The SNMMI's PET Center of Excellence is an organizational component within the SNMMI dedicated to all aspects of the development and utilization of positron emission tomography (PET), PET/CT, and PET/MR in the detection and management of disease. Two primary areas of focus of the center are educational programs and practical issues directly related to PET, PET/CT, and PET/MR including clinical practice and procedure guidelines, as well as reimbursement. 

The PET Center of Excellence Peter E. Valk, MD, Memorial Lectureship and Award.

The Peter E Valk, MD Memorial Lectureship and Award was created to honor the memory of Dr Valk, a pioneer in the establishment of PET as an important clinical study. This Award recognizes individuals who have made significant contributions to the advancement of PET, including PET/CT, PET/MRI and other emerging technologies , as well as those individuals who are dedicated to the PET Center of Excellence. Congratulations to Dr Rodney J. Hicks, the recipients of the 2021 Peter E. Valk, MD Memorial Lectureship and Award.    Rodney J. Hicks, MD    Past recipients 2015 - Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD 2016 - Richard Wahl, MD, FACNM 2017 - George Segall, MD, FACNM, FSNMMI 2018 - Peter Conti, MD, PhD, FACNM, FACR 2019 - Hossein Jadvar, MD, PhD, FACNM, FSNMMI 2020 - Simon Cherry, PhD and Ramsey Badawi, PhD

ISMRM/SNMMI Co-Provided Webinars

Attenuation Correction and PET Reconstruction

Host:

Thomas Hope, MD, University of California, San Francisco and Chair of the PET Center of Excellence PET/MR Working Group

Moderators:

• Richard Laforest, PhD, Washington University and Vice-President Elect of the Computer and Instrumentation Council
• Alan McMillan, PhD, University of Wisconsin

Panelists and Papers:

• Silin Ren, PhD, Yale University presented Data-driven event-by-event respiratory motion correction using TOF PET list-mode centroid of distribution (Ren S, Jin X, Chan C, Jian Y, Mulnix T, Liu C, Carson RE.  Phys Med Biol. 2017 Jun 21;62(12):4741-4755.)
• Hongyu An, PhD, Washington University presented A multi-centre evaluation of eleven clinically feasible brain PET/MRI attenuation correction techniques using a large cohort of patients (Ladefoged CN, Law I, Anazodo U, St Lawrence K, Izquierdo-Garcia D, Catana C, Burgos N, Cardoso MJ, Ourselin S, Hutton B, Mérida I, Costes N, Hammers A, Benoit D, Holm S, Juttukonda M, An H, Cabello J, Lukas M, Nekolla S, Ziegler S, Fenchel M, Jakoby B, Casey ME, Benzinger T, Højgaard L, Hansen AE, Andersen FL; Neuroimage. 2017 Feb 15;147:346-359)

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Prostate Cancer Imaging

Host:
Dr. Thomas Hope of the University of California, San Francisco, with panelists Dr. Steve Cho of the University of Wisconsin and Dr. Baris Turkbey of the National Institute of Health.

Topics:

• Rauscher, I., Maurer, T., Beer, A. J., Graner, F.-P., Haller, B., Weirich, G., et al. (2016). Value of 68Ga-PSMA HBED-CC PET for the Assessment of Lymph Node Metastases in Prostate Cancer Patients with Biochemical Recurrence: Comparison with Histopathology After Salvage Lymphadenectomy. J Nucl Med, 57(11), 1713–1719.
• Freitag, M. T., Radtke, J. P., Afshar-Oromieh, A., Roethke, M. C., Hadaschik, B. A., Gleave, M., et al. (2016). Local recurrence of prostate cancer after radical prostatectomy is at risk to be missed in (68)Ga-PSMA-11-PET of PET/CT and PET/MRI: comparison with mpMRI integrated in simultaneous PET/MRI. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging.

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