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Course Outline: Basic principles of radioactive decay; radioisotope production; radiation detection and dosimetry; principles of operation of nuclear medicine instruments (planar, SPECT and PET); principles of tomography; image reconstruction and analysis; quantitative and dynamic imaging; radiopharmaceutical therapies and theranostics.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) is an international scientific and medical organization dedicated to advancing nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, vital elements of precision medicine that allow diagnosis and treatment to be tailored to individual patients in order to achieve the best possible outcomes.
In this course you will start by studying the photon and charged particle interactions occurring in the range of energies common in Nuclear Medicine. Following this we move on to radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production and important uptake mechanisms in the human body. You will get to know relevant nuclear medicine equipment (gamma camera, SPECT/CT, PET-camera, PET/CT, PET/MRI, radiation monitors and detectors) components and function. Important aspects of imaging like reconstruction algorithms, correction methods, calibration, optimization and quality assurance are also covered. An essential part of the course is focused on radiation safety regulations, measurements and actions. You will learn strategies for protecting patients, staff and the general public from unwanted effects of radiation from nuclear medicine procedures. The medical perspective of nuclear medicine will be covered by lectures given by physicians active in the field of nuclear medicine.
The course consists of lectures, homework exercises, laboratory exercises as well as clinical training at a nuclear medicine facility. During the internship and the laboratory exercises active participation is mandatory.
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Dr. Karp is Professor of Radiologic Physics in the Department of Radiology, and in the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Chief of the Physics and Instrumentation Research Group in Radiology and directs Nuclear Medicine/PET Physics and QC in the clinic, as well as the Small Animal Imaging Facility Nuclear Medicine (PET/SPECT/CT) core. He received his PhD in nuclear physics from MIT in 1980 and joined the faculty at Penn in 1983, and since then his research has focused on investigations to improve and characterize the performance of PET technology, including front-end electronics, detector design, data correction techniques, and 3D image reconstruction algorithms. This work has resulted in development of fully 3D PET scanners and innovative imaging systems based on various scintillation detectors, and some of these concepts have been implemented commercially for human and animal imaging. Dr. Karp has developed systems for time-of-flight (TOF) imaging, and his work with industry led to adoption of TOF in modern PET/CT scanners. Dr. Karp is currently involved in development of large axial FOV PET instruments with improved SiPM-based detectors, and leads the Penn program that collaborates with UC Davis on the Explorer project. Dr. Karp has held various committee positions and has helped to organize scientific programs in the Society of Nuclear Medicine and the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society. He currently serves as the Senior Editor of the IEEE Transactions of Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences. Dr. Karp was selected to be an IEEE Fellow in 2013.
Over the past 20 years I have dedicated my academic career in pediatric radiology to the advancement of pediatric imaging with a focus on pediatric oncology, magnetic resonance imaging and pediatric nuclear medicine. I have served roles as an administrator, educator, researcher and manuscript reviewer in the field of pediatric imaging, including nuclear medicine. I have been a regular speaker on topics in pediatric nuclear medicine at national meetings for the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) and the Society for Pediatric Radiology (SPR). As the Director of the Section of Oncologic Imaging at CHOP, I have been involved in many initiatives and projects in the hospital related to cancer imaging and management. In October of 2016, I participated in a pediatric cancer surveillance workshop created to develop guidelines for screening children with cancer predisposition syndromes
Stefaan Vandenberghe obtained his MSc in Physics in 1996 and an additional degree in Biomedical Engineering in 1997 from KU Leuven. After working in the nuclear medicine department of the University Hospital Ghent (1997-1999) he started a Ph.D. in the MEDISIP group of the University of Ghent. His research was on the optimal configuration of gamma cameras for PET imaging and on list-modereconstruction techniques for PET systems. He received a Ph.D. (Engineering) from this university in 2002. During his FWO postdoctoral research he worked on rotating slat systems (with solid state detectors) Monte Carlo simulations and natural pixelreconstruction. In 2004 he joined Philips Research USA (Briarcliff) to work as a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Site Program. The position was at the University of Pennsylvania (Dr. Joel Karp) in Philadelphia. During this period he worked on simulations, reconstructions and measurements for Time-Of-Flight PET systems (LaBr3 and LYSO). At the end of 2005 he returned to Belgium (return grant) in the MEDISIP group. In collaboration with different researchers in the group a variety of topics is covered: Monte Carlo simulations, rotating slat SPECT, Time-of-Flight PET, PET-MRI and quantification for radionuclide dosimetry. He has been appointed as full time research professor (BOF-ZAP) at UGent since October 2007 and leads the MEDISIP research group since 2008. He co-authored about 100 scientific A1 journal papers and is co-inventor of four patents. He was Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science (till 2017) and involved in the organization of conferences and workshop on PET-MR and SPECT-MR. During the last years his research has focused on the development of attenuation correction and PET system design simulations for PET-MR in two EU-FP7 projects Hyperimage and Sublima. Together with Christian Vanhove he leads the small animal molecular imaging facility (Infinity) of Ugent. The detector technology and micro SPECT and PET prototypes of the MEDISIP research group have led to the creation of the spinoff company Molecubes. Since 2017 he is also the editor-in-chief of EJNMMI Physics and coordinates together with the Nuclear medicine unit the Innovative Imaging and Therapy Consortium of Ghent university and its hospital (Imitghent.be)
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Figure 3. Basic principles of key imaging modalities that fall into the categories of structural (anatomical) and functional (metabolic) imaging as indicated in blue and purple, respectively: X-ray and computed tomography (CT) transmission imaging, nuclear medicine scintigraphy, positron emission tomography (PET) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), ultrasound (US), optical imaging (OI), and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).
Physics in Nuclear Medicine - by Drs. Simon R. Cherry, James A. Sorenson, and Michael E. Phelps - provides current, comprehensive guidance on the physics underlying modern nuclear medicine and imaging using radioactively labeled tracers. This revised and updated fourth edition features a new full-color layout, as well as the latest information on instrumentation and technology. Stay current on crucial developments in hybrid imaging (PET/CT and SPECT/CT), and small animal imaging, and benefit from the new section on tracer kinetic modeling in neuroreceptor imaging. What's more, you can reinforce your understanding with graphical animations online at www.expertconsult.com, along with the fully searchable text and calculation tools.