December 3, 2018, Toronto, ON

STTARR will be holding a PET/MRI workshop this December 3rd to provide researchers with an overview of Preclinical PET/MRI imaging capabilities, contrast agents, translational and clinical studies. This workshop will be in partnership with Mediso USA and Siemens for their preclinical and clinical PET/MRI systems, respectively.

Target Audience: Graduate students, technicians, research associates, PI’s, and postdocs who are interested in using PET/MRI for their projects.  The workshop aims at exploring the potential of combined PET/MRI for preclinical and clinical research.

Note: for the update program please visit STTARR's website at http://www.sttarr.com/sttarr-petmri-workshop-decemeber-3rd-partnership-mediso-siemens. Agenda was updated in this article on 11/15/2018

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9:00 AM REGISTRATION

9:15 AM WELCOME NOTE
Dr. David Jaffray, STTARR Director, EVP Innovation & Technology, UHN

9:30 AM SESSION 1 – LET’S GET STTARRTED!
STTARR Scientists
• Preclinical imaging (Systems, Services, Support).
• PET/MR technical insights to consider for study design, implementation & analysis.
• Discussion of research interests from participants.

10:45 AM COFFEE BREAK

11:00 AM SESSION 2 - PET TRACERS AND MULTIMODALITY CONTRAST AGENTS
• UHN cyclotron facility & available radiotracers - Dr. David Green, Head Radiochemist, UHN
• Multimodality contrast agents - Maneesha Rajora, MD, PhD candidate from Dr. Gang Zheng lab, UHN

12:00 PM LUNCH BREAK

13:00 PM SESSION 3 - NANOSCAN PET/MRI SYSTEM
• System performance & specifications, examples of applications - Peter Koncz, Mediso USA

13:30 PM SESSION 4 - SMALL AND LARGE PRECLINICAL MODELS FOR PET/MRI STUDIES
• Pancreatic cancer and hypoxia imaging - Dr. David Hedley, Medical Oncologist, UHN
• Cervical cancer and radiotherapy planning - Dr. Naz Chaudary, Scientist, UHN
• Prostate cancer imaging in a large in vivo model - Dr. Carl Fisher, Scientist, UHN

15:00 PM COFFEE BREAK

15:15 PM SESSION 5 - TRANSLATIONAL PET/MRI
• System performance & specifications, examples of applications - Josh Schaefferkoetter, Physicist, Siemens Healthineers
• Tumor margin assessment tool for pathology co-registration - Jimmy Qiu, Manager Engineering, Techna Institute, UHN
• PET/MRI from the clinical perspective - Dr. Patrick Veit-Haibach, Director PET/MR Program, UHN

16:45 PM FINAL REMARKS

17:00 PM NETWORKING & STTARR FACILITY TOUR