NH 1 - Visualising obesity: the new epidemic

Learning Objectives
1. To review the state-of-the-art neuroimaging research for alterations of eating behaviours in obesity and relation to emotions.
2. To describe grey and white matter alterations in obesity.
3. To assess neuroinflammation in obesity by DTI.
4. To try to define how bariatric surgery can reverse obese related effects in the brain.

Learning Objectives
1. To establish a strategy for improving quality imaging of chest plain films and chest CT.
2. To identify chest CT imaging biomarkers with prognostic implications.
3. To show the correlation between obesity and mosaic attenuation, end respiratory air trapping and tracheal shape.
4. To determine reversibility of signs of airway inflammation after bariatric surgery. Lung CT as a marker of clinical improvement.

Learning Objectives
1. To achieve technical optimisation of CT cardiovascular studies in obese population.
2. To provide a strategy for optimising contrast injection (total amount and rate) and improve vessel conspicuity.
3. To review the association of obesity with coronary disease, hypertension, atrial fibrilation and heart failure.
4. To be aware of the obesity paradox.

Learning Objectives
1. To learn about liver function capacity in obesity.
2. To learn what NAFLD is and why it is clinically important.
3. To assess the feasibility of non-invasive monitorisation of fat after bariatric surgery.
4. To become familiar with the quantification of liver fat with MRI and proton density fat fraction (PDFF).