Session Categories and Objectives

ICNC 10 will be celebrating 20 years of collaboration / science and knowledge exchange in the fields of Nuclear Cardiology - Cardiac CT and related topics on interest.

Scientific Programme team and Faculty will work togetger to prepare and deliver the knowldege in line with set objectives, which allow all attendees to set expectations and precisely identfity which sessions are best suited for the enhancement of their daily practice.

 Opening session :  Journey of Nuclear Cardiology 
20 years of nuclear cardiology, where do we come from, where are we and what does the future hold!

Core Curriculum

Trials and tribulations in imaging 
- To review the clinical relevance of recent and ongoing clinical trials that apply or evaluate imaging.
- To discuss the knowledge translation of recent trials to clinical practice

Challenges in nuclear cardiology: potential solutions
- To review common challenges facing nuclear imaging including M0-99 shortage, radiation, issues with cost and competing modalities.
- To explore potential solutions including but not limited to approaches to reduced Tc-99m use, PET imaging, approaches to reduce radiation, low cost cameras, integrated multimodality approaches and others

Diagnostics in the emergency department 
- To understand the problem of patients with chest pain presenting to the emergency department without high risk ECG features.
- How to evaluate the chest pain.
- How to apply different imaging modalities.

Quality in nuclear imaging patient selection: appropriate use  
 European and North American perspectives
- Review of clinical guidelines and where nuclear imaging can and should be applied according to practice guidelines.
- Review of appropriateness criteria – and how to ensure appropriate use with focus on coronary artery disease (CAD) detection, evaluation of patients with known CAD and assessment in the pre-op setting.

Imaging in heart failure 
- To review current roles and application of imaging in the management of heart failure imagers and clinicians perspectives.

New and emerging nuclear imaging biomarkers 
- To review the most promising new tracers – their characteristics, kinetics and specific imaging requirements.

Around the world in 80 minutes: 20 years of learning in nuclear cardiology 
- International leaders will discuss the current use of Nuclear Imaging - How they network, national registries, how nuclear imagingis used relative to other techniques including Invasive Cor Angio,CTA, etc., how they adapt to changes in supply, financing, and how they take nuclear imaging to all patients including more remote, or under-serviced regions of the world.

Advances Sessions     

New camera technology - Advances in nuclear I 
- To update the audience with the most recent technical developments in nuclear imaging instrumentation, acquisition and post-processing.

Advances in CT 
- To update the audience with the most recent advances in CT.
- To understand how the technological advances translate into improved imaging protocols with lower radiation dose and better image quality.

Advances in quantification software 
- To update the audience on the developments in quantification software for both nuclear and CT.

Multimodality imaging in electrophysiology 
- To understand how imaging can help in the cathlab (pre-procedural selection of patients, depiction anatomic substrate of the arrhythmia during the procedure, or to assess the effects of the electrophysiological procedure).
- Review the literature related to imaging in atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and cardiac resynchronisation therapy.

New protocols - Advances in Nuclear II 
- To update the audience with the most recent advances in nuclear protocols and their use in clinical practice.

CT beyond luminal narrowing 
- To understand the additional information that can be derived from CT in addition to mere stenosis.
- To review the most recent literature and advances of these applications.

Myocardial blood flow: from pathophysiology to daily life 
- To improve knowledge of the value of quantification of myocardial blow flow in understanding the pathophysiology of coronary artery disease as well as monitoring therapeutic strategies.
- To update on the technical advances, and to provide real life examples how quantification of myocardial blow flow can help in diagnosis and prognosis.

Regenerating the heart: how can nuclear imaging help? 
- To understand how nuclear imaging techniques may help to improve our understanding of stem cell therapy.

Vulnerable patient - Vulnerable plaque 
- To understand based on our current knowledge what the characteristics of vulnerable plaques are and how these characteristics may be identified with the various imaging modalities.

Understanding cardiovascular disease: from animal models to practice 
- To understand how information derived from animal models can be used to improve our understanding of cardio-vascular disease and how this information can be applied in clinical practice.
- To update the audience on the value of the various imaging modalities in this setting.