Wednesday, September 5, 2007

7:00 a.m. — Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. — Welcome and Opening Remarks

8:10 a.m. — Basic Physics Principles for Nuclear Cardiology (E. Lindsey Tauxe, CNMT, MEd)

9:00 a.m. — Basic Instrumentation Principles for Nuclear Cardiology (Michael K. O'Connor, PhD)

• Radiation Detectors
• Instrumentation
• Performance Characteristics

9:50 a.m. — Break

10:05 a.m. — Production of Radioactive Materials and Radioactivity (Wendy K. Galbraith, PharmD, BCNP)

• Sources of Radioactive Materials
• Generator Eluting
• Generator Elements
• Radioactivity: Description and Measurement

10:50 a.m. — The Basics of Radiopharmaceuticals and Imaging Protocols (Gary V. Heller, MD, PhD)

• Ideal Agent
• Perfusion Tracers
• Protocols
• Stress Testing

11:35 a.m. — Exam Questions

12:05 p.m. — Question and Answer Session

12:15 p.m. — Lunch

1:00 p.m. — The Basics of Myocardial Perfusion Imaging Interpretation (Robert C. Hendel, MD)

• Approach To Reading Scan (Segment Models, Automated)
• Coronary Territories with Examples of Each (Black and White)
• Coronary Physiology

1:45 p.m. — Diagnosis, Risk Stratification, Cost-Effectiveness (Robert C. Hendel, MD)

2:25 p.m. — Break

2:40 p.m. — Response to Therapy (Donna Polk, MD, MPH)

• Suspected/Known CAD
• Pre-Op
• Revascularization
• ACS/ER Protocols
• Post-Infarction Risk Stratification
• TID, Markers of High Risk
• Special Images

3:20 p.m. — Assessment, Diagnosis, and Response to Therapy II (Special Populations) (Gary V. Heller, MD, PhD)

• Endothelial Function
• Pre-Op Assessment
• Women
• Heart Failure
• Preclinical Disease
• Diabetes
• Renal Failure
• High-Risk Asymptomatic Patient
• Elderly

4:10 p.m. — Exam Questions

4:55 p.m. — Question and Answer Session

5:10 p.m. — Break

5:30 p.m. — Case Review Session (Jamshid Maddahi, MD)

7:00 p.m. — Adjournment

Thursday, September 6, 2007

7:30 a.m. — Continental Breakfast

8:00 a.m. — Applied Instrumentation Characteristics in Nuclear Cardiology Imaging (Michael K. O'Connor, PhD)

• Measures of Imaging System Performance and Quality Control
• Principles of Photon Detection and Image Formation; Scintillation, Registration, and Collimation
• Principles of Tomographic Scintillation Imaging; Acquisition Protocols, Tomographic Reconstruction Methods, Filtering and Quality Control
• SPECT, PET, CT, SPECT/CT, and PET/CT

9:05 a.m. — Technical Aspects of Acquisition, Processing, and Artifacts (Robert A. Pagnanelli, CNMT, RT(N)(R), NCT)

• Data Acquisition
• Applied Reconstruction Techniques
• Acquisition Artifacts

9:45 a.m. — Break

10:00 a.m. — Artifact Recognition (E. Gordon DePuey, III, MD)

10:50 a.m. — The Basics of Radiation Safety (Sharmila Dorbala, MD, and Robert A. Pagnanelli, CNMT, RT(N)(R), NCT)

• Regulations
• Misadministrations
• Handling Radioactive Materials
• Detection and Measurement

Noon — Lunch

1:00 p.m. — Radionuclear Ventricular Function Imaging (E. Gordon DePuey, III, MD, and Robert A. Pagnanelli, CNMT, RT(N)(R), NCT)

• First Pass
• Equilibrium Planar/SPECT
• ECG Gating
• RBC Labeling
• Shunts/Diastolic Function

2:10 p.m. — Assessment of Myocardial Viability, Including PET (Vasken Dilsizian, MD)

• Overview of PET
• Measurement of Perfusion
• Viability

3:00 p.m. — Break

3:15 p.m. — Exam Questions

4:15 p.m. — Question and Answer Session

4:30 p.m. — Closing Remarks and Course Evaluation

4:45 p.m. — Adjournment