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Nuclear Cardiology for the Technologist
May 15 – 16, 2010
The Palmer House Hilton
Chicago, IL
Target Audience
This course is designed for technologists performing nuclear cardiology in both private practice and hospital settings.
Objectives
At the end of this course, the participants will be able to:
- Discuss the basic principles and protocols for exercise and pharmacologic stress testing
- Recognize emergency situations that may arise in the stress lab
- Discuss various radiopharmaceuticals used for myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) and associated imaging protocols
- Distinguish between the various MPI protocols and develop acquisition and processing parameters for one's own lab
- Recognize imaging artifacts and potential processing problems
- Discuss the use of risk stratifications and outcomes with MPI
- Outline the future of nuclear cardiology and the role of the technologist
- Discuss new SPECT imaging agents and tracers
- Recognize new imaging techniques, including new camera software and hardware, and hybrid imaging systems
- Understand the basic principles, radiotracers, and protocols for cardiac PET
- Discuss the differences in laboratory set-up between SPECT and PET
- Understand the clinical uses of cardiac PET beyond perfusion imaging
- Outline other imaging modalities used for diagnosis and prognosis of cardiac diseases
- Discuss artifacts that may occur during PET imaging
Accreditation
The American Society of Nuclear Cardiology is a recognized provider of continuing education for technologists. ASNC's Continuing Education (ACE) credit is accepted by NMTCB and ARRT.
CE Credit
This course has been approved for a maximum of 12.5 ACE credits for technologists.
Program
Saturday, May 15, 2010
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| Session 1: The Stress Lab |
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| 8:00 a.m. |
Exercise Testing in 30 Minutes or Less |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Stress Testing without the Treadmill |
| 9:15 a.m. |
Emergencies in the Stress Laboratory |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Break |
| Session 2: SPECT Perfusion Imaging Part 1 |
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| 10:15 a.m. |
How Do Those SPECT Cameras Work Again? |
| 10:45 a.m. |
Protocols: Are All Tracers Created Equal? |
| 11:15 a.m. |
Acquisition Considerations: Not Just Protocols and Tracers |
| 11:45 a.m. |
Processing: What Goes on Behind the Automation? |
| 12:15 p.m. |
Lunch |
| Session 3: SPECT Perfusion Imaging Part 2 |
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| 1:00 p.m. |
What Is Wrong with These Images? |
| 1:45 p.m. |
How Do I Fix Attenuation? |
| 2:15 p.m. |
SPECT Imaging: Future Tracers |
| 2:45 p.m. |
SPECT Technologies: New and Improved |
| 3:15 p.m. |
Break |
| Session 4: The Results |
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| 3:30 p.m. |
How Do (Should) the Referring Physician Use the Results? |
| 4:00 p.m. |
What Do the Scans Show? |
| 5:00 p.m. |
Adjournment |
Sunday, May 16, 2010
| 7:30 a.m. |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| Session 5: Cardiac PET |
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| 8:00 a.m. |
Cardiac PET Imaging: How Does It Work? |
| 8:30 a.m. |
Cardiac PET Perfusion Tracers and Protocols |
| 9:00 a.m. |
Blood Flow Imaging |
| 9:15 a.m. |
F-18 Imaging: Not Just for Viability |
| 9:45 a.m. |
Laboratory Considerations for Cardiac PET: Are They Different than SPECT? |
| 10:15 a.m. |
Break |
| Session 6: Gated Blood Pool and Other Interesting Things |
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| 10:30 a.m. |
First Pass and ERNA: What Do I Need to Know? |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Other Cardiac Imaging Modalities: What, There Is More to Life than Nuclear Cardiology? |
| 11:45 a.m. |
Lunch |
| Session 7: Are We Done Yet? |
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| 12:45 p.m. |
Read with the Experts/Interactive Case Studies/Q&A |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Adjournment |
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