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MRI Safety & MRSO Conference
If you’re planning to become an MR Safety Officer, need CEU or ARRT credits, or simply want to expand your MRI safety knowledge — join us at an upcoming ImagingU MRI Safety and MRSO Conference!
ImagingU MRI Safety & MRSO Conferences are unlike any other. We focus on creating an environment that is informative, collaborative and most importantly, fun!
Learn MRI Safety with ImagingU
Improve Your MRI Safety Knowledge and Skills
ImagingU MRI Safety & MRSO Conferences are designed to be engaging, practical, and immediately relevant to real-world MRI environments. From our MRI implant panel that gives real life implant clearance practice to our MRI Safety Trivia night, our attendees walk away with confidence, applicable real-world experience, and a wealth of knowledge — all without feeling overwhelmed.
Attendees have a 100% pass rate for the boards after participating in our conference and online course!
Learn from Experts at a Weekend Conference
Dive deep into MRI Safety at an immersive, in-person weekend conference featuring: presentations from world class experts, Dr. John Kirsch and Matthew Hayes; hands-on implant clearance practice; and an interactive MRI Safety Trivia night.
Prepare for the Boards with Optional Online Course
Prepare for the boards with a supplemental online course from ImagingU featuring practice quizzes and mock testing
Practice Your Skills with MRI Simulation
Practice what you’ve learned and hone your skills with two week’s unlimited access to ScanLab’s MRI simulator
Earn Category A CEUs and ARRT Credits
Earn 11.5 Category A CEUs with the AHRA for in-person talks and up to 10 ARRT credits after completing the online course
The Experts
World Class Speakers
President and Co-Creator of ImagingU and ScanLabMR
Matthew Hayes is a lifelong learner with over two decades of experience as an MRI, CT, and X-ray technologist. Since 2003, he has worked across every facet of Radiology, ranging from a tech assistant, student, tech, chief tech, educator and imaging director.
While serving as a professor of MRI at a local university, Matthew recognized the lack of education and training tools in the field. In 2014, he co-founded ImagingU, an online MRI and CT education platform providing interactive and engaging courses that help students and technologists grasp complex topics through animation, visual aids and interactive lectures. Matthew went on to create the world’s first quantitative MRI and CT simulator software in 2019.
Aside from his work at ImagingU and ScanLab, Matthew consults throughout the world on Cardiac MRI, protocol management, MRI physics and safety, and workflow efficiency, helping universities, health care organizations and individuals improve patient care and outcomes.
Matthew Hayes
BSRS RT (R)(MR)(CT)
MRSO (MRSCTM)
Dr. John Kirsch
PHD
Director of the Human Imaging Core at Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Kirsch is a Radiological Physicist by training and education, having obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1984. His interest and experience has been in MRI technology for the majority of his career. He contributed significantly to the early pioneering development of clinical applications for MRI as well as in the design and improvement of clinical MRI scanners as a Principal Scientist for more than 30 years at Siemens.
He is currently a member of the faculty at Harvard Medical School, and is the Director of the Human Imaging Core at the Athinoula A Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging in the Department of Radiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital responsible for 8 whole body MRI scanners dedicated to research.
His primary interest is in quality control, safety, and system performance as it pertains to general clinical image quality, accuracy and precision of quantitative imaging biomarkers, and in the continued improvements of general clinical imaging applications.
Upcoming Conferences
Register for the Next Conference
Join us in Scottsdale, Nashville, and Boston for our 2026 ImagingU MRI Safety & MRSO Conferences!
Scottsdale, AZ
April 10-12, 2026
Buy in-person Conference tickets only (no online course).
Nashville, TN
July 17-19, 2026
Buy in-person Conference tickets only (no online course).
Boston, MA
October 2-4, 2026
Buy in-person Conference tickets only (no online course).
Can’t make it? Learn MRI safety and prepare for the boards with the Advanced Concepts in MRSO Safety online course.
Testimonials
Hear from Conference Participants
“I would absolutely recommend this course!”
FAQs
Conference Schedule
What's the conference schedule on Friday?
*Schedule is subject to change
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM | MRI Safety Warm Up
Note: This session is optional and is aimed to get you up to speed
and feeling ready to dive in Saturday morning!
What's the conference schedule on Saturday?
*Schedule is subject to change
8:30 AM – 8:45 AM | Registration – Day One
9:00 AM – 9:15 AM | “WELCOME” – MATTHEW HAYES
9:15 AM – 10:30 AM | Static Magnetic Fields| Presented by Matthew Hayes BSRS RT(R) (MR)(CT), MRSO (MRSC™)
10:30 AM – 10:45 AM | Coffee Break
10:45 AM – 12:00 PM | MR Safety – challenges monitoring RF and SAR | Presented by Dr. John Kirsch, PHD
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch Break (On Your Own)
1:00 PM – 1:45 PM | Gadolinium and Pregnancy Considerations, Latest ACR Guidance Document | Presented by Matthew Hayes BSRS RT(R) (MR)(CT), MRSO (MRSC™)
1:45 PM – 2:45 PM | Time-Varying Magnetic Fields | Presented by Dr. John Kirsch, PHD
2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Break
3:00 PM-4:00PM | MRI Safety and Hybrid Environments Presented by Christina Calvin R.T.(R)(MR)(M) (CT)(ARRT)
Breakout Sessions:
4:00 PM – 4:10 PM | MRMD/MRSO INSTRUCTIONS AND GROUP ASSIGNMENT- Tabatha Miller
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM | MRMD/MRSO GROUP IMPLANT SCENARIO
DISCUSSION
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM | BREAK (Dinner on own)
6:30 PM – 8:30 PM | MRI SAFETY/POP CULTURE TEAM TRIVIA
*Drinks and Fun on us!
What's the conference schedule on Sunday?
*Schedule is subject to change
8:45 AM | Registration – Day Two
9:00 AM – 9:10 AM | “WELCOME – Day 2” – MATTHEW HAYES
9:15 AM – 10:45 AM | MRMD/MRSO PANEL PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSIONS – Presented by Matthew Hayes BSRS RT(R) (MR)(CT), MRSO (MRSC™), Tabatha Miller, and Dr. John Kirsch, PHD
10:45 AM – 11:00 AM | Coffee Break
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM | Performing MRI in Patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices: The Duke Experience Presented by Charlene Montoya
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM | Lunch (on your own)
1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | Clinical Applications of SAR: Reduction and management (3 day Access to SL/Ultralab)| Presented by Matthew Hayes BSRS RT(R) (MR)(CT), MRSO (MRSC™)
2:00 PM – 3:00PM | QUESTIONS, ANSWERS, AND CLARIFICATIONS AND WRAP UP | Presented by Matthew Hayes BSRS RT(R)(MR)(CT), MRSO (MRSC™) and Dr. John Kirsch, PHD
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Past Conferences
Boston, 2025
Ft. Lauderdale, 2025
Scottsdale, 2025
Washington D.C., 2024
Contact Us
Questions?
Questions? Email us at [email protected]. We hope you learn, have fun, and leave confident in your MRI safety knowledge and abilities. Can’t wait to see you at our next conference!