8th Baltic Congress of Radiology

08.10.2022 Tallinn, Estonia

PET/CT imaging of atherosclerotic disease

Marika Kalnina (Latvia)

Head of Nuclear medicine department, ARS diagnostic clinic

Biography: Experienced radiologist specialized in nuclear medicine and hybrid imaging SPECT/CT and PET/CT. Mostly involved in Oncology and Cardiology Imaging. Main research interest in Nuclear Cardiology and Prostate Cancer. Educated in Latvia, working at Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital. Continuing Education in Europe and USA. Certificate of Proficiency for performing FDG PET/CT in Oncology from American College of Radiology. Level 1 Certificate in Nuclear Cardiology from the European Society of Cardiology. Publications at peer reviewed journals, speaker in international conferences.

Presentation

Black Box

Synopsis: In this lecture the possibilities of nuclear molecular imaging in the detection of hot plaque will be discussed. It is a promising noninvasive method to predict cardiac events. Different radiopharmaceuticals used in oncology at the moment will be analyzed to see their mechanism of action and potential in high risk plaque detection. Patient case will be shown with a recent oncology patient with hot plaque with correlation with invasive methods. Possible cardiotoxicity markers in PET will be represented.

This agenda item is presented in the following session: S3-1 Cardiovascular Imaging

Plenary session

07.10.2022 14:00 - 15:30