Abstract
In recent years, the American College of Radiology (ACR) Magnetic Resonance Accreditation Program (MRAP) has been adopted by over 4600 sites, nearly half of the estimated MRI facilities in the United States. Those sites agree to follow a weekly QC program set up and monitored by a qualified medical physicist or MR scientist. This lecture will overview the QC requirements for high and low field MRI units from multiple vendors. Each unit has different terminology for center frequency and transmitter gain and different methods of locating them. These need to be known by the medical physicist and shown to the technologist. Suggestions will be given for teaching the QC to technologists. Suggestions will be given for establishing baselines and monitoring the QC program. Examples will be shown of evaluations of both properly functioning MRI scanners and poorly functioning units. Learning Objectives: 1. Learn the technologist QC requirements for the ACR MR accreditation program and the physicist / MR scientist's role in setting up the program. 2. Learn how to locate the applicable QC parameters on different MRI systems. 3. Learn how to establish MR QC baselines and evaluate the technologist QC program.
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