Quantification in SPECT and PET Update

This online meeting aims to give an overview of current practices in quantification in SPECT and PET. It will highlight areas for development and focus on the implementation of quantification looking at a wide range of applications in Nuclear Medicine SPECT and PET.

Organised by IPEM's Nuclear Medicine Special Interest Group

Aimed at technologists, radiographers and physicists working in nuclear medicine (SPECT) and PET. This meeting aims to give an overview of current practices in quantification in SPECT and PET. It will highlight areas for development and focus on the implementation of quantification looking at a wide range of applications in Nuclear Medicine SPECT and PET. 

The meeting will aim to focus on future applications and use of quantification clinically. 

Invited Speakers

John Dickson, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

John is Head of Clinical Nuclear Medicine Physics at University College London Hospitals and is Honorary Associate Professor with University College London. He has over 25 years’ experience in nuclear medicine physics with a particular focus in the development and application of PET/CT, SPECT/CT and PET/MR techniques. John has published over eighty peer reviewed papers, many in top clinical, imaging, and medical physics journals, and has a research interest in quantitative imaging biomarkers.


Michael Ljungberg, Lund University

Michael is a Professor at the Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Sweden. He started his research in the Monte Carlo field 1983 by a project involving simulation of whole-body counters but changed the focus to more general applications in nuclear medicine imaging and SPECT. As a parallel track to his development of the Monte Carlo code SIMIND, he started 1985 working with quantitative SPECT and problems related to attenuation and scatter. After his PhD graduation 1990, he received a research assistant position at the department that allowed him to continue developing SIMIND for quantitative SPECT applications and establish successful collaborations with international research groups. In 1994, he became an associate professor and 2005 a full professor. His current research also include an extensive project in oncological nuclear medicine, where he develop dosimetry methods based on quantitative SPECT, Monte Carlo absorbed dose calculations and registration methods, for accurate 3D dose planning for internal radionuclide therapy. He is also involved in undergraduate education of medical physicists and is supervising several PhD students. 


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