The meeting will cover a broad range of lung conditions including PE, cancer, other adult pulmonary disease and paediatric disease. The latest advances and best practice in imaging of the lung for the various conditions will be explored including SPECT, PET/CT as well as PET/CT for radiotherapy planning.

Programme

9.00 Registration and Coffee

9.30 Paediatrics
Multidetector CT imaging of the tracheobronchial tree in children
Dr Catherine Owens, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London

10.00 Nuclear medicine lung scanning in children
Dr Lorenzo Biassoni, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, London

10.20 Questions

10.30 Coffee

Lung Cancer

10.50 PET/CT imaging for lung cancer
Dr Mike O’Doherty, Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and Kings College London, London

11.20 Radiotherapy planning using PET/CT with special reference to lung cancer
Dr Peter Jarritt, Northern Ireland Medical Physics Agency, Belfast

11.50 Needle diagnosis of lung cancer
Dr Maruti Kumaran, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Nottingham

12.20 Questions

12.30 Lunch

Pulmonary embolism

13.30 Clinical and biochemical aspects of pulmonary embolism
Dr Anthony Fennerty, Harrogate District Hospital, Harrogate

14.00 Pulmonary embolus- CTPA vs VQ, imaging in pregnancy
Dr Peter Strouhal, Royal Wolverhampton Hospital NHS Trust, Wolverhampton

14.30 VQ SPECT imaging
Dr Paul Roach, Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Australia

15.00 Questions

15.10 Coffee

MR Imaging/ Imaging interstitial and Pleural disease

15.30 Hyperpolarised helium MR lung imaging-theory and clinical examples
Dr Jim Wild, University of Sheffield, Sheffield

16.00 Questions

16.05 Imaging of benign pleural disease
Dr Susan Copley, Hammersmith Hospitals NHS Trust, London

16.35 Questions

16.40 Close