Stephen J. Powers - MRI Registry Review

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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data

Names: Powers, Stephen J. (Senior MRI technologist), author. | Powers, Stephen J. (Senior MRI technologist) MRI physics.

Title: MRI registry review : tech to tech questions and answers / Stephen J. Powers.

Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : Wiley‐Blackwell, [2021] | Includes index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2021007232 (print) | LCCN 2021007233 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119757931 (paperback) | ISBN 9781119757948 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119757955 (epub)

Subjects: MESH: Magnetic Resonance Imaging | Patient Care | Problems and Exercises

Classification: LCC RC386.6.M34 (print) | LCC RC386.6.M34 (ebook) | NLM WN 18.2 | DDC 616.07/548–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007232LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021007233

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Cover Image: Courtesy of Stephen Powers

Stephen J. Powers B.S.R.T. (R), (CT), (MR)

Author of MRI Physics: Tech to Tech Explanations.

Received Associate Degree: Radiologic Technology, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, 1981, and Bachelor of Science: Health and Social Sciences, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI, 1996.

Course Instructor: MR Physics, Cross‐Sectional Anatomy and Pathology for the MR Certificate Program at Massasoit Community College, Brockton, MA, 1999–2014.

Clinical MR Instructor for Mass. College of Pharmacy, 2010–2014.

Former MR Applications Specialist: GE Health Care.

Presently Staff MR Technologist for Southcoast Hospital Group.

Married with two sons and living in Southeastern Massachusetts, USA.

This one’s for you Mom.

Again I have to say Thank you to my wonderful wife Suzanne for her patience and understanding while I wrote a Registry Review on the heels of MR Physics book.

Next, thank you to Alicia Webb R.T.R.(MR)my friend, and colleague for her artistic talents in drawing all the illustrations in this text book. You were a great help in drawing the different illustrations that are hard to find, image, or otherwise display. Thanks Allie!!

Rachelle (Pebbles), Thanks for my inside cover Picture. You’re my favorite!!

I also need to thank my past and present coworkers as well as my many former students for encouraging me to write this Registry Review book.

It only seemed natural that I should put together a registry review on the heels MRI Physics: Tech to Tech Explanations . While the advanced registry asks questions in no particular order, I have sectioned my questions by topic in a similar order to my physics book. I hope this mirroring will assist you in working on your weaknesses and not your strengths. For example, if you’re weak on pulse sequences or MRI Math, I want to have all those kinds of questions grouped together and to be able to easily find further answers and explanations in the corresponding chapters in MRI Physics: Tech to Tech Explanations . The various sections will state the corresponding chapter(s) in MRI Physics: Tech to Tech Explanations hopefully making your studying easier.

I wish you good luck and good fortune in your career as an MRI Technologist. Radiology has been very good to me. I hope it is as good to you and then some. Remember, failing to prepare is prepping to fail.

Peace,Steve

I’d like to offer some suggestions, words of advice, and some FYI’s on how to give yourself the best chance to successfully pass the exam.

Sitting for this exam is a big and important next step in your imaging career. Stress will be the word of the day, week, month, or even year while you prep. Chill, it’s not that bad.

My first advice is: Scan baby Scan. You learn a lot by doing. You know more than you think you do. You really do. Review anatomy while you scan. Look for artifacts. Studying while you scan is not just looking at questions during a sequence.

Practice answering questions. Take time a few times a week to answer some questions. Correct them, the ones you got wrong, research the correct answer. This works on your weakness not your strengths.

Try this: Answer 30 questions in 25 minutes. Train to work under some pressure. Not a lot, just some. Navy Seals train under pressure, we’re not Navy seals.

Here is a technique I’ve learned over the years. Explain a concept or topic to somebody. When you verbalize something, you also learn. It makes things make sense. Things start to make more sense when you talk it out. Albert Einstein is credited with saying: “You don’t really understand something unless you can explain it to your Grandmother.” I love that saying, try it and see if it helps.

Now for Test Day

Don’t schedule an appointment time for too early in the morning, if you oversleep, get stuck in traffic, and run late you’ll be even more stressed. It’s difficult to focus when stressed, you’ll make bad choices.