Advanced Nuclear Medicine Techniques

Venue: TBA

Coordinator: Dr. Omer Demirkaya

Faculty: Dr. Arturo Chiti, Dr. Omer Demirkaya, Dr. Paul E. Kinahan, Mr. Refaat Al Mazrou, Dr. Gary M. Sayed, and Dr. Mahmoud Tuli

Course Aim

This course will discuss the state of the art in Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT. The course will begin with a discussion of physics, image formation and image processing techniques in PET and SPECT. Some emphasis will be placed on the corrections for various image degrading factors in both modalities. Topics of the other didactic lectures will include the advanced clinical techniques in Nuclear Medicine and PET.

Target Audience

Medical physicists, Nuclear Medicine technologists, Nuclear Medicine Physicians

Lectures

1. Introduction to SPECT/CT Physics (Mr. Refaat Al Mazrou)
2. Introduction to PET Physics and Image Formation in PET/CT (Dr. Omer Demirkaya)
3. Attenuation Correction Artifacts in PET/CT (Dr. Paul Kinahan) 
4. SPECT/CT: Clinical Applications (Dr. Mahmoud Tuli)  
5. Evaluation of response with FDG PET (Dr. Arturo Chiti)
6. Clinical Applications of PET beyond FDG (Dr. Arturo Chiti)
7. Role of PET/SPECT/CT in Drug Design (Dr. Gary Sayed)
8. Recent Advances in PET and PET/CT Technology (Dr. Omer Demirkaya)

Related Workshops

SPECT/CT Workshop
PET/CT Workshop