Dissemination Activities of the ΥΓΕΙΑ/ΔΥΓΕΙΑ/0311/27 (ΒΙΕ) project

Total Presentations: 18 (12 in the two Workshops and another 8 presentations elsewhere)

Workshops Organization

1.‘Optimizing the diagnostic value in SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging under the influence of the respiratory motion’ within the 1st Interdisciplinary Oncology Conference ‘Diagnosis and Therapy’, 29 March 2014, Nicosia, Cyprus. 6 oral presentations by the consortium.

2.‘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), 1 March 2016, Pafos, Cyprus. 6 oral presentations by the consortium.

Other Presentations

1.I. Chrysanthou et al. for the consortium, ‘MPI under the influence of respiratory motion – preliminary qualitative results of an anthropomorphic phantom study’. Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, EANM2013, 17-23 Oct. 2013, Lyon, France

2.Y. Parpottas et al. for the consortium, ‘Construction of a respiratory phantom to study SPECT MPI under the influence of respiratory motion’. 8th International Conference on Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (ICRT 2013), 17-21 November 2013, Manila, Philippines

3.O. Demetriadou et al. for the consortium, ‘SPECT MPI mechanical phantom with cardiac and respiratory motion: results in clinical settings’. 8th International Conference on Radiopharmaceutical Therapy (ICRT 2013), 17-21 November 2013, Manila, Philippines

4.Y. Parpottas (Plenary Talk), ‘Research in Nuclear Medicine using an Anthropomorphic Phantom with Thoracic Motions’. 2nd Multidisciplinary Oncology Conference ‘Diagnosis and Therapy’, 8-10 November 2018, Pafos, Cyprus

5.Y. Parpottas (Plenary Talk), ‘An Application of Physics in Nuclear Medicine’. 2nd Cypriot Conference in Physics: Physics in Modern World, 4-5 February 2017, Nicosia, Cyprus

6.Y. Parpottas (Invited Lecture), ‘Engineering for Optimizing Nuclear Medicine Procedures’, Innovation Conference 2018, 3 October 2018, Nicosia, Cyprus. Also invitation for exhibition of selected innovations: Anthropomorphic phantom with thoracic motions. Covered by Mass Media. Opening of Conference by Representatives of the Cyprus Government

Publications

1.I. Chrysanthou-Baustert, I. Polycarpou, O. Demetriadou, L. Livieratos, A. Lontos, A. Antoniou, S. Christofides, Ch. Yiannakkaras, D. Kaolis, Chr. Panagidis, P. K. Marsden, Y. Parpottas. Characterization of attenuation and respiratory motion artifacts and their influence on SPECT MP Image evaluation using a dynamic phantom assembly with variable cardiac defects, J. Nucl. Cardiol. 24(2), 698-707 (2017)

2.I. Polycarpou, I. Chrysanthou-Baustert, O. Demetriadou, Y. Parpottas, Chr. Panagidis, P. K. Marsden, L. Liveiratos. Impact of respiratory motion correction on SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging using a mechanically moving phantom assembly with variable cardiac defects, J. Nucl. Cardiol. 24(4), 1216-1225 (2017)

3.S. Panagi, A. Antoniou, I. Chrysanthou-Baustert, D. Kaolis, O. Demetriadou, C. Kyriacou, Y. Parpottas. Controlled Thoracic Motions of an Anthropomorphic Phantom for Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, IFMBE Proceedings 76, 727-734 (2019), Springer, XV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing (MEDICON 2019), 1331-1335, 25-27 September, Coimbra, Portugal

4.A. Lontos, A. Antoniou, I. Chrysanthou, S. Christofides, O. Demetriadou, Chr. Panagidis, Ch. Yiannakkaras, D. Kaolis, Y. Parpottas. Construction of Inflatable Lungs to Simulate Respiratory Motion in Myocardial Perfusion Imaging, IFMBE Proceedings 57, 1331-1335 (2016), Springer, XIV Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering and Computing 2016, 1331-1335, 31 March – 2 April, Pafos, Cyprus

5.I. Polycarpou, I. Chrysanthou, O. Demetriadou, Y. Parpottas, P. K. Marsden, L. Livieratos. Impact of respiratory motion correction on diagnostic accuracy of myocardial perfusion SPECT, 2014 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference 2014, NSS/MIC 2014, 8-15 November 2014, Seattle, WA, USA