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Regional Training Course - Dominican Republic

This RTC was held in Santo Domingo - Dominican Republic in December 2009. Under the IAEA TC Regional Project RLA/6/063 ARCAL CIX

The following topics were discussed during the training course. 

The available lectures are highlighted in blue. To open the file please click on the title.

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The following topics were included (most lectures available only in Spanish):

•  Basic instrumentation and quality control for Nuclear Cardiology (English).

Herwin Speckter

• Present and future SPECT tracers - Thallium in the era of Tc-99m shortage (English).

Raffaele Giubbini

• Acquisition: Protocols, parameters

Fernando Mut

• Overcoming attenuation artifacts: How to use attenuation correction - Is SPECT/CT superior to SPECT? (English)

Raffaele Giubbini

• Anatomy and physiology of coronary blood flow.

Dr. Victor Atallah

• Evaluating clinical risk and guiding management with SPECT imaging.

Raffaele Giubbini

• New A2A agonist agents - Current status (English).

Joao Vitola

• Tailoring cardiac stress testing: When and how to use exercise, vasodilators, and inotropes. Influence of medications on cardiac imaging (English).

Raffaele Giubbini

• Indications for clinical use of cardiac radionuclide imaging - an Evidence Based Medicine approach.

Fernando Mut

• Quality reporting: The final product.

Fernando Mut

• Nuclear medicine in the era of multislice CT.

Victor Atallah

• Detection of ischemic heart disease (English).

Joao Vitola

• Evaluation of ischemic heart disease in heart failure and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - Special considerations.

Raffaele Giubbini

• Evaluation of ischemic heart disease in special populations: Diabetic, chronic renal failure, women, elderly - Special considerations.

Joao Vitola

• Cost-effectiveness of Nuclear Cardiology procedures.

Joao Vitola

• Pivotal imaging trials with clinical Impact- Courage Trial Imaging.

Erick Alexanderson

• Myocardial viability: detection with SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging.

Raffaele Giubbini

• Quantitative tools in Nuclear Cardiology - SPECT.

Erick Alexanderson

• Emerging role of PET in Nuclear Cardiology.

Erick Alexanderson

• Myocardial blood flow PET evaluation and quantification.

Erick Alexanderson

• Evaluation of endothelial function with PET/CT in patients with coronary risk factors.

Erick Alexanderson