Nuclear Cardiology

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Session · 29 of 35

Nuclear Cardiology

Nuclear cardiology has been reinvigorated by PET, novel tracers and the diagnostic role in amyloidosis and inflammation. Sessions cover SPECT and PET myocardial perfusion imaging, flow-reserve quantification, FDG-PET for cardiac sarcoidosis and device-related infection, bone-tracer imaging for transthyretin amyloidosis, and emerging tracers for fibrosis, innervation and inflammation. Discussion addresses CT-attenuation correction, radiation dose reduction and the integration of nuclear data into clinical decisions.

Topics covered in this session
  • SPECT and PET perfusion imaging
  • Flow reserve quantification
  • FDG-PET for sarcoid and device infection
  • Bone-tracer imaging for amyloidosis
  • Emerging tracers (fibrosis, innervation)
  • Radiation dose reduction
  • CT attenuation correction
  • Hybrid PET-CT and PET-MRI