Temporal Bone Imaging Made Easy

Dr. Geoiphy George Pulickal, MBBS, MMed is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology (FRCR), London, UK. He completed his Head & Neck Radiology fellowship training at the Northwick Park Hospital, which is an accredited training centre for the European Board Diploma in Head & Neck Radiology. He is a Consultant and Clinical Lead for Head & Neck Radiology at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore. He is also a faculty member at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Singapore. He has published numerous articles on head & heck imaging and neuroradiology in peer-reviewed journals and is involved in several research projects related to head & neck imaging and other sub specialities. Dr. Tan Tiong Yong, MBBS is a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiology (FRCR), London, UK. He has more than 25 years of experience in head & neck imaging and was trained under Prof H. Ric Harnsberger, USA.  He is a Senior Consultant and formerHead of the Department of Diagnostic Radiology of Changi General Hospital, Singapore. He is also a visiting consultant at almost all public hospitals in Singapore and is responsible for having trained many generations of head & neck radiologists in Singapore. He is a Senior Clinical lecturer at the National University of Singapore and has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed articles in head & heck radiology.Dr.  Ashish Chawla is a Board (ABR) certified Radiologist. He completed his Neuroradiology fellowship from the University of Colorado, School of Medicine. He is currently a Senior consultant at the Department of Diagnostic Radiology at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore, where he is the Research Lead at the Department of Radiology. His areas of interest are pulmonary imaging and temporal bone imaging. He has already authored the book on thoracic imaging titled “Thoracic imaging, Basic to Advanced”. Dr Chawla is involved in various research projects relating to imaging of the neck and thorax. Dr Chawla has authored more than 70 articles in peer-reviewed journals. He is a member of the FRCR core faculty for the National Healthgroup (NHG) residency program and is actively involved in FRCR exam preparation.

• Part I. Basic Anatomy and Approach to Common Symptoms; Making Sense of History.- Basic Temporal Bone Imaging Anatomy; External, Middle and Inner Ear.- Temporal Bone Imaging Techniques; Computer Tomography, Cone Beam CT and Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- Imaging Approach to Conductive Hearing Loss.- Imaging Approach to Sensorineural Hearing Loss.- Imaging Approach to Tinnitus.- Imaging Approach to Otorrhea.- Imaging Approach to Otalgia.- Common Otoscopic Signs, Imaging of Common Surgeries and Implants.- Part II. Imaging of External Ear Pathology.- Radiological Features of Otitis Externa.- Imaging of External Ear Masses; Cholesteatoma and Tumours.- Imaging of External Ear Malformations, Canal Stenosis and Exostosis.- Part III. Imaging of Middle Ear and Mastoid Air Cells Pathology.- Imaging of Otomastoiditis, Acute and Chronic.- Radiological Features of Acquired and Congenital Cholesteatoma.- Radiological Features of Oval Window Atresia.- Part IV. Imaging of Inner Ear Pathology.- Imagingof Inner Ear Malformations and Vestibular Aqueduct Syndrome.- Radiological Features of Otosclerosis.- Other Causes of Inner Ear Hearing Loss: Meniere’s Disease, Labyrinthitis & Semicircular Canal Dehiscence.- Part V. Imaging of Temporal Bone Trauma, Petrous Apex, Cerebello-Pontine Angles, Jugular Foramen & Facial Nerve.- Imaging of Temporal Bone Trauma.- Imaging of the Petrous Apex, Cerebello-Pontine Angles & Jugular Foramen.- Imaging of the Facial Nerve: Approach and Pathology.