Preliminary Program 2026
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Tuesday, May 12th 2026
08.30 Registration, Coffee
Lectures
09.00 Opening
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
09.05 Basics, cardiac PET reading & reporting
Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
09.45 Patient selection for cardiac PET. Diagnostic accuracy
and prognostic value of cardiac PET
Ibrahim Danad, MD PhD, Cardiologist
10.20 Coffee break
11.00 Cardiac PET imaging. Myocardial blood flow and choice
of cardiac PET tracers
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
11.45 Cardiac FDG PET (endocarditis)
Asbjørn M. Scholtens, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
12.10 Lunch
Hands-on training
13.40 - 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
14.15 Evolving Methods for PET Myocardial Flow
Quantification
Jennifer Renaud, MSc; Research Scientist, INVIA Medical Imaging Solutions
15.00 Coronary artery calcium scoring from low dose CT
scans
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
(16:30 Walk to department of Nuclear Medicine, Multifunctional Room (MFR) 0030)
16.45 Clinical applications of AI in nuclear cardiology
Speaker to be confirmed
Prof. Piotr Slomka, PhD, Director of Innovation in Imaging, Cedars-Sinai
17.15 Site visit department of Nuclear Medicine
18.15 Canal cruise through the historic city center of
Alkmaar
19.00 Dinner in the Alkmaar city center
Wednesday, May 13th 2026
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
11:00 Artifacts and limitations in cardiac PET
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
11.30 Scientific Session
Various speakers, to be confiirmed (4 x15 min)
12.30 Lunch
Hands-on training
13.15 - 16.00 Hands-on Cardiac PET cases featuring:
- Different tracers
13N-Ammonia
Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
15O-H₂O
Speaker to be confirmed Hans Harms, MedTrace
82Rb-Rubidium
Speaker to be confirmed Jouke Boer, Nuclear Medicine Physician
18F-Flurpiridaz
Speaker to be confirmed Marjolein Hol, Nuclear Medicine Physician
- Pitfalls & artifacts
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
14:15 Coffee break
15:45 Roundtable discussion: Which tracer is best for
your practice?
Interactive. Moderator: to be confirmed
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.