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1a: History
1b: Guidelines
1c: Epidemiology
1d: Structure
1e: Circulation
Lesson 1 REVIEW

2a: Anomalies
2b: Dextrocardia
2c: Coronary Arteries
2d: Indicators of Function
Lesson 2 REVIEW

3a: Electrophysiology
3b: Conduction
3c: Action Potential
3d: Autonomic System
Lesson 3 REVIEW

4a: Electrocardiography
4b: EKG Slideshow
4c: EKG Interpretation
4d: Myocardial Damage
Lesson 4 REVIEW

5a: Cardiovascular Disease
5b: Coronary Syndromes
5c: Atherosclerosis
5d: Myocardial Infarction
5e: Cardiac Stress Testing
5f: Cardiac Medications
5g: Revascularization
Lesson 5 REVIEW

6a: Diagnostic Imaging
6b: Radiopharmaceuticals
6c: Thallium Scintigraphy
6d: Tc99m MPI Agents
6e: PET Imaging
6f: Blood Pool Imaging
6g: Cardiac Function
Lesson 6 REVIEW

7a: Planar Cardiac Imaging
7b: Cardiac SPECT Imaging
7c: Cardiac SPECT Anatomy
7d: Interpretation
7e: Attenuation Correction
Lesson 7 REVIEW

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Review of Section 7 : Self-test

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 1. What scanning option could a technologist use if a morbidly obese patient were unwilling or unable to tolerate a gated SPECT procedure?   ”gated

 2. Why is careful positioning so important with planar myocardial imaging?   ”overlapping

 3. Which pre-processing steps are applied to raw SPECT data in background before it is written to your processing computer’s hard drive?  ”field

 4. Name the planes along which sectional row tomographic views of the heart are made.   short axis, vertical long axis, horizontal long axis.

 5. The Short axis views of the left ventricle are cut from the _____ to the ________.   apex, base

 6. The vertical long views of the left ventricle are cut from the _______ to the _______.   septal wall, lateral wall

 7. The horizontal long views of the left ventricle are cut from the _______ to the ______.   posterior wall, anterior wall

 

 

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