Program

Thursday, September 24th 2020

 

08.30   Registration, Coffee

 

Lectures

 

09.00   Opening

Prof. Riemer H.J.A. Slart, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

Prof. Jan Hein Cornel, MD PhD, Cardiologist

 

09.10   Recap of basic cardiac anatomy and physiology

Prof. Jan Hein Cornel, MD PhD, Cardiologist

 

09.30   Procedure protocols, stress agents; when (not) to choose which? Coping with complications during stress tests. ECG reading: identifying ischemia and arrhythmia

         Jouke J. Boer, MD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

10.00   Patient selection for cardiac PET

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

 

10.15   Coffee break

 

10.45   Cardiac PET imaging procedure. Kinetic modeling and choice of cardiac PET tracers

Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

11.15   Cardiac PET reading & reporting

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

 

11.40   FDG PET in cardiac viability and sarcoidosis

Prof. Riemer H.J.A. Slart, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

12.05   Cardiac FDG PET (endocarditis)

Asbjørn M. Scholtens, MD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

 

 

 

12.30   Lunch

 

Hands-on training

 

13.45   Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF

 

  • Buttonology and image processing

  • Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction

  • Cases: Myocardial blood flow measurements

  • Structured reporting

  • Cases: Metabolic Imaging / Cardiac FDG PET

  • 15.00 Demo Corridor 4DM (Lana Figueiredo, INVIA Education Manager)

  • 16.00 Stent Side Branch Occlusion (Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician)

 

 

 

16:30   Site visit (department NM and Cyclotron)

 

Friday, September 25th 2020

 

08.30   Coffee

 

Lectures

 

09.00   Physics, acquisition, reconstruction and artifacts. New developments in software and PET techniques

Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

09.30   Correlation with other imaging techniques: CCTA, cardiac MR, CAG, FFR

Tjeerd Germans, MD PhD, Cardiologist

 

09.55   FFR, CFR and ischemia: all the same?

Hein J. Verberne, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

10.20   Coffee break

 

10.45   Extracardiac findings

Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

11.05   Artificial intelligence in cardiac PET

Luis E. Juàrez-Orozco, MD PhD

 

11.30   Features and new developments in cardiac PET processing software

  • PCARD (PMOD) - Tomasz Kubik, PhD Software developer
  • Syngo.MBF (Siemens) -  Mohammad Raza Khan, MPhys, MSc, Product Manager
  • Corridor 4DM (INVIA) - Lana Figueiredo, INVIA Education Manager
  • aQuant (Medtrace) - Prof. Mark Lubberink, PhD Uppsala University

 

11.50   AURORA Trial (18F-Flurpiridaz): Current status

Dirk N.J. Wyndaele, MD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

11.55   Cardiac PET tracer production

Radiopharmacist, Qualified Person at Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep

12.10  New developments in Cardiac PET radionuclide production

  • IBA - Cristiana Goncalves Gameiro, PhD, Product Manager
  • GE Healthcare - Etienne Vallée, Radiopharmacy Product Manager
  • IONETIX -  Mathijs Faber, Distributor Ionetix Inc.

 

12.30   Lunch

 

Hands-on training

 

13.45   Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF

 

  • Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction
  • Cases: Pitfalls & Artifacts
  • Cases: Extracardiac findings
  • Structured reporting
  • Demo stations for cardiac PET processing
  • 14.00 Demo aQuant (Prof. Mark Lubberink, PhD Uppsala University / Medtrace)
  • 14.30 Demo PCARD (Tomasz Kubik, PhD Software developer)
  • 15.00 Demo QPET (Tejas Parekh, Associate Director, AIM Program)

 

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, locations and current COVID-19 issues.