Imperial GSK Positron Emission Tomography (PET): Technology and Application
1 – 3 April 2009
Course Details
- Duration: 3 days
- Fees:
Corporate
£615 before 1 March 2009
£715 after 1 March 2009
Non-corporate
£495 before 1 March 2009
£595 after 1 March 2009
Students
£125 - Online Registration
In collaboration with GSK 
Supported by:
Course Programme
Tuesday 31st March 2009
Optional open house tour of the GSK Clinical Imaging Centre at Hammersmith Hospital on the day before the course begins. Please idicate your interest for this visit on the registration form.
Day 1 - Wednesday 1 April 2009
| Time | Lecture Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 08:45-09:15 | Registration | |
| 09:15-09:30 | Welcome and housekeeping | Nick Long |
| 09:30-10:00 | PET Overview and Course Outline | Tony Gee |
| 10:00-10:45 | Cyclotrons and Isotope Production | Mikael Jensen |
| 10:45-11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15-12:00 | Carbon-11 Radiochemistry: Basic Principles and Recent Advances | Philip Miller |
| 12:00-12:45 | Ligand design (1) | Tony Gee |
| 12:45-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Workshop (1) Isotopes/ Ligand Design /Evaluation/Basics of Chemistry | Tony Gee & Mickael Jensen Philip Miller and Nick Long |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 15:30-16:15 | PET Camera Physics | Paul Marsden |
| 16:15-17:00 | Radiopharmacology | Mats Bergstrom |
| 17:00 | Wine reception |
Day 2 - Thursday 2 April 2009
| Time | Lecture Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-09:45 | PET in Clinical Oncology | Wai-Lup Wong |
| 09:45-10:30 | Fluorine-18 Radiochemistry: Basic Principles and Recent Advances | Frederic Dolle |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00-11:45 | Radiotracer and Ligand design (2) | Tony Gee |
| 11:45-12:30 | Modelling (1) | Lula Rosso |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00-15:00 | Workshop (2) a) Modelling and Image Analysis 1 b) Physics and instrumentation | Lula Rosso, Federico Turkheimer, Roger Gunn, Paul Marsden, Vin Cunningham |
| 15:00-15:30 | Tea Break | |
| 15:30-16:15 | PET in Neurology | Alex Hammers |
| 16:15-17:00 | PET i n Drug Discovery and Development | Tony Gee |
| 18:30-19:00 19:00-22:30 | Sparkling wine reception followed by course dinner in 170 Queen's Gate | (optional extra) |
Day 3 - Friday 3 April 2009
| Time | Lecture Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00-09:45 | Modelling (2) | Roger Gunn |
| 09:45-10:30 | Preclinical PET | Ralph Myers |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00-12:00 | Wo rkshop (3a) Preclinical Studies
Workshop (3b) Modelling and image analysis 2 | Ralph Myers & Mat Bergstrom Lula Rosso, Federico Turkheimer, Roger Gunn, Vin Cunningham |
| 12:00-12:45 | PET: Past, Present and Future | Terry Jones |
| 12:45-13:00 | Wind-up and course closure | Tong Gee, Nick Long |
