The next meeting of the PET SIG under the new name 'UK PET Physics Group' will be held at the BNMS annual spring meeting in Harrogate, 29th April - 2nd May. The topic will be Brain PET.

The presentations from the last SIG meeting in Brighton are now available from the download section of this web site. Once again, thanks to those who presented, attended and sponsored.

The UK PET Special Interest Group met on 26th April in Harrogate to discuss the latest developments in PET-CT scanning hardware.

Thank you to our speakers, GE Medical Systems and the BNMS Organising Committee for ensuring the meeting was packed to capacity.

URL:http://www.nss-mic.org/2010
Conference e-mail:nssmic2010@ametek.com
Abstract Submission Deadline: 10-May-2010

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Thankyou to all those who presented, attended or sponsored refreshments at last months SIG meting in Manchester. The talks are available from the download section of this site.

Plans for the next meeting are fermenting nicely and will be uncorked soon.

You are invited to a 3-day course held in central London at KCL's Guys campus on PET: Technology and Application

The informal, interactive course will cover lectures on all aspects of PET, from molecule to man, along with the latest developments and research highlights from experts in the field.

URL: PET Course web site.

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The programme for the next SIG meeting in Brighton at 10:30 on Monday May 9th is as follows:

Multi-Centre Trial Participation: Experiences of a Scanning Site - Shelan Mahmood (Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth)
Technical Aspects of Multi-Centre Trials - Lucy Pike (NCRI PRN)
The Role of the Trials Office - TBC (CR UK & UCL Cancer Trials Centre)
Multi-Centre Trials: Pharma's point-of -view - Will Hallett (GSK)

Thank you to all those who offered to speak, there was a bit of subject overlap so I've tried to pick a suitable representative from each group. If you'd like to suggest any areas that warrant further discussion please let me know.

Refreshments will be provided (thanks to PETNET Solutions).

The UK PET SIG will meet at the BNMS conference in Harrogate on Monday 26th April, 10:30 - 12:30. The topic for discussion is "Developments in
PET Hardware" and the speakers will be sharing their experience as follows:

Nick Bird - The GE Discovery 690 (with time-of-flight)
Heather Wiliams - The Siemens mCT
Iain Murray - The Philips Gemini TF
Istvan Szanda - NanoPET/CT: Possible answers to the challenges of Preclinical PET

Refreshments kindly provided by GE Medical systems.

The next PET SIG meeting will be held at 6pm on Thursday 22nd October and will be hosted by The Institute of Nuclear Medicine at UCLH.

The meeting will revisit selected conferences of 2009.

Speakers (to date):
Kjell Erlandsson: Review of the Fully 3D Reconstruction Meeting in Beijing
Wendy Waddington: Review of SNM Clinical Trials Network meeting
Charalampos (Harry) Tsoumpas: PET Motion Correction using Simultaneously Acquired MR Data (presented at SNM)
Joel Dunn: Revue Brain '09

The Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine and Royal Society of Medicine (RSM-IPEM) joint day meeting at the RSM headquarters at 1 Wimpole Street in London on June 22 2009 is open to all across the UK interested in medical imaging (5 CPD credits for clinicians).


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