Achieving Quality Imaging (AQI) is based in Rockford, MI, 25 miles northeast of Grand Rapids. They are entering our 11th year of providing nationwide continuing education in mammography and Initial Training in Mammography courses.

Initial training

The program includes both lectures and hands-on positioning workshops taught by our team of experienced mammographers. Hands-on demonstrations with instructions in patient scanning is just one of the highlights of this mammography training program.

Who should attend:
If you are looking for a comprehensive Mammography Training
Conference that is ASRT approved for 29 Category A credits that
will go toward the 40 hours of "initial training requirements" for
technologist under the Mammography Quality Standards Act
(MQSA). You should also attend if you are planning on taking
the Mammography Boards in the near future. This conference
will cover all aspects pertaining to the mammography boards.

Benefits of this program:
- Developing skills to produce high quality mammography.
- Learning how to develop a proficient QA/QC program.
- Reviewing case studies to obtain an understanding of breast disease.
- Having lectures and demonstrations on proper ACR
positioning techniques.
- Dveloping an understanding of the proper use of your mammography equipment.
- Having some fun, meet others in your field, and share some of your experiences.

Up coming Mammography Classes:
October 23-26, 2007 - Cleveland, OH
November 6-9, 2007 - Chicago, IL

Continuing Education
Custom-Made to Meet Your Needs!

Achieving Quality Imaging offers the following ASRT Category A accredited continuing education programs. They bring them to your city, your facility, your local and state society meetings, or your annual Spring/Fall mammography conferences. You can choose from one to all programs and partial day or full day programs lasting from a half day to a full 3 day conference. They will tailor these educational programs to meet your needs.

Full Field Digital Training - One Day Seminar:
- 8 Category A CEU's for Technologists
- 6.5 Category 1 CME's for Radiologists

The course begins with a simple explanation of breast anatomy, physiology and the development of breast cancer designed to give a basis for comparing the strengths and weaknesses of film and digital mammography. After an introduction to binary numbers, computer basics and digital image definition, it moves on to consider the production of a digital mammogram including generation, attenuation and detetction of x-rays.

*This course satisfies the MQSA requirement for 8 hours of initial training prior to using digital mammography, both for radiologists and technologists. In addition, radiologists can receive 6.5 AMA/PRA Category 1 credits for this course.

Up coming seminers:
October 27, 2007 - Cleveland OH
November 10, 2007 - Chicago, IL

Mammography Update for the Millenium
8 CEU's 8:30-4:30 pm

- Breast Disease (2) Advanced Positioning,
- Breast Pathology (1.5) including the difficult - Caring for the Breast Cancer Patient (1.5)
- Dealing with the Difficult Patient (1)

I. The 11 ACR Tests
It is covered all 11 mammography quality control test procedures and performance criteria in addition to their significance to a facility quality control program and to the woman receiving her mammogram.

II. Mammography Quality Control & Troubleshooting This course is designed for those in charge of QC or those interested in learning more about Processor QC and Phantom Imaging. We begin with a discusssion of why Processor QC is necessary for the early detection of breast cancer.

III. How to Get Through Your Next State Inspection Worry Free
This session will be a continuing, hands-on workshop where you will begin with an empty binder and fill the book throughout the program with the necessary QC forms and continuing education paperwork in an organized manner