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Provisional Draft Scientific Program
- Day One-Tuesday August 18th 2020
- Day Two- Wednesday August 19th, 2020
8.00-8.30 am
Principles of Cardiac CT
Including CT scanner design, collimation, pitch, spatial and temporal resolution, exposure factors, SNR and CNR
8.30-.9. 00am
Principles of Cardiac CT
Image reconstruction (on scanner) and post processing (on workstation). Include kernels, intervals or phases, slice thickness and overlap, multisegment reconstruction, iterative reconstruction.Post processing using orthogonal views MPRs,CPRs,MIPs and volume rendering
9.00-9.30am
How to perform Cardiac CT
Patient preparation, ECG gating, contrast delivery principles, scanning protocols ( non vendor specific). Include SCCT recommendations
9.30-10.00am
How to perform cardiac CT
Recognising artefacts and possible solutions;
How to scan in difficult everyday situations, including high or irregular heart rates, arrhythmias and atrial fibrillation, very obese patients
Dr John Hoe
10.00-10.30am
How to perform cardiac CT
Radiation risks and safety in cardiac CT.
Include Risks of medical radiation ,estimating dose and how to reduce dose
10.30-10.50am
10.50 -11.20am
How to read Cardiac CT
Calcium scoring
How to do it and what it means. Update on clinical use, guidelines and prognostic utility
11.20-11.50pm
How to read Cardiac CT
Coronary CTA Anatomy with coronary cath correlation and coronary anomalies. Includes SCCT recommendations for terminology
11.50-12.20pm
How to read Cardiac CT
Coronary stenosis detection, quantification ,technique and pitfalls. Includes CTOs
12.20-12.50pm
How to read Cardiac CT
CT of non coronary Cardiac structures
Myocardium, chambers ,valves and pericardium -including common congenital lesions and cardiac masses
12.50 -2.00pm
2.00-2.30pm
Clinical Use Of Cardiac CT
Using cardiac CT in the workup of patients with stable and acute coronary disease
Includes Appropriateness criteria and indications for cardiac CT- How to select appropriate patients for cardiac CT and how to use scan findings
2.30-3.00pm
Clinical Use Of Cardiac CT
Using coronary CTA pre and post revascularization - including coronary stents, bypass grafts-how to scan and report.
3.00-3.30pm
Clinical Use Of Cardiac CT
Using cardiac CT for Radiofrequency EP procedures, TAVR -how to scan and what to measure and report
3.30-3.50pm
3.50- 4.10pm
4.10 -4.40 pm
4.40 -5.10pm
5.10 – 5.45pm
8.00-10.30pm
Read with experts-Cardiac CT clinical cases
Teaching cases to be shown by speakers using workstation with powerpoint slides and to illustrate teaching points from their lectures -5 cases per half hour ( 6 mins each case)
Total-25 cases
10.30-10.45 am
10.45am-11.15 am
Read with experts-Cardiac CT clinical cases
Teaching cases to be shown by speaker using workstation with powerpoint slides to illustrate teaching points from their lectures -5 cases per half hour ( 6 mins each case)
Total 5 cases
11.15-12.15 pm
Multiple choice questions examination for awarding ASCI Proficiency Certificate in Cardiac CT
45 questions to be answered in 60 mins.
12.15-1.00 pm
1.00pm