CT Course Curriculum

41.75 Category “A” Credits


Session 1: Patient Care                                                                                                                                                      img_1_12

1-Medical terminology

2-Infection control

3-Commonly used drugs in the imaging suite

4-Informed Consent

5-Pre procedure lab tests

6-Order of imaging examinations

7-Brain Anatomy

8-Cranial Nerves

9-CSF pathways


 

Session 2: Radiation Safety

1-Types of radiation

2-Three stages of acute radiation syndromeimg_1_13

3-Units of measurement

4-Acceptable levels of radiation

5-Technologist factors for reducing radiation to the patient

6-Dose reduction techniques

7-Anatomy of the Neck

8-Types of Fractures


Session 3: Contrast Media

1-Patient care issues, consents

2-Specific conditions requiring special precautionsimg_3_14

  beforeadministering contrast material

3-Pre procedure lab tests

4-Four routes of injection, doses

5-Order of flow of contrast

6-Sterile techniques

7-Anatomy of the Chest

8-Arterial Anatomy


Session 4: System Components

1-System components

2-Computer hardware and softwareimg_3_12

3-Storage Media

4-The evolution of CT scanning technology

5-Data acquisition systems

6-X-ray production

7-X-ray tubes, collimators

8-Detectors

9-Anatomy of the spine


 

Session 5: Imaging Procedures

1-Brain Head

2-Abdomenimg_3_10

3-Pelvis

4-Chest

5-Musculo Skeletal

6-Special procedures

7-CTA Brain

8-CTA of the Heart


Session 6: Course Review To Date

1-Midterm

2-Questions and Answers


Session 7: Anatomy

1-Head

2-Neck

3-Chestimg_3_13

4-Pelvis

5-Arteries

  -Head

  -Neck

  -Chest

6-Types of Fractures

7-Quiz #1


Session 8: Image Quality

1-Spatial resolution

2-Contrast resolution

3-Noise

4-Linearity


Session 9: Image Reconstruction and Post Processing

1-Prospective vs. Retrospective images

2-MPR

3-3Dimg_3_16

  -Shaded Surface Rendering (SSR)

  -volume Rendering (VR)

  -Filtering

4-Spatial resolution tests

5-Contrast mechanisms

6-Technical factors


Session 10: Image Reformation

1-Three methods of scanning

2-Image reconstruction                   

3-Pixels

4-Voxels

5-Image matrix

6-Linear attenuation coefficient

7-Hounsfield units

8-MAS and KVP

9-Z axis resolution

10-Slice thickness

11-Pitch

12-Patient dose


Session 11: Artifacts

1-Aliasinimg_1_12

2-Nyquist theorem

3-Edge gradient

4-Metal artifacts

5-Motion

6-Beam hardening

7-Partial volume averaging

8-Ring artifacts


Session 12: Post Processing

1-3 D imaging

2-MPR

3-Factors of reconstruction

4-Field of View

5-Magnification

6-Quality control tests

7-Final


Session 13: General Review

1-Patient Care

2-Radiation safety

3-Contrast

4-System componentsimg_3_15

5-Imaging procedures

6-Image quality

7-Image formation and reconstruction

8-Post processing and image display

9-Artifacts

10-Tube arcs