Advanced Imaging and Education Centre - Cardiac Computed Tomography (Apr 09 - 13, 2018)

Advanced Imaging and Education Centre (AIEC) - Cardiac Computed Tomography (CT) is organized by Medical Imaging, University of Toronto and will be held during Apr 09 - 13, 2018 at Toronto General Hospital -Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

The target audience for this medical event is cardiologists, radiologists, fellows, and residents interested in learning about cardiac CT. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 41.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Conference Description :
This intensive five-day course is designed to provide a focused, comprehensive, and in-depth learning experience principally in cardiac CT with a ratio of one instructor to four students. The curriculum format assumes no prior knowledge and will accommodate trainees with varying levels of experience.Trainees will receive over six hours of personal workstation experience per day and progress through the ample caseload at a comfortable pace aimed to exceed the requirements for ACC Level 1 and ACC Level 2 for data manipulation and interpretation.

A unique educational environment has been created to provide an optimal learning experience. This course is run by friendly, experienced cardiac imagers with extensive and established backgrounds in teaching cardiac imaging. The state of the art facility is set within the heart of Toronto General Hospital’s medical imaging department, giving trainees access to three busy cardiac CT units (64 and 320 MDCT) and the opportunity to view live cases throughout the duration of the course.

Topics to be covered – Level 1 and 2:
• Cardiac anatomy
• Calcium score
• Post-processing techniques
• CT coronary angiography
• Functional assessment
• CT pulmonary venography
• Non-cardiac findings
• CT physics
• Radiation dose
• Optimization of image quality
• Live cardiac CT demonstration using theAquilionONE 320 CT
• Hands-on training and case review (over 150 cases) as follows:
• Calcium score
• CT coronary angiography
• Pulmonary veins
• Normal variant
• Abnormal single vessel
• Abnormal multi vessel

Trainees will learn essential elements of cardiac CT including:
• Principles of CT physics and image acquisition relevant to cardiac imaging
• Technical requirements for cardiac CT
• Dose reduction techniques
• Setting up a cardiac CT practice, infrastructure requirements, patient preparation, patient scanning, data acquisition, processing, and post processing
• Artefact recognition and compensation
• Real-time work-up of live cases

Conference Objective is :
• Completion of required cases manipulated and interpreted for ACC Levels 1 and 2.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.