Wednesday, 9 October 2024

IAEA Headquarters, Vienna, Austria

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09:00 – 10:30 | Session 9: PET/CT and Precision Medicine for Treatment Response

10:30 – 11:00?|?Coffee break and Exhibition Visit/Presentation

11:00 – 12:30 | Parallel Session 10.1: Paediatrics

11:00 – 12:30 | Parallel Session 10.2: Medical Physics and Technology

12:30 – 13:40 |?Working lunch: Technical Cooperation Success Stories

13:40 – 15:40 | Parallel Session 11.1: Medical Physics and Technology (continued)

13:40 – 15:40 | Parallel Session 11.2: Neuroimaging

15:40 – 16:00?|?Coffee break and Exhibition Visit/Presentation

16:00 – 17:30 | Session 12: Poster Review 3/4

16:00 – 17:30 | Coordinated Research Projects (POCA/PROCA) Session 3

Session 9: PET/CT and Precision Medicine for Treatment Response

09:00 – 10:30

IAEA Coordinator: Diana Paez, Scientific Secretary and Head of the Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostics Imaging Section, IAEA
Chairperson:?Andrei Iagaru, SHC

09:00 – 09:25 |?Radiopharmaceuticals Beyond FDG
Gopinath Gnanasegaran, United Kingdom

09:25 – 09:45 |?From Molecular to Surgery: Impact of Molecular Imaging in Oncological Surgery
Patrice Mathevet, Switzerland

09:45 – 10:05 |?Pitfalls in the Evaluation of Treatment Response
Juliano Cerci, Brazil

10:05 – 10:20 |?Potential of ImmunoPET Imaging in Oncology
Kristoff Muylle, Belgium

10:20 – 10:30 |?Tumour Board: Molecular Imaging in Oncological Surgery
Panellists: Andrei Iagaru, Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Homer Macapinlac, John Prior, Juliano Cerci, Kristoff Muylle, Patrice Mathevet

Parallel Session 10.1: Paediatrics

11:00 – 12:30

IAEA Coordinator: Anita Brink, Scientific Secretary, Nuclear Medicine Physician, IAEA
Chairperson:?Ora Israel, Israel

11:00 – 11:20 |?Trends in Neuroblastoma Diagnosis and Treatment
John Lucas, St Jude's Children's Research Hospital

11:20 – 11:40 |?Hybrid Imaging in Bone Tumours
Isabel Roca, Spain

11:40 – 12:00 |?Status of PET/MRI in Paediatrics
Helen Nadel, Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI)

12:00 – 12:30 |?Tumour Board: Molecular Imaging in Paediatric Oncology
John Lucas, Isabel Roca, Helen Nadel, Anita Brink, Francesco Giammarile

Parallel Session 10.2: Medical Physics and Technology

11:00 – 12:30

IAEA Coordinator: Peter Knoll, Medical Physicist, IAEA
Chairperson:?Soma Somanesan, Singapore

11:00 – 11:20 |?Evaluation of a Small Cadmium Zinc Telluride Detector for Scintimammography
Michael O'Connor, USA

11:20 – 11:40 |?Innovations in PET: Changing from Analogue to Digital Systems
Ivo Rausch, Austria

11:40 – 12:00 |?MIRDsoft.org - An SNMMI MIRD Committee Initiative for Shareable Dosimetry Software Tools
Adam Kesner, USA

12:00 – 12:30 |?Radiation Safety in Radionuclide Therapy
Soma Somanesan, Singapore

Working lunch:?Technical Cooperation Success Stories

12:00 – 13:10

IAEA Coordinators: Amal Elrefaei, Programme Management Officer of Technical Cooperation Africa Section 1 and Diana Paez, Scientific Secretary and Head of Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostics Imaging Section, IAEA

12:30 – 12:35|?Opening and Welcome Remarks
Shaukat Abdulrazak, Director of Technical Cooperation Division for Africa, IAEA

12:35 – 12:40 |?Pathways to Prosperity: The African Success Story
Mike Sathekge, South Africa

12:40 – 12:45 |?Pathways to Prosperity: The Asia and the Pacific Success Story
Akram Al-Ibraheem, Jordan

12:45 – 12:50 |?Pathways to Prosperity: The Latin America and the Caribbean Success Story
Claudio Mesquita, Brazil

12:50 – 12:55 |?Pathways to Prosperity: The European Success Story
Dragana Sobic Saranovic and Vera Artiko, Serbia

12:55 – 13:05 |?Q&A

13:05 – 13:10 |?Wrap-up and closing remarks
May Abdel-Wahab, Director of the Division of Human Health, IAEA

Parallel Session 11.1: Medical Physics and Technology (continued)

13:40 – 15:40

IAEA Coordinator: Peter Knoll, Medical Physicist, IAEA
Chairperson:?Soma Somanesan, Singapore

13:40 – 14:00 |?A Basic Introduction to Total Body PET?
Ivo Rausch, Austria

14:00 – 14:20 |?Leveraging MIRDsoft.org tools for patient dosimetry: demonstrations of nuclear medicine, CT, and patient release
Adam Kesner, USA

14:20 – 14:40 |?Optimization of IQ and Activity Quantification in Cardiac Amyloidosis SPECT/CT Imaging Based on Phantom/Patient Studies
Leonel Torres, Cuba

14:40 – 15:10 |?Artificial Intelligence in Medical Physics. IAEA Activities
Egor Titovich, Associate Database Officer, Medical Physics, IAEA

15:10 – 15:40 |?Data Stewardship in Medical Imaging: Micro, Macro, and Global Perspective
Adam Kesner, USA

Parallel Session 11.2: Neuroimaging

13:40 – 15:40

IAEA Coordinator: Olivier Pellet, Radiologist, IAEA
Chairperson:?Homer Macapinlac, USA

13:40 – 14:00 |?Role of FDG PET for the Diagnosis of Mild Cognitive Impairment, Alzheimer’s Disease, and Other Dementias

Javier Arbizu, Spain

14:00 – 14:20 |?Appropriate Use Criteria for Amyloid PET
Satoshi Minoshima, USA

14:20 – 14:40 |?How to Report a Brain PET/CT Scan
Javier Arbizu, Spain

14:40 – 15:00 |?Case Presentations Session 1
Tanyaluck Thientunyakit, Thailand

15:00 – 15:20 |?Case Presentation Session 2
Satoshi Minoshima, USA

15:20 – 15:40 |?Question and Answer
Panellists: Satoshi Minoshima, Javier Arbizu, Tanyaluck Thientunyakit

Session 12: Poster Review 3/4

16:00 – 17:30

Chairpersons:?Miriam Mikhail-Lette, Radiologist, IAEA, and?Homer Macapinlac, USA

Reviewers: Satoshi Minoshima, Omar Alonso, Gopinath Gnanasegaran, Isabel Roca, Ora Israel, Jin Su Kim, Willy Vangu

Coordinated Research Projects (POCA/PROCA) Session 3

16:00 – 17:30

Note: Closed sessions reserved for POCA and PROCA investigators.