Program 2023
Thursday, September 21st 2023
08.30 Registration, Coffee
Lectures
09.00 Opening
Prof. Jan Hein Cornel, MD PhD, Cardiologist
09.05 Cardiac PET procedure, reading & reporting
Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
09.35 Role of Cardiovascular Imaging in Risk Assessement
Saloua El Messaoudi, MD PhD, Cardiologist
09.50 Patient selection for cardiac PET. Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of cardiac PET
Ibrahim Danad, MD, PhD, Cardiologist
10.15 Coffee break
10.40 Cardiac PET imaging. Myocardial blood flow and choice of cardiac PET tracers
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
11.10 Artificial intelligence in cardiac PET
Luis E. Juárez-Orozco, MD PhD
11.30 PET in cardiac sarcoidosis and amyloidosis imaging
Prof. Riemer H.J.A. Slart, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
11.50 Cardiac FDG PET (endocarditis)
Asbjørn M. Scholtens, MD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
12.30 Lunch
Hands-on training
13.45 Cardiac NaF and FAPI PET
Nieky Mohammadnia, MD, Research Fellow Cardiology
14.05 - 16.30 Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF
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Buttonology and image processing
- Buttonology CaSc
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Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction
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Cases: Myocardial blood flow measurements
- Cases: Pitfalls
15.30 Stent Side Branch Occlusion
Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
16.00 Coronary artery calcium scoring from low dose CT scans
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
16.45 Clinical applications of AI in nuclear cardiology
Prof. Piotr Slomka, PhD, Director of Innovation in Imaging, Cedars-Sinai (via Zoom)
17:15 Site visit department of Nuclear Medicine
18:30 Dinner in the Alkmaar city center
Friday, September 22nd 2023
08.30 Coffee
Lectures
09.00 Physics and PET acquisition. Kinetic modeling and quantitative PET in cardiology
Prof. Mark Lubberink, PhD, Medical Physicist, Uppsala University, Sweden
09.45 Correlation with other imaging techniques: CCTA, cardiac MR, CAG, FFR
Tjeerd Germans, MD PhD, Cardiologist
10.05 FFR, CFR and ischemia: all the same?
Tim van de Hoef, MD PhD, Cardiologist
10.30 Coffee break
10.55 Artifacts and limitations in cardiac PET
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
11.30 Extracardiac findings
Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
11.45 F18-Flurpiridaz: Practical experiences
Marjolein Hol, MD, Nuclear Radiologist
12.00 Evolving Methods for PET Myocardial Flow Quantification
Jennifer Renaud, MSc; Research Scientist, INVIA Medical Imaging Solutions
12.15 Cardiac PET: business insights from a value-based healthcare system
Jérôme Harray, Product Manager IBA
12.30 Lunch
Hands-on training
13.45 Cardiac PET facilities and tracer production. Preparing a business case for cardiac PET/CT
Klaas Pieter Koopmans, MD, PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
14.15 - 16.30 Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF
- Cases: Various
- Cases: Pitfalls & Artifacts
- Demo stations for cardiac PET processing
15.15 Data Driven Motion Correction for PET cardiac perfusion scans (part I)
Samara Martinez Lucio, MD
16.10 Data Driven Motion Correction for PET cardiac perfusion scans (part II)
Oscar Mendoza, MD
16.30 Farewell drink
Program may be subject to change. In case of international attendees, the spoken language of the entire course will be English, otherwise Dutch. Click here for more information on registration, important dates and locations.