About this event

  • Date and time Mon 16 Mar 2026 from 9:15am to 4:30pm
  • Location Royal Society of Medicine
  • Organised by Radiology

Join us in celebrating our annual PET CT meeting and engage in the opportunity to learn about a broad range of topics in PET CT, particularly a focus on improving the care of people who require PET CT scanning. Explore the role of emerging tracers, receive updates from British, European and world speakers on imaging of myocardial inflammation and the impact of different reconstructions and PET technologies on lymphoma reporting, from both clinical and technological perspectives. This meeting invites you to broaden your horizons on all things PET CT technology and the impact of AI on PET clinical pathways and research.

Why attend? 

  • Hear from and network with British, European and world experts within radiology, including Ronald Boellaard, Professor of Quantitative Molecular Imaging from Amsterdam UMC and Riemer Slart, Nuclear Medicine Physician and Professor in Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging at the University Medical Center of Grongingen. 
  • Learn how advances in PET CT technology, tracers and artificial intelligence are impacting clinical pathways and research
  • Explore the role of emerging tracers and the impact of artificial intelligence on PET
  • Gain an understanding of PET CT in common malignancies, including gynaecological and breast malignancies
  • Be updated on current best practice and novel use in PET CT

Learning outcomes:

  • Learn how novel reconstructions and technology can affect lymphoma reporting
  • Understand the current status of artificial intelligence in PET and potential future uses
  • Gain an understanding of emerging PET tracers

Who can attend?

  • Consultants and trainees in nuclear medicine and radiology
  • Physicists 

Don’t miss this chance to enhance your expertise in this rapidly advancing field.

This event is also open for prize submissions for the Finzi Prize. To be eligible for the Prize, the candidate must be a resident doctor in radiology or radiation oncology currently in the United Kingdom or the Republic of Eire. 

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We would like to thank our Platinum Sponsor Alliance Medical and our event sponsors GE Healthcare, InHealth, LabLogic, Siemens Healthineers and Synapse Medical for their support of this event. Our sponsors have had no influence or involvement over the agenda, content or organisation of the meeting.

Key speakers

Roland Hustinx

Professor Roland Hustinx

Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Liege University Hospital; Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Oncological Imaging

Speaker's biography

Roland Hustinx is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Liège, Belgium. He is also Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Oncological Imaging. He is also a member of the Academy Royale de Médecine and has been active in various capacities in European organizations such as the EANM and the UEMS-EBNM.

Riemer Slart

Professor Riemer Slart

Medical Director of Molecular Imaging of the Center of Medical Imaging; Professor in Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen

Speaker's biography

Riemer H.J.A. Slart, MD, PhD has been a Professor of Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging at the University of Groningen since 2018, as well as a part-time clinical Professor of Translational Molecular Imaging at the University of Twente in the Netherlands and visiting professor at the University of Bicocca, Milan, Italy. He has also been the Medical Director of Molecular Imaging of the Center of Medical Imaging in North-East Netherlands since 2018. 

Professor Ronald Boellaard

Professor Ronald Boellaard

Professor of Quantitative Molecular Imaging, Amsterdam UMC

Speaker's biography

Professor Dr Ronald Boellaard is appointed as a Professor at the Amsterdam University Medical Centers and at the University Medical Center Groningen in The Netherlands. He has a background in Biology and Physics (MSc) and a PhD in Science. His research focuses on (pharmacokinetic) quantitative analysis of positron emission tomography (PET), PET image reconstruction and processing. He is a member and has been a former member of several international societies and committees, including the EANM NeuroImaging committee, EORTC imaging workgroup, EARL steering board. Additionally, he is the principal author for the Netherlands and the European guidelines for standardisation of quantitative FDG PET and PET/CT studies (EJNMMI 2010 & 2015 & EANM Journal 2025). 

Professor Andrew Scarsbook

Professor of Radiology, University of Leeds; Honorary Consultant Radiologist & Nuclear Medicine Physician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Speaker's biography

Andy Scarsbrook is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Leeds and Honorary Consultant in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. He has been a Consultant in Leeds since 2006 at one of the largest imaging departments in the UK. Professor Scarsbrook leads an academic Radiology group with major research interests in multimodality quantitative imaging and healthcare-related applications of artificial intelligence. He has published extensively and lectured at national and international meetings on many aspects of imaging. Andy was also a co-investigator on the National Consortium for Intelligent Medical Imaging (NCIMI) AI Centre of Excellence and is a current recipient of AI-related research grants from Cancer Research UK, Innovate UK and NIHR.

Agenda

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Registration, tea, and coffee
Welcome and introduction

Dr George Petrides, President, Radiology Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Radiology Consultant, Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals

Session 1: PET imaging in common malignancies – a clinical update

Chair: Dr George Petrides

PET imaging in breast cancer

Dr Jeanie Karalis, Radiology Consultant, Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals

PET imaging in gynaecological malignancies

Dr Beth Shepherd, Radiology Consultant, University Hospital Southampton

FAPI – an update

Mohan Krishnamurthy, Consultant Nuclear Medicine Physician, Barts Health NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break

Session 2: Novel tracers and their uses

Chair: Dr Thomas Wagner, Consultant, Nuclear Medicine, Royal Free Hospital London

Emerging tracers – an overview

Professor Roland Hustinx, Professor of Nuclear Medicine, Liege University Hospital

Overview on radiotracers to image myocardial inflammation and infection, including novel tracers

Professor Riemer Slart, Nuclear Medicine Physician, Professor in Multimodality Cardiovascular Imaging, University Medical Center Groningen

Panel discussion

Finzi prize presentations

Closed loop audit on improving turnaround times of out-of-hours ct scans outsourced to teleradiology

Zhiyuan Lin

T1-dark-rim lesions: a novel, highly specific, and accessible magnetic resonance imaging marker of multiple sclerosis

Afagh Garjani

Impact of automated analysis on thoracic aortic aneurysm ct surveillance

Vasilis Stavrinides

Lunch

Session 3: Artificial intelligence, novel reconstructions and their clinical impact

Chair: Dr Chirag Patel, Consultant in Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

New technology and novel reconstructions, a physics perspective

Professor Ronald Boellaard, Professor of Quantitative Molecular Imaging, Amsterdam UMC

Lymphoma response assessment with new reconstructions and total body PET

Dr David Lilburn, Clinical Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant in PET Imaging, King's College London & Guy's and St Thomas' PET Centre

Panel discussion
Tea and coffee break
Artificial intelligence in nuclear medicine: Where are we now

Mr Richard Meades, Clinical Scientist in Molecular Imaging and Therapy, Royal Free Hospital

Artificial intelligence in nuclear medicine: Looking to the future

Professor Andrew Scarsbook, Professor of Radiology, University of Leeds and Honorary Consultant Radiologist & Nuclear Medicine Physician, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

Panel discussion
Close of meeting

Sponsors

Location

Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom

Registration for this event will close on 15 March 2026 at 1:00am (GMT)Late registrations will not be accepted. 

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