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European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Congress
The report of European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Congress by Dr. Mohamad Reza Ay
Application Code :
306-0216-0150
 
Created Date : Sunday, December 11, 2016-23:22 23:22:33Update Date : Sunday, December 11, 2016-23:33 23:33:50
IP Address : 5.22.25.77Submit Date : Sunday, December 11, 2016-23:34 23:34:33Email :mohammadreza_ay@tums.ac.ir
Personal Information
Name : Mohammad Reza
Surname : Ay
School/Research center : School of Medicine
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Position : Professor
Tel : +98-21-66466383
Information of Congress
Title of the Congress : European Association of Nuclear Medicine Annual Congress
Title of your Abstract : I had 21 abstract in this conference but will introduce only one of them here:
Design and Development of a Dedicated Robotic SPECT System for Cardiac Imaging
Destination Country : Spain
From : Saturday, October 15, 2016
To : Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) : Introduction: Cardiac imaging has become an integrated part in the diagnostic and prognostic work-up of patients with cardiovasular disease. In order to improve the quality of cardiac imaging dedicated cardiac scanners with small file of view introduced in last couple of years. We designed and developed a dedicated cardiac SPECT system in our lab for cardiac imaging called RoboSPECT. This name was chosen because of robotics motions of detectors and arms in this scanner. The reclining seat design of the scanner provides maximum patient comport. It should be noted two perpendicular detector heads designed and optimized for cardiac imaging. The aim of this study is to introduce the concept design of the scanner and also evaluates and characterizes the performance of RoboSPECT based on NEMA-NU2 2007 standards for gamma cameras. Method: The detector of the scanner is based on NaI(Tl) crystal and 24 rectangular PMTs (76x76 mm) in 4x6 form cover the detection area. Rectangular shape of PMT allows the full coverage of active crystal area without any dead zone. The scannr equipped with LEHR lead Parallel-hole collimators with 1.5 mm hexagonal holes, 35 mm hole length, and 0.2 mm septal thickness. The gantry of the scanner is based on robotic motion of both arm and detectors that fixed in 90 degree position. All readout electronic in the detector designed based on our US patient called non linear recursive filter. Results: The experiments showed that the intrinsic spatial resolution was 3.6 mm on the surface of crystal. The system spatial resolution and the sensitivity of the system on the collimator surface were 7.8 mm and 179 cps/MBq, respectively. The extrinsic energy resolution resolution was determined as about 9.3 %. In addition, the integral uniformity and the differential uniformity, after uniformity correction, in UFOV were measured 2.2% and 1.2%, respectively. Also the absolute and differential linearity were evaluated 0.8 and 0.1 mm in UFOV. In order to validate the accuracy of images acquired by this scanner 50 patients were scanned both with RoboSPECT and ADAC camera. The results showed good agreement between the images of both scanners. Conclusion: This study showed that the designed scanner called RoboSPECT has acceptable performance for cardiac imaging.
Keywords of your Abstract : Cardiac SPECT,
Design
Acceptance Letter : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/19549/Forms/306/AY_3.pdf
The presentation : Oral
The Cover of Abstract book : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/19549/Forms/306/EANM16 Abstrcat book_Cover_1.pdf
Published abstract in the abstract book with the related code : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/19549/Forms/306/Abstract_1.pdf
Where has your abstract been indexed? : ISI
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The Congress Reporting Form
How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : 6500
Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : Spain, Germany, USA, France, Italy, UK, Japan, China
Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : Yes
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What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : my talk was interesting to many audience. However I got the first rank in the conference as I had the maximum papers in conference (22 paper). my talks covered many area including Nuclear medicine and clinical imaging.
If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : Dr Davood Beiki
Sr babak falahi
Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : there is no specific action that could be follow up. However I personally talked with many researcher and negotiation with them for any possible collaboration. the main potential for collaboration was Dr Hamid Sabet from Harvard that works in our filed. he is really interested to have more collaboration in the field of designing medical imaging systems
Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : or accommodation do not book hotel, renting apartment via airbnb highly suggested. Also for ticket I suggestion online booking couple of months in advance. For accommodation I did a lot of search and found that the apartment t is the best choice as the hotel is very expensive in Toronto. However I highly suggest to not carrying too much cash as there is some limitation based on Canada regulation. When you arrive to Toronto try to have a visit from downtown as there are many shopping center and also high rise building.
Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : in addition to scientific part of the congress that keynote speaker part was really impressive. they actually invited from the most famous persons. the most interesting talk belong to head of EANM and he reviewed the history of nuclear medicine. also the exhibition part of this congress was perfect and I saw all new products. I also talked with may companies and shard our experience. The industrial seminars were good area to see the experience of customers about products. I also got a lots of information to be distributed in our department for both students and faculty members. I also talked with a company for producing their products in Iran that would be good opportunity for both parties.