Program 2021
(Previous edition)
The preliminary program of the 2022 edition will be issued soon.
Thursday, September 2nd 2021
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
09.55 Patient selection for cardiac PET. Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of cardiac PET
Klaas Pieter Koopmans, MD, PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
10.15 Coffee break
10.45 Cardiac PET reading & reporting
Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
11.10 Cardiac PET imaging procedure. Myocardial blood flow and choice of cardiac PET tracers
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
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
13.30 Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF
-
Buttonology and image processing
-
Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction
-
Cases: Myocardial blood flow measurements
15.30 Stent Side Branch Occlusion
Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
16:20 Site visit (department NM and Cyclotron)
Cardiac PET tracer production
Marja D.L. ter Borg, Radiopharmacist/ Qualified Person, Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep
Artificial intelligence in cardiac PET
Luis E. Juárez-Orozco, MD PhD
18:30 Dinner in the Alkmaar city center
Friday, September 3rd 2021
08.30 Coffee
Lectures
09.00 Physics, acquisition, reconstruction and artifacts. New developments in software and PET techniques
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
09.40 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 den Hoef, MD PhD, Cardiologist
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Extracardiac findings
Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
11.20 Coronary artery calcium scoring from low dose CT scans - how to proceed?
Magdalena Dobrolińska, MD, PhD candidate
11.35 Cardiac PET facilities and tracer production. Preparing a business case for cardiac PET/CT
Klaas Pieter Koopmans, MD, PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
12.05 New developments in Cardiac PET radionuclide production
-
Martin Stenfeldt, CEO MedTrace Pharma A/S
-
IONETIX - Mathijs Faber, Distributor Ionetix Inc.
12.20 Lunch
Hands-on training
13.30 Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF
- Buttonology CaSc
- Structured reporting
- Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction
- Cases: Pitfalls & Artifacts
- Cases: Extracardiac findings
- Demo stations for cardiac PET processing
14.45 Features and new developments in cardiac PET processing software
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
15.00 Splenic switch-off in 13N-NH3 PET-CT
Lonneke Does, Msc, Technician
15.15 Kinetic modeling and quantitative PET in cardiology
Prof. Mark Lubberink, PhD Uppsala University, Sweden
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.