Table of Contents:

SECTION 1: BASICS

SECTION 2: CEREBRAL VESSELS

SECTION 3: EXTREMITY ARTERIES

SECTION 4: EXTREMITY VEINS

SECTION 5: ABDOMEN AND PELVIS

1. Hemodynamic considerations in peripheral vascular and cerebrovascular disease
2. Physics and instrumentation in Doppler and B-mode ultrasonography
3. Basic concepts of doppler frequency spectrum analysis and ultrasound blood flow imaging
4. Vascular applications of ultrasound contrast agents
5. The role of ultrasound in the management of cerebrovascular disease
6. Normal cerbrovascular anatomy and collateral pathways
7. Normal findings and technical aspects of carotid sonography
8. Ultrasound assessment of carotid plaque
9. Ultrasound assessment of carotid stenosis
10. Carotid occlusion, unusual carotid pathology and tricky carotid cases
11. Ultrasound assessment of the vertebral arteries
12. Ultrasound assessment of the intracranial arteries
13. Arterial anatomy of the extremities
14. Nonimaging physiologic tests for assessment of lower extremity arterial disease
15. Assessment of upper extremity arterial occlusive arterial disease
16. Ultrasound evaluation before and after hemodialysis access
17. Ultrasound assessment of lower extremity arteries
18. Ultrasound assessment during and after carotid peripheral intervention
19. Ultrasound in the assessment and management of arterial emergencies
20. Risk factors and the role of ultrasound in the management of extremity venous disease
21. Extremity venous anatomy and technique for ultrasound examination
22. Ultrasound diagnosis of lower extremity venous thrombosis
23. Controversies in venous ultrasound
24. Ultrasound diagnosis of venous insufficiency
25. Nonvascular pathology encountered during venous sonography
26. Anatomy and normal doppler signatures of abdominal vessels
27. Ultrasound assessment of the abdominal aorta
28. Ultrasound imaging assessment following endovascular aortic aneurysm repair
29. Ultrasound assessment of the splanchnic (mesenteric) arteries
30. Ultrasound assessment of the hepatic vasculature
31. Ultrasound assessment of native renal vessels
32. Duplex ultrasound evaluation of the uterus and ovaries
33. Duplex ultrasound evaluation of the male genitalia
34. Evaluation of Organ Transplants
35. Screening for Vascular Disease
36. Correlative imaging
37. Accreditation and the vascular lab