Nuclear Medicine Update
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.
8:00-8:30 | PET/CT – new technology, pharmaceuticals (McCall) |
8:30-9:00 | PET/CT QC – focus on failures/troubleshooting (Busse) |
9:00-9:30 | Planar QC - focus on failures/troubleshooting (Mueller) |
9:30-10:00 | SPECT QC (including pixelated and traditional systems) - focus on failures/troubleshooting (Mueller) |
10:00-10:30 | Intro to quantitation/harmonization (Lopez) |
10:30-11:00 | Break |
11:00-11:30 | Adding a new RPT – RML set up and basics (Clements) |
11:30-12:00 | RPT program set up: Y-90 (Busse) |
12:00-12:30 | RPT program set up: Lu-177 (Clements) |
12:30-1:00 | Treatment area prep – shielding, room setup (Clements) |
1:00-1:30 | Intro 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
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
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
Audience | Price | Early Price | Member Price | Member Early Price |
---|---|---|---|---|
Physicist | $299.00 | $279.00 | $289.00 | $269.00 |
Technologist | $199.00 | $189.00 | $179.00 | $170.00 |
Early Pricing Guidelines
Qualifying 'Early' registrations must be made at least 4 days in advance for the program.
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.