ACR-Dartmouth PET/CT Course

ACR-Dartmouth PET/CT Course
Monday, April 12, 2010 - Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Reston, VA

MEETING SPONSOR:
American College of Radiology
1891 Preston White Dr
Reston, VA 20191
Toll-Free (800) 227-5463, ext 4040
(703) 262-9307
Email: acrcampus@acr.org
Website: http://www.acr.org/s_acr/sec_events.asp?CID=2688&DID=17797

CONFERENCE CENTER:
ACR Education Center
1892 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 20191
Website: http://www.acr.org/educenter

MEETING DESCRIPTION:
This three-day preceptorship is designed to provide practicing radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians with an intensive, hands-on experience in reading PET-CT. The course is geared to physicians who have already completed some formal course work on PET and/or PET-CT but have only gained a limited experience reading scans in their daily clinical practice. The attendee will interpret in a frontline fashion over 150 PET-CT scans covering all clinical applications including those in oncology, neurology and cardiology. Through participation in multiple scan interpretation sessions, each concluding with a detailed review of the key findings, the attendee will develop a higher level of expertise and confidence in interpreting PET-CT.

At the conclusion of this conference, participants will be able to:

1. Understand the clinical applications of PET/CT

2. Describe the basic principles of acquiring and interpreting PET/CT

3. Recognize normal variants, incidental findings, and pitfalls on PET/CT

4. Use PET/CT for monitoring therapy and for radiation therapy planning

Attendees who interpret a minimum of 150 PET/CT scans will be awarded a Certificate of Proficiency stating they meet the case requirement as specified in the ACR Practice Guideline for the performance of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) in adults.

INSTRUCTORS:
Seltzer

CME HOURS: 33

LECTURE TOPICS:
CT, Nuclear Medicine