Dates:
October 14 – 18, 2024
November 18 – 22, 2024
March 3 – 7, 2025
May 5 – 9, 2025
June 23 – 27, 2025
August 18 – 22, 2025
October 20 – 24, 2025
Maple Grove, MN Location:
6705 Wedgwood Ct N, Maple Grove, MN 55311
Time:
Monday – Thursday 8:00am – 5:00pm CT
Friday 8:00am – 3:00pm CT
Course Description:
This 40-hour course is for system users with an entry-level understanding of digital imaging and looking to advance their knowledge of DR and CT practices.
This course can be applied toward official training requirements for initial certification or CEU requirements for re-certification with NAS-410 or SNT-TC-1A.
CT is one of the most complex imaging modalities to be found in industry around the world. This course will focus on the building blocks of DR and how those parameters transition into performing CT. This will include understanding the right questions to ask before starting a CT scan and then how to develop a CT scan around important information to be gathered. This course will heavily emphasize technique development and creation of a quality CT scan.
This class will blend classroom instruction with hands-on application using state-of-the-art CT equipment. Topics of instruction will include:
- Digital Imaging Principles
- Components of the CT system
- Strengths and weaknesses of different detectors
- Strengths and weaknesses of different X-ray tubes
- What questions to ask in technique development
- Balancing resolution, geometry, and unsharpness
- Matching defect detectability with resolution and contrast
- Noise and scatter control
- Beam hardening
- Frame averaging
- Detector corrections
- Collimation
- Part and fixture scatter
- Optimized projection data
- Balancing CT quality and time
- Minimizing CT artifacts in a data set
- Advanced scanning modes
- Helical, Panel Shift, Offset, and Pixel Push
- CT Quality
- RQI, Volumetric IQIs, and standard IQI
- Implementing stability standards for quality assurance
- ASTM E2737, E1695, E3375…
- And much more…
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