Program 2024

 

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Thursday, September 26th 2024

 

08.30   Registration, Coffee

 

Lectures

 

09.00   Opening

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

 

09.05  Basics, cardiac PET reading & reporting

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

 

09.35  Role of Cardiovascular Imaging in Risk Assessment

           Saloua El Messaoudi, MD PhD, Cardiologist

          

09.55   Patient selection for cardiac PET. Diagnostic accuracy and prognostic value of cardiac PET 

Ibrahim Danad, MD PhD, Cardiologist

 

10.20   Coffee break

 

 

 

11.20   PET in cardiac sarcoidosis and amyloidosis imaging

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

 

11.45   Cardiac FDG PET (endocarditis)

            Asbjørn M. Scholtens, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

 

12.10   Lunch

 

Hands-on training

 

13:10   Cardiac PET imaging. Myocardial blood flow and choice of cardiac PET tracers

Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

13.40 - 16.30  Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF

 

  • Buttonology and image processing

  • Buttonology CaSc

  • Cases: Normal, ischemia, infarction

  • Cases: Myocardial blood flow measurements

  • Cases: Pitfalls

 

15.30   Stent Side Branch Occlusion

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

 

16.00 Coronary artery calcium scoring from low dose CT scans

          Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

16.45  Clinical applications of AI in nuclear cardiology

        Prof. Piotr Slomka, PhD, Director of Innovation in Imaging, Cedars-Sinai

 

17:15   Site visit department of Nuclear Medicine

 

18:15   Dinner in the Alkmaar city center

Friday, September 27th 2024

 

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

 

10.55   Artifacts and limitations in cardiac PET

              Sergiy V. Lazarenko, PhD, Medical Physicist

 

11.30   Extracardiac findings

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

 

11.45   F18-Flurpiridaz: Practical experiences in UMCU

          Marjolein Hol , MD

 

12.00   F18-Flurpiridaz:  Latest update after ASNC congress 2024

            Dirk Wyndaele, MD

 

 

12.15   Lunch

 

Hands-on training

 

13.20   Evolving Methods for PET Myocardial Flow Quantification

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

 

14.15 - 16.00 Processing of scans in Corridor 4DM, QPET, Syngo.MBF

  • Cases: Various
  • Cases: Pitfalls & Artifacts
  • Demo stations for cardiac PET processing

14:10 Practical examples of H2O PET

           Hans Harms, Medtrace

 

15:25   Cardiac PET facilities and tracer production. Preparing a business case for cardiac PET/CT

            Klaas Pieter Koopmans, MD PhD, Nuclear Medicine Physician

 

16.00 Cardiac NaF and FAPI PET

           Nieky Mohammadnia, MD, Research Fellow Cardiology

 

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.