Digital Mammography: Siemens Novation DR

Overview

Mammography may be the most dynamic of all of today’s imaging modalities. With the new regulatory and accreditation procedures, and advancements in technology, the service professional is becoming more involved in maintaining the quality of the mammographic images produced. This course is designed to give the service professional the insight to evaluate image quality problems, determine if the mammographic unit is the source of the image problem and take the appropriate steps to correct the deficiency.

Given today’s regulatory environment maintaining the system at peak performance is of the utmost importance.

At the completion of this course students will be able to perform all Novation DR system maintenance procedures including:

• System installation
• Calibration
• Gantry maintenance
• AWS maintenance
• Imaging chain maintenance
• Detector pixel mapping
• Preventive maintenance
• Troubleshooting

Prerequisites

To attend this course, the service professional must have attended Phase I and possess fundamental knowledge and understanding of the principles of X-ray and basic electronics.

Note:  Due to copyright laws, students are required to bring to class a copy of their Technical Documentation manual. A full set of manuals is shipped with each unit, but only the following needs to be brought to class:

Example: Techn. Doc. System – SPB7-250.802.02

Objectives

• Identify the major components of the Novation DR system
• Describe the functional characteristics of each sub-system of the Novation DR system
• Describe the factors that affect digital mammographic image quality
• Describe how those factors are optimized to produce the highest quality digital mammographic images
• Complete all operator, administration, and application tasks
• Fully install the Novation DR system and related components
• Describe the function of the basic components of the Novation DR mammographic unit
• Perform the necessary tests to reproduce the results of the physicist’s report to confirm corrective action
• Perform all system calibrations and adjustments to maintain the highest quality images and compliance with MQSA requirements
• Perform detector related maintenance and Pixel mapping procedures to maintain detector image quality over time
• Demonstrate OS competence to be able to handle AWS maintenance, backup, restore, and calibrations
• Perform complete Preventive Maintenance procedures as performed by the OEM
• Evaluate circuit functions to facilitate troubleshooting