Bradford Workshop Highlights
The emphasis is on practical experience of acquisition
Essential Lecture Topics will cover
BSCI topics on role of CT in grafts and stents, valve disease, heart failure, pericardial disease and cardiac masses.
Also practically useful topics on:
What is Accreditation
Cardiac CT Anatomy for Radiologists and Cardiologists
Cardiac Physiology for CT scanning
Image presentation and Reporting
CT scanner design
Acquisition for 4cm and 16cm (80 - 320 MDCT) scanners
Dose saving techniques
Patient preparation and contrast injection protocols
Indications for Cardiac CT and NICE guidelines
Calcium Scoring
CAD RADS
Candidates are expected to continue their learning by attending meetings such as BSCCT, or self directed learning - a reading list will be provided towards this.
Workshop Features
Four days of hands-on workstation experience
Your own workstation, no sharing, to get you working independently and full benefit of 150 cases.
Full training to use Coronary CT software, no prior experience required
Drs Kon and Marjoram will demonstrate cases and teach you to use Vitrea software
You will read cases with mentoring at your workstation
You will then independently readthe remaining cases with support
Live Cardiac CT acquisition
We believe this to be a unique feature of this course and cements your knowledge with practical experience.
We will run two CT sessions to acquire 6-8 live cases each day.
You will visit the CT scan room for at least half the cases
Interact with the Radiographer and Radiologist supervising the scans
Problem solving on the fly
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