About this Program

This webinar provides a succinct and relevant update on the latest nuclear medicine topics for imaging professionals.  It includes:

  • New PET radiopharmaceuticals and technology
  • Nuclear medicine and PET equipment performance evaluation procedures, common failures, and troubleshooting tips
  • Setting up a new radiopharmaceutical therapy program
  • Detailed information on Y-90 microspheres and therapies using Lu-177
  • How to set up a treatment area including determination if shielding is needed
  • An introduction to SPECT quantitation and harmonization and radiopharmaceutical therapy dosimetry 

Educational Objectives

At the completion of this program, participants should be able to:

  • List new PET/CT radiopharmaceuticals and technology
  • Review common failures for nuclear medicine and PET equipment performance evaluation tests and how to troubleshoot them
  • Discuss safety and regulatory for setting up a new Theranostics program
  • Describe the basic requirements to perform SPECT system quantification and harmonization, as well as radiopharmaceutical dosimetry

Schedule

What this course will cover

Schedule subject to change.  Time listed is central time.

 

8:00-8:30PET/CT – new technology, pharmaceuticals (McCall)
8:30-9:00PET/CT QC – focus on failures/troubleshooting (Busse)
9:00-9:30Planar QC - focus on failures/troubleshooting (Mueller)
9:30-10:00SPECT QC (including pixelated and traditional systems) - focus on failures/troubleshooting (Mueller)
10:00-10:30Intro to quantitation/harmonization (Lopez)
10:30-11:00Break
11:00-11:30Adding a new RPT – RML set up and basics (Clements)
11:30-12:00RPT program set up: Y-90 (Busse)
12:00-12:30RPT program set up: Lu-177 (Clements)
12:30-1:00Treatment area prep – shielding, room setup (Clements)
1:00-1:30Intro to RPT dosimetry (Mueller)

Audience

Who should attend?

This course is for medical physicists, technologists, or any imaging professional wanting to learn more about the technical aspects of nuclear medicine and obtain continuing education credits.

Program Faculty

Meet your presenter(s)

Jessica Clements

Jessica Clements

MS, DABR, FAAPM, FACR

Jessica Clements is a medical physicist and radiation safety officer at the University of Vermont Medical Center. She earned her BS in physics from Pittsburg State University in 2002 and her MS in nuclear engineering sciences from the University of Florida in 2005. She was certified by the American Board of Radiology in diagnostic radiologic physics in 2008 and nuclear medical physics in 2011. She has worked as a clinical diagnostic and nuclear medical physicist her entire career and has either served as radiation safety officer or directly supported the facility RSO. Her clinical practice experience has focused on building and maintaining clinical medical physics groups to support large health care systems and to formally train clinical physicists in a residency program. She has served in many capacities within AAPM, ACR, ABR, and CRCPD and was named a fellow of the AAPM in 2018 and the ACR in 2023. 

Nathan Busse

Nathan Busse

MS, DABR, DABSNM

Nathan Busse is Chief of Diagnostic and Nuclear Medicine Physics for Colorado Associates in Medical Physics (CAMP). He has been with CAMP for over ten years since completing his Master’s degree at Vanderbilt University in Diagnostic Medical Physics and an Imaging Physics residency at UT MD Anderson Cancer Center. He is board certified by the American Board of Radiology in Diagnostic Medical Physics and Nuclear Medicine Physics and by the American Board of Science in Nuclear Medicine in Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation. He has a special interest in Nuclear Medicine topics including shielding, PET annual testing, and clinical Y-90 support, including co-chairing MPPG 14.a on Y-90 Radioembolization.

Jonathon Mueller

MS

Jonathon Mueller is medical physicist and associate radiation safety officer at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida.  He earned his BS and MS in biomedical engineering from the University of Akron and his MS in medical physics from UT MD Anderson Cancer Center.  He was certified by the American Board of Radiology in diagnostic radiologic physics in 2017 and nuclear medical physics in 2019.  He has worked as a diagnostic and nuclear medical physicist and radiation safety officer in nearly every clinical environment, including as a military officer, in administration, as a consultant, and in his current role at an academic cancer center.  He is very active within ABR and AAPM.  His special clinical interest is in advancing and improving access to radiopharmaceutical therapies and dosimetry.

Benjamin Lopez

PhD

Imaging Physics Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center 

Keisha McCall

PhD

Nuclear Medical Physicist, Henry Ford Health System

Credits

Accredited training programs

CAMPEP pending

This program is designed to provide 5 hours of continuing education. The program has been submitted for approval by CAMPEP for Medical Physics Continuing Education Credit (MPCEC) for qualified medical physicists.

Tuition

Convenient payment options available

AudiencePriceEarly PriceMember PriceMember Early Price
Physicist$299.00$279.00$289.00$269.00
Technologist$199.00$189.00$179.00$170.00

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Cancellation Policy

Webinars less than 8 hours of credit

Refunds, minus a $15 processing fee, will be granted for cancellations received at least 3 days prior to the program. Cancellations received within 3 days of the webinar will receive a credit toward a future MTMI program, minus the $15 processing fee. No refunds will be made after the webinar starts. MTMI reserves the right to cancel any scheduled program because of low advance registration or other reasons. MTMI’s liability is limited to a refund of any program tuition paid. WEBINAR ATTENDEES that cannot log in due to unsolvable technical issues beyond their control will be eligible for a full refund.