Description
2024 PET/CT Imaging – A CME Teaching Activity
2024 PET/CT Imaging
This CME teaching activity is structured to provide a clinical perspective of PET and PET/CT imaging. Basic to advanced applications of PET and PET/CT are put in the context of disease detection and treatment planning. In addition, an introduction to the indications and applications of theranostics will round out the program. All faculty have been chosen for their teaching ability, as well as for their clinical expertise.
This CME teaching activity should benefit radiologists, oncologists, and nuclear medicine physicians. The course should also prove valuable for physicians who order these studies.
At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:
- Apply state-of-the-art protocols to evaluate neurodegenerative disease, GYN malignancies, lung, prostate and cardiac disorders to clinical practice.
- Optimize PET and PET/CT imaging protocols for the detection of infection and inflammatory disorders.
- Describe the clinical indications of theranostic diagnostic and treatment protocols.
- Differentiate normal variants and urgent findings on PET/CT.
- Discuss the utility of PET/CT when used to evaluate melanoma, lymphoma, breast cancers and dementia.
