Program 2026

Program 2026 Updated 08 May 2026

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Tuesday, May 12th 2026

 

09.00   Registration, Coffee

 

Lectures

 

09.30  Opening

       Prof. Jan Hein Cornel, MD PhD, Cardiologist

 

09.35  Basics, cardiac PET reading & reporting

       Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

          

10.10   Patient selection for cardiac PET. Diagnostic accuracy

              and prognostic value of cardiac PET 

         Ibrahim Danad, MD PhD, Cardiologist

 

10.45   Coffee break

 

11.15   Cardiac PET imaging. Myocardial blood flow and choice

              of cardiac PET tracers

                    Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

11.50   Cardiac FDG PET (endocarditis)

                    Asbjørn M. Scholtens, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

12.15   Lunch

 

Hands-on training 

 

13.30 - 16.30  Processing of 13N-Ammonia scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF

              •  Buttonology and image processing
              •  Buttonology CaSc
              •  Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction
              •  Cases: Myocardial blood flow measurements
              •  Cases: Pitfalls

       Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

14.45   Evolving methods for PET myocardial flow

              quantification

                  Jennifer Renaud, MSc; Research Scientist, INVIA Medical Imaging
                  Solutions

 

15:30   Coffee break

 

15.45   Coronary artery calcium scoring from low dose CT

              scans

                  Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

(16:55 Walk to the main hospital building, department of Nuclear Medicine)

 

17.10   Site visit department of Nuclear Medicine

 

18.00   Canal cruise through the historic city center of 
             Alkmaar

                  (weather permitting)

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:

               Recent advances in absolute myocardial blood
               flow quantification by PET

                  Oscar I. Mendoza Ibanez, MD, PhD candidate

               ECG-gated PET/CT. Beyond cardiac volumes and 
               ejection fraction

                  Samara Martinez Lucio, MD, PhD candidate

                Multi-organ perfusion dynamics under adenosine
               stress in healthy volunteers: Insights from total-
               body ammonia PET

                  Yingqi Hu, MD, PhD candidate

 

12.15   Lunch

 

Hands-on training

     

    13.15 - 15.45  Hands-on Cardiac PET cases featuring:

     

    • Pitfalls & artifacts

                        Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

    • Various tracers

    13N-Ammonia

    Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

    15O-H₂O

    Prof. Mark Lubberink, PhD, Medical Physicist, Uppsala University, Sweden 

    18F-Flurpiridaz

    Marjolein Hol, MD, Nuclear Medicine Physician 

    82Rb-Rubidium

    Jouke Boer, MD, Nuclear Medicine Physician 

     

    14:15   Coffee break

     

    15:45   Roundtable discussion: Which tracer is best for

          your practice?

             Interactive

          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.