NMISTC Report July 19, 2008

Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom

Charles WatsonJuly 19, 2008

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NMISC actions

Voted to increase the NMISTC awards by 50% IEEE Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award: $1500 The Edward J Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award: $3000

Approved a motion to rename the YI award in honor of Bruce Hasegawa

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NMISC elections

Candidates for AdCom representative (Ron Jaszczak’s seat) Tom Lewellen (University of Washington) Dimitris Visvikis (INSERM, France)

Candidates for NMISC Ron Jaszczak (Duke University) Irene Buvat (CNRS, France) Kris Inewski (Redlen Technologies, Canada) Georges El Fakhri (Massachusetts General Hospital) Ray Muzic (Case Western Reserve University)

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MIC status

2007, Honolulu (Benjamin Tsui, General Chair; Eric Frey, MIC Program Chair) Defer to Craig Woody for financial status

2008, Dresden (Uwe Bratzler, General Chair; Wolfgang Enghardt, MIC Program Chair) Defer to Uwe Bratzler for status:

> 2000 abstract submissions (total) from nearly 60 countries Abstract review complete, sessions being organized 10 special-focus workshops on site 2 satellite workshops with IEEE technical co-sponsorship:

Joint Workshop on Detector Development (DESY, Hamburg), Oct 16 – 17 Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich), Oct 27 – 28

2009, Orlando (Richard Lanza, General Chair; Ramsey Badawi, MIC Program Chair) Defer to Dick Lanza for status

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MIC status continued

2010, Knoxville (Ron Keyser, General Chair; David Townsend, MIC Program Chair) The entire committee has been formed with acceptances from everyone The contract for the convention center and the hotels has been signed and a deposit given

The convention center deposit covered by the City of Knoxville – to be repayed with advance from IEEE The budget process has been started, but not much detail yet

Expect to be the first user of the new budget software

2011 (David Townsend, General Chair) Very likely in Valencia, Spain (Spain’s third largest city, on the eastern Mediterranean coast)

Valencia Conference Center and the neighboring Sorollo and Hilton Hotels Defer to Craig Woody for additional details

2012 West coast North America (Albuquerque, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, Anaheim, Reno or

San Diego) Three more site visits planned Recommendation by Dresden meeting

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2008 Dresden NSS/MIC update from Ron Keyser

Ralf Engels has been able to get the following concessions from the hotels: Westin, Hilton and Maritim all on one rate (149EUR single, 169EUR for two people) The Kempinski Hotel was added; single and double at 199EUR Room block at the IBIS and ArtOtel increased

All together we have now 7850 room nights reserved and over 3200 are already booked

The closest hotels to the AdCom dinners are the Hilton and Steigenberger Steigenberger is an established German hotel chain This hotel was built in 2006 and is the same quality as the Hilton Approx. the same distance to the conference center

All the exhibit booths have been sold

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2007 Hawaii NSS/MIC CIP results from Dora Merelli and Ingrid Gregor

Ratings from 500 CIP feedback and evaluation forms:

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2007 Hawaii NSS/MIC CIP results from Dora Merelli and Ingrid Gregor

How often should the Conference be outside USA?

Where should it be?

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Two conclusions from the CIP report on NSS/MIC

Participants strongly desire it be held outside North America more frequently than the current 4 year interval (2000, 2004, 2008)

There seems to be a desire for more educational content (refresher courses, short courses, workshops, plenary sessions, overview and summary talks)