Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic Imaging – Focus On: Advanced Neuroimaging
registration open
Palma / Spain
28.03.2025 – 30.03.2025
EURO 2.140.-*
EURO 2.040.- (early registration deadline: 01.12.2024)*
* eLibrary access is included in the course fee
Total hours: 24
ATF hours (Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland): TBA
Principal Course Masters:
Dr. Ines Carrera, Dipl. ECVDI (UK)
Dr. Ewa Stanczyk, Dipl. ECVDI (PL)
Course Overview
This course is directed for residents and diplomates in Diagnostic Imaging and Neurology who want to take their Neuroimaging skills a step forward, as well as participants of the “Focus On: Neuroimaging” course. When the basics of Neuroimaging are familiar, this course will help to reach the next level. The lectures will aim specific topics, and at the end of each day, there will be 1.5 hours of case discussion to warp around all learning points. This will be a three-day residential course in the beautiful city of Palma (Spain).
Course program (Subject to change)
Friday, 28 March 2025
08.30-09:30 Intra-axial vs extra-axial lesions: what are the features that help us the most to differentiate them?
09:30-10:30 DWI/ADC map: understanding how this sequence works and when it makes a difference in the diagnosis.
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 Intra-axial hematomas vs haemorrhagic neoplasia: be confident about it.
12:00-13:00 Many faces of intracranial infections: when do we suspect about it?
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Ring-enhanced lesions – how to differentiate them?
15:00-16:00 Intracranial cystic lesions
Saturday, 29 March 2025
08.30-09:30 Bilateral symmetrical lesions affecting white matter: what differentials are we including?
09:30-10:30 Continuation of bilateral symmetrical lesions: what about grey matter and mixed grey/white matter distribution?
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 When cranial nerves get sick: review of cranial nerve pathologies.
12:00-13:00 Ventricular system: from hydrocephalus to ependymitis and tumours.
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00 Hypophysis: what else from adenomas?
Sunday, 30 March 2025
08:30-09:30 Discospondylitis and severe chronic intervertebral disc disease: how do we tell them apart?
09:30-10:30 Haemorrhagic spinal lesions: what are all differentials to include, and how do we differentiate them?
10:30-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:00 SAD vs constrictive myelopathy: navigating the grey areas
12:00-13:00 Lesions mimicking spinal neoplasia
13:00-14:00 Wrap-up and Planning Follow-up Online Sessions