Programme

Opening words
Juhani Knuuti, Professor, Chairman of the Organising Committee
Gadolin lecture
Olof Solin, Emeritus Professor of Radiochemistry, University of Turku

9:15-9:45 Bioorthogonal radiolabeling strategies for immune checkpoint and T cell imaging – Mirkka Sarparanta, FI

9:45-10:00 Synthesis of [¹¹C]Me-DPA and evaluation in a transgenic mouse model of alzheimer’s disease – Thomas Keller, FI

10:00-10:15 Perfluoroaryl azide staudinger reaction combined with sulfur [¹⁸F]fluoride exchange click chemistry for live cell radiolabeling – Anisa Biti, FI

9:10-9:45 Methods to improve absolute quantification of cardiac SPECT and PET – Jennifer Renaud, US

9:45-10:15 Deep learning based noise reduction of cardiac SPECT – Antti Sohlberg, SE

11:30-12:00 From Cancer to Neurobiology Applications and Beyond – Matthias Herth, DK

12:00-12:15 Efficient radiofluorination reaction studies with design of experiments (doe) for streamlined F-18 tracer development – Andreas Maurer, DE

12:15-12:30 Synthesis and initial preclinical evaluation of [¹⁸F]fluoro-exendin-4, a high molar activity tracer for glp1r imaging – Salla Lahdenpohja, FI

11:10-11:50 Artificial intelligence in PET image segmentation and classification – Geoff Warnock, CH

11:50-12:30 Clinical deployment of artificial intelligence in nuclear cardiology and CT – Piotr Slomka, US

Poster session I
Radionuclide production, Radiochemistry, Modelling, Instrumentation, Preclinical imaging

15:00-15:30 Artificial Intelligence in Cardiovascular Imaging – Piotr Slomka, US

15:30-15:45 Development of an automated [¹⁵O] gas radio tracer administration system – Jukka Ihalainen, FI

14:50-15:10 Clinical and biomedical research applications based on Carimas – Chunlei Han, FI

15:10-15:40 Open Science practices within the SPM software – Guillaume Flandin, UK

16:45-17:00 Evaluation of [¹⁸F]LU14 and [¹⁸F]LU13 in a rat model with a local overexpression of the human cannabinoid receptor 2 in the brain with pet – Daniel Gündel, DE

17:00-17:15 Targeting folate receptor-β expressing macrophages by ¹⁸F-labelled folate pet radiotracer in rat model of myocardial infarction – Imran Iqbal, FI

16:40-16:55 Deep learning lesion segmentation in acute ischemic stroke – Sanaz Nazari Farsani, US

16:55-17:10 Standardising PET cardiac perfusion imaging measurements and evaluating their uncertainties for more accurate diagnosis – Nadia Smith, UK

9:15-9:45 Insights from microglial imaging in multiple sclerosis: predictive value and response to treatment – Laura Airas, FI 

9:45-10:00 Voxel-wise staging of tau pathology using [¹⁸F]RO-948 pet in the early ad continuum – Mahnaz Shekari, ES

10:00-10:15 Musical pleasure modulates µ-opioid system activity in the brain – Vesa Putkinen, FI

10:15-10:30 A normative map of energy density in the human brain – Gabriel Castrillón, DE

15:45-16:15 Artificial intelligence in cardiac imaging – Luis Juarez-Orozco, NL

16:15-16:45 Imaging in cardiology: State of the art – Jeroen J Bax, Leiden, NL&FI

16:45-17:00 Comparing folate receptor β targeting tracers in experimental myocarditis model – Erika Atencio-Herre, FI 

17:00-17:15 Exploring macrophage mannose receptor expression after myocardial infarction by Al [¹⁸F]F-NOTA-DCMpositron emission tomography – Putri Andriana, FI

9:45-10:30 From individuals to dyads: In search of the brain basis of social interaction – Riitta Hari, FI

9:45-10:30 Merkkiaineet kliinisessä PET-kuvantamisessa: sähköinen opetusmateriaali röntgenhoitajille – Silja Hälli, FI

11:45-12:30 Brown adipose tissue, obesity and eating – Kirsi Virtanen, FI

12:30-12:45 Is there central inflammation in human obesity? a positron emission tomography study – Eleni Rebelos, FI 

12:45-13:00 Measurement of brown adipose tissue activity by a combination of indirect calorimetry and pet-ct – Kristina Bardova, CZ

Closing of the symposium
Juhani Knuuti – Professor, Chairman of the Organising Committee