Description
Coordinate daily MRI operations and patient workflows, ensuring safety, image quality, and regulatory compliance. Oversee scheduling, protocol adherence, staffing, and equipment readiness while serving as liaison with radiologists, nursing, and vendors. Monitor patient safety and comfort, verify orders and screenings, manage contrast use and documentation, and perform or assist with scanning and positioning as needed to ensure accurate imaging and data capture.
- • Oversee placement of physiologic monitoring leads per protocol.
- • Coordinate and verify calibration and QC of MRI consoles and peripherals.
- • Conduct or validate MRI safety screening to identify contraindications.
- • Supervise connection of physiologic leads to monitoring or acquisition units.
- • Manage image archiving and backup workflows in PACS, RIS, or other storage.
- • Coordinate production or distribution of image prints and exports when required.
- • Ensure patients and families receive clear explanations of MRI procedures.
- • Oversee contrast administration and documentation within scope of practice.
- • Monitor image quality and protocol adherence; authorize or escalate repeats.
- • Provide scanner coverage and operate MRI systems when needed.
- • Ensure correct patient positioning and immobilization; assist with complex cases.
- • Standardize comfort measures, including ear protection and communication aids.
- • Maintain coil and technique selection guidelines; support appropriate use.
- • Coordinate troubleshooting and vendor service for scanners, coils, and peripherals.
- • Manage inventories of supplies and contrast; reorder to maintain stock.
- • Train and orient technologists, students, and staff on MRI procedures and safety.
- • Coordinate advanced MRI workflows such as fMRI, real-time motion, or MSK dynamics.
- • Oversee use of portable MRI units when applicable.
- • Optimize scheduling, room utilization, and patient throughput.
- • Review brief medical histories and indications; ensure records are complete.
- • Oversee daily equipment performance testing and QA per specifications.
- • Document incidents, QA findings, and exam outcomes for clinical teams.
- • Verify physicians' orders and protocols before exams.
- • Coordinate anxiety management and sedation workflows with providers.
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Last reviewed: Jan 2026
