American Society of Nuclear Cardiology Nuclear Cardiology Board Exam Prep Course 2025
Target Audience: cardiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and radiologists
Information:
Whether you’re preparing for 2025 or 2026 CBNC exams or just want to stay current on board-focused updates in nuclear cardiology, ASNC’s Nuclear Cardiology Board Exam Prep Course is for you.
The Nuclear Cardiology Board Exam Prep Course includes:
- Recordings from the two-day live, virtual meeting, Sept. 27 – 28. The meeting features extensive review of the practice exam answers and live Q&A with expert nuclear cardiologists and physicists.
- Self-study materials including 19 video lectures (with audio and PDF slide-downloads) and 4 interactive practice exams with more than 170 questions based on the CBNC exam blueprint. Retake the practice exams and listen to the lectures as often as you’d like
The primary objectives of the course are to enable participants to achieve the following:
• Review concepts of nuclear physics as it applies to cardiovascular imaging physics instrumentation.
• Explain single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and positron emission tomography (PET) image acquisition, processing, and quality control considerations.
• Recognize and identify nuclear imaging associated artifacts.
• Discuss the production and management of radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals.
• Integrate radiation safety standards into professional nuclear cardiology practice.
• Incorporate patient-centered imaging principles and appropriate use considerations in nuclear cardiology and stress procedure selection.
• Learn basic stress testing (exercise and pharmacologic) protocols along with their absolute and relative contraindications.
• Incorporate risk stratification into selection and application of nuclear cardiology studies.
• Apply nuclear imaging tools in assessment of myocardial viability, cardiac amyloidosis, and ventricular function.
• Understand the basics of PET imaging for myocardial perfusion and metabolic viability and sarcoidosis assessment.
• Interpret SPECT and PET perfusion and metabolic images and ventricular function imaging.
• Utilize myocardial perfusion imaging in the assessment, diagnosis, and response to therapy in patients with known or suspected coronary artery disease and special populations.
• Appropriately identify non-cardiac findings on SPECT and PET-CT cardiovascular imaging studies.
• Integrate nuclear cardiology into the multimodality imaging evaluation of cardiovascular disease.
Topics:
August 14, 2025
- Welcome Introduction W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC
- Session I: Physics, Instrumentation, Radionuclides, Radiation Safety
- Physics for the Boards James Case, PhD, MASNC
- Production and Management of Radionuclides and Radiopharmaceuticals Marianna Dakanali, PhD
- The Basics of Radiation Safety Benjamin Auer, PhD
- Instrumentation (SPECT and PET) Keisha C. McCall, PhD, DABR
- Practice Exam 1 (self-paced)
- Session II: Acquisition and Quality Control, Gated SPECT, Artifact Recognition, and MUGA
- Technical Aspects of Acquisition and Processing Mark C. Hyun, CNMT, NCT, RS, RT(N,R,CT), FASNC
- Gated SPECT E. Gordon DePuey, MD, MASNC Artifact Recognition E. Gordon DePuey, MD, MASNC
- Instrumentation Quality Control Mark C. Hyun, CNMT, NCT, RS, RT(N,R,CT), FASNC
- Radionuclide Angiocardiography Ronald G. Schwartz, MD, MS, MASNC
- Practice Exam 2 (self-paced)
- Session III: Test Selection, Stress and Nuclear Protocols Interpretation, Appropriate Use, and Risk Stratification
- Stress Testing Jamieson Bourque, MD, MHS, FASNC
- Nuclear Imaging Protocols and Interpretation Jamieson Bourque, MD, MHS, FASNC
- Patient-Centered Imaging and Appropriate Use Rami Doukky, MD, MSc, MBA, FASNC
- Focused Topic: SPECT Viability: Protocols and Case Review W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC
- Risk Stratification SPECT David E. Winchester, MD, FASNC Practice Exam 3 (self-paced)
- Session IV: Cardiac PET, Multimodality Imaging, Cardiac Amyloidosis, Cases with the Experts: SPECT and PET
- Cardiac PET: Basics of Perfusion, Viability, and Sarcoidosis Sanjay Divakaran, MD, MPH
- Focused Topic: Nuclear Integration in Multimodality Imaging Saurabh Malhotra, MD, MPH, FASNC
- Focused Topic: Cardiac Scintigraphy with Bone-Seeking Tracers for Amyloidosis Prem Soman, MD, PhD, FASNC
- Cases with the Expert, SPECT Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, MD
- Cases with the Expert, PET Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, MD, FASNC
- Practice Exam 4 (self-paced)
Saturday, September 27, 2025
- 9:00am Welcome & Opening Remarks W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC
- 9:10am Exam 1, Practice Questions Answer Review James Case, Marianna Dakanali, Benjamin Auer, Keisha C. McCall Moderator: Lane Duvall
- 10:10am Break
- 10:20am Exam 2, Practice Questions Answer Review Gordon DePuey, Mark Hyun, Ronald Schwartz Moderator: Jamieson Bourque,
- 11:30am Technology-focused Town Hall Q&A James Case, Marianna Dakanali, Benjamin Auer, Keisha C. McCall, Gordon DePuey, Mark Hyun, Ronald Schwartz Moderators: Lane Duvall & Jamieson Bourque
- 12:30pm Adjourn for the day
Sunday, September 28, 2025
- 9:00am Brief Welcome W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC
- 9:05am Exam 3, Practice Questions Answer Review Jamieson Bourque, Rami Doukky, Lane Duvall, David Winchester Moderator: Lane Duvall
- 10:05am Break
- 10:15am Exam 4, Practice Questions Answer Review Sanjay Divakaran, Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman Moderator: Jamieson Bourque
- 11:15am Break
- 11:30am Clinical-focused Town Hall Q&A Jamieson Bourque, Rami Doukky, Lane Duvall, David Winchester, Sanjay Divakaran, Saurabh Malhotra, Prem Soman Moderators: Lane Duvall & Jamieson Bourque
- 12:30pm Closing remarks & adjourn W. Lane Duvall, MD, FASNC
