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The report of 28th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2015) by Dr. Saeed Farzanefar
The report of 28th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2015) by Dr. Saeed Farzanefar
Application Code :
306-0116-0034
 
Created Date : Sunday, February 7, 2016-14:04 14:04:14Update Date : Tuesday, February 16, 2016-16:29 16:29:19
IP Address : 194.225.53.5Submit Date : Tuesday, February 16, 2016-16:33 16:33:05Email : farzanehfar@tums.ac.ir
Personal Information
Name : saeed
Surname : farzanehfar
School/Research center : School of Medicine
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Position : Assistant professor
Tel : +98-21-66575103
Information of Congress
Title of the Congress : 28th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM 2015)
Title of your Abstract : Roll of different XCAT phantom BMIs in dosimetery of 153Sm-EDTMP bone pain palliation therapy
Destination Country : Germany
From : Saturday, October 10, 2015
To : Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Abstract(Please copy/paste the abstract send to the congress) : P837
Roll of different XCAT phantom BMIs in dosimetery
for 153Sm-EDTMP bone pain palliation
M. Fallahpoor, S. Farzanefar, S. Heydarinejad, M. Abbasi;
Department of Nuclear Medicine , Vali-e-asr Hospital, Tehran
University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IRAN, ISLAMIC
REPUBLIC OF.
For internal dosimetry either patient’s CT scan or the attenuation
maps of available phantoms are used. The most accurate
way is to use patient CTscan which needs organ segmentation.
XCAT is one of the most flexible data bases which may eliminate
the need for time consuming and operator dependent
organ segmentation procedures. Nevertheless the phantom is
different in the body shape and composition including theBMI
from the patient’s reality. Recently different BMIs for the
XCAT phantom were generated which may solve this obstacle.
In this study we examine the effect of different BMIs on
the dosimetry for a bone pain palliation agent, 153Sm
EDTMP.The simulation was done by the GATE Monte Carlo
code. S-factor (mGy/MBq-s) and SAFs (kg-1) were calculated
for the dosimetry of the radiation from the spine as source
organ into the whole body. Female XCAT phantoms with the
following different BMIs were employed: 18.6, 20.8,22.1,
26.8, 30.3 and 34.7. The difference of the whole body dosimetry
from the phantom withBMI 26.8 were calculated for both
gamma and beta radiations.The differences of the SAFs of the
dosimetry in phantoms with lowest to highest BMI from the
referral phantom (i.e. BMI=26.8) were 16.4%, 8.2%, 4.1%, -
9.5% and -1.4%. All these difference fit well within the 10%
acceptable dosimetry calculation error. The differences of the
S-factor for the phantoms from the BMIs equal to 18.6, 20.8,
22.1, 30.3 and 34.7 from the phantom with BMI of 26.8 were
40.2%, 20.1%, 9.0%, -7.9% and -4.9%.The dosimetry of the
gamma photons do not change with the use of phantoms with
unfitted BMI but the dosimetry of the beta particle which
results in the therapeutic effect of 153Sm-EDTMP and is important
for dose calculation changes remarkably with
employing the phantom with wrong BMI.
Keywords of your Abstract : 153Sm-EDTMP, bone pain palliation, XCAT phantom, BMI
Acceptance Letter : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/28749/Forms/306/email_with_signiture.PDF
The presentation : Poster
The Cover of Abstract book : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/28749/Forms/306/first page_1.PDF
Published abstract in the abstract book with the related code : http://gsia.tums.ac.ir/images/UserFiles/28749/Forms/306/abstract_1.PDF
Where has your abstract been indexed? : ISI
If you choose other, please name : Pubmed
The Congress Reporting Form
How many volunteers were present at the Congress? : more than 2000
Delegates from which countries presented in the congress? : Almost all of the European countries, many middle east countries including Iran, USA, Canada and other North American countries, Russia, China, Japan, India, ... 
Were the delegates of any other organizations present in the congress? : Yes
If yes, please write the names of the organizations in the box : Almost all of Medical Universities of above mentioned countries and Imaging Companies
What were the responses to your talking points? Were specific questions or concerns raised? : The first question is about the availability of modern nuclear medicine procedures in Iran. They did not expect that we provide such a modern therapeutic method, also about the very up to date software used in the research. All other physicians were interested in the research and the results. The
If you met staff members, please list their full names & positions. : Other colleagues from Tehran university of medical science were:
1- Dr Mohammad Eftekhari
2- Dr Armaghan Fard Esfahani
3- Dr Babak Fallahi
4- Dr Davood Beiki
Please inform us if there are any follow up actions we need to talk with the members of the congress : 1- Tehran University of medical sciences could register the Academic staff in major scientific association such as EANM, if this happens there would be a significant discount in annual congress registration and also free access to published materials. 
2- Visa application is very complicated and time consuming, I wonder if there would be a application method for Academic staff
Your experiences about the travel processes(Providing ticket, accommodation,...) : The main obstacle was the VISA application which is a very time consuming process.
The ticket and accommodation was arranged by travel agency in Iran, and there was no problem.
Please give a briefing of your own observations and outcomes of the congress: : The 28th Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine was held on October 10 - 14, 2015 in Hamburg, Germany. The congress was very comprehensive and there were many challenges in different imaging and patient treatment issues. I had a poster presentation tittled "Roll of different XCAT phantom BMIs in dosimetery of 153Sm-EDTMP bone pain palliation therapy " 
We share our experience and also used other countries experiences. 
The most interesting sessions was PET-CT read with experts, which complicated cases ware presented.
The thyroid cancer treatment and follow up session was also provide good scientific materials.
The exhibition was also interesting about the new modalities and technologies.