Dissemination Activities of the ΥΓΕΙΑ/ΔΥΓΕΙΑ/0308/11 (ΒΙΕ) Project
International Conference Organization (23-26 March 2011)
Title: Image Optimization in Nuclear Medicine (OptiNM)
Place: Ayia Napa, Cyprus
Website: http://campbe.org/optinm
Committees:
– Scientific Committee: 17 members
– Organizing Committee: 5 members
– Collaborating Organizations: 4
– Supporting Organizations: 3
Content:
– Invited Speakers: 11
– Sessions: 7
– Workshops: 3
– Course: Radiation Protection Training in Europe
– European Federation Organizations for Medical Physics (EFOMP) Officer Meeting
(150 registered participants, 51 speakers from 14 countries)
Publicity (announcements & conference results)
– In Public TV (Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation – CyBC): ‘Main News (8 pm)’
– In Sigma TV: Information programme ‘Mesimeri kai kati’, the consortium member Ch. Yiannakkaras was invited
– In Main Newspapers: ‘Simerini’, ‘Politis’, ‘Phileleftheros’
– CyBC at the conference (filming, interviewing organizers and participants)
Conference Book: Journal of Physics Conference Series vol. 317 (2011)
Total Presentations: 26 (12 in the Workshop & Seminar, 8 in the Book of Abstracts of the International Conference and another 6 presentations elsewhere)
Workshop / Seminar Organization
1.Workshop: ‘Optimizing the diagnostic value in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging’ within the 22nd International Meeting ‘Cardiology Today’, 28 March 2010, Nicosia, Cyprus. 6 oral presentations by the consortium.
2.Seminar: ‘Results of the project Optimizing the diagnostic value of myocardial perfusion imaging using a dynamic phantom assembly’ within the XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering & Computing (MEDICON2016), 12 January 2012, Nicosia, Cyprus. 6 oral presentations by the consortium.
Other Presentations
1.Ch. Yiannakkaras et al. for the consortium, ‘A custom built software for data storage and analysis of acquisition and processing parameters with different imaging systems’. 4th International Conference on Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (ICRT 2011) and 10th AGM Asia Regional Cooperative Council for Nuclear Medicine, 28 November – 2 December 2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 2)
2.Y. Parpottas et al. for the consortium, ‘Construction of dynamic cardiac phantom to optimize the diagnostic value in SPECT MPI’. 4th International Conference on Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (ICRT 2011) and 10th AGM Asia Regional Cooperative Council for Nuclear Medicine, 28 November – 2 December 2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 2)
3.O. Demetriadou et al. for the consortium, ‘Optimisation of SPECT MPI using a prototype dymanic heart phantom’. 4th International Conference on Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (ICRT 2011) and 10th AGM Asia Regional Cooperative Council for Nuclear Medicine, 28 November – 2 December 2011, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. (World Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 10, Issue 2)
4.I. Chrysanthou et al. for the consortium, ‘A database for optimising MPI’. Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), 15-19 October 2011, Birmingham, UK
5.I. Chrysanthou et al. for the consortium, ‘Tissue equivalent heart defects for quantification of perfusion in nuclear cardiology’. Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), 15-19 October 2011, Birmingham, UK
6.T. Fiutowski et al. for the consortium, ‘Development of a dynamic heart phantom for SPECT MPI’. International Conference on Medical Physics and Engineering “Physics and Engineering for Health and Wellness of Society” and 15th General Assembly of the Polish Society of Medical Physics, 21- 24 September 2011, Poznań, Poland, (Polish Journal of Medical Physics and Engineering)
Publications
1.I. Chrysanthou-Baustert, Y. Parpottas, O. Demetriadou, S. Christofides, Ch. Yiannakkaras, D. Kaolis, M. Wasilewska-Radwanska. Monte Carlo simulations to assess differentiation between defects in cardiac SPECT, J. Phys. 317, 012018 4pp (2011), International Conference on Image Optimization in Nuclear Medicine, 23-26 March 2011, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
2.I. Chrysanthou-Baustert, Y. Parpottas, O. Demetriadou, D. Kaolis, S. Christofides, Ch. Yiannakkaras, M. Wasilewska-Radwanska, Design of heart defects for in vitro perfusion reduction testing, J. Phys. 317, 012019 4pp (2011), International Conference on Image Optimization in Nuclear Medicine, 23-26 March 2011, Ayia Napa, Cyprus
3.I. Chrysanthou-Baustert, Y. Parpottas, O. Demetriadou, S. Christofides, Ch. Yiannakkaras, D. Kaolis, M. Wasilewska-Radwanska, T. Fiutowski, F. Sikora. Diagnostic sensitivity of SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging using a pumping cardiac phantom with inserted variable defects, J. Nucl. Cardiol. 20, 609-615 (2013)