Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine & PET Annual Report 2015 Rigshospitalet · University of Copenhagen Contents Mission and objectives ..........................................................................................................................5 Organisation and Staff 2015 .................................................................................................................6 Medical Secretaries..............................................................................................................................11 Highlights ............................................................................................................................................12 Nuclear Medicine ...............................................................................................................................14 Clinical physiology and nuclear medicine ......................................................................................16 Radionuclide monitoring of leakage during hyperthermic isolated limb perfusion ....................18 Paediatric Nuclear Medicine ..............................................................................................................20 Cardiac 82Rb-PET/CT .........................................................................................................................22 Nuclear medicine technologists, radiographers and lab technicians .............................................26 PET and PET hybrid systems .............................................................................................................30 Cyclotron unit ......................................................................................................................................32 Radiochemistry ....................................................................................................................................36 PET/CT in Oncology, Infection and Inflammation ..........................................................................40 PET/CT- scanning in Radiation Therapy .........................................................................................42 Clinical PET scanning of the brain ....................................................................................................44 Rigshospitalet PET/MR ...............................................................................................................................................46 King Frederik V founded Rigshospitalet in 1757. Today, it has 1,200 beds and 12,000 employees. Magnetic Resonance Imaging provides clinical physiological information .................................48 Research at Rigshospitalet is published in more than 2,000 peer review papers per year, including 64Cu-DOTA-AE105 PET ......................................................................................................................50 higher academic theses (PhD and Doctor of Medical Science). Rigshospitalet is part of The Capital Academic and other activities ............................................................................................................51 Region of Denmark and is a Copenhagen University Hospital. Studies 2015 .........................................................................................................................................54 Finance .................................................................................................................................................57 Glostrup Hospital Equipment 2015 ...................................................................................................................................58 Glostrup Hospital were established in 1958, and 1st of January 2015 Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej and Publications 2015 .................................................................................................................................60 Glostrup Hospital were unified as Rigshospitalet. SpinLab MR Hyperpolarizer ..............................................................................................................68 HyperPET .............................................................................................................................................70 University of Copenhagen Research ...............................................................................................................................................72 The University of Copenhagen was founded in 1479. The Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences BIIC .......................................................................................................................................................75 has 10,000 students, including medicine and bioengineering in collaboration with The Technical Cluster for Molecular Imaging ...........................................................................................................76 University of Denmark, DTU. The University of Copenhagen is member of IARU, The International Collaboration with Landssygehuset, Faroe Islands .........................................................................78 Alliance of Research Universities. www.ku.dk Danish-Chinese and Danish-Indian Research .................................................................................80 PhD degree in medical and molecular imaging ...............................................................................82 Global Academic Program..................................................................................................................83 Young Investigator Prizes...................................................................................................................84 64Cu-DOTATATE PET ..........................................................................................................................85 CIMBI ...................................................................................................................................................86 MSc in Medicine and Technology ......................................................................................................88 Danish National Research Foundation .............................................................................................90 Accreditation .......................................................................................................................................92 Preface 2015 was a year with New Beginnings: Rigshospitalet, Blegdamsvej and ical Physiology Rigshospitalet Blegdamsvej, and the little unit Biolab To all the other researchers in the department we would like to say Thank you to our directors at the Center of Diagnostics, Rigshospitalet, Glostrup Hospital were unified to one big hospital, and the Departments with assays for special biochemistry analyses has been placed in the big the same thank you and honors for a fine effort. Professor Ian Law Center Director Bettina Lundgren, MD DMSc and Vice Director Lene of Clinicial Physiology and Nuclear Medicine were unified to one big new Department of Clinical Biochemistry, as the professional and scien- has established his one-stop-shop PET/MR for diagnosis of patients Ørnstrup and their team for important positive and helpful collabora- department with sections both in Glostrup and Rigshospitalet, Bleg- tific competences belong there. with dementia and brain tumors, Consultant Lise Borgwardt has es- tion. Thank you to Department of Radiology, Head of Department Ilse damsvej. The leadership of the department is Heads of Department, tablished the paediatric program with now 3.000 paediatric patient Vejborg and Chief Radiographer Johnny Madelung for positive collabo- Professor Liselotte Højgaard and Chief Technologist Linda M. Kragh. FIU, the Unit for Functional Imaging, with high profile MRI investiga- investigations 2015, Consultant Jann Mortensen has extended his ration in the unification process. tions and research of brain and heart is now part of the Department of comprehensive program in lung physiology and nuclear medicine, The unification has been a positive process with a lot of work for every- Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, and we are proud to Consultant Annika Loft Jakobsen has extended the comprehensive Our aim is to deliver the best patient treatment and the best research and one in terms of organisation, administration and economy, but it has had welcome the fine research group lead by Professor Henrik Larsson. program on PET/CT for clinical oncology, Consultant Philip Hasbak education. Thank you to all staff, collaborators and international col- a positive synergistic effect for research, clinical patient investigations has established the cardiology research program with Rubidum-PET, leagues for making this possible. and education. We established a teleconference facility at both addresses The section in Glostrup is, as can be seen from our organisational dia- Consultant Peter Oturai has, together with Jann Mortensen, devel- and staff meetings, clinical conferences and presentations can be held gram, 1 of 5 sections in the department, and it is led by Consultant oped the neuroendocrine tumor clinical program with now 100 patient with participants at the same time in Glostrup and Blegdamsvej. We are Peter Hovind and Staff Technologist Lis Larsen. We look forward to the treatments per year and Consultant Johan Löfgren has struggled very now a department with more than 240 employees, a big and busy clini- benefits of the full implementation