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PMOD Cardiac Quantification Course | March 14, 2012 | Zurich, Switzerland
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| Overview | |
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The PMOD Cardiac Quantification Course is a new, one-day course that focuses on specific aspects of cardiac quantification when working with PMOD. The participants will learn the principles of cardiac PET as well as the different quantification approaches, and they will be trained in accurate myocardial blood flow quantification from cardiac PET data. Brief presentations will be complemented with live demonstrations, whereby the trainers and the participants will simultaneously process representative patient data. Additionally, time will be available for working with individual data and for interacting with the trainers.
The participants are required to bring their own notebooks. They will receive a USB flash key with the latest PMOD version as well as training data sets. PMOD can be started directly from the key, such that the configuration of the notebook will remain untouched. As a courtesy, the key can be taken home and will work for another two months. This will give the participants the opportunity to complete their studies if needed, and to try the PMOD tools on their own data.
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Target Audience and Prerequisites | |
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The target audience are physicians and technicians who have a need to quantify cardiac PET data. As the same techniques can be applied for animal and human studies, the training is also adequate for scientists involved in preclinical molecular imaging.
To get optimal benefit from attending, sufficient familiarity with PMOD will be required, particularly with the viewing (base), and kinetic modeling modules. Attendants new to PMOD can acquire such knowledge at the two-days PMOD Basic Application Course (see below), and/or by requesting via the PMOD website a two- months trial license and practicing with the example data provided.
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The course will be taught by senior PMOD staff and by two external experts: a medical doctor from the lab of Prof. Roberto Sciagrà, University of Florence, Italy, who is an expert in the field of cardiac quantification and a seasoned PMOD user, as well as Prof. Sebastian Kozerke from ETH Zürich, Switzerland, who works at the fore- front of cardiac MRI and who is co-developing a dedicated PMOD module.
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Complementary PMOD Courses | |
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Right before/after this course, the following courses will be organized in the same course environment:
- PMOD Basic Application Course, Monday/Tuesday, March 12/13, 2012
- PMOD Small Animal Imaging Lab, Thursday, March 15, 2012
The aim of the two-days basic course is to teach the participants the effective use of the major PMOD tools.
Brief presentations will outline the principles behind the different types of data analysis. They will be complemented by live demonstrations. Sufficient time will be available for individual practice based on a workbook and for interacting with the trainers. The basic course constitutes an ideal preparation for this course. The small animal imaging lab, though not directly related to this course, is vividly recommended.
Registration for the above courses is being handled separately from registration for the PMOD Cardiac Quantification Course, yet volume discounts do apply on multiple course registrations. See consolidated price list published on the flyer: "PMOD Courses in March 2012".
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