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Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET Annual Report 2019 Rigshospitalet · University of Copenhagen Contents Preface ......................................................................................................................................2 Mission and objectives ...............................................................................................................4 Organisation and staff 2019.......................................................................................................6 Highlights 2019 .......................................................................................................................10 Clinical physiology and nuclear medicine ................................................................................12 PET/CT ..................................................................................................................................14 Artificial intelligence ...............................................................................................................16 Cardiac investigations .............................................................................................................18 Imaging of angiogenesis .........................................................................................................20 Pediatric Nuclear Medicine ......................................................................................................22 Rigshospitalet Children’s Hospital ..................................................................................................................24 King Frederik V founded Rigshospitalet in 1757. Today it has app. 1,250 beds and 12,000 Education ................................................................................................................................26 employees. Research at Rigshospitalet is published in more than 2,000 peer review papers Agfa RIS/PACS ........................................................................................................................28 per year, including >200 higher academic theses (PhD and Doctor of Medical Science). Neuro PET ...............................................................................................................................30 Rigshospitalet is part of The Capital Region of Denmark and is a Copenhagen University MR imaging of muscle function ...............................................................................................32 Hospital. PET/MR ..................................................................................................................................34 Nuclear medicine technologists, radiographers and lab technicians .........................................36 University of Copenhagen Medical secretaries ..................................................................................................................40 The University of Copenhagen was founded in 1479. The Faculty of Health and Medical Cyclotron Section ....................................................................................................................42 Sciences has 10,000 students, including medicine and bioengineering in collaboration with Radiochemistry Section ...........................................................................................................44 The Technical University of Denmark, DTU. The University of Copenhagen is member of Academic and other activities ..................................................................................................48 IARU, the International Alliance of Research Universities and LERU, League of the European Equipment 2019 ......................................................................................................................53 Research Universities. www.ku.dk Studies 2019 ...........................................................................................................................54 Finance ...................................................................................................................................57 Publications .............................................................................................................................58 Podcasts ..................................................................................................................................67 Cluster for Molecular Imaging .................................................................................................68 Research .................................................................................................................................72 Collaboration with The National Hospital of the Faroe Islands .................................................78 Neurobiology Research Unit ....................................................................................................80 Bioengineer in Medicine and Technology ................................................................................82 Preface In 2019 we received a generous donation from the do research as an interdisciplinary effort and all 2019 was a year with many celebrations; Linda M. Thank you very much to Bettina Lundgren for 10 John and Birthe Meyer Foundation of 43,7 mio. groups are involved: Nuclear medicine physicians, Kragh, our Chief Nuclear Medicine Technologist good years as our center director. Bettina Lundgren DKK for a new PET/MRI scanner and research radiologists, physicists, bioengineers, mathema- celebrated her 40 years anniversary as nuclear got a new prestigious job and left the hospital end on artificial intelligence. It was an overwhelming ticians and IT experts, radiochemists, nuclear medicine technologist at Rigshospitalet, and she of August 2019. Vice Director Lene Ørnstrup Chris- gift, and we are honored, grateful and privileged. medicine technologists, radiographers and many was praised by all of us as a unique and wonderful tensen were then both acting director and vice We would like to express our most sincere thank others. leader. She also received the prestigious award director with two jobs for more than half a year. you. It will be implemented in 2020 in new prem- from the hospital: “Årets bioanalytiker 2019”, or Thank you for all your work and the helpful collab- ises in the Finsen building. It will be a major step In 2018 we reported problems with the newly in English: “This year’s technologist 2019”. oration. Thank you to the Department of Radiol- forward for our department and most important implemented Agfa RIS/PACS ICT system for ogy, Head of Department Ilse Vejborg and Chief for our patients and research. We got our first new picture archiving and patient reporting. Unfor- In 2019 Professor Andreas Kjær obtained the pres- Radiographer Johnny Madelung. We appreciate digital PET/CT in Summer 2019, also donated tunately, it has been an uphill struggle also in tigious Lundbeck Foundation Professorship and the positive collaboration very much. by the John and Birthe Meyer Foundation. It is 2019, as the problems continued with defect received a Knighthood for his impressive contribu- a whole new world for both patients and staff. performance, stability and speech; the essentials tions in research and innovation. The department From November 2019 Head of Department, Profes- Thank you very much to the John and Birthe of a well-functioning ICT system in a diagnostic would like to congratulate Andreas Kjær with sor Liselotte Højgaard was also acting head of Meyer Foundation for all the generosity. imaging department. Thank you to everyone for these major achievements. Department of Pathology until March 2020. It has patience and very long hours all year round due to been quite a job to try and help the Department of The department had another busy year with a the dysfunctional system. We would like to express Kate Pedersen Staff Technologist in PET cele- Pathology, who were in a crisis situation. I would higher than ever number of patient investiga- a sincere thank you to all for the stamina, securing brated her 40 years anniversary in Spring 2019, like to express a warm thank you to each and every tions, 196,889 and 176 peer review publications. patient reports in time without any waiting list. and we said thank you for her great efforts for the one at the Department of Pathology for welcoming Research is a key activity and focus area of our department throughout many years. She retired me so warmly and helping remedy the problems. department, and we have a comprehensive CAAI, Clinically Applied Artificial Intelligence, is Fall 2019 and Maria Pejtersen is the new Staff research program directed towards innovative our new research group with young people devel- Technologist in PET. A warm welcome. Maria Our aim is to deliver the best patient treatment and solutions to solve unmet clinical needs in our oping artificial intelligence for better imaging Pejtersen has initiated a close collaboration with the best research and education. Thank you to all patients. We adjust our research program to be with improved image quality and lower radiation our section in Glostrup and KF to assure the best staff members, collaborators and international clinically relevant and timely, and we have special dose – already now applied in our routine clinical use of our competences and scanners. colleagues for making this possible. focus on implementation of personalized or studies. This is very important for patients and for precision medicine in collaboration with Rigshos-