Poster Defence

Saturday, 25 April 2009 13:00 - 14:00, Exhibition Hall

Experience of introducing written consent forms for myocardial perfusion scintigraphy
  • Ronald Cooper, Royal North Shore Hospital, Australia
The value of Myocardial Perfusion Cine review in the diagnosis of a liver cyst – A case study
  • Mr George Pandos, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Australia
A comparison of Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) for diagnostic nuclear medicine procedures with doses recommended by manufacturers in package inserts
  • Dr Zlata Ivanov, Australian Radiation Protection and Nucleas Safety agency (ARPANSA), Australia
A Strong Foundation for the Education of Nuclear Medicine Scientists
  • Mr David G Lyall, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy and Intraoperative Gamma Probe Detection in the Localisation and Treatment of Pancreatic Insulinoma
  • Dr William B Macdonald, Royal Perth Hospital, Australia
Determining the Optimal Delay Time for Thyroid Uptakes
  • Ms Ngoc X Nguyen, RMIT University, Australia
Using oral 18F-FDG for infection imaging- A case study
  • Mr Jacob J Bolwell, Department of Nuclear Medicine and QLD PET service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia
The appearance of Paget’s disease on a 99mTc-HMPAO Labelled White Blood Cell Scan
  • Mr Tri M Trinh, royal adelaide hospital, Australia
Effect of Photopeak and Window Setting on Image Interpretation for Sentinel Lymph Node Imaging with a Medium Energy Collimator
  • Mr Dave Francia, Nuclear Medicine Department, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia, Australia
Improvement of diagnostic confidence with SPECT-CT in routine clinical practice
  • Dr Michael Hofman, University of Wollongong, Australia
SPECT/CT FUSION –Finding Lost Lesions
  • Mr Paul A Bowen, Southern Health, Australia
SPECT-CT labelled-RBC Radionuclide Venography: Can a new technique revive an old study?
  • Dr Quee Li L Chiam, Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Australia
Cholangiocarcinoma and PET/CT at the Royal Adelaide Hospital
  • Mrs Kari G Hughes, Dept of Nuclear Medicine, PET and Bone Densitometry, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Tce, Adelaide SA 5000, Australia
In Vivo Evaluation of FLETT as a Novel PET Imaging Reagent in Tumour Xenografts
  • Dr John I Sachinidis, Centre for PET, Austin Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Incidental Findings on low dose CT performed for SPECT-CT: a 10-month audit
  • Dr Geoffrey Soo, Southern Health, Monash Medical Centre, Australia
PET/CT in Takayasu arteritis - a case study
  • Dr Edna K Venter, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth WA, Australia
Long term bone uptake of 14C-ZA and effectiveness of PTH in redistributing it to the areas of new bone formation
  • Mr Divesh Kumar, PETNET Solutions, The The Children's Hospital and Westmead Hospital (Dept of Nuclear Medicine and PET), University of Sydney, Australia
The Assessment of Whole Body Bone SPECT in Oncology
  • Mrs Shonika Scortechini, Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital Health Service District & Queensland PET Service, Australia
Role of 123I-MIBG Cardiac Scintigraphy in Diagnosing Parkinson’s Disease: A Case Study
  • Mr Adam Freeborn, Flinders Medical Centre, Australia
Diagnostic value of stress acetazolamide cerebral perfusion SPECT in vertebrobasilar insufficiency
  • Dr Jeremy Q Hoang, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound, Bankstown-Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney South West Area Health Service, Australia
Moyamoya disease and its effect on cerebral perfusion
  • Mr James K Turner, Dept of Nuclear medicine & QLD PET service, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital, Australia
Three hours delayed 18F-FDG PET in evaluating solitary pulmonary nodules
  • Dr Chi-Yung Chang, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
Nasopharyngeal cancer pathology – correlation with 18F-Fluorodeoxyglucose PETCT derived standardized uptake values
  • Aini AbAziz, Radiology Department, Uni Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC) Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Malaysia
Correlation of pre- and post-induction chemotherapy 18-FDG PET findings with histopathology in patients with locally advanced non-small cell lung cancer
  • Dr Andrea M Chan, Austin Health, Australia
Incremental Value of Integrated FDG PET/CT in Evaluating Indeterminate Solitary Pulmonary Nodule for Malignancy
  • Dr Chih-Yung Chang, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
Intraoperative gamma probe detection of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours using preoperative indium octreotide injection
  • Mr Mark P Dobson, Department of Nuclear Medicine & Ultrasound, Bankstown Lidcombe Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia., Australia
Validity of Diazepam in Reducing Brown Adipose Tissue and Muscle Uptake in Positron Emission Tomography
  • Miss Sarah E Frecker, Royal Brisbane Department of Nuclear Medicine and Qld PET Service, Australia
FDG-PET directed radiotherapy dose escalation in non-small cell lung cancer
  • Mr Matthew Fuller, Australia
Incidental detection by SPECT of occult skull and brain parenchymal metastases which are false negative on I-131 planar images and low resolution CT portion of SPECT/CT
  • Dr Jih-Fang Hsieh, Chi Mei Medical Center, Taiwan
Incidental Finding of Breast Cancer During Myocardial Perfusion Imaging – A Case Study
  • Miss Deanna L Maglica, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Australia
Clinical utility of I-131 MIBG scan in patients with Neuroblastoma: 8 years experience
  • Dr Mohammad Saadullah, Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital & Research Center, Pakistan
Influence of talc pleurodesis on FDG PET and CT imaging in malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM)
  • Dr Tatiana ML Segard, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Australia
Evaluation of [18F]Fluoroethyl-L-tyrosine and [18F]FDG as PET tracer for brain tumor imaging
  • Mr Shih-Yen Wu, Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Taiwan
Sn (II) ion requirement for in vitro 99mTc labelling of Erythrocytes
  • Mr Greg T Wilton, Department of Nuclear Medicine, the Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia, Australia
Adsorption of Ga-67 radionuclide on fibrous waste tea
  • Dr Erhan Varoglu, Ataturk University, Medical School, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey
Is Sep-Pak Cartridge method better than ITLC-SG chromatography to determine Radiochemical Purity (RCP) of 99mTc-Sestamibi?
  • Mr Dilip K Boddeti, Australia
Comparison of Radiochemcial purity (RCP) estimation of 68Ga-DOTA-Octreotide using Alumina based TLC-SG and ITLC-SG chromatography
  • Mr Dilip K Boddeti, Australia
Preparation of 68Gallium ions for Radiopharmaceutical Production
  • Ms Elizabeth Church, RMIT University, Australia
A modified Ultratag system for Heat-Damaged RBCs
  • Ms Katelyn Morris, RMIT University, Australia
Direct Assay of Amino Acid Infusion for 177Lu-Octreotate Therapy by HPLC with Pulsed Amperometric Detection
  • Mr Damion Stimson, Department of Nuclear Medicine & Queensland P.E.T. Service, Australia
Fully Automated Synthesis of [18F]FLT with the TRACERlabMX Using a Commercially Available Cassette
  • Mr Damion Stimson, Department of Nuclear Medicine & Queensland P.E.T. Service, Australia
Adsorption of Tl-201 radionuclide on olive oil pomace
  • Dr Sinan Yapici, Ataturk University, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, Erzurum, Turkey
Delayed excretion on 99mTc MAG III scintigraphy -a sign of recoverability of function in obstructive uropathy
  • Dr Sobia Khan, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Prince of Wales and Sydney Children's Hospitals, Sydney, Australia
Multi-Modality imaging in the case of an ureterocele
  • Alex W Meyer, Prince of Wales and Sydney Children’s Hospitals, Australia
A methodology for manufacturing a QC phantom for ventilation and perfusion (V/Q) lung scans
  • Ms Norlaili Ahmad Kabir, University of Wollongong, Australia
Comparison of filtered back projection, 3D-OSEM and Astonish reconstruction algorithms in cardiac SPECT imaging using a phantom model
  • Ms Merrin Angwin, southernhealth, Australia
Identifying the sources of greatest radiation exposure to NMT’s during PET scanning
  • Ms Sarah Norton, RMIT University, Australia
PET technologist's Radiation Exposure
  • Mrs Chithra Sathiakumar, Department of Nuclear Medicine and PET, Australia
Staff education on Dose Equivalents
  • Miss Melissa A Vartzokas, Department of Nuclear Medicine and QLD PET service, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia
Outcome study of fixed dose (555 MBq) radioiodine in the treatment of hyperthyroidism: Is Tc-99m neck to thigh uptake ratio predictive of therapy outcome?
  • Sandeep K Gupta, Department of Nuclear Medicine & PET, John Hunter Hospital, Australia
Measurement of Effective Renal Plasma Flow with 99mTc- MAG-3 in Type 2 Diabetes
  • David Thomas, Austin Health, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia, Australia
Validation of IDL Dynamic Renal Processing Program and its Implementation in the Department, Including the Analysis of Technologists' Processing Results
  • Sarah Stephenson, Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital, Australia
Pulmonary Vein Stenosis after RF Ablation Diagnosed on a V/Q Lung Scan - A Case Study
  • Mr Russell G Edwards, Lyell McEwin Hospital, Australia
Where is our team ranked on the League Table? - A retrospective analysis of PET in Hunter New England Area Health Service
  • Mr Todd R Charge, Hunter New England Imaging, Australia
  • Ms Annah Skillen, Hunter New England Imaging, Australia
  • Ms Kerry Rogers, Hunter New England Imaging, Australia
3C’s – Correct Patient, Correct Procedure, and Correct Side/Site
  • Mr Troy M Hanley, Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital Nuclear Medicine Department, Australia
Queensland Health Nuclear Medicine Technologist State-wide Clinical Educator Position
  • Ms Seva Hatzinikolaou, Queensland Health, Australia
Diagnostic CT: The next step for Nuclear Medicine Scientists?
  • Ms Daphne James, The University of Newcastle, Australia
Evaluation of 3D Reconstruction Software Packages for Bone SPECT/CT
  • Mr Ben Paritsky, RMIT University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
The Challenges Faced by Migrant Nuclear Medicine Technologists Applying for Work in Australia
  • Miss Nikki-Louise Scott, RBWH, Australia