Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Diabetes
This podcast features and interview with Dr Franz Wakers from Yale on the DIAD trial on the use of myocardial perfusion screening in asymptomatic diabetics.

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Interview with Dr Strauss on vulnerable plaque
This podcast is part of series of podcasts on Nuclear Medicine

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ED function and Dysponea
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This podcast is part of series of podcasts on Nuclear Medicine this episode features an interview with Dr Clements from the mayo clinic on ED function and Dysponea

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Collimator Choice and Reconstruction algorithm
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Choline PET and prostate cancer
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this episode features an interview with Dr Werner Langsteger on PET choline in prostate cancer.

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Shownotes

Merry christmas and happy holidays to all

Lu177-DOTA therapy for SS-2 tumors
Dr Kwekkeboom, Rotterdam, Netherlands

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Two interviews focusing on cardiac disease in the UK
With Professor Richard Underwood
And Dr Eric Lim

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Shownotes

News
Alexander Litvinenko poisoned with polonium-210

Interviews from Athens EANM

Nuclear imaging in the assessment of the results of (cardiovascular) therapy
Dr F. Bengel, Baltimore, USA
Stem Cell therapy (this is now being done in the Netherlands, good paper from there also)
Reporter gene imaging
Anti-arrhythmia imaging Plaque imaging and cell wall imaging

V/Q SPECT reporting 4696 cases
M Bajc, Lund, Sweden

1% non-diagnostic or intermediate probability or contraindicated scan vs 27% + for CTPA
The co-registered VQ quotient
Total scans done in 25 mins
Needs modeled reconstruction (3D flash/Astonish)
Needs technigas
These patient numbers dwarf pioped or wells!
V/Q SPECT great for other lung disease pneumonia etc Other paper

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Shownotes

Rods pulse podcast
?http://www.rodspulsepodcast.com/

Hepatitis C Virus Infections From a Contaminated Radiopharmaceutical Used in Myocardial Perfusion Studies
Priti R. Patel, MD Etal
JAMA. 2006;296:2005-2011.

Amifostine can reduce toxicity of targeted radionuclide therapy without affecting anti-tumour effect
F.Forrer Rotterdam
Its an old drug used routinely for radiotherapy
Amifostine has been used for protecting salivary glands
It makes a dramatic effect in reducing kidney dose in Lu177-DOTA
Thus doses can be safely increased and increasing chance of complete remission

SPECT/CT
Dale Bailey, Sydney, Australia
How to make a Home made SPECT/CT
He showed how much of an impact this made on reports > 40% much higher than expected
Physicians said “I’ve been confidently giving the wrong reports for 10 years!”

Depression + Anxiety correlation with MPI imaging
Ansari-Gilani, Tehran, Iran
Depression has been shown as a risk factor for cardiac disease
Patients with a high BDI score had a statistically significant correlation with the perfusion difference score
The effect is stronger with 3 vessel disease and also with depression than anxiety but both had significant P values
Interestingly it was also true before patients had a diagnosis of CAD

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