Preliminary Program 2023
Thursday, September 21st 2023
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
09.05 Recap of basic cardiac anatomy and physiology
Prof. Jan Hein Cornel, MD PhD, Cardiologist
09.15 Procedure protocols, stress agents; when (not) to choose which? Coping with complications during stress tests. ECG reading: identifying ischemia and arrhythmia
[speaker to be confirmed]
09.35 Cardiac PET reading & reporting
Remco J.J. Knol, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
09.55 Patient selection for cardiac PET. Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of cardiac PET
Ibrahim Danad, MD, PhD, Cardiologist
10.20 Coffee break
10.45 Cardiac PET imaging procedure. Myocardial blood flow and choice of cardiac PET tracers
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
11.15 Artificial intelligence in cardiac PET
[speaker to be confirmed]
11.40 FDG PET in cardiac viability and sarcoidosis
[speaker to be confirmed]
12.05 Cardiac FDG PET (endocarditis)
[speaker to be confirmed]
12.30 Lunch
13:15 Site visit (department of Nuclear Medicine, 0030)
Hands-on training
13.45 - 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
15.00 Stent Side Branch Occlusion
[speaker to be confirmed]
15.30 Coronary artery calcium scoring from low dose CT scans - how to proceed?
[speaker to be confirmed]
16:45 Site visit (Cyclotron)
Ronald G. Pronk, MSc
Cardiac PET tracer production
Marja D.L. ter Borg, Radiopharmacist/ Qualified Person
17:45 Alkmaar Canal Boat Tour
Departure from Lindegracht nearby old Café Het Gulden Vlies
18:30 Dinner in the Alkmaar city center
Friday, September 22nd 2023
08.30 Coffee
Lectures
09.00 Artifacts and limitations in cardiac PET
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
09.25 Correlation with other imaging techniques: CCTA, cardiac MR, CAG, FFR
[speaker to be confirmed]
09.50 FFR, CFR and ischemia: all the same?
[speaker to be confirmed]
10.15 Extracardiac findings
Friso M. van der Zant, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Physics and PET acquisition. Kinetic modeling and quantitative PET in cardiology
[speaker to be confirmed]
11.45 AURORA Trial (18F-Flurpiridaz): Current status
[speaker to be confirmed]
12.05 Cardiac PET facilities and tracer production. Preparing a business case for cardiac PET/CT
[speaker to be confirmed]
12.30 Lunch
Hands-on training
13.30 - 16.30 Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF
- Cases: Various
- Cases: Pitfalls & Artifacts
- Cases: Extracardiac findings
- Demo stations for cardiac PET processing
14.15 Data Driven Motion Correction for PET cardiac perfusion scans
[speaker to be confirmed]
15.15 Features and new developments in PET techniques and cardiac PET processing software
Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist
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.