Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom

1. Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom Robert Miyaoka July 30, 2011

2. NMISC elections We have nine candidates for NMISC*: James Hugg, Gamma Medica, Inc Hee-Joung Kim, Yonsei University Michael King, University of Massachusetts Paul Marsden, King’s College Osama Mawlawi, MD Anderson Cancer Center Uwe Pietrzyk, University of Wuppertal Douglas Wagenaar, Gamma Medica R Glenn Wells, University of Ottawa Heart Institute Larry Zeng, University of Utah Their terms will go from 1 January 2012 until 31 December 2014.

3. NMISC Website Visibility May 31st contacted Paul Dressendorf and Joel Karp about possibly including a 10 Ten list of TNS NMIS papers on the NMISC website. The list could be 10 Ten TNS NMIS most cited papers within the last year or the 10 Ten TNS NMIS most downloaded papers in the last year. Maybe alternate every six months. Make these papers freely available to download from the website for one month (or longer). When people download, the site can let them know they can have free access to IEEE TNS with an IEEE and NPSS society membership. Operationally IEEE Pubs can do this (Society/Paid Open Access). Does not cost Society any money. Paul is continuing to look into this idea.

4. 2011 Medical Imaging Conference Status 2011, Valencia, Spain: David Townsend is General Chair; Alberto Del Guerra is MIC Program Chair. 764 Abstracts Submitted 682 Abstracts Accepted 122 MIC/Joint Oral Presentations 560 Poster Presentations 82 Abstracts Rejected

5. 2011 Medical Imaging Conference Status 2011, Valencia, Spain: There will be 5 poster sessions Two parallel oral sessions Refresher courses in the mornings Radiotherapy; CT; MR/PET Imaging; and European Patent System Two Plenary sessions Speakers Willi Kalendar (Univ of Erlangen) – “Is there still room for research in CT?” Cristoph Bert (GSI) – “New frontiers in particle therapy” Ander Brahme (Karolinska Institute) - ”Optimal use of Imaging in Radiation Therapy” Luis Fernandez-Galiano (architect, MIC Banquet Speaker) – “Biology and design: the city as artificial nature” Awards Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Scientist Award IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology

6. 2011 Medical Imaging Conference Status 2011, Valencia, Spain: MIC Short Course Program: SC4: Statistical Approaches to Tomographic Reconstruction SC5: Kinetic Modeling SC6: Statistical Approaches to Medical Image Analysis SC7: Physics and Design of Detectors for SPECT and PET MIC Workshop: Fifth International Workshop on the Molecular Radiology of Breast Cancer Sunday October 30, 2011, 8:30 – 17:30 Special Events: Reception for IEEE Gold Members – Thursday, October 27, 2011, 18:30 – 20:00 Women in Engineering – Thursday, October 27, 2011, 18:00 – 20:00 Industrial Program – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, October 25-27, 2011 - more than 40 companies will exhibit at the conference

7. 2011 Medical Imaging Conference Status 2011, Valencia, Spain (Companion Program): Kathy Gullberg and Carolyn Hoffman, ably assisted by Antonio Gonzalez, and offers the following tours:  • The companion tours at the 2011 NSS MIC can be reserved by the AdCom people without registering for the conference by contacting Ralf Engels, Merry Keyser, or Ron Keyser. They should reserve early because the tours will be cancelled if not enough people reserve before the cutoff. They can pay on site with credit card or cash at the early fee. If they reserve now, they can cancel without cost before the cutoff date, but after that they need to pay.

8. 2011 Medical Imaging Conference Status 2011, Valencia, Spain (Companion Program): Kathy Gullberg and Carolyn Hoffman, ably assisted by Antonio Gonzalez, and offers the following tours:  Tour #1: The Caves of San Jose in Vall d’Uixo/Sagunto-Roman City • Sunday, October 23, 9:00-13:30andThursday, October 27, 14:30-18:30 Tour #2: Valencian Port Sports City and Catamaran Boat Trip on Mediterranean • Sunday, October 23, 14:30-18:30 Tour #3: Valencian Port Panoramic/Lladro Tour • Monday, October 24, 9:00-13:30 Tour #4: The City of Arts and Sciences with admission to Oceanographic (1/2 day) • Monday, October 24, 14:30-18:30 Tour #5: Old Town of Valencia • Tuesday, October 25, 9:00-13:30 and Thursday, October 27, 9:00-13:30 Tour #6: Valencian Palaces • Tuesday, October 25, 14:30-18:30 and Friday, October 28, 14:30-18:30 Tour #7: Peňiscola – A Legendary Town • Wednesday, October 26, 8:30-18:30 and Saturday, October 29, 8:30-18:30 Tour #8: Museums: IVAM (Valencian Contemporary Art Institute and San Pio V (Museum of Fine Arts) • Wednesday, October 26, 14:30-18:30 Tour #9: LLadro Museum and Albufera Nature Reserve with Paella Tasting • Friday, October 28, 9:00-18:00

9. Medical Imaging Conference status and plans 2012, Anaheim, CA: Tom Lewellen is General Chair; Vesna Sossi is MIC Program Chair. Conference poster has been finalized. Call for Papers is being printed. The Disneyland Hotel is undergoing renovation that will be complete before the meeting.

10. Medical Imaging Conference status and plans 2013, Seoul, Korea: Hee-Joung Kim is General Chair; Jae Sung Lee is MIC Program Chair. Contract with convention venue (COEX, Seoul) has been signed. Budget has been approved and IEEE Advance paid. Conference poster has been made and some were distributed at last Fall's IEEE MIC meeting.

11. Medical Imaging Conference status and plans Some highlights are: 2014: Seattle, Washington; Tony Lavietes is General Chair. 2015: Proposals have been received from Strasbourg, France and Liverpool, England. Tom Lewellen also recently visited Sydney, Australia as a possible site for 2016 or 2017.