STTARR will be holding a PET/MRI workshop this December 3rd to provide researchers with an overview of Preclinical PET/MRI imaging capabilities, contrast agents, translational and clinical studies. This workshop will be in partnership with Mediso USA and Siemens for their preclinical and clinical PET/MRI systems, respectively.
Target Audience: Graduate students, technicians, research associates, PI’s, and postdocs who are interested in using PET/MRI for their projects. The workshop aims at exploring the potential of combined PET/MRI for preclinical and clinical research.
Registration Fees:
$30 (UHN/internal participants)
$40 (external academics)
$60 (non-academics)
Date: Monday, 3
rd
December 2018, 9:00am – 5:30pm
Location:
101 College Street,
Room 4-204, Princess Margaret Cancer Research Tower (formerly TMDT),
MaRS East Building, Toronto, ON M5G 1L7
PET/MRI Workshop FINAL Agenda:
| 9:00 | Registration (Annie Hum) |
| 9:15 | WELCOME NOTE (Dr. David Jaffray, STTARR Director, EVP Innovation & Technology, UHN) |
| 9:30 | Session 1 – LET’s GET STTARR TED! |
| 9:30 | Preclinical imaging (Systems, Services, Support) (Dr. Justin Grant, 15min) |
| 9:45 | PET/MR technical insights to consider for study design, implementation & analysis (Doug Vines, Nuclear Medicine/PET Technologist, 30 min +15 min discussion) |
| 10:30 | Discussion of research interests from participants (15 minutes) |
| 10:45 | Coffee Break |
| 11:00 | Session 2 – PET Tracers and Multimodality Contrast Agents (25 min talk +5 min discussion for each speaker) |
| 11:00 | UHN cyclotron facility & available radiotracers (Dr. David Green, Head Radiochemist, UHN) |
| 11:30 | Multimodality contrast agents (Maneesha Rajora, MD, PhD candidate from Dr. Gang Zheng lab, UHN) |
| 12:00 | Lunch Break |
| 13:00 | Session 3 – NanoScan PET/MRI System (25 min talk +5 min discussion) |
| 13:00 | System performance & specifications, examples of applications (Peter Koncz, Mediso USA) |
| 13:30 | Session 4 – Small and Large Preclinical Models for PET/MRI Studies (25 min talks +5 min discussion for each speaker) |
| 13:30 | Pancreatic cancer and hypoxia imaging (Dr. David Hedley, Medical Oncologist, UHN) |
| 14:00 | Cervical cancer and radiotherapy planning (Dr. Naz Chaudary, Scientist, UHN) |
| 14:30 | Prostate cancer imaging in a large in vivo model (Dr. Carl Fisher, Scientist, UHN) |
| 15:00 | Coffee Break |
| 15:15 | Session 5 – Translational PET/MRI (25 min talks +5 min discussion for each speaker) |
| 15:15 | System performance & specifications, examples of applications (Dr. Josh Schaefferkoetter, Physicist, Siemens Healthineers) |
| 15:45 | Tumor margin assessment tool for pathology co-registration (Dr. Jimmy Qiu, Manager Engineering, Techna Institute, UHN) |
| 16:15 | PET/MRI from the clinical perspective (Dr. Patrick Veit-Haibach, Director PET/MR Program, UHN) |
| 16:45 | FINAL REMARKS |
| 17:00 | Networking & STTARR Facility Tour |
PLEASE RSVP VIA THIS REGISTRATION FORM , BY 5PM ON TUESDAY, 27 TH NOVEMBER 2018.
We have limited seats available. First-come-first-served.
Lunch and refreshments will be provided. Please include any dietary restrictions or allergies on your registration form, and we will do our best to accommodate you.