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

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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 - Arriving Soon ➔

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) - Arriving Soon ➔

Lesson 8: How to Integrate PET MPI as Part of a Multimodality Imaging Program - Arriving Soon ➔