Medical Video & Imaging Tech School
| TS700-MED Schedule | ||
| 2008 Dates | City | State |
| Nov 13-14 | Stockton | CA |
To register or to host a class for 2009: Call 1.800.736.2673 or 1.605.339.0100
To see the full schedule with a list of host facilities, click the Features tab.
Overview
Are all of your displays calibrated properly to ensure accurate image quality? The two-day Sencore Medical Video and Imaging Tech School will show you how to calibrate your video and imaging displays.
Millions of patients are being diagnosed and treated based on the images that physicians view on their display systems.
Learn how to optimize today's widely utilized display technologies, including: CRT, LCD, Plasma, and Projection Systems. You will learn how to accurately reproduce monochrome images on color displays, as well as discuss the industry standards which apply to medical video and imaging displays (DICOM gamma, D65 color temperature reference standard, etc.), including how those standards both complement each other and present possible conflicts in the clinical setting.
Earn 17 ASRT Category A credits, 2 AAMI credits, and gain the critical knowledge needed to understand the growing field of Digital Video in Medicine.
Features
Medical Video & Imaging Tech School
Two-day Hands-on Medical Display Monitor Calibration (8:00 am - 5:00 pm)
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN: how to effectively test and calibrate medical video and imaging systems, as well as pertinent theory, practical procedures and the use of superb test instruments to meet specifications.
Tech Theory: You will know the difference between today's complex medical display video display technologies, CRT, LCD and Plasma. Plus, learn how DLP, LCD, CRT and LCOS projectors work. Tech Procedures: You will learn hands-on video calibration procedures on the different medical displays. Be able to accurately calibrate any medical video monitor or imaging displays in your system. Tech Tools: You will learn how to use test instruments to make every type of medical monitor in your system look the same and meet the relevant calibration specifications (within the capability of the display to meet specs). Course Agenda
1. Video Overview
What makes a picture?
• CRT pixels, 3-LCD pixels
• Plasma pixels
Types of Video
• Composite
• Component
• RGB
• S-Video
• Digital Video
2. Video Display Technologies
CRT - Cathode Ray Tube
• How CRT Works
• Advantages/disadvantages
• How to test
LCD Display (Monitor)
• How it works
• Advantages/disadvantages
• How to test
3. Imaging Displays versus Video Displays
Why are the different?
What makes them different?
Referable standards
• Standard video display
• DICOM standards for medical image display
4. Understanding Chromaticity
General Overview
Homework assignment
• Reading C.I.E. Chart
• Color Symptom Troubleshooting
5. Setting user controls
Check and adjust each display
Determine Best Display
6. Chromaticity calibration techniques for any medical imaging or video displays.
Tri-stimulus light meter familiarization
7. Measure "as is" chromaticity of each video/image display at 20 to 80 IRE. (activity)
Record measurements
Compare to manufacturer specifications and/or CIE/DICOM
Review each display
8. Recalibrate each display for 6500° Kelvin
Record measurements
Print results
Review each display with class
9. DICOM Grayscale Standard Display Function (GSDF) Calibration
Get all displays back to 6500° for best overall display including user control set-up.
Record "as is" and final results
10. Functional Analyzing (troubleshooting) displays that will not calibrate
CRT - Troubleshooting using block diagrams
Plasma
LCD
Medical Imaging and Video Tech School Locations
| City | State | Dates | Hosted By |
| Lakeland | FL | Feb. 14-15 | Lakeland Regional Medical Center |
| Minneapolis | MN | Apr. 17-18 | Allina Hospitals and Clinics |
| Chicago | IL | May 15-16 | NEC Display Solutions |
| Salt Lake City | UT | Jul. 14-15 | Salt Lake Regional Medical Center |
| Baltimore | MD | Sep. 10-11 | The Johns Hopkins Hospital |
| Portland | OR | Oct. 2-3 | Kaiser Permanente - Northwest Region |
| Stockton | CA | Nov. 13-14 | Conquest Imaging |
