How to Position Patients to a Standard that Reduces Technologist Variability in Hip Scans

Friday, March 31, 2023

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Location: Northbrook Ballroom

*Speaker(s)

Kyla Kent, BS

Technical Director for SAMBA Center at Stanford
Stanford Medicine

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Handouts

*Moderator(s)

Kelly Molinar-Kagan, CBDT, RT(R)(M)

Technologist
SimonMed Imaging

Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose

Disclosure(s):

Kyla Kent, BS: No financial relationships to disclose

Kelly Molinar-Kagan, CBDT, RT(R)(M): No financial relationships to disclose

This session will address strategies for technologists upon how to deal with challenging patient anatomy, particularly in situations where automated analysis fails.

Learning Objectives:

Identify how to properly assess patients on DXA with anatomy variances.
Determine best practices for DXA evaluation.
Distinguish between normal and abnormal skeletal differences and how they can best be analyzed.