About This CME Teaching Activity
This CME activity provides a clinical perspective of PET and PET/CT imaging. Basic to advanced applications of PET and PET/CT are put in the context of disease detection and treatment planning. All faculty have been chosen for their teaching ability, as well as for their clinical expertise.
Target Audience
This CME activity should benefit radiologists, oncologists, and nuclear medicine physicians. The course should also prove valuable for physicians who order these studies.
Scientific Sponsor
Educational Symposia
Accreditation
Educational Objectives
At the completion of this CME activity, subscribers should be able to:
- Apply state-of-the-art protocols to evaluate neurodegenerative disease and head and neck cancers to clinical practice.
- Optimize PET and PET-CT imaging protocols for the detection and follow up lung and breast cancer.
- Describe the advantages and pitfalls of PET and PET/CT.
- Differentiate normal variants and urgent findings on PET/CT.
- Discuss the utility of PET/CT when used to evaluate cardiac disease and gastrointestinal, thyroid and prostate cancers.
No special educational preparation is required for this CME activity
Topics/Speaker
1. PET CT Techniques and Reporting Principles
2. PET CT for Neurodegenerative Diseases
3. PET CT in Cardiology
4. PET CT in Head and Neck Cancer
5. PET CT for Non-Neurodegenerative Diseases
6. PET CT in Thyroid Cancer
7. Ga-68 and Lu-177 DOTATATE in Neuroendocrine Tumors
8. PET CT in Malignancy of the Lung
9. PET CT in Malignancy of Female Breast and Pelvis
10. Qualitative and Quantitative Response Criteria
11. PET CT in Infection and Inflammation Imaging
12. PET CT in Gastrointestinal Malignancies
13. PET CT in Skeletal Tumors Primary and Metastatic
14. PET CT in Lymphomas
15. PET CT in Prostate Cancer
16. PET CT in Cancers of the Skin
