Vocabulary
MRI Safety
Image Production
Patient Care
Artifacts
100

Person's self-reliance, independence, liberty, rights, privacy, individual choice, freedom of the will, and the self-contained ability to decide. 

what is autonomy 

100

No known hazards in all MRI environment. 

what is MR safe?

100

The induced electromotive force in a closed loop equals the negative of the time rate of change of magnetic flux through the loop. 

what is Faraday's law?

100

Range from 0.6-1.5 mg/dl 

what is normal serum creatinine range

100

anatomy that exists outside the FOV is folded onto the top of the anatomy inside the FOV.

what is Aliasing?

200

Doing of good, active promotion of goodness, kindness, and charity. 

what is beneficence?

200

People who passed minimum safety education as they work in zone 3

what is level 1 personnel? 

200

Ferromagnetic substances (iron, cobalt, nickel). alnico. no power supply or cryogenic cooling. low operating costs. lines of flux running vertically from south to north pole of magnet. magnetic plates located above and below patient. open MRI

what is permanent magnets?

200

8.0-20.0 mg/100 dl

what is normal blood urea nitrogen (BUN)?

200

banding artifact at the interfaces of high and low signal.

what is Gibbs/Truncation?

300

Professional association that seeks to promote quality health care provision by hospitals and health care networks through public policy and providing information about health care and health administration to health care providers and the public. 

what is the american hospital association?

300

spontaneous helium boil-off would liberate 1,000,000 liters of gas.

what is quench?

300

sends radio waves with enough energy to create phase coherence and flip some of the spins from low energy state to high energy state.

what is RF Transmitters? 

300

120/80 mmHg

what is normal blood pressure in adult?

300

dark edge at the interface between fat and water. occurs along the frequency encoding axis.

what is chemical shift? 

400

articulates the types of behavior we expect of R.Ts and describing the type of behavior we won't tolerate.

what is the ARRT standards of ethics?

400

Interface between public and strictly controlled, lock and warning signs, patient waiting room, all personnel are permitted with MR trained "gate keeper" to keep patients from going into zone 3 and 4. 

what is zone 2

400

range of frequencies we wish to sample or digitize during readout. 

what is receive bandwidth?

400

60-90 bpm

what is normal adult pulse rate?

400
distortion of the image together with large signal voids 

what is magnetic susceptibility?

500

Object that is not in itself harmful but is able to harbor pathogenic microorganisms and thus may serve as an agent of transmission of an infection. 

what is a fomite?

500

copper shielding known as Faraday cage, copper shielding with in the scan room walls, with in windows, and copper "teeth" along door frame.

what is RF shielding?
500

how steep or strong a particular gradient is. measured in Millitesla per meter or gauss per centimeter.

What is gradient strength (amplitude)? 

500

Level 60 or higher for kidneys? 

what is eGFR?

500

Dense line on the image at a specific point. 

what is radiofrequency/ zipper?