31.3.–2.4.2025

Place: Haartman Lecture Hall (TG1) and online on the Zoom
Organiser: Turku PET Centre
Language: English
Target attendees: Physicians, scientists, PhD students, all interested in PET

Course is free of charge and worth of 2.0 credits for MSc and PhD degree, and 15 h for MD
specialist’s degree.

Positron emission tomography (PET) is non-invasive and quantitative imaging modality using molecules labelled with positron-emitting radioisotopes in tracer quantities (i.e. without pharmacological effect) to visualize and measure rates of biochemical processes (e.g. enzyme
reactions, ligand-receptor interactions, cellular metabolism, cell proliferation, gene expression) in tissues of living subjects. Therefore, PET is an important tool to elucidate mechanisms associated with diseases and drug actions. The course aims to provide students with a broad and general
introduction to the PET imaging. The main purpose of this course is to enable students to understand the interdisciplinary nature of PET imaging. After the course one should have basic knowledge of the PET imaging field of its physics, radiochemistry, and data analysis, research and clinical applications.

Please note:
Degree students enroll in Peppi (PGS_1709-3004)
Please register latest March 17, 2025 to Minna Kangasperko, minna.kangasperko@tyks.fi
Further information: Prof Anne Roivainen, anne.roivainen@utu.fi

Location of the course:

Check the schedule below:

Monday 31.3.2025

Haartman Lecture Hall of T Hospital, (Building 18, 1st floor)
8.45–9.15 Kari Kalliokoski Introduction of PET and Turku PET Centre
9.15–9.45 Virva Saunavaara Radiation physics and safety
9.45–10.15 Virva Saunavaara PET instrumentation
10.1510.30 Break
10.30–11.00 Anu Airaksinen Introduction to radiopharmaceutical chemistry
11.00–11.30 Mikael Bergelin Production of PET radionuclides
11.3012.30 Break
12.30–13.00 Semi Helin Carbon-11 and oxygen-15 radiochemistry
13.00–13.30 Anu Airaksinen Fluorine-18 radiochemistry
13.30–14.00 Xiang-Guo Li Radiochemistry of radiometals: 68Ga, 64Cu and 89Zr
14.0014.15 Break
14.15–14.45 Riikka Kivelä Radiopharmacy and GMP guidelines for PET
14.45–15.15 Riku Klen Image acquisition and reconstruction
15.15–17.00 Visit to cyclotron and radiochemistry laboratory, and PET scanners and clinical
chemistry laboratory PET Centre (building 14)

Tuesday 1.4.2025

Haartman Leccture Hall of T Hospital, (Building 18, 1st floor)
9.00–9.30 Sergey Nesterov Information technologies and image analysis in PET
9.30–10.00 Richard Aarnio Radiometabolism of PET tracers
10.0010.15 Break
10.15–11.15 Marco Bucci Quantification of PET
11.1512.15 Break
12.15–12.45 Marcus Sucksdorff Imaging of neuroinflammation with PET
12.45–13.15 Lauri Nummenmaa Statistical analysis of brain-PET data
13.15–13.45 Kirsi Virtanen Brown adipose tissue imaging in humans
13.4514.00 Break
14.00–14.30 Pirjo Nuutila Quantitative PET imaging of metabolic diseases
14.30–15.00 Jukka Kemppainen PET in cancer diagnosis and therapy
15.00–15.30 Marko Seppänen PET in the diagnosis of neuroendocrine tumors
15.30–17.00 Visit to preclinical laboratories, BioCity, Tykistökatu 6

Wednesday 2.4.2025

Haartman Lecture Hall of T Hospital, (Building 18, 1st floor)
9.00–9.30 Tove Grönroos Small animal imaging and pre-clinical evaluation of PET tracers
9.30–10.00 Mia Ståhle Preclinical cardiovascular research
10.0010.15 Break
10.15–10.45 Jussi Hirvonen Neurotransmitter systems studied with PET
10.45–11.15 Juha Rinne PET in clinical neurology
11.1512.15 Break
12.15–12.45 Juhani Knuuti PET in clinical cardiology
12.4513.15 Kari Kalliokoski Imaging of exercise responses with PET
13.1513.30 Break
13.30–14.00 Jukka Kemppainen PET imaging of infection/inflammation
14.00–14.30 Heikki Minn Oncological research
14.30–15.00 Eleni Rebelos Biomarkers of renal imaging
15.0015.15 Anne Roivainen Closing words