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2.75 Category A CreditsNumber of test questions: 22
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The content for this course is based off of Nuclear Cardiology: Guidance on the Implementation of SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, IAEA Human Health Series No. 23, a publication by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).
The eBook for this content is available for download for free by the publisher at the following link: Nuclear Cardiology: Guidance on the Implementation of SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging | IAEA
This course is provided in Ebook format and the course book cannot be mailed.
Nuclear cardiology is one of the most widely used non-invasive techniques for the assessment of coronary artery disease and other cardiovascular conditions. It has proven to be a cost effective tool for the evaluation and management of cardiac patients and usually has a decisive role in diagnosis, prognosis and risk stratification, as well as in guidance of therapy. Clinical scenarios in which nuclear cardiology can be helpful are continually expanding, with special subgroups of patients being identified as potential beneficiaries of these methods and with technological developments in instrumentation and software which tend to enhance the cost–benefit ratio and the reliability of results. In particular, radionuclide myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is used extensively worldwide for the evaluation of known or suspected coronary artery disease, with an estimated 15–20 million procedures performed annually.
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Upon completion of this chapter the participant should be able to:
- List five of the best practices in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.
- Discuss how “shine through” occurs and how to avoid it.
- List three risk stratifications for patients with coronary artery disease.
- Discuss the IAEA recommendation of the “Appropriate Use Criteria”.
- Name the types of stress modalities used in MPI.
- Discuss how to prepare a patient before testing.
- Name the suitable position of a patient undergoing conventional SPECT.
- Explain why filtered back projection (FBP) is the preferred method of image reconstruction.
- Discuss how a sinogram analysis is helpful in detecting electrocardiogram gating errors.
- Explain how and why attenuation artefact occur in women.
