PET
The Cardiac PET Resource Center offers a wide selection of curated resources, encompassing live and OnDemand education as well as monthly PET cases for review and interpretation, all geared toward enhancing your learning and training.
PET Case of the Month
Clinical Applications of PET Imaging: Improving Patient Care One Case at a Time
PET Case Program Chairs
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Upcoming PET Workshops
Cardiac PET Workshop May 18, 2024 ASNC is coming to Seville, Spain to host its first-ever Cardiac PET Workshop in Europe. Join cardiac PET experts on May 18, 2024, to discover the significance of PET MPI in patient care, explore processes and protocols for MBF assessment, and gain insights from physicians leading successful cardiac PET programs in diverse practice settings...VIEW MORE |
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Cardiac PET Intensive Virtual Workshop
June 1-2, 2024
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Cardiac PET Advanced Virtual Workshop December 7-8, 2024 ASNC offers the next level of PET learning with in-depth discussions of challenging cases frequently seen in clinical practice. This workshop is designed for those who attended the Cardiac PET Intensive Workshops...VIEW MORE |
OnDemand Education
Cardiac PET: Real-world Applications Webinar Series The Cardiac PET: Real-world Applications Webinar Series examines how F-18-labeled radiopharmaceuticals are poised to transform the diagnosis and management of three patient populations (women, individuals who are obese, and those with diabetes) for whom imaging with current tracers and methodologies has been challenging. Each 30-minute webinar features experts highlighting opportunities that nuclear cardiologists soon will have to improve patient care by using F-18 tracers. |
Ready for PET Ready for PET, features leaders in the field covering everything you need to know about how to get started with your cardiac PET program. |
Cardiac PET Curriculum Are you starting a Cardiac PET lab? Need more Cardiac PET readers or additional training resources for your team? Get the latest PET training with the new Cardiac PET Curriculum! |
PET Clinical Guidelines and Quality Standards Documents
Guidelines
Practice Points (member-only resource: Log-in to access)
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Positron Emission Tomography Assessment of Myocardial Viability
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PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Cardiac F-18 FDG PET
Information and Position Statements
- ASNC and SNMMI Issue Guide for Using PET Myocardial Blood Flow to Improve Coronary Artery Disease Diagnosis - 2021
- Status of Cardiovascular PET Radiation Exposure and Strategies for Reduction: An Information Statement from the Cardiovascular PET Task Force - 2017
- Clinical Quantification of Myocardial Blood Flow Using PET: Joint Position Paper of the SNMMI Cardiovascular Council and the ASNC - 2017
- American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Joint Position Statement on the Clinical Indications for Myocardial Perfusion PET - 2016
Quick Reference Guides
Advocacy
- 2023 PET Model Coverage Policy
- How to Use the Absolute Quantitation of Myocardial Blood Flow Code
- Myocardial PET Spared Drastic Payment Cuts for 2020
- Latest News on our Blog
This document is intended as a model coverage policy for cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) imaging studies and delineates under which clinical situations such a study is indicated. This document examines a variety of patient clinical indications and symptoms which support the use of cardiac PET by cross-referencing the indication with the appropriate use criteria (AUC) for radionuclide studies developed by the American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) in 2005 and subsequently revised in 2009. In addition, the use of cardiac PET in patients with the indications delineated in the policy is supported by references to an abundance of the literature in the provided scenarios. Finally, we have provided the International Classification of Diseases (ICD)-9 codes which correlate to each of the indications to demonstrate which codes, or ranges of codes, are appropriate for each clinical indication.
Supplemental Resources
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