Final Programme

Postgraduate Educational Programme
08:30 - 10:00 Room A
Multidetector CT Made Easy
CC 517
The heart: A new found land
Moderator: I. Mastorakou; Athens/GR
A-099 08:30
A. Cardiac CT: Protocols and anatomy
F. Cademartiri 1 , E. Maffei 2 , A.A. Palumbo 2 , N.R.A. Mollet 1 ; 1 Rotterdam/NL, 2 Parma/IT
Learning Objectives:
1. To learn the principles of cardiac CT to usefully design a protocol.
2. To understand the backbone of cardiac CT scanning and trade-offs.
3. To discuss cardiac anatomy.
A-100 09:00
B. The coronary arteries: MDCT as the new standard?
C.R. Becker; Munich/DE
Learning Objectives:
1. To understand the current clinical application of cardiac CT.
2. To become familiar with limitations, artifacts and pitfalls in cardiac CT.
3. To learn about possible future application of plaque imaging.
A-101 09:30
C. Beyond the coronaries: Triple rule out? Function? Evaluation of myocardial infarction?
H. Alkadhi; Zurich/CH
Learning Objectives:
1. To appreciate the role of MDCT for evaluating ventricular function, cardiac valves, and myocardium.
2. To describe MDCT protocols to rule out coronary artery disease, aortic dissection, and pulmonary
embolism in one examination.
3. To review typical imaging fi ndings of patients with acute chest pain.
08:30 - 10:00 Room B
What I Should Know About Imaging for Staging Cancer
CC 516
Primary tumor staging (1): Hemato-oncological malignancy
Moderator: M. Gödeny; Budapest/HU
A-102 08:30
A. Myeloma
A. Baur-Melnyk; Munich/DE
Learning Objectives:
1. To become familiar with the different infi ltration patterns of multiple myeloma in MR imaging.
2. To outline the sensitivities for the detection of osteolyses of X-ray, MR imaging and MDCT.
3. To defi ne the staging of patients with multiple myeloma.
162 A B C D European Society of Radiology