This 4-day course is suitable for Radiologists, Cardiologists and Technician Radiographers who are interested in acquiring and reading cardiac CT. No prior CT acquisition or workstation experience is required as Dr Kon has trained many clinicians with minimal exposure to cardiac CT. By the end of the course you will have reviewed on your personal workstation over 150 cases selected to demonstrate a range of common cardiac pathology.

This 4-day course is suitable for Radiologists, Cardiologists and Technician Radiographers who are interested in acquiring and reading cardiac CT. No prior CT acquisition or workstation experience is required as Dr Kon has trained many clinicians with minimal exposure to cardiac CT. By the end of the course you will have reviewed on your personal workstation over 150 cases selected to demonstrate a range of common cardiac pathology.

Course Content

The course will mirror the Bradford course in all aspects other than the facility to provide live scanning. Over 4 days, Dr Kon will guide you through all aspects of acquisition and reading of cardiac CT scans using over 150 cases on your own dedicated workstation.

You will:

Learn details of patient preparation including patient selection, heart rate control, cannulation technique, selection of CT parameters and contrast injection regimes

Learn about different scanner hardware, conventional 4cm scanners, 16cm wide detector scanners and dual source CT, retrospective and prospective scan modes, temporal resolution, radiation dose and dose reduction techniques.

Understand Hounsfield Units, set CT windows and levels, and read axial images to diagnose a variety of pathology.

Learn to use Vitrea Cardiac CT software to generate Multi Planar Reformats (MPR) and Curved MPR using centreline technology to analyse coronary artery disease. Recognise Adverse Plaque Characteristics and report stenosis using CADRADS.

Learn about calcium scoring, how to acquire and calculate the calcium score and its role in asymptomatic risk assessment and prior to CTCA.

Understand the role of CT in the assessment of chest pain, evaluation of stents and grafts, measurement of the aortic annulus and access for TAVI.

Understand the role and limitations of cardiac CT in the assessment of native valves and great vessels, chambers, intracardiac masses, visualisation of mechanical valves and complications of thrombosis and abscess formation.

Explore the possibilities of Fat Attenuation Index, CT FFR and plaque chracterisation.

Read over 150 cardiac CT cases including 30 structural cases, 10 revascularised cases and angiographic/imaging feedback on over 25 cases