Computed Tomography 2023: National Symposium: CHEST and CARDIAC ONLY – A Video CME Teaching Activity

About This CME Teaching Activity
This course is designed to deliver a practical, yet clinically relevant review of CT imaging while emphasizing the latest technological advances. Tips, techniques, and expanded clinical applications will be highlighted throughout the program. Protocol optimization, oncological applications and lung cancer screen will be addressed. When appropriate, comparisons will be made with other modalities.

Target Audience
This CME activity is designed to educate diagnostic imaging physicians who supervise and interpret CT studies. This CME activity should also be useful to referring physicians who order these studies so that they might gain a greater appreciation of the strengths and limitations of clinically relevant CT studies. Technologists performing CT examinations should also benefit from this course.

Educational Objectives
At the completion of this CME teaching activity, you should be able to:

• Discuss the role of CT and CTA in the evaluation of kidney and liver disease.
• Describe the expanding role of CT in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal pathology.
• Optimize pulmonary and cardiac scanning techniques and protocols.
• Differentiate suspicious from benign lung nodules.
• Utilize CT to evaluate stroke.
• Develop protocols to assess musculoskeletal tumors.
• Discuss the application of AI in whole body trauma scans.