Clinical Nuclear Medicine Review

Learning Outcomes and Lectures

• After completing this course, the learner should be able to identify differential diagnoses for the most seen and most important conditions in nuclear medicine; describe and assess the imaging and clinical features that allow for refinement of the differential diagnoses to allow for a more specific diagnosis; judge some of the more commonly encountered artifacts in nuclear medicine and describe why they occur and techniques to avoid them; and make management and treatment recommendations for a variety of patient cases.

• • • PET/CT—D. Naeger
    • Endocrine and Treatment—V. Aaron
    • Neuroradiology and Whole Body Imaging—C. Rajadhyaksha
    • Thoracic and Abdominal—J. Baldwin
    • Safety and Quality Control—J. McConathy

Module 2

• • • Nuclear Medicine Treatments, Radiotracers—J. McConathy (didactic lecture)
    • PET/CT—D. Naeger
    • Endocrine/Thoracic—V. Aaron
    • Whole Body Imaging—J. McConathy
    • Abdominal—S. Behr

Module 3

• • Update on Clinical PET/MRI—J. McConathy (didactic lecture)
  • PET-CT—D. Naeger
  • GI/GU Nuclear Medicine—S. Behr
  • Endocrine and Thoracic Nuclear Medicine—V. Aaron
  • Whole Body Imaging—J. Baldwin
  • Radionuclide Therapy—J. McConathy (didactic lecture)