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This RTC was held in Yangon, Republic of the Union of Myanmar 10-14 December 2012 under the IAEA TC Regional Project RAS/6/063.
The following topics were discussed during the training course.
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The following topics were included:
09:00 – 09:30 Registration, Welcome (Prof Kyin MYINT, Nuclear Medicine Yangon General Hospital, Course Director)
09:30 – 10:00 Multiple choice questions (MCQ) – Pre-course Evaluation (All Participants)
10:00 – 10:30 IAEA activities in Nuclear Medicine and Nuclear Cardiology (M.Dondi, Section Head NM, IAEA)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 – 11:30 Ischemic heart disease: natural history and diagnostic workup (Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)
11:30 – 12:00 Cardiac failure: natural history and diagnostic workup (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
Country reports on NM/NC activities
13:30 – 14:00 Current status and perspectives of nuclear medicine in Asia (Prof Henry Bom; ARCCNM)
14:00 – 15:00 Each participant will present a 10’ report on:
(Speakers: All participants. Coordinators: Prof Henry Bom, ARCCNM & Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA expert)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:30 – 17:00 Sustainability of Nuclear cardiology practice in the region (Coordinators: Prof Henry Bom, ARCCNM & Maurizio Dondi, IAEA. Discussants: All participants)
09:00 – 09:45 Evaluating Clinical Risk and Guiding Management with SPECT Imaging (Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)
09:45 – 10:15 Tailoring Cardiac Stress Testing: When and how to use Exercise, Vasodilators, and Inotropes. Influence of Medications on Cardiac Imaging (Joao Vitola, IAEA Expert)
10:15 – 10:45 New Advances in Nuclear Cardiology: improvements in technology (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 – 11:45 Direct Ischemia Imaging and other Competing Technologies (CT, MR, ECHO) (Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)
11:45 – 12:30 Overcoming Attenuation Artefacts: How to use Attenuation Correction - Is SPECT/CT Superior to SPECT? (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Read with the experts
14:00 – 15:15 Case studies presentations (All IAEA Experts)
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee/Tea Break
15:45 – 17:00 Case studies presentations (All IAEA Experts)
09:00 – 09:45 Interventional cardiology (Thin Thin Kyaing, Cardiologist, Department of Cardiac Medicine, Mandalay general Hospital)
09:45 – 10:30 Quantification in Nuclear Cardiology: needs and added value (Joao Vitola, IAEA Expert)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00 – 11:45 Nuclear Imaging in Cardiomyopathies (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)
11:45 – 12:15 CT coronary angiography (Prof Lin Tun Tun, Radiologist, Department of Radiology, Yangon General Hospital)
09:00 – 09:30 Emerging role of PET in Nuclear Cardiology: PET is not only viability (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)
09:30 – 10:00 Myocardial viability: detection with SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging (Joao Vitola, AEA Expert)
10:00 – 10:30 Cost-effectiveness of Nuclear Cardiology procedures (IAEA Expert)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:30 – 12:00 Imaging acute chest pain in the E.D. (Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)
12:00 – 12:30 Pivotal Imaging Trials with Clinical Impact- COURAGE trial Imaging (Raffaele Giubbini, IAEA Expert)
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break
Session 6. Read with the experts
14:00 – 15:00 Interpreting ECG-Gated Myocardial Perfusion Imaging: Common and Challenging Cases in High-Risk Populations (All IAEA Experts)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee/Tea Break
15:30 – 17:00 Reading session continues (All IAEA Experts)
09:30 – 10:00 Experimental radiotracers for myocardial perfusion imaging (Henry Bom, ARCCNM)
10:00 – 10:30 How to report effectively a nuclear cardiology study (Nathan Better, IAEA Expert)
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee/Tea break
11:00 – 11:30 MCQ. Post-course evaluation (All participants)
11:30 – 12:00 Resolving MCQ questions (IAEA Experts)
12:00 – 12:15 Certificate distribution (Course Director)
12:15 – 12:30 Closing remarks (Course Director)