Navigating Cardiac PET Imaging: Clinical Advantages, Barriers and Cutting-Edge Applications

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Navigating Cardiac PET Imaging: Clinical Advantages, Barriers and Cutting-Edge Applications

What You Will Learn:

Recognize the superiority of PET over SPECT for assessment of ischemic heart disease, summarizing the clinical and technical advantages.
Integrate PET imaging into a multimodality approach including optimizing diagnostic accuracy, therapeutic decision-making, and patient management.
Identify the common key barriers to PET imaging, including test availability and performer expertise
Recognize how to deliver a high-quality PET program, including appropriate referral criteria, patient preparation, image acquisition, interpretation and communication of test results.
Evaluate evolving advancements in PET, including imaging for the detection of diffuse coronary atherosclerosis and coronary microvascular dysfunction.

Activity Introduction and Welcome Video

On Demand

An educational activity that has been recorded for viewing

Lesson 1: Overview and Technical Advantages of Cardiac PET: Radiotracers, Hardware, and PET Physics 101 ➔ Lesson 2: Clinical Advantages of PET Over SPECT for MPI - Arriving Soon ➔ Lesson 3: Not So Fast… Barriers to PET Adoption ➔ Lesson 4: Imaging Protocols and Tips for Exam Interpretation ➔ Lesson 5: Exam Interpretation: Case Based Review ➔ Lesson 6: Quantifying Myocardial Blood Flow Using PET: The Nuts and Bolts - Arriving Soon ➔ Lesson 7: Integrating Myocardial Blood Flow Measurements for Diagnosing Obstructive Epicardial Coronary Artery Disease and Coronary Microvascular Dysfunction (MVD) ➔ Lesson 8: How to Integrate PET MPI as Part of a Multimodality Imaging Program - Arriving Soon ➔

Expert Panel Discussion

Experts share their knowledge in video format.

Read With the Experts: 4 High-Yield Cases with Teaching points ➔

Barriers and Opportunities to PET Imaging - Arriving Soon ➔

We are grateful to these distinguished faculty who contributed to this collection:

Chairs

Ron Blankstein MD FACC

Faculty

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah MD FACC

Jamieson M. Bourque MD FACC

Dennis A. Calnon MD FACC

Robert deKemp PhD

Marcelo F. Di Carli MD FACC

Sharmila Dorbala MBBS FACC

Krishna Patel MD

Rupa Sanghani MD FACC

Educational Support Provided By: GE HealthCare

Page Launched: September 2024

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