Hands-on Cardiac CT Course

The hands-on cardiac CT course is a 5-day course covering basic to advanced topics.

The course focusses on mentored hands-on scan reading and interpretation on Siemens Syngo Via workstations (2 participants per workstation) with full post-processing functionality, combined with practical, clinically oriented lectures on indications, data acquisition and image interpretation by experts in the field.

This course is designed for radiologists, cardiologist as well as residents and other interested medical specialists that are interested in cardiac CT imaging.

During the course participant will perform mentored reading of approximately 150 CT cases, many with angiography/echo/MRI confirmation.

A typical course day is composed of 4 reading session of 1.5-2 hours with lunch and coffee breaks in between. A sample program can be found in the blue box on the right side (or below when viewing on a mobile phone or tablet).

Topics inlcude:

Cardiac anatomy on CT
Structured reading of a cardiac CT scan
Calcium score and plaque assessment
Coronary CT in stable chest pain
Pathology of the thoracic aorta
Technical aspects of cardiac CT acquisition
FFR-CT
Endocarditis of both native and prosthetic valves
Transcatheter aortic valve insertion (TAVI) planning and folow-up
Valve assessment
CT after CABG and PCI
Cardiac CT in the emergency room
Congenital heart disease
CT imaging in heart failure
Advanced technical aspects of cardiac CT acquisition

2027 will mark the 20th edition of the Hands-on Cardiac CT course. Evaluations of previous editions consistently highlight the hands-on case reading, large number of cases as well as the skill, knowledge and easy low-key interaction with the faculty as major strong points.

Hands-on CT Course fee

5-day combined course:

€ 2750,-

for medical specialists

€ 2250,-

for residents

Course fee includes lunch and other refreshments throughout the course, dinner on the first night of the course, course syllabus with slides, relevant literature and guidelines.

The course language will be English. The maximum number of participants is 44.

CME

The course is accredited by the NVVR and NVVC.

Sign up

To sign up for this course please click on the blue box on the right side (below when using a mobile device). Please read the pop-up text carefully as well as the text on the registration site.