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About this Workshop
The increasing regulatory requirements for accreditation of
facilities that offer nuclear medicine services including PET are
driving an increased demand for medical physics support services.
This hands-on workshop will focus on proper performance and QC
testing of gamma cameras, SPECT and SPECT/CT units as wells as PET
and PET/CT units. The University of Iowa has graciously allowed the
use of their equipment and facilities to provide hands-on
demonstrations of these testing procedures. The program will also
include presentations on nuclear medicine facility accreditation,
reviews of the equipment and testing procedures and techniques for
lowering patient and technologist radiation doses from PET and PET/CT
systems. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the testing and
to share their experiences and questions on these units.
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Educational Objectives
At the completion of this workshop, participants will have learned:
- The technology and imaging capabilities/limitations of PET scanners.
- Performance/QC testing procedures for SPECT and SPECT/CT units.
- Performance/QC testing and calibration procedures for PET and
PET/CT units.
- Applications and analysis of cardiac nuclear medicine procedures.
- Performance/QC testing procedures for gamma cameras.
- Techniques for lowering radiation dose from PET/CT units.
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Locations & Dates
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Who Should Attend
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This workshop is for medical physicists and others looking for
training on performing QA and acceptance testing procedures on
Nuclear Medicine Equipment. Prior attendance at the MTMI
Physics of Nuclear Medicine Seminar or a comparable level of
training on the physics of nuclear medicine is recommended.
Some more technically oriented and experienced nuclear
medicine technologists and vender personnel may also find this
workshop of value.
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Faculty
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Mark Madsen, Ph.D.
Professor - University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
James Halama, Ph.D.
Assoc. Professor of Radiology - Loyola University
Maywood, IL
Michelle Kritzman, M.S.
Nuclear Medical Physicist -
Medical Physics Consultants
Ann Arbor, MI
John Sunderland, Ph.D.
Director of PET Imaging Center -
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
Tim Turkington, Ph.D.
Assistant Research Professor - Duke University
Durham, NC
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Continuing Education Credit
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Approval has been requested from CAMPEP for up to 12.0
hours of Medical Physics Continuing Education Credit
(MPCEC) for qualified medical physicists. This program has
also been submitted to the SNMT for Voice Credits for Nuclear
Medicine Technologists.
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Acknowledgement
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MTMI would like to express
appreciation for the assistance of
Mark Madsen, Ph.D.,
and
members of the faculty
in designing the workshop content.
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Workshop Schedule
Day One
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7:15 am
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Registration and Coffee
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8:00 am
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Accreditation of Nuclear Medicine Facilities .... TBA
- ACR, IAC and Joint Commission requirements
- Role of the medical physicist
- Physics CE requirements
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8:45 am
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Gamma Camera Technology and QC .... Kritzman
- Review of gamma camera instrumentation
- Gamma camera specifications and NEMA tests
- Overview of IAC, ACR tests
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9:30 am
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Performance/QC Testing of SPECT and SPECT/CT Units .... Halama
- SPECT instruments and specifications
- SPECT/CT instruments
- ACR and IAC tests
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10:15 am
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Informal Discussion and Break
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11:10 am
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Performance/QC Testing of PET and PET/CT Units ... Sunderland
- NEMA procedures (acceptance testing)
- Intro to ACRIN imaging requirements
- Intro to IAC and ACR PET imaging accreditation components
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11:50 am
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Questions and Discussion with the faculty
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12:00 pm
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Lunch (provided)
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12:30 pm
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Lab Session 1
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2:00 pm
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Lab Session 2
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3:30 pm
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Informal Discussion and Break
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3:45 pm
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Lab Session 3
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5:15 pm
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Questions and Discussion with Faculty
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5:30 pm
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Adjourn for the day
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Day Two
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7:30 am
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Coffee
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8:00 am
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Cardiac Nuclear Medicine Applications and Analysis
.... Madsen
- Cardiac SPECT procedures
- Specialized instrumentation
- Cardiac SPECT and Radiation Dose
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8:40 am
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Radiation Dose Reduction in PET/CT
.... Turkington
- Patient dose considerations
- considerations in establishing appropriate radiopharmaceutical doses
- consideration in CT techniques for PET/CT
- Technologist dose considerations
- source of exposure for PET technologists
- practices that reduce technologists exposure
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9:30 am
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Informal Discussion and Break
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9:45 am
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Lab Session 4
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11:15 am
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Lab Session 5
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12:45 am
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Questions and Discussion
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1:00 pm
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Workshop Adjourned
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Workshop Labs
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Lab A
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Gamma Camera QC ... Kritzman
Routine QC
NEMA Resolution/Registration
ACR phantom images
Collimator evaluation
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Lab B
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Cardiac Nuc Med Apps ... Madsen
SPECT
Cardiac gating
Attenuation correction QC
Motion correction
Software analysis
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Lab C
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SPECT Performance/QC ... Halama
Uniformity
Center of rotation and pixel calibration
SPECT phantom resolution
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Lab D
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Performance/QC Testing of PET
and PET/CT Units ... Turkington
Daily QC
Periodic calibration and normalization procedures
Absolute calibration
ACR PET image quality phantom
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Lab E
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PET Scanner Calibration ... Sunderland
Procedures for calibration of a PET unit
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Registration
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