DTI Madrid - Faculty and Program
Friday, October 31, 2008
Madrid (Spain)
Course Director
Francisco Grandas, MD ~ Madrid, Spain
Faculty
J.C. Alonso-Farto, MD ~ Madrid, Spain
A. Bittini, MD ~ Madrid, Spain
P. Dominguez-Montero, MD ~ Madrid, Spain
S. Martinez de Llano, MD ~ Madrid, Spain
W. Oertel, MD ~ Marburg, Germany
C. Scherfler, MD ~ Innsbruck, Austria
A. Toger, MD ~ Madrid, Spain
E. Tolosa, MD ~ Barcelona, Spain
| MORNING SESSION | |
| 9:00- 9:15 | Welcome and Introduction Francisco Grandas, MD and A. Bittini, MD |
| 9:15- 9:45 | The Clinical Diagnosis of Parkinson's disease: the potential role of neuroimaging studies Francisco Grandas, MD |
| 9:45- 10:30 | Basic aspects of dopamine transporter function and neuroimaging J.C. Alonso-Farto |
| 10:30- 11:15 | Dopamine transporter SPECT in Parkinson´s disease and other degenerative parkinsonisms C. Scherfler |
| 11:15-11:45 | Coffee break |
| 11:45-12:30 | Dopamine transporter SPECT in the differential diagnosis of atypical tremors, drug-induced and psycogenic parkinsonisms W. Oertel |
| 12:30-13:00 | Toward a preclinical diagnosis of Parkinson´s disease E. Tolosa |
| 13:00-14:00 | Lunch |
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AFTERNOON SESSION (Nuclear Medicine Department) |
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| 14:00-15:30 | I.- Patient preparation, DATSCAN SPECT set-up and data adquisition II .- Processing data, getting adequate images and interpreting results A. Bittini, S. Martinez de Llano, A. Rotger |
| 15:30-17:00 | Interactive review of illustrative cases P. Domínguez-Montero, A. Bittini, F. Grandas |
| 17.00 |
Closing remarks |



