Digital Radiology: Is Now the Right Time for Me?

Tuesday, April 15
Room 155, Continuing Education and Conference Center
St. Paul Campus

6 CE credits
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7:30 a.m.
Registration opens with continental breakfast

8:00
Welcome, Travis Saveraid

8:05
Is digital radiography right for your practice?,  Brian Poteet

• What are the advantages to digital radiography?
• How can it be cost justified?

9:00
Digital radiography equipment options, Brian Poteet

• What type of systems are sold and how to
•  know which ones are better than others?

10:00  Break with vendors

10:30
What is DICOM?, Brian Poteet

• What is it?
• Why is it important?
• What benefit is DICOM to me?

11:15
Digital Image Viewing, Kari Anderson

• How do I optimize viewing the images and which monitors work best?

12:00 p.m. Lunch served

1:00
Meet the vendors: What veterinary digital equipment is available?  A five-minute overview from each.

• Eklin Medical Systems
• Fovea Digital Radiography
• IDEXX Laboratories, Inc.
• Lake Superior X-Ray, Inc.
• Sedecal USA
• Sound Technologies
• Pacesetter Medical, Inc.
• Universal Ultrasound

1:45
Pitfalls and artifacts, Dan Feeney

• What can go wrong?

2:45 Break with vendors

3:15
Storing and sharing digital images and the medical record, Dan Feeney

• What should you expect?

3:45
How to utilize teleradiology in your practice, Travis Saveraid

• See how to use it from start to finish.

4:30
Adjourn

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Speakers
Invited Lecturer
Brian Poteet, DVM, Dipl. ACVR, Dipl. ABSNM
Dr. Poteet attended Texas A&M University where he obtained his undergraduate, an MS and DVM degrees. He completed a 3-year residency program in veterinary radiology at the U of TN-Knoxville. He has been the Director of Diagnostic Imaging at Gulf Coast Veterinary Specialists in Houston, TX since 1994. He is board certified by the American College of Veterinary Radiology as well as by the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine. He has presented many presentations covering topics including radiology, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and magnetic resonance imaging.

Faculty Speakers
Kari L. Anderson, DVM, Dipl. ACVR
University of Minnesota

Daniel A. Feeney, DVM, MS, Dipl. ACVR
University of Minnesota

Travis Saveraid, DVM, Dipl. ACVR
University of Minnesota

**If your company is interested in sharing its product at this conference, please contact Jan Swanson, Director of Veterinary Continuing Education, at swans032@umn.edu or 612-624-2268.