Virtual Towards Level 2 Cardiac CT

• Hands-on, with your personal virtual workstation for 6 days
• Interactive, with walkthroughs and quizzes
• You report at least 150 scans
• Vendor-neutral: no lock-in to a specific manufacturer
• Endorsed by SCCT
• Ideal for cardiologists and radiologists
• Eligible for 46 credits in accordance with the CPD scheme by the Royal College of Radiologists, UK

This course is carefully designed to provide ideal active training while simultaneously helping towards meeting the requirements for Level 2 competence as defined in the ACCF/AHA clinical competence statement guidelines.

You do not need prior Level 1 competence. This course will build your knowledge, ability and confidence and help you become an independent cardiac CT practitioner.
The analysis techniques you will learn will ready you for a variety of CT and PACS software vendors.

The course is held over 6 days, providing ample time for detailed image review with each case demonstrated by a level 3 trainer (SCCT/EACVI).

Core didactic lectures are recorded and will be made available before the virtual course, ensuring the maximum time for case review. The lectures cover:

1. Patient and scanner setup
2. Technical principles of multi-slice CT and its application to imaging the heart
3. Different gating techniques, their advantages and limitations
4. Image acquisition and reconstruction
5. Radiation dose inherent in cardiac CT as well as dose reduction strategies.
6. Contrast injection techniques
7. Contrast kinetics, administration, contraindications and complications
8. Cardiac anatomy and physiology as applicable to CT
9. Techniques of image reconstruction and post-processing
10. Techniques to minimize and reduce image artefacts
11. Cardiovascular risk assessment
12. Current indications and applications of cardiac CT
13. Cardiac CT interpretation
14. Anatomy of the heart and thorax

You will see live-recorded cases and discuss interactively the key practical points and pick up tips and tricks to produce the best quality images at the lowest doses.
Group size is limited to ensure adequate interaction with the faculty and to optimise the learning experience.