Foundations
Physiology, patient preparation and acquisition, normal metabolic distribution, systematic visual interpretation, quantitative analysis and principal disease patterns.
Education & training
Building expertise in brain FDG-PET
Practical, clinically oriented education for healthcare professionals, from fundamental principles to advanced pattern recognition and complex clinical cases.
From fundamentals to expert interpretation
Learning that follows clinical practice
Accurate interpretation requires more than recognising a small number of characteristic disease patterns. Teaching combines practical instruction with case-based learning and real-world diagnostic challenges.
Advanced interpretation
Early and subtle abnormalities, atypical and asymmetric presentations, overlap, atrophy, comorbidity and appropriate use of quantitative analysis.
Complex case-based learning
Progressive clinical and imaging information is used to formulate and refine the differential diagnosis in a format that mirrors real reporting practice.
Teaching topics
Molecular brain imaging in context
Brain FDG-PET acquisition, processing and interpretation
Quantitative analysis and pitfalls
Alzheimer disease and atypical variants
FTD and primary progressive aphasia
Dementia with Lewy bodies
PSP and corticobasal disorders
DAT-SPECT
Amyloid and tau PET
Alternative diagnoses and causes of global brain dysfunction
Limbic encephalitis, Korsakoff syndrome, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, traumatic brain injury, encephalopathies and chronic OSAS.
Beyond individual courses
Developing and sharing expertise
Increasing access to brain FDG-PET is only useful if sufficient expertise is available to interpret examinations reliably. Education can support professionals in progressing from basic interpretation towards greater independence and confidence in complex cases, while supporting wider collaboration and consistency between institutions.