FACULTY OF RADIOLOGISTS

TRAINING PROGRAMME IN DIAGNOSTIC RADIOLOGY

PART I TUTORIAL SCHEDULE

2017/2018

Lectures will commence at 2.00pm unless otherwise stated

Anatomy lectures will be in the Department of Anatomy Lecture Theatre, Main College, RCSI

DATE /

TUTOR

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SUBJECT

August 2017
Monday 28th
2.00pm
(Harold Browne LT)
3.00pm
4.00pm / Anatomy Staff
Training Programme Coordinator
Dr Geraldine O’Reilly / CHEST: Anatomy
Introduction
Introduction to Physics
Programme Overview
Thursday 31st August
2.00pm
3.00pm
4pm / Dr. Jennie Cooke
Mr Pat Cooney
Mr Pat Cooney / Introduction to EM Spectrum, Matter & Energy Levels; band structure in solids
Production & Properties of X-Rays Part 1
Production & Properties of X-Rays Part 2
September 2017
Monday 4th Sept
VENUE: TR5
2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Mr. Dara Murphy
Mr. Dara Murphy
Dr J. Masterson / Interaction of Radiation with Matter (1): Main mechanisms at diagnostic energies
Interaction of Radiation with Matter (2): Beer’s Law, Exponential Attenuation, Absorption/HVL/TVL .Interaction of Radiation with Matter: Factors affecting Attenuation & Scatter
CHEST: Basic principles of chest imaging / basic anatomy/Vascular Anatomy, CT Anatomy
Thursday 7th September
2.00pm- 3.30pm
3.30pm / Dr Pat Kenny
Dr David Stafford Johnson / Digital Images: Part 1
CHEST: Spiral and high resolution CT thorax. Technique and Anatomy
Monday 11th September
2:00pm
3.00pm / Dr Pat Kenny / Digital Images: Part 2
Thursday 14th September
Venue: TR8
2:00pm
3.30pm / Anatomy Staff / ABDOMEN: Anatomy (foregut, midgut)
Monday 18thSeptember
2:00pm

3.00pm

4.00pm / Dr Geraldine O’Reilly
Dr. Geraldine O’Reilly
Mr. Pat Cooney / X-ray Image formation. Concepts & Detectors (incl. Fluorescence, Phosphoresence)
Interaction of Radiation with Matter: Optimisation of Contrast 1
X-Ray Tubes/special features/Focal Spot/Rating/X-ray tubes for Special Applications (incl. Angiography, CT, Mammography etc.); Special filters; X-ray generators
Thurs 21nd September
2:00pm
3:30pm / Dr. Brian Daragh Murphy / ABDOMEN: Ultrasound Anatomy/Technique
Monday 25th September
2:00pm
3:00pm
4.00pm / Mr Colin Walsh
Mr Dermot Gorman
Mr. Colin Walsh/Mr. Dermot Gorman/ Dr Jennie Cooke / Geometrical Factors and Unsharpness in Radiography
Overview of Equipment
Demonstration of X-Ray Equipment
Thursday 28th September / NO Lectures - ASM
October 2017
Monday 2ndOctober
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4.00pm / Dr. Lynn Gaynor
Dr. Lynn Gaynor
Dr. Lesley Malone / Digital Acquisition Systems 1: Computed Radiography
Digital Acquisition Systems 2: Direct digital systems
Image Intensifier – TV Systems
Thursday 5th October
Tutorial Room in Use / NO Lectures
Train the Trainers / NO Lectures
Train the Trainers
Monday 9thOctober
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4.00pm / Dr Pat Kenny
Dr Pat Kenny
Dr.Ronan Faulkner / Image Quality 1: Spatial Resolution, Contrast Resolution & Artefacts (Analogue)
Image Quality 2: Spatial Resolution, Contrast Resolution, Artefacts etc (Digital)
AEC
Thursday 12thOctober
2:00pm
3.30pm / Anatomy Staff
Dr Martin Shelly / ABDOMEN: Anatomy (hindgut, kidneys, post abd wall)
ABDOMEN: Anatomy - Vascular and CT, GI/Liver/Pancreas/Barium/CT/MRI
Monday 16th October
2:00pm
3.00pm
4pm / Dr Lesley Malone
Dr Lesley Malone
Ms.Aoife Gallagher / Image Intensifier – TV Systems 2 including full fluoroscopy systems
Digital Acquisition Systems 3: Technology for DSA and Digital Fluorography
Tomography (excl. CT) – Introduction to CT
Thursday & Friday
19th20thOctober
All Day / Physics / Radiation Protection Seminar
Monday 24th October
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm / Mr. Niall Phelan
Mr Niall Phelan
Dr. Pat Kenny / Mammographic Physics & Equipment 1
Mammographic Physics & Equipment 2
Optimisation of Contrast: Selection of radiographic parameters
Thursday 26th October
2:00pm
(Harold Browne LT)
3.30pm
(Faculty Tutorial Rm) / Anatomy Staff
Dr. Michelle McNicholas / PELVIS: Anatomy (Male & Female)
PELVIS: Anatomy (Male)
Monday 30thOctober /
November 2017
Thursday 2ndNovember
2.00pm
3:30pm / Dr David McInerney
Dr Robin Gibney / MSK: Anatomy & Techniques
ABDOMEN: Liver and biliary anatomy
Monday 6th November
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm / Dr Lesley Malone
Ms.Aoife Gallagher
Ms.Aoife Gallagher / Flat panel fluoroscopy systems
Helical & Multi Slice Scanners
CT Scanners: reconstruction of images from projections, iterative reconstruction
Thursday 9th November
Venue:TR4
2:00pm
3.00 – 5.00 pm / Anatomy Staff
Dr Ronan McDermott / MSK – Upper Limb
ABDOMEN: Anatomy 1 - GI/Liver/Pancreas/Barium/CT/MRI
GI radiology
Monday 13th November
VENUE: SJH
2:00pm
3:00pm
4.00pm / Mr.Don Carey
Dr. Louise Bowden
Dr. Louise Bowden / Modes of Radioactive Decay - Radiation Units
Theory of gas detectors, scintillation detectors, PMTs solid state detectors: use in radiology
Radiation detectors for nuclear medicine and general purposes
Thursday 16th November
Harold Browne LT
2:00pm
3.30 pm / Anatomy Staff
Dr Ronan Browne / MSK: Lower limb
ABDOMEN: GI/GU Interventional Techniques
Monday 20thNovember
2:00pm
3.00pm
4:00pm / Ms. Jackie McCavana
Dr Jennie Cooke
Dr Jennie Cooke / Generators, common radiopharmaceuticals Kits & techniques; radiopharmacy design
Gamma cameras and data processing systems
SPECT CT Systems
Thursday 23rd November
2:00pm
3.30pm / Dr. M. McNicholas
Dr. Brian Hogan / ABDOMEN: Cross-sectional interventional techniques
MSK: Upper limb: Anatomy and Techniques –
Monday 27th November
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4.00pm / Dr. Louise Bowden
Dr. Louise Bowden
Mr.Don Carey / DXA Scanners
Display Technologies
QA Nuclear Medicine
Thursday 29th October / RSNA Week / NO LECTURE TODAY
December 2017
Monday 4th December
2:00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Dr.Geraldine O’Reilly
Dr.Geraldine O’Reilly
Dr. Lesley Malone / New Applications in CT (Part 1)
New Applications in CT (Part 2)
Radionuclide Dosimetry
Thursday 7thDecember
2:00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / National Training Coordinator
Ms Anita Dowling
Dr Geraldine O’Reilly / MCQ
QA: in general radiography & fluoroscopy
Interaction of Radiation with Matter: Subject Contrast; Scatter Radiation
Monday 11th December
2:00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Ms Aoife Gallagher
Dr. Pat Kenny
Ms. Aoife Gallagher / Artefacts in CT
Mock Physics MCQ
Image Quality & Dose Issues in CT
Thursday 14th December
2.00pm
3.30pm / Dr Patricia Cunningham
Dr Joan Heneghan / MSK: Upper limb: Anatomy and Techniques
PELVIS: Anatomy/Technique (Female and MSK)
Monday 18thDecember
2:00pm
3.00pm
4.15pm / Dr. Geraldine O’Reilly
Ms. Jackie McCavana / Radionuclide Therapy in a Diagnostic Imaging Department
Tutorial: radiation protection & technical and practical aspects of nuclear medicine
Thursday 21st December / Christmas Holidays
January 2018
Monday 1stJanuary /
Thursday 4th January
2:00pm
(Harold Browne LT)
3.30 pm
(Faculty Tutorial Room) / Anatomy Staff
Dr Stephanie Ryan / NEURO: Anatomy – Brain & Spine
PAEDIATRICS: Anatomy and Techniques
Monday 8thJanuary
2:00pm
3.00pm
4:15pm / Dr Julie Lucey
Dr Julie Lucey
Dr. Pat Kenny / PET 1
PET 2
3D Images, planar reformatting, 3D rendering, MIP, surface rendering, volume rendering
Thursday& Friday
11th & 12thJanuary
Venue: Faculty Tutorial Room / Ultrasound Seminar / Ultrasound Seminar
Monday 15th January
2:00pm
3.00pm
4:00pm / Dr. Neil O’Hare
Dr. Neil O’Hare
Dr Carmel Cronin / PACS 1
PACS 2
Retroperitoneum and renal anatomy
Thursday 18th January
Venue:TR4
2:00pm
3:00pm
4.00pm / Dr. D Rea
Dr. S. Looby
Dr. Seamus Looby / PAEDIATRICS: Anatomy and Techniques
NEURO: Skull and Skull Base – Part I
NEURO: Skull and Skull Base Part II
Monday 22ndJanuary
2:00pm
3.00pm
4:00pm / Dr.Lynn Gaynor
Dr. Gerard Boyle
Dr. Gerard Boyle / Revision Tutorial 1: Interaction of Radiation with matter.
Basic Physics of MRI
MRI equipment
Thursday 25th January
Venue:Robert Smith Room
2:00pm
(Harold Browne LT)
3:30pm
Venue:
Faculty Training Room not available for lectures
/ Anatomy Staff
Dr. Sarah Power / NEURO: Anatomy – Head & Neck
NEURO: Cerebral & Spinal Angiography Anatomy & Techniques
Monday 29th January
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4:00pm / Mr Pat Cooney
Dr. Gerard Boyle
Dr. Gerard Boyle / Revision Tutorial 2: Radiographic and Fluoroscopic Technology.
Pulse sequences and contrast 1
MRI Pulse Sequences & Contrast 2
February 2018
Thursday 1stFebruary
2.00pm
3.00pm
4:00pm / Dr. Ronan McDermott
Dr. S. Skehan
Dr Anthony Ryan / ABDOMEN: CT/MR Techniques
NUCLEAR MEDICINE: Chest and Cardiac
INTERVENTION: Arterial Anatomy/Techniques
Monday 5th February
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4:00pm / Dr.Pat Kenny
Mr. Dermot Gorman
Dr. Gerard Boyle / Revision Tutorial 3: Contrast.
Revision Tutorial 4: X-Ray Tubes &Equipment.
T1, T2 relaxation mechanisms
Thursday 8th February
2:00pm
(Harold Browne LT)
3.00 pm
(Faculty Tutorial Rm)
4.00pm
(Faculty Tutorial Rm) / Anatomy Staff
Dr. J. Griffin
Prof. Leo Lawler / Anatomy – ENT
HEAD & NECK: Anatomy/Radiology
Part I
CHEST: High Resolution CT, Thoracic Intervention
Monday 12th February
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4:00pm / Dr Sean Cournane
Mr.Colin Walsh
Mr Colin Walsh / Revision Tutorial 13: Ultrasound (Physics)
Revision Tutorial 6: II/TV/ Fluoroscopic Systems
Revision Tutorial 5: CT
Thursday 15th February
All Day
Venue: TR8 & Faculty Training Room / / RCSI
(TR8, Main College and Faculty Tutorial Room)
Monday 19thFebruary
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4.15pm / Dr. Gerard Boyle
Dr. Gerard Boyle
Dr Gerard Boyle / MRI Image Formation
MRI gradient echo
MRI – Flow / Angiography
Thursday 22ndFebruary
2:00pm
3.30 pm / Dr Martin O’Connell
John Feeney / NUCLEAR MEDICINE: Positron Emission Tomography
NUCLEAR MEDICINE: Equipment and Techniques
Monday 26th February
2:00pm
3.00 pm
4.15pm / Dr. Lesley Malone
Dr. Lesley Malone
Dr. Gerard Boyle / MRI Safety 1
MRI Safety 2
MRI Advanced sequences
March 2018
Thursday 1st March
Venue: SVUH
2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Prof. Jonathan Dodd
Prof. Jonathan Dodd
Dr D. Brophy / CHEST: Cardiac Anatomy/Techniques 1
CHEST: Cardiac Anatomy/Techniques 2
INTERVENTION: Vascular anatomy - neck, chest, abdomen and pelvis
Monday 5th March
2:00pm
3:00pm
4:00pm / Ms. Anita Dowling
Dr. Gerard Boyle
Mr. David Costello / Revision Tutorial 8: QA in Radiology/Fluoroscopy
MRI
MRI – Artifacts
Thursday 9thMarch
Venue: SJH
2.00pm
3:00pm
4.00pm / Dr. James Meaney
Dr. J. Meaney
Dr N McEniff / MRI: Applied MRI 1
MRI: Applied MRI 2
INTERVENTION: Non-vascular Interventions
Monday 12th March
2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Dr. Geraldine O’Reilly
Dr Pat Kenny
Dr. Lesley Malone / Revision Tutorial 7: Radiation Protection (incl. units)
Revision Tutorial 11 MRI
Revision Tutorial 12 Digital Imaging
Thursday 15th March
2.00 pm
3:30pm
/ Dr. Eilish Twomey
Ms. Una O’Connor / PAEDIATRICS: Anatomy & Techniques
Equipment specification, purchase and commissioning
Saturday 17th March /
Monday 19th March /
Thursday 22ndMarch
2:00pm
3.30pm
/ Dr. Brendan Hogan
Dr Patricia Cunningham / NUCLEAR MEDICINE: Bone/Endocrine/Hepatobiliary/Other
MSK: Lower limb: Anatomy and Techniques
Monday 26th March
2.00pm
3:00pm
4.00pm / Mr.Dara Murphy
Mr. Dara Murphy
Dr. Gerard Boyle / Revision Tutorial 9: Nuclear Medicine (Physics & Pharmacy).
Revision Tutorial 10 Nuclear Medicine Equipment
MRI
Thursday 29th March
2.00pm
3.30pm / Dr Seamus Looby
Dr Seamus Looby / NEURO: Spine Neuroimaging Anatomy
NEURO: Brain Neuroimaging Anatomy
April 2018
Monday 2nd April /
Thursday 5th April
2.00pm
3.30pm / TBA / MSK: Intervention
Monday 9th April
Faculty Tutorial Room not available / Part II Exams (Final FFR) / Part II Exams (Final FFR)
Thursday 12th April
Venue: SVUH
2.00pm
3.00pm – 5pm / Prof Jonathan Dodd / Cardiac MRI
Monday 16th April
2.00pm
3.30pm / Visiting Professor
Thursday19thApril
2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Dr. Gerard Boyle
Dr. Gerard Boyle / MRI
MRI
Monday 23rd April
2.00pm
3.30pm / Dr. J. Griffin / Anatomy – Head & Neck Radiology Part II

Thursday 26th April

2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm / Dr Frank McGrath
Prof Max F. Ryan / MSK: Lower limb: Anatomy and Techniques
Mammographic techniques, breast ultrasound and intervention

Monday 30th April

2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm

May 2018

Thursday 3rdMay
2.00pm
3.00pm
4.00pm

Monday 7th May

TO BE CONFIRMED /

Monday 14th May

TO BE CONFIRMED / / RCSI College & Faculty Tutorial Room
/ RCSI College & Faculty Tutorial Room
Thursday 17th & Friday 18th May
TO BE CONFIRMED / / RCSI College & Faculty Tutorial Room
26th April 2018 / IR Skills Course / Faculty Tutorial Room & Surgical Skills Lab
1stJune 2018
Brookfield, UCC / Emergency Medicine Course / Cork
DATE TO BE CONFIRMED / Ultrasound Study
Course / Faculty Tutorial Room

Yellow Highlighted itemsTO BE CONFIRMED

Text in PinkTo be changed to another date

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1st Year Schedule 2017/2018

As of 24 Oct 2017