Target Audience

The primary objectives of the course are to enable participants to achieve the following:

• Apply nuclear cardiovascular imaging physics and instrumentation
• Explain image acquisition and processing considerations and identify associated artifacts
• Discuss the production and management of radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals
• Incorporate patient-centered imaging principles and appropriate use considerations in nuclear cardiology and stress procedure selection
• Incorporate risk stratification into selection and application of nuclear cardiology studies
• Integrate radiation safety standards into professional nuclear cardiology practice
• Apply nuclear imaging tools in assessment of myocardial viability and cardiac amyloidosis
• Understand the basics of positron emission tomography (PET) imaging for myocardial perfusion and metabolic viability and sarcoidosis assessment
• Interpret SPECT and PET perfusion and metabolic images and ventricular function imaging
• Utilize myocardial perfusion imaging in the assessment, diagnosis, and response to therapy in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease and special populations
• Appropriately identify non-cardiac findings on SPECT and PET-CT cardiovascular imaging studies
• Integrate nuclear cardiology into the multimodality imaging evaluation of cardiovascular disease