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Nuclear Medicine 2013 RSNA (Filtered Schedule) Sunday, December 01, 2013 10:45-12:15 PM • SSA18 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine (PET/CT in Oncology) 12:30-01:00 PM • CL-NMS-SUA • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Sunday Posters and Exhibits (12:30pm - 1:00pm) 01:00-01:30 PM • CL-NMS-SUB • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Sunday Posters and Exhibits (1:00pm - 1:30pm) 02:00-03:30 PM • RC111 • Room: S505AB • Multi-modal Imaging Workup for Alzheimer's Disease, Parkinson's Disease, and Related Disorders: Case-based App... Monday, December 02, 2013 08:30-10:00 AM • RC217 • Room: S504CD • PET-MR/Hyperpolarized MR 08:30-12:00 PM • VSNM21 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine Series: Assessment of Cancer Treatment Response: Updates 12:15-12:45 PM • CL-NMS-MOA • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Monday Posters and Exhibits (12:15pm - 12:45pm) 12:45-01:15 PM • CL-NMS-MOB • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Monday Posters and Exhibits (12:45pm - 1:15pm) 03:00-04:00 PM • SSE08 • Room: E353C • ISP: Gastrointestinal (Oncology: Staging and Distant Metastases) 03:00-04:00 PM • SSE19 • Room: S504CD • Nuclear Medicine (Quantitative Imaging) 03:00-04:00 PM • SSE20 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine (SPECT/CT) Tuesday, December 03, 2013 08:30-10:00 AM • MSCC31 • Room: S406A • Case-based Review of Nuclear Medicine: PET/CT Workshop-Head and Neck Cancers (In Conjunction with SNMMI) (An I... 08:30-10:00 AM • RC321 • Room: S102D • Medical Physics 2.0: Nuclear Imaging 08:30-10:00 AM • RC351 • Room: E353C • CT/PET in the Abdomen and Pelvis: How and When (How-to Workshop) (An Interactive Session) 08:30-12:00 PM • VSNM31 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine Series: Non-FDG PET Radiotracers in Oncology 10:30-12:00 PM • MSCC32 • Room: S406A • Case-based Review of Nuclear Medicine: PET/CT Workshop-Cancers of the Abdomen and Pelvis (In Conjunction with ... 10:30-12:00 PM • SSG01 • Room: E451A • ISP: Breast Imaging (Nuclear/Molecular Imaging) 12:15-12:45 PM • CL-NMS-TUA • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Tuesday Posters and Exhibits (12:15pm - 12:45pm) 12:45-01:15 PM • CL-NMS-TUB • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Tuesday Posters and Exhibits (12:45pm - 1:15pm) 01:30-03:00 PM • MSCC33 • Room: S406A • Case-based Review of Nuclear Medicine: PET/CT Workshop-Lymphoma/Melanoma/Sarcoma (In Conjunction with SNMMI) (... 03:00-04:00 PM • SSJ21 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine (GI, GU and Endocrine) 03:30-05:00 PM • MSCC34 • Room: S406A • Case-based Review of Nuclear Medicine: PET/CT Workshop-Cancers of the Thorax (In Conjunction with SNMMI) (An I... 04:30-06:00 PM • RC403 • Room: N228 • Cardiac PET/CT and PET/MR 04:30-06:00 PM • RC411 • Room: S505AB • Improving PET Interpretation: Present Updates in GI and GYN Cancers with Case Examples (An Interactive Session) 04:30-06:00 PM • RC423 • Room: S403B • Minicourse: Current Topics in Medical Physics-Nuclear Cardiac Imaging for Physicists Wednesday, December 04, 2013 08:30-10:00 AM • RC511 • Room: S505AB • High-Resolution Radionuclide Breast Imaging (An Interactive Session) 08:30-10:00 AM • RC525 • Room: S102AB • Quantitative Imaging: Quantitative Imaging in FDG-PET 10:30-12:00 PM • SSK09 • Room: N228 • Genitourinary (Functional and Anatomic Imaging in Staging and Follow-up of Gynecologic Cancers) 10:30-12:00 PM • SSK17 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine (PET/MRI for Oncology) 12:15-12:45 PM • CL-NMS-WEA • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Wednesday Posters and Exhibits (12:15pm - 12:45pm) 12:45-01:15 PM • CL-NMS-WEB • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Wednesday Posters and Exhibits (12:45pm - 1:15pm) 03:00-04:00 PM • SSM17 • Room: S505AB • Nuclear Medicine (Comparative Technologies and Modalities) 04:30-06:00 PM • SPSC45 • Room: S404CD • Controversy Session: The Heart of the Matter: Nuclear Stress Test vs CTA for Low to Intermediate Risk Cardiac ... Thursday, December 05, 2013 07:15-08:15 AM • SPSH50 • Room: E350 • Hot Topic Session: Multimodality Imaging with MR-PET 08:30-10:00 AM • RC611 • Room: S505AB • Advances in Cardiac Nuclear Imaging: SPECT/CT and PET/CT 10:30-12:00 PM • SSQ16 • Room: S505AB • ISP: Nuclear Medicine (Neurologic Imaging) 12:15-12:45 PM • CL-NMS-THA • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Thursday Posters and Exhibits (12:15pm -12:45pm) 12:45-01:15 PM • CL-NMS-THB • Room: S503AB • Nuclear Medicine - Thursday Posters and Exhibits (12:45pm - 1:15pm) 03:00-04:00 PM • SPSH54 • Room: S404AB • Hot Topic Session: Amyloid Imaging 04:30-06:00 PM • RC711 • Room: S505AB • Head and Neck Cancer PET Interpretation with Case Examples (An Interactive Session) Friday, December 06, 2013 08:30-10:00 AM • RC811 • Room: S504CD • Advances and Updates in SPECT/CT 08:30-10:00 AM • RC823 • Room: S403B • Minicourse: Recording and Reporting Radiation Dose: Nuclear Medicine 10:30-12:00 PM • SST12 • Room: S505AB • ISP: Nuclear Medicine (Cardiovascular Imaging) Biodistribution of Positron Emitting Radionuclides. The Basic Step to Understand the Wide Spectrum of the PET CT Studies Back to Top CL-NME3051 Ailan H Barrientos-Priego , MD Liliana M Correa , MD Erika Morrongo Bastida Juan Pablo Chavez-Torres Irma Soldevilla-Gallardo Jorge Vazquez-Lamadrid , MD Ivan E Casanova Sanchez , MD PURPOSE/AIM 1 Describe biodistribution of the radiopharmaceuticals used in positron emission tomography (PET) 2 Review physics of positron emitting radionuclideS 3 Clinical application of new PET CT studies CONTENT ORGANIZATION 1 Describe PET radiotracers labeled with 18F, 11C and 68Ga used in Mexico 2 18F-Fluoride, 18F-Fluorothymidine, 18F-Fluoroestradiol, 18F-Fluorocholina, 18F-Fluoromisonidazole, 11C-Acetate, 68Ga-DOTATOC 3 They represent new ways to study specific pathologies 4 To interpret the images obtained, it is necessary to know the biochemical and metabolic pathways that we represent with them as well as the sites of physiological uptake and elimination way SUMMARY 1 It is Basic to understand the bioditribution of PET radiopharmaceuticals in order to identify abnormal uptake 2 Lack of awarness of many tracers makes easy to slip when reading this kind of studies 3 Representing with images the cell process is an amazing tool we count with Page 1 of 83 and we should know and applied more each time 18F -Sodium Fluoride PET/CT: Indications, Technical Aspects, and Role in the Management of Oncology Patients Back to Top CL-NME3052 Michael E O'Keeffe , MBBCh Jennifer Murphy , MBBCh, MRCPI Siobhan O' Neill , MBBCh Fiachra G Moloney , MBBCh, MRCPI Peter Murphy Kevin N O'Regan , MD PURPOSE/AIM To describe the clinical indications, technical aspects and impacts on patient management of (18F)-NaF PET/CT in oncology patients with suspected osseous metastatic disease. CONTENT ORGANIZATION We illustrate a number of clinical cases from a tertiary oncology centre where (18F)-NaF PET/CT offered significant improvement in detection of osseous metastatic disease, in particular for patients with prostate and breast malignancy. Impact on patient management is described for each case. Pearls and pitfalls of (18F)-NaF PET/CT interpretation are outlined. We demonstrate the advantages of this technique over standard imaging modalities, particularly 99mTc-MDP isotope bone scan. SUMMARY This pictorial review highlights the increased accuracy of (18F)-NaF PET/CT in comparison to standard bone imaging techniques. Benefits include decreased scan time, increased accuracy for osseous metastatic disease and meaningful changes in patient management. Understanding the Impact of the Time-of-Flight and the Point-spread-Function Recovery in PET Imaging Back to Top CL-NME3053 Silvano Gnesin , PhD Jean Delacoste Martin Pappon John O Prior , MD, PhD Sebastien Baechler Francis R Verdun , PhD PURPOSE/AIM The purpose of this exhibit is: 1. To review the main features of time-of-flight (TOF) and point-spread-function (PSF) recovery implemented in latest generation PET scanners. 2. To present phantom study results supporting the main educational points. 3. To understand the impact of TOF and PSF in improving patient radioprotection. CONTENT ORGANIZATION The features of TOF and PSF in PET are reviewed. A phantom study characterizing the TOF and PSF recovery performances with recovery coefficients (RCs), image noise, and contrast will be presented and further assessed by activity spillover from hot lesions. The impact of TOF and PSF in small hot lesions visibility is presented, as well as whether PSF recovery leads to any quantitative bias. Determination of PET parameters for optimal patient care is discussed. SUMMARY TOF improved contrast and quantitation especially in cold regions. PSF recovery significantly improved hot lesion contrast and RCs, especially for small-sized (10mL) hot lesions, but can be controlled by adopting appropriate image smoothing. Small hot lesion visibility is improved by the use of TOF and PSF separately and is maximized when used together, which can significantly impact delivered dose and patient management. Low Dose FDG PET Imaging of Brown Adipose Tissue: A Capability Demonstration for Nutrition and Metabolism Research Back to Top CL-NME3055 Michelle I Knopp Jun Zhang , PhD Nathan C Hall , MD, PhD * Xiaoli Liu Michael V Knopp , MD, PhD PURPOSE/AIM The objective, qualitative and quantitative visualization of brown adipose tissue (BAT) is an important capability for nutrition and metabolism research. In this exhibit we introduce the pathphysiology of using FDG to image BAT, the optimzed PET imaging approach that we developed to image adults using a low dose technique, the current approaches that may be used to activate BAT, review the imaging findings, the ability to perform follow up examination and appropriate assessment methodologies as well as current and potential applications. CONTENT ORGANIZATION Background on brown adipose tissue (BAT) The Physiology of FDG to image BAT How we perform a low dose BAT PET Current approaches to activate BAT Review of BAT Imaging Findings including follow up Image Assessment methodologies Potential Human Research and Clinical Applications References SUMMARY Low dose FDG PET Imaging can be performed to visualize brown adipose tissue with excellent image quality as well as providing quantitative readouts.
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