduction
• Breast Cancer Statistics
• MQSA Regulations for Digital Mammography
• Digital Mammography Terminology
Analog vs Digital
• Advantages
• Disadvantages
• FDA Approved Units
• Image Quality and Detector Size
• Printers
• Works in Progress
• Detector Technologies
• Direct Capture vs. Indirect Capture
• Tubes and Filters
• Time and cost
• Patient concerns
• Dose
• Cancer detection for calcifications and masses
Physics
• Digital Imaging Physics
• Sampling
• Matrix/Pixels
• Image Processing
• Image Storage
• PACS
Quality Control
• Detector Calibration
• Phantom Acquisition
• Phantom Image Quality
• Flat Field
• System operation/visual checklist
• Artifacts
Advanced Applications of Digital Mammography
• CAD
• Telemammography
• Contrast Enhanced Mammography
• Tomosynthesis
Changes in Radiologist Interpreting Methods
• Comparison films
• Call back rates
• Advantages of larger viewing stations
• Radiologist Assistance: automatic magnification station, annotation availability, zoom options, synchronization bilaterally, flip stations horizontal/vertical, inverted images
• Technologist Assistance: curved breast support, time consumption, patient information, image retention, and happy patients!

INSTRUCTORS:
Thames

CME HOURS: 8

LECTURE TOPICS:
Mammography/Women's Imaging

ACTIVITIES: not listed