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  The Institute for Clinical PET (ICP) brings together physicians, scientists, technologists and members from industry to share findings from clinical research, clinical practice and technology advances to explore the use of PET as a molecular imaging technique for providing a biological description of disease in patients. Clinical PET Preceptorships PET Centers Patient Brochures and Products View Initial Results of Physician Practice SurveyICP is involved in educational programs with agencies such as NIH, DOE, CMS and FDA, as well as other non-profit societies, foundations to aid in establishing the knowledge and the scientific basis for the use of molecular imaging technologies and procedures in clinical practice. As part of this, ICP plays a leadership role in establishing sound scientific criteria to define, evaluate and model the various forms of evidence used to establish PET´s role in patient management. The evidence ranges from the relationship between the biological basis of disease and PET molecular assays and diagnostics, clinical research, clinical trials and clinical judgement.
PET is, of course, a part of other imaging modalities used in the care of patients. This, naturally, involves ICP in the clinical use of plain films, CT, MRI, ultrasound and other nuclear medicine procedures. In addition, PET images are not only interpreted along with those from other imaging procedures, but are also being brought together in image fusion, as well as the actual merger of instruments, as in the case of PET/CT scanners. Thus, ICP provides a forum where various imaging modalities are evaluated to help produce the best utilization of each, or combinations of them, to improve clinical diagnostic accuracy and the best utilization of imaging procedures in patient management.
ICP assists in developing and supporting multi-center trials to evaluate new PET molecular imaging technologies and imaging probes and also to expand scientific and clinical basis of indications for existing molecular probes to new disease entities.
ICP also works with the public through foundations and patient advocacy organizations, as well as with other medical societies and organizations to help build a greater knowledge, awareness and support for PET in appropriate clinical indications.
ICP takes the responsibility for setting up the plenary and abstract based presentations and clinical educational programs of the annual meeting.
Educational programs are also provided that cover topics ranging from the physical aspects of clinical imaging technologies and molecular imaging probes to the biological and anatomical basis of diagnostic criteria, accuracy of tests in specific indications and resultant changes in management. Practical reading sessions with experts in the field are also provided. These programs are directed at graduate students, residents, fellows and continuing education of practicing physicians. ICP News“ Planning for Hope”
With unprecedented access inside the mind and life of a patient (Susan) coping with Frontotemporal Disease (FTD), “PLANNING FOR HOPE” is a documentary and examination of the disease offering a unique look into lives of patients and families effected by FTD.
Medical professionals and Imaging Technologists are moving at rapid rates to find answers to this mystifying disorder and other neurodegenerative diseases. The challenge is to shed light and bring awareness to these diseases. Getting that first diagnosis is what the families experience as one of the hardest issues. The diagnosis is the important part in keeping people from going bankrupt, homes foreclosed on, and many divorces, because people are having a hard time dealing with what is happening in their thinking abilities.
Susan has endured years of trials and errors. Her battle has not only been the disease, but the stigma attached to it. At the time Susan was
diagnosed, she was given the possibility of a couple years to live; that was 5 years ago. Interviews with the most captivating of families, doctors,
researchers, imaging specialists, psychologists, psychiatrists, attorneys, and financial advisors are brought together in this film to educate, but also to bring hope to those families feeling abandoned.
See more details and how you can help with the documentary “Planning for Hope” http://ftdtheotherdementia.com
ICP SURVEY International survey of PET/CT operations and Oncology Imaging 2010. Read more about the survey and click here to take the survey. (C) Institute for Clinical PET (ICP), a council of the Academy of Molecular Imaging (AMI)
With the introduction of combined PET/CT imaging a decade ago the field of non-invasive imaging changed dramatically. Today, more than 5000 PET/CT systems are installed worldwide, thus, contributing to one of the fastest growing imaging modalities. Despite a general agreement on the diagnostic power and advantages of combined PET/CT over standalone PET and CT imaging operations of PET/CT are rather heterogeneous as seen from recent presentations at Annual Meetings, such as the SNM or the EANM.
The ICP invites all PET/CT users worldwide to partake in a survey on PET/CT operations and oncology imaging. This survey aims at gathering a broader perspective on the type of PET/CT installation and operation in clinical routine (mainly in oncology) at national and international sites. Selected questions also address patient preparation and imaging protocol aspects.
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