Imaging in Jackson Hole: Enhance Your Diagnostic Skills

This comprehensive course is designed to provide radiologists, radiologic nurses, physician assistants, technologists, scientists, residents, fellows, and others with the latest imaging technologies and techniques to enhance their diagnostic skills and improve patient outcomes.

Objectives

• Develop a differential diagnosis that relates to pertinent imaging and clinically relevant findings for each case covered in the course.
• Describe the imaging anatomy and protocols necessary for diagnosing liver diseases.
• Optimize imaging methods to reduce false-positive mammography interpretations.
• Assess the current status and future applications of advanced breast imaging technologies.
• Explain the performance and processing of MRI and CT studies designed to depict anatomy and pathology.
• Use contemporary imaging techniques and protocols to accurately diagnose, stage, and manage diseases and injuries of the musculoskeletal system.
• Outline the fundamentals of the latest advanced techniques in MRI and CT and their roles and limitations in clinical practice.
• Integrate information presented in the course to improve imaging skills and patient care.

Course Program

Monday, July 11, 2022 – Chest and Cardiovascular Imaging

• 7:30-8:25 am: Aortic Endografts: Issues for the Imager
• 8:25-9:20 am: Diagnosing Acute Aortic Syndromes
• 9:20-9:40 am: Questions and Answers
• 9:40-10:25 am: CT Angiography in the Diagnosis and Triage of Coronary Artery Disease
• 10:25-11:10 am: Non-Coronary Applications for CT of the Heart
• 11:10-11:55 am: CT Angiography of Peripheral Arterial Disease
• 11:55 am-12:15 pm: Questions and Answers

Tuesday, July 12, 2022 – Abdominal Imaging

• 7:30-8:15 am: Expert Differential Diagnosis: Cystic Hepatic Mass
• 8:15-9:00 am: Expert Differential Diagnosis: Cystic Pancreatic Mass
• 9:00-9:45 am: Dilated Bowel
• 9:45-10:00 am: Questions, Answers
• 10:00-10:45 am: Expert Differential Diagnosis: Bowel Wall Thickening
• 10:45-11:30 am: Interactive Case Challenges
• 11:30 am-12:00 pm: Questions, Answers, and Discussion

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 – Musculoskeletal Imaging

• 7:30-8:00 am: Challenging Anatomy, Upper Extremities
• 8:00-8:30 am: Challenging Anatomy, Lower Extremities
• 8:30-9:00 am: MRI of Bone Marrow, What is Normal?
• 9:00-9:30 am: MRI of Bone Marrow, Abnormal Patterns
• 9:30-9:45 am: Questions and Answers
• 9:45-10:15 am: MRI of Infections, What Terms to Use
• 10:15-10:45 am: Cases That You Will See
• 10:45-11:15 am: Cases That You Might See
• 11:15 am-12:00 pm: Questions, Answers, and Discussion

Thursday, July 14, 2022 – Breast Imaging

• 7:30-8:15 am: Breast MRI Update and MRI Biopsy
• 8:15-9:00 am: Interval Cancer on Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Digital Mammography
• 9:00-9:45 am: US Diagnosis and US Biopsy
• 9:45-10:00 am: Questions and Answers
• 10:00-10:30 am: Tricky Stereotactic/DBT Biopsy
• 10:30-11:15 am: Post-Operative and Reconstructed Breast on MRI, US Mammography
• 11:15 am-12:00 pm: Post COVID Vaccination Imaging on MRI, US Mammography, and PET-CT
• 12:00-12:35 pm: Multimodality Breast Imaging on MRI, US, and Mammography
• 12:35-1:00 pm: Questions and Answers

Friday, July 15, 2022 – Abdominal Imaging Update

• 7:30-8:00 am: Cystic Renal Masses and Updated Bosniak Classification v. 2019
• 8:00-8:30 am: Ovarian Cystic Lesions: Revised ACR, SRU Guidelines, and O-RADS
• 8:30-9:00 am: Postpartum Bleeding
• 9:00-9:15 am: Questions and Answers
• 9:15-9:45 am: RECIST 1.1 Update: Strategies and Pitfalls
• 9:45-10:15 am: Imaging Findings and Complications of Oncologic Therapies
• 10:15-10:55 am: Fundamentals of Diffusion-Weighted Imaging (DWI)
• 10:55-11:35 am: Prostate MRI and PIRADS Update
• 11:35 am-12:00 pm: Questions and Answers

This comprehensive course is designed to provide a comprehensive overview of the latest imaging technologies and techniques, enabling participants to enhance their diagnostic skills and improve patient outcomes.