Plenary Sessions

 

 

Plenary 1
Sunday, October 18, 10:00 – 11:15
Total Body PET (incl. Marie Curie Lecture)

Chairpersons: Jolanta Kunikowska (Warsaw, Poland), Michael Lassmann (Würzburg, Germany), Dimitris Visvikis (Brest, France)

 

10:00 – 10:05 A Game Changer for the Future of PET Dimitris Visvikis
(Brest, France)
10:05 – 10:19 Marie Curie Lecture: Physics and Development of Total Body PET Simon Cherry
(Davis, USA)
10:19 – 10:31 Is Dynamic PET Imaging Ready for Prime Time? Irène Buvat
(Orsay, France)
10:31 – 10:43 Drug Development and Evaluation with Total Body PET Johannes Czernin
(Los Angeles, USA)
10:43 – 10:57 Scientific Opportunities and their Use Bernd Pichler
(Tübingen, Germany)
10:57 – 11:05 Challenge for Technologists Andrea Santos
(Lisbon, Portugal)
11:05 – 11:10 A Must Have or Another Expensive Luxury Tool? Ken Herrmann
(Essen, Germany)
11:10 – 11:15 Discussion All Speakers
     

 

 

Plenary 2
Monday, October 19, 10:00 – 11:15
Cardiac Nuclear Medicine – Present and Future

Chairpersons: Paola Anna Erba (Pisa, Italy), Wanda Acampa (Naples, Italy), Hein Verberne (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

 

10:00 – 10:12 Renew or Fade Away Hein Verberne
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
10:12 – 10:27 Do we meet the Clinical Demand? Wanda Acampa
(Naples, Italy)
10:27 – 10:39
 MBF – Lost in Clinical Translation? Ronny Büchel
(Zurich, Switzerland)
10:39 – 10:54
 Imaging Cardiac Amyloidosis Sharmila Dorbala
(Boston, USA)
10:54 – 11:06
 Endocarditis Paola Anna Erba
(Pisa, Italy)
11:06 – 11:15 Discussion All Speakers
     

 

 

Plenary 3
Tuesday, October 20, 10:00 – 11:15
What’s Cooking? Next Generation Radiopharmaceuticals

Chairpersons: Jane Sosabowski (United Kingdom), Melpomeni Fani (Basel, Switzerland), Wolfgang Wadsak (Vienna, Austria)

 

10:00 – 10:08 What’s New? Melpomeni Fani
(Basel, Switzerland)
10:08 – 10:18 FAP-Inhibitors are the Future – For Everything? Uwe Haberkorn
(Heidelberg, Germany)
10:18 – 10:30 Brain Tracers – Finally for Clinical Application? Valentina Garibotto
(Geneva, Switzerland)
10:30 – 10:42 Is Theranostics the Future in Nuclear Medicine? Michael Hofman
(Melbourne, Australia)
10:42 – 10:52 Do we need Specific Tracers in the Clinics? Meltem Ocak
(Istanbul, Turkey)
10:52 – 11:00 Why does it take so long? Jane Sosabowski
(London, United Kingdom)
11:00 – 11:15 Discussion All Speakers
     

 

 

Plenary 4
Wednesday, October 21, 12:15-13:15
Highlights Lecture
Chairpersons: Roland Hustinx (Liège, Belgium), Arturo Chiti (Rozzano, Italy)

 

12:15 – 13:15 Highlights Lecture Several Speakers