Application Training for Interventional Radiology

Course overview - explore our offerings

These courses are offered as classroom training in our Training Centers or as as virtual classroom training independently where you are located. Theoretical principles of imaging are supplemented by a wide range of practical exercises, giving you the opportunity to gain skills for day-to-day clinical work. In our virtual courses we impact practical knowledge in clear, manageable units and focus on retaining the interactive approach that you are familiar with from our face-to-face training. Learn in the virtual work space and benefit from innovative digital methods.

Artis Workshop for Physicists

Image Quality specialists will discuss in depth the influence to image quality and radiation dose by components and settings in Artis angiography systems.

Course details

Course content:

  • System components and system handling
  • Fluoro and acquisition protocols
  • Image quality essentials
  • Detectors and X-ray tubes
  • Image signal processing
  • Dose and dose saving


Dates and language: 
On request or please see:
https://training.healthcare.siemens.com/

Organizer: 
Siemens Healthcare GmbH

Location: 
Siemens Healthineers, Global Training Center, Allee am Röthelheimpark 391052 Erlangen, Germany

Course size: 
6–10 participants

Course fee: 
€1,840 plus VAT

Course ID: AX8ARTPHYS

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Classroom Training
Classroom training sessions generally take place at our Training Centers. Theoretical principles of imaging are supplemented by a wide range of practical exercises on the most recent systems, giving learners the opportunity to gain skills for day-to-day clinical work.

Optimize Dose in Angiography

Holistic approach designed to help increase personal dose awareness and develop competence in reducing staff and patient radiation exposure during interventional procedures.

Course details

Course content:

  • In-depth analysis, definition, and advice on dose performance measures
  • Customized roadmap for education and measures to be implemented
  • Implementation of individual measures such as optimized workflows and dose education
  • Monitoring for a set time period
  • Evaluation of results and recommendations for long-term goals


Dates and language: 
On request

Organizer: 
Country organization / HQ Apps team

Location:
At the customer‘s premises

Course fee: 
On request

Registration: 
Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers representative.

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Clinical Workshop
Clinical workshops are training programs which last one to several days and specifically focus on clinical issues. They include lectures given by clinical experts, live examinations, and, in many cases, practical exercises. 

Advanced Image Guidance

In-depth skills for interventional radiologists

This one- and a half-day clinical workshop is a comprehensive program for physicians, addressing advanced imaging and guidance techniques in Interventional Radiology (IR) in orderto substantially improve practical skills in this field. The workshop focuses on clinical topics and involves various training methods, including lectures and practicing with phantoms directly on the system.

Course details

Course content:

  • 2D guidance functions
  • 3D acquisition and processing
  • 3D guidance tools
  • syngo Embolization Guidance
  • syngo Fusion Package
  • syngo Needle Guidance

Prerequisites:

  • Basic experience in Interventional Radiology


Dates and language
On request, English

Organizer: 
Siemens Healthineers, Siemensstr. 3, 
91301 Forchheim, Germany

Location: 
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), 
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1,
30625 Hannover

Course size
5–8 participants

Course fee
On request

Registration: 
Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers representative.

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Clinical Workshop
Clinical workshops are training programs which last one to several days and specifically focus on clinical issues. They include lectures given by clinical experts, live examinations, and, in many cases, practical exercises. 

Radiology and Interventional Therapy – Artis zee ceiling

In-depth skills for MTs/RTs and physicians

The Vivantes Hospital in Berlin Neukölln is a very modern facility with more than 1,200 beds, 20 medical specialty depart ments, 398 doctors and 875 nurses. The institution is equipped with an Artis zee ceiling-mounted system.

Course details

Course content:

  • Interventional radiology, abdominal & peripheral procedures
  • Mechanical vascular recanalization intra arterial lysis therapy
  • Aspirational thrombectomy
  • Interventional therapy for abdominal aortic aneurysms
  • Radiofrequency ablation for liver and kidney tumors
  • Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt (TIPSS)
  • Chemoembolization of liver tumors
  • Embolizations of hemorrhages and tumors

Dates and language: 
On request, English

Organizer: 
Siemens Healthineers, Siemensstr. 3, 
91301 Forchheim, Germany

Location
Medizinische Hochschule Hannover (MHH), 
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 
30625 Hannover

Course size: 
5–8 participants

Course fee: 
On request

Registration
Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers representative

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Fellowship Program
The visiting fellowship program enables customers to observe our systems in clinical practice, to discuss their use with the colleagues at the host hospitals, exchange experiences and develop new contacts. 

ARTIS icono ceiling and ARTIS pheno

In-depth skills for Interventional Radiologists and MTs/RTs

Hannover Medical School is a leading university medical center with more than 7,000 employees and 1,500 patient beds. MHH services approx. 420,000 inpatients and outpatients per year. The IR department is equipped with an ARTIS icono ceiling and an ARTIS pheno. Participants learn how the systems can be used to perform interventional radiology procedures covering thoracic, abdominal and peripheral interventions. The team is very experienced in utilizing 2D and 3D image guidance and dose saving features.

Course details

Typical examinations:

  • Peripheral vascular interventions
  • Renal artery stenosis and sealed dialysis shunts
  • Chemo- and Radioembolization of liver tumors
  • Prostatic Artery Embolization
  • Embolization (bleedings, pelvic congestion syndrome, etc.)
  • Transjugular intrahepatic porto-systemic shunts (TIPS)
  • Diagnosis and treatment of vascular malformations (AVM)
  • Treatment of aortic aneurysms, dissections and endoleaks
  • Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty in CTEPH patients


Interventional Dates and language
On request, English or German

Organizer and location: 
Hannover Medical School (MHH), Institute for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, 
Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 
30625 Hannover

Course size: 
1–3 participants

Course fee
On request

Registration: 
Please contact your local Siemens Healthineers representative.

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Fellowship Program
The visiting fellowship program enables customers to observe our systems in clinical practice, to discuss their use with the colleagues at the host hospitals, exchange experiences and develop new contacts.