Program

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

6:30am – Registration, Check-in, Continental Breakfast

7:00am – Welcome, Gary M. Glazer, MD

7:10am – Program Introduction, Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

Session I: Technology: Present and Future
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

7:20am – MDCT Technology 2010: The Big Picture
Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

7:30am – Advantages and Disadvantages of Scanning at Low kV Settings
Willi A. Kalender, PhD

7:40am – Technical Considerations for Low Tube Voltage Imaging
Sandy Halliburton, MD

7:50am –Impact of Model-Based Iterative Reconstruction on Image Quality and Radiation Dose
Paul Kinahan, PhD

8:00am – The Trade-off Between Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction (ASIR) and Model Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR)
Rendon C. Nelson, MD

8:10am – Mission Accomplished:  Dynamic Volume CT
Patrik Rogalla, MD

8:20am - Dual-Source Spiral CT at Pitch Values up to 3.4: Assessment of Image Quality in Non-Cardiac Applications
Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD

8:30am – Initial Results with a Multi-source Inverse Geometry CT system
Norbert J. Pelc, ScD

8:40am – Discussion

Session II: Dual Energy/Spectral Imaging
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

8:55am – Simulation of Single and Dual Energy Protocols Based on Clinical Data
Norbert J. Pelc, ScD

9:05am – Dual Energy Spectral Imaging: Definition and Clinical Utility of Monochromatic and Material Density CT Images
Al Silva, MD

9:15am – The Combination of 100 kVp and 140 kVp with Sn Filtering Improves Image Quality in Dual Energy CT
Hans-Christoph Becker, MD

9:25am – From Dual Energy CT to Photon Counting Technology
Jacob Sosna, MD

9:35am – Break

9:55am – CdTe Detectors for CT: A Realistic Option? (CT general)
Willi A. Kalender, PhD

10:05am – Spectral Imaging: Initial Clinical Results in Blood Vessels
Jean-Louis Sablayrolles, MD

10:15am – Calcium Quantification from Contrast-enhanced CT: Is it Possible Using Dual Energy?
Sandy Halliburton, MD

10:25am – Spectral Imaging: Initial Clinical Results in Cancer
Jean-Louis Sablayrolles, MD

10:35am – Implementing Dual Energy CT and Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction in Routine Clinical Practice
Amy K. Hara, MD

10:45am – Discussion

Session III: Radiation Dose
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

11:00am – Dose in DECT: Does it Go Up or Down?
Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD

11:10am – Dosimetry of 320-Slice Volume CT Coronary Angiography
Andrew Einstein, MD

11:20am – Beyond mA & kV – Radiation Dose Reduction in MDCT: Definitions, Strategies, Physics
Dianna Bardo, MD

11:30am –Automatic kV Selection for CT Dose Reduction: An Idea Whose Time Has Come
Cynthia H. McCollough, Ph

11:40am – Is Sub-mSv CT Scanning A Reality?
Willi A. Kalender, PhD

11:50am –The Relationship Between Dose-Length Product and Effective Dose: Not So simple? 
Andrew Einstein, MD

12:00pm – Clinical Experience with Iterative Reconstruction & Dose Reduction in Dual Source CT
Hans-Christoph Becker, MD

12:10pm – What Evidence is There That Radiation is Associated with Increased Cancer Risk at Doses Used for CT?
Andrew Einstein, MD

12:20pm – Discussion

12:35pm – Lunch

1:40pm –Relevance of CT Dose Indices for Estimating Patient Dose and Potential Risks
Robert G. Gould, ScD

1:50pm – CT, Radiation, and Pregnancy: Just the Facts
Donald P. Frush, MD

2:00pm –Use of Bismuth Breast Shields in CT
Rendon C. Nelson, MD

2:10pm – General CT Radiation Topic: CT and the Cumulative Radiation Dose Record: The Next Imperative
Donald P. Frush, MD

2:20pm –TBA
Mathias Prokop, MD

2:30pm – CT Fluoroscopy: Don’t Be Scared
Patrik Rogalla, MD

2:40pm – Discussion

Session IV: Contrast Medium Delivery and Image Enhancement
Moderator: Dominik Fleischmann, MD

2:55pm – Innovative Intravenous Catheters for Optimizing the Administration of Contrast Media
Rendon C. Nelson, MD

3:05pm – Power Injectors are Becoming Smarter
Dominik Fleischmann, MD

3:15pm – Optimal Techniques for Use of a Saline Chaser
Rendon C. Nelson, MD

3:25pm – Patient & Scan Specific Contrast Medium Dosing: How and Why?
Dominik Fleischmann, MD

3:35pm – Contrast Volumes for Short Scan Time Coronary CT: How Low Can We Go?
Sandy Halliburton, MD

3:45pm – Break

4:05pmWhich Patients are at High Risk for Clinical Significant Contrast-induced Nephropathy Following Computed Tomography?
Steven D. Weisbord, MD, MSc, FASN

4:15pm – Background Fluctuation of Kidney Function Versus Contrast-Induced Nephrotoxicity
Myron A. Pozniak, MD, FACR

4:25pm – When to Assess Renal Function Prior to CT to Determine Risk for Contrast-induced Nephropathy
Steven D. Weisbord, MD, MSc, FASN

4:35pm – CT Contrast Agents in the Nanotechnology Era
Jacob Sosna, MD

4:45pm – Important Principles in CT Perfusion
Vicky Goh, MD

4:55pm – Small Animal Perfusion Imaging with a Clinical CT Scanner
Ting-Yim Lee, PhD

5:05pm – Beyond Standard Perfusion Metrics: Using Fractal and Textural Analysis to Characterize Tumor Response
Vicky Goh, MD

5:15 - Discussion

5:3opm – End

Wednesday, May 19th, 2010

Session V: Abdomen I: Hepatobiliary and Pancreas
Moderator: R. Brooke Jeffrey Jr. , MD

6:30am – Registration, Check-in, Continental Breakfast

7:00amAbdominal Pathology Using Low Dose CT With Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction Compared with Routine Dose CT
Amy K. Hara, MD

7:10am – Rational Scan Delays for Liver CT
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD

7:20am – Can We Stage HCC Accurately with CT/MR?
Michael Federle, MD

7:30am – Dual Energy CT of Focal Lesions in the Cirrhotic Liver
William P. Shuman, MD FACR

7:40am – CT Cholangiography: Has its Time Come or Gone?
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD

7:50am – Hepatic and Biliary Inflammatory Pseudotumors
Michael Federle, MD

8:00am – Role of Spectral CT in the Abdomen: New Opportunities or Challenges?
Dushyant Sahani, MD

8:10am – Dual Energy Spectral Imaging 101 Part 2: Appearance of Common Abdominal Lesions Using Dual Energy Spectral Imaging
Al Silva, MD

8:20am – The Puberty of Abdominal CT Perfusion
Patrik Rogalla, MD

8:30am – Free Breathing CT Liver Perfusion Imaging
Ting-Yim Lee, PhD

8:40am – Dynamic Contrast-enhanced CT Imaging for Monitoring the Effect of Anti-angiogenic Drugs in Experimental Tumor Models
Konstantin Nikolaou, MD

8:50am – Integrating CT Perfusion with PET/CT
Vicky Goh, MD

9:00am– Monitoring Tumor Response: 2D/3D/HU or Function
Dushyant Sahani, MD

9:10am – Potential Errors in the Diagnosis of a Pancreatic Mass: Pearls and Pitfalls
Elliot K. Fishman, MD

9:20am – Small Cystic Lesions of the Pancreas: When to Operate, When to Observe
R. Brooke Jeffrey, MD

9:30am – Surgical Procedures for Resection of Pancreatic Masses 2010: Beyond the Whipple’s Procedure
Elliot K. Fishman, MD

9:40am – Discussion

9:55am – Break

Session VI: Abdomen II: Genitourinary & Gastrointestinal
Moderator: Michael Federle, MD

10:15am – Simplifying MDCT Urography Acquisition
F. Graham Sommer, MD

10:25am – Radiation Exposure and Strategies for Lowering Dose in MDCT Scans for Urolithiasis: Observations from a Multi-institutional Multi-vendor Study
Dushyant Sahani, MD

10:35am – Role of CT Arteriography and Venography in Imaging of Pancreatic Transplants
W. Dennis Foley, MD

10:45am – MDCT of Renal Function: Approaches and Applications
F. Graham Sommer, MD

10:55am – Prostate MRI: Who Needs it?
Fergus Coakley, MD

11:05am – Vascular Gastric Masses
Karen M. Horton, MD

11:15am – MDCT-endoscopic Correlation of Gastrointestinal Pathology
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD

11:25am – MDCT Enterography of Crohn's Disease: Utility of Volumetric Display
Jorge A. Soto, MD

11:35am – Dual Energy CT Colonography for Characterization of Colonic Masses
Anno Graser, MD

11:45am – CT Colonography Interpretation: Do Time Efficiency and Diagnostic Performance Compete?
Jorge A. Soto, MD

11:55am – Diagnostic Accuracy and Interpretation Times of CT Colonography Using Advanced 3D Visualization
Anno Graser,MD

12:05pm –CT Perfusion of Colorectal Cancer
Vicky Goh, MD

12:15pm – Diagnostic Performance of MDCT for Acute Appendicitis
Perry J. Pickhardt, MD

12:25pm – Malpractice in Abdominal Imaging: What You Need to Know
Fergus Coakley, MD

12:35pm – Discussion

12:50pm – Lunch

Session VII: Workflow/Image Processing
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

2:00pm – Why Not Read Everything in 3D?
Jeffrey B. Mendel, MD

2:10pm – 3D Segmentation- Precision Evaluation Based on Computational Tools
Jacob Sosna, MD

2:20pm –Would CAD Make the Interpretation of CT Pulmonary Angiograms More Effective and Efficient?
Charles White, MD

2:30pm – Quality Improvement in 3D Imaging
Laura Pierce, MPA, RT (CT)

2:40pm – Tracking CT Exploration: What You See
Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

2:50pm – Content-based Image Retrieval for Decision Support and Knowledge Discovery
Sandy Napel, PhD

3:00pm – Discussion

3:15pm – Break

3:30pm – Workstation Challenge* –
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD
View and Compare How Each Major Workstation Can be Used for
Visualization and Analysis of Volumetric MDCT Data
* not certified for CME or CE credit –

6:00pm – End

Thursday, May 20th, 2010

Session VIII: Vascular
Moderator: Dominik Fleischmann, MD

6:30am – Registration, Check-in, Continental Breakfast

7:00am – Low-dose CT of the Thoracic Aorta Using a Wide Detector Array Scanner
Sandy Halliburton, MD

7:10am – Role of CT in Diagnosis and Management of Adult Aortic Coarctation
W. Dennis Foley, MD

7:20am – Aortic Dissection and Athereosclerosis
Robert Herfkens, MD

7:30am – Mechanisms of Side Branch Ischemia in Aortic Dissection
Dominik Fleischmann, MD

7:40am – CT Arteriography/Venography of the Thoracic Outlet: Technique and Applications
W. Dennis Foley, MD

7:50am – Impact of High Resolution mode, ASIR and Dual-energy on Vascular CT
Raghav Raman, MD

8:00am – CTA Diagnosis of Median Arcuate Ligament Syndrome
Karen M. Horton, MD

8:10am – Vascular and Functional Assessment of Renal Transplants by Time-resolved CTA  
Hans-Christoph Becker, MD

8:20am –Discovering Failing Endografts
Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

8:30am – Un-enhanced CT for Assessment of Endografts
Myron A. Pozniak, MD, FACR

8:40am – Blood Flow Physiology and CT Angiography
Benjamin M. Yeh, MD

8:50am – CT Angiography of Extremity Trauma: Expanded applications with 64 MDCT and Beyond
Jorge A. Soto, MD

9:00am – The Value of Time-Resolved CT Angiography for the Lower Leg
Konstantin Nikolaou, MD

9:10am – CT Venography
Payam Massaband, MD

9:20am – Discussion

9:35am – Break

Session IX: Cardiac I: Technique, Indications, and Interpretation
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

9:55am – Data Acquisition mModes for Cardiac CT: Understanding the Options from All Vendors
Sandy Halliburton, MD

10:05am – Prospectively Triggered Coronary CT Angiography with Zero Padding: Myth or Reality
Jonathon Leipsic, MD, FRCPC

10:15am – Prospectively Triggered CCTA: Recommendations From 4000 Clinical Exams
James P. Earls, MD

10:25am – Prospective ECG-Triggering is Growing Up: Arrhythmia and Cardiac Function
U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FAHA

10:35am – Validating and Defining the Role of ASIR in Coronary CT Angiography
Jonathon Leipsic, MD, FRCPC

10:45am – Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction in CCTA: Results from the ERASIR Trial
James P. Earls, MD

10:55am – Wide Area Detector CT: Advantages for Cardiac CT Imaging
Richard T. George, MD

11:05am – Single Beat Cardiac CTA: Adjusting the Radiation Dose to the Patient’s Body Habitus
Patrik Rogalla, MD

11:15am –Ultra Low Dose Cardiac Imaging: Initial Experience
Jeffrey Mendel, MD

11:25am – Advantages of Dual Energy Spectral Imaging for Coronary CTA
Prasad Panse, MD

11:35am – Prospective Randomized Trial On RadiaTion Dose Estimates Of CT AngIOgraphy In PatieNts Scanned With A Sequential Scan Protocol - The PROTECTION III Study
Bernhard Bischoff, MD

11:45am – Use of A Pitch Value of 3.4 in Dual Source, Cardiac CT Angiography: Dose and Image Quality Relative to Existing Scan Modes
Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD

11:55am – Radiation Exposure and Image Quality with Single Heartbeat Coronary CT Angiography in 2nd Generation Dual-source CT: Is There A Further Improvement with Iterative Reconstruction?
Bernhard Bischoff, MD

12:05pm – Discussion

12:20pm – Lunch

Session X: Cardiac II: Non-Ischemic Cardiac CT
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

1:35pm – Preoperative Findings of Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Real-life Anatomy Doesn’t Always Look Like a Textbook Drawing
Dianna Bardo, MD

1:45pm – Imaging Heart Valves in Children: An Open and Shut Case
Frandics Chan, MD, PhD

1:55pm – CT Imaging of Valvular Heart Disease
Joseph C. McGinley, MD, PhD

2:05pm – CT Angiography of Cardiac Valve Replacements and Their Complications
Margaret Lin, MD

2:15pm – How Do Cardiologists Use Cardiac CT For Pulmonary Vein Ablation?
Shawn D. Teague, MD

2:25pm – Detection of LAA Thrombi by CT
Lawrence M. Boxt, MD, FACC, FSCCT

2:35pm – Adenosine-Induced Stress Myocardial Perfusion CT Imaging with Dual-source CT at Low Radiation Dose
Bernhard Bischoff, MD

2:45pm – Extra-low Dose CT Cardiac Perfusion Imaging
Ting-Yim Lee, PhD

2:55pm – Dynamic Myocardial Stress Perfusion Imaging Using Fast Dual Source CT With Alternating Table Positions: Initial Experience
Konstantin Nikolaou, MD

3:05pm – Myocardial Perfusion: Time-Resolved Imaging Versus Dual-Energy CT
U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FAHA

3:15pm – Myocardial Perfusion and Prognosis in the Patient With Suspected CAD
Joao A. C. Lima, MD

3:25pm – Myocardial Viability Imaging with CT
Richard T. George, MD

3:35pm – CCTA Versus Functional Imaging: A Randomized Controlled Trial
James K. Min, MD

3:45pm – Discussion

4:00pm – Break

Session XI: Cardiac III: Myocardial Ischemia and Coronary CTA
Moderator: Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

4:20pm – New Kid on the Block: Computer Aided Stenosis Detection for Coronary CTA
U. Joseph Schoepf, MD, FAHA

4:30pm – CT Coronary Angiography in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation
Lawrence M. Boxt, MD, FACC, FSCCT

4:40pm – Functional or Anatomic Assessment of Coronary Disease: What is the "Gold Standard"?
Julie M. Miller, MD, FACC

4:50pm – Cardiovascular Event Rate Following Coronary CTA: A Meta-analysis
Hans-Christoph Becker, MD

5:00pm – Coronary CTA: A Guide for PCI
Jean-Louis Sablayrolles, MD

5:10pm – Assessment of Stenosis Severity: What is "Significant"?
Julie M. Miller, M.D., F.A.C.C

5:20pm – CorE 320: Study Design and CT Method
Joao A. C. Lima, MD

5:30pm – Cost Effectiveness of CCTA
James K. Min, MD

5:40pm – How We Built a Combined Cardiologist/Radiologist Cardiac CT Imaging Service
Shawn D. Teague, MD

5:50pm – Discussion

6:05pm – End

Friday, May 21st, 2010

Session XII: Pediatric
Moderator: Beverley Newman, MD, BSc, MBBCh, FACR

6:30am – Registration, Check-in, Continental Breakfast

7:00am – Dose Values in Pediatric CT and Options for Their Reduction
Willi A. Kalender, PhD

7:10am – Sedation-free Pediatric CT: Use of High-pitch Dual-source CT to Obtain Artifact-free Images of Moving Patient
Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD

7:20am – Minimizing Dose in CT Guided MSK Procedures: Beyond mAs & Kvp
John D. MacKenzie, MD

7:30am – CT of Congenital Lung Abnormalities in Children
Beverley Newman, MD, BSc, MBBCh, FACR

7:40am –Dynamic Pulmonary Scanning
S. Bruce Greenberg, MD

7:50am – CT of the Thymus in Children: Normal and Abnormal
Beverley Newman, MD, BSc, MBBCh, FACR

8:00am –Imaging Airways in Children: An Inside and Outside Look
Frandics Chan, MD, PhD

8:10am – Low Dose Cardiovascular CTA in Children Using Volume Scanning
S. Bruce Greenberg, MD

8:20am – Normalization of Cardiac Measurements to Body Surface Area in Children: How Not to do it
Raghav Raman, MD

8:30am – MDCT Imaging of the Coronary Arteries in Infants: Keys to Making Reproducible and Diagnostic Images
Dianna Bardo, MD

8:40am –Pediatric Chest CT and Radiation Dose - Cost/Benefit     
Frandics Chan, MD, PhD

8:50am – Congenital Intra and Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts
Beverley Newman, MD, BSc, MBBCh, FACR

9:00am – Common Pitfalls in MSK MDCT in the Growing Skeleton
John D. MacKenzie, MD

9:10am – Discussion

9:25am – Break

Session XIII: Chest
Moderator: Ann N. Leung, MD

9:45am – Concepts for Dedicated CT of the Breast
Willi A. Kalender, PhD

9:55am – Breast CT
Jeffrey B. Mendel, MD

10:05am – Iterative Reconstruction in Thoracic CT: Initial Results and Experiences
Jonathon Leipsic, MD, FRCPC

10:15am – Higher Resolution HRCT with Iterative Reconstruction?
Johnny Vlahos, BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR

10:25am – Diagnosis of PE in Pregnancy
Ann N. Leung, MD

10:35am – Prospectively Gated CTA of the Pulmonary Arteries
William P. Shuman, MD,FACR

10:45am – What is a Lung Nodule?
Geoffrey D. Rubin, MD

10:55am – Pragmatic Approach in Management of Small Pulmonary Nodules
Ann N. Leung, MD

11:05am – Volumetric Assessment of Pulmonary Nodules on CT
Margaret Lin, MD

11:15am – Peripheral Peribronchovascular Lung Diseases
Johnny Vlahos, BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR

11:25am – CT Patterns in Pulmonary Infections: Do They Change with Lower CT Dose?
Justus E. Roos, MD

11:35am – Approaching Lung Disease in the Immune-compromised Host
Johnny Vlahos, BSc, MBBS, MRCP, FRCR

11:45am – Chest CT
Jeffrey B. Mendel, MD

11:55am – Combined Pulmonary Fibrosis and Emphysema: A Diagnostic Challenge
Justus E. Roos, MD

12:05pm – Preoperative Imaging of Pectus Excavatum
Margaret Lin, MD

12:15pm – Discussion

12:30pm – Lunch

Session XIV: Neuro
Moderator: Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD

1:50pm – Unorthodox Positioning and Scanning Techniques in Neuroradiology: Use MDCT to Your Patients’ Advantage
Dianna Bardo, MD

2:00pm – Optimal Image Quality at Minimum Radiation Dose: Neuroimaging with Noise-reducing Iterative Reconstruction Algorithms
Michael H. Lev, MD, FAHA

2:10pm – Volume CT Applications for the Pediatric Head
S. Bruce Greenberg, MD

2:20pm – Dual Source and Dual Energy CT Imaging Opportunities in Neuroradiology
David Rex, MD

2:30pm – Spectral CT Neuroimaging: Pilot Results and "Killer Apps"
Michael H. Lev, MD, FAHA

2:40pm –Enhancing the Signal Difference Between Grey-white Matter Without Enhancing the Noise
E. Paul Lindell, MD

2:50pm – 320 Detector Dynamic CTA
Srinivasan Mukundan, Jr. MD, PhD

3:00pm – Initial Experience with Acute Cerebral Ischemia CT Angiography
Robert de la Paz, MD

3:10pm – Bone Subtraction CTA of the Neck
Srinivasan Mukundan, Jr. MD, PhD

3:20pm – Discussion

3:35pm – Break

3:55pm – 128 Detector Whole Brain CTP in the ED
Srinivasan Mukundan, Jr. MD, PhD

4:05pm – Accurate CT Perfusion Imaging Detection of Infarct Core: A New Paradigm?
Michael H. Lev, MD, FAHA

4:15pm – Whole Brain CT Perfusion Using CTA and CT
Robert de la Paz, MD

4:25pm – High-dose CT Brain Perfusion and the FDA: What Happened, How it Happened, and How to Prevent it From Happening to You
Greg Zaharchuk, MD, PhD

4:35pm – Extra-low Dose CT Brain Perfusion Imaging
Ting-Yim Lee, PhD

4:45pm – TBA
Mathias Prokop, MD

4:55pm –Dose Reduction Strategies for Perfusion
E. Paul Lindell, MD

5:05pm – TBA
Mathias Prokop, MD

5:15pm – Discussion

5:30pm – End

Please note that the program may slightly change. Please refer back to the website for final schedule.

Back to Top