Fundamental Physics & Principles of Diagnostic Ultrasound for the Beginner
Hands-On Orientation to the Science, the Machine, and the Patient
Immediate Benefits
You're going to cut years off the learning curve. You'll have a virtually private audience with one of the most effective, patient teachers you'll ever meet. keith Mauney has been sought out by clinicians from every field, scientists, engineers, and business professionals worldwide for his unique insight into how ultrasound works.
He'll match your needs to his approach and show you how to think about it for the rest of your life. It's like having a Five Star Chef work with you prepare a feast of your favorite foods. Whether you're formally trained, learned from a peer, or are altogether new, you'll lear new insights live in class and you'll own the complete written reference framework for life.
You're going to cut years off the learning curve. You'll have a virtually private audience with one of the most effective, patient teachers you'll ever meet. keith Mauney has been sought out by clinicians from every field, scientists, engineers, and business professionals worldwide for his unique insight into how ultrasound works.
He'll match your needs to his approach and show you how to think about it for the rest of your life. It's like having a Five Star Chef work with you prepare a feast of your favorite foods. Whether you're formally trained, learned from a peer, or are altogether new, you'll lear new insights live in class and you'll own the complete written reference framework for life.
Summary
A refreshingly pleasant, low-key approach to the complex science of acoustic and electronic engineering physics principles. The course demystifies the dry and often confusing elements surrounding ultrasound imaging and, especially, the machine controls. Our focus is on the technology and its proper, sage, and optimal use, for any application.
A refreshingly pleasant, low-key approach to the complex science of acoustic and electronic engineering physics principles. The course demystifies the dry and often confusing elements surrounding ultrasound imaging and, especially, the machine controls. Our focus is on the technology and its proper, sage, and optimal use, for any application.
We'll keep the focus on core skills and thinking for all clinical appliactions, so when you sperarately begin to build your protocols and procedures for a specific organ system you'll be ready to make the machine work for you, and not the other way around. This course is a prerequisite to our hands-On Cardiac and Abdominal Imaging courses for students new to ultrasound.
Target Audience
This course is targeted t ohealthcare professionals from all backgrounds who have yet to undertake a formal study of ultrasound phyics, or who have had difficulty mastering its principles. This includes the full breadth and spectrum of healthcare, from physicians to medical assistants, design engineers to industry professionals.
Persons who are new to healthcare may find the experience to be key in determining whether the field of ultrasonography is an appropriate career fit.
Though we will make full use of medical terminology and discuss clinical issues, we'll take greate care to tailor the learning process to the individual needs of the learner. The course will not target a spoecific protocal-based clinical application; rather it will lay the foundation of approached to any and all future of ultrasound in medical diagnosis.
This course is targeted t ohealthcare professionals from all backgrounds who have yet to undertake a formal study of ultrasound phyics, or who have had difficulty mastering its principles. This includes the full breadth and spectrum of healthcare, from physicians to medical assistants, design engineers to industry professionals.
Persons who are new to healthcare may find the experience to be key in determining whether the field of ultrasonography is an appropriate career fit.
Though we will make full use of medical terminology and discuss clinical issues, we'll take greate care to tailor the learning process to the individual needs of the learner. The course will not target a spoecific protocal-based clinical application; rather it will lay the foundation of approached to any and all future of ultrasound in medical diagnosis.
Schedule
CME Hours
Tuition
9:00-4:00pm, Adjourn 12:00 Noon final day.
Hands-On Scan Lab open 24 hours during course.
CME Hours
Approved for 11 AMA PRA Category I CME credits ™.
Tuition
$600 (US funds). Includes course attendance, 24 hour Hands-On Laboratory, all course materials, and light lunch on the first day.
Hotel guests are offered complimentary breakfast each morning
and Social Hour with beverages and hot hors d'oeuvres Monday-Thursday. Post conference mentoring support is free forever.
Available Dates
• March 24-25
• April 28-29
• June 9-10
• July 21-22
• August 17-18
• September 1-2
• November 9-10
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Dallas, Texas
Hands-On Cardiac Imaging follows the next day
Hands-On Abdominal Imaging follows the next day
Hands-On Abdominal Imaging follows the next day
Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course the learner should be able to:
- Maximize your communication skills by defining, explaining, and using standardized terms to describe ultrasound technology and clinical sonographic findings.
- Expedite your future learning curve by describing the fundamental components of the real-time ultrasound imaging system and discuss the role of each.
- Perform an appropriate visual inspection of the ultrasound system to identify any obvious defective condition that might compromise patient or operator safety.
- Implement quality control standards immediately, first by describing the criteria for optimal image or Doppler signal display for any condition, then taking measures to obtain it.
- Increase your clinical contribution at once, by discussing the role of, and demonstrating competence in the optimum use of the following equipment controls--regardless of brand of instrumentation used:
- contrast/brightness
- transmit power
- receiver gain
- focal zone
- pre-processing/log compression
- post-processing
- rejection
- frame rate
- time or depth gain compensation
- frequency agility
- Doppler angle correct
- beam steering-clutter/wall filter
- Nyquist limit
- Demonstrate proper ergonomic posture and demeanor for the bedside exam.
- Demonstrate proper probe handling to maximize manual dexterity and maximal tactile feedback to shorten the long term learning curve.
- Inculcate a multidimensional mindset to traslate two dimensional relationships to three dimensional and vice-versa using core principles of abstract spatial reasoning.
- Incorporate a full-field method of developing a systematic method to critical conspicuity, for purposes of evaluating the entire content of any ultrasound image immediately.
- Set up any ultrasound system to maximize input dynamic range and match its gray scale output capability, optimized for the human eye.
- Understand and make full use of post processing controls to amplify soft tissue differences; relate the technical findings to histologic composition.
- Institute the OIIME model of matrix analysis for any acquired ultrasound image.
- Prepare for future responsibility by discussing the role and use of the tissue-mimicking phantom in formal quality assurance control in the ultrasound laboratory.
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- Exchange your commitment for your employer's training support: download a contract proposal here
- Download free anatomy charts and more, and visit the
Pre- and Post Conference Reading Room