Société Belge de Médecine Nucléaire

Friday May 24: 19:00: Opening reception, Thermae Palace

Saturday May 25: 08:45 - 18:00: Scientific Programme, Thermae palace

Saturday May 25:  19:30: Walking Dinner, Fort Napoleon

Sunday May 26: 09:00 - 12:00: Scientific Programme, Thermae Palace

Sunday May 26: 12:30: Farewell Cocktail, Thermae Palace

   Final Programme

Venue: Thermae Palace, Ostend (www.thermaepalace.be)

Final Scientific Programme:

Saturday May 25, 2013

08:45: Welcome

09:00 - 09u20: Alain Hendlisz, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels

"Patient management in oncology: role of PET/CT"

09:20 - 09:40: Bertrand Tombal, UCL, Brussels:

"Work-up and treatment of patients with high risk prostate carcinoma"

09:40 - 10:00: Paolo Castellucci, Univeristy of Bologna, Italy:

"Choline PET/CT in prostate carcinoma"

10:00 - 10:20: Valerie Lewington, Royal Marsden, King's College London, UK

"Advances in bone targeted therapy for prostate cancer"

10:20 - 10:30: Discussion

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00: Oral Presentations (5x12 min)

12:00 - 12:30: Lioe Fee de Geus-Oei, UMS St Radboud Nijmegen, The Netherlands:

Highlights Lecture

12:30 - 14:15: Lunch Break

14:15 - 14:35: Koen Van Laere, UZ Leuven:

"The clinical role of amyloid versus FDG PET in early and differential diagnosis of dementia"

14:35 - 14:55: Frank Hardeman, SCK Mol:

"Medical research in the Belgian Nuclear Research Centre SCK CEN"

14:55 - 15-15: Nick Devoogdt, Vrije Universiteit Brussels:

"Camelids in Nuclear Medicine"

15-15 - 15-35: Clemens Decristoforo, Innsbruck, Austria:

"Gallium-68 labeled radiopharmaceuticals: from the radiopharmacy to preclinical and clinical applications"

15-35 - 15-45: Discussion

15:45 - 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 - 16:35: Max Lonneux, Institut Edith Cavell, Brussels:

"Anatomical and functional correlative imaging in head and neck"

16:40 - 17:00: Geert Villeirs, UZ Gent:

"Anatomy and imaging of the female pelvis for the staging of cervical cancer"

17:00: Young investigators ' Challenge (6 case reports)

Sunday May 26, 2013

Session 1: 09:00 - 10:00: Justification and dose optimization

09:00 - 09:20: Lodewijk Van Bladel, FANC/AFCN, Brussels

"New trends in radiation protection from diagnostic medical exposure"

09:20 - 09:40: Nico Buls, UZ Brussels:

"Novel applications and dose reducing strategies in CT imaging"

09:40 - 10:00: Léon Rausin, CHR Citadelle, Liège

"Dose optimization in paediatrics"

10:20 - 10:40: Coffee Break

Session 2: 10:40 - 11:50: Imaging of the knee - which one to choose?

10:40 - 11:00: Emmanuel Thienpont, UCL, Brussels

"What does the clinician expect?"

11:00 - 11:20: Fahim Hassan, Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK

"SPECT/CT of the knee"

11:20 - 11:40: Frédéric Lecouvet, UCL, Brussels

"Ultrasound, MRI and CT Arthrography of the knee: when and why?"

12:00: Closing remarks

Final Technologist Programme:

Saturday May 25, 2013

08:45: Welcome

09:00 - 09u30: Olivier De Winter, OLV Hospital, Aalst

"Parathyroid Scintigraphy: from A to Z"

09:30 - 10:00: Peter Leyman, OLV Hospital, Aalst

"Implementation of optimal workflow in SPECT/CT"

10:00 - 10:30:  Patricia da Silva, Institut Jules Bordet, Brussels

"How to reduce technologist radiation exposure during patient injection?"

10:30 - 11:00: Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30: Nele Eecloo, UZ Leuven

"Measuring patient satisfaction as an indicator for the quality of provided care"

11:30 - 12:00:  Peter Smeets, UZ Gent

"What to know about CT when performing SPECT/CT or PET/CT"

12:00 - 12:30:  Laurence Alexandre, UCL Brussels

"Quanum in the hotlab"

12:30 - 14:15: Lunch Break

14:50 - 15:45: Communications for the Technologist Award

15:45 - 16:15: Coffee Break

16:15 - 16:45: Award Ceremony and closing remarks