NMISTC Report October 25, 2008

Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences

Technical Committee

Report to NPSS AdCom

Charles WatsonOctober 31, 2009

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New NMISTC Chair

My term as NMISTC Chair ends this year. Robert Myaoka, University of Washington, will be taking over as Chair on January 1, 2010, for a two-year term. We have a single candidate to replace Robert as Vice-Chair: Suleman Surti of the University of Pennsylvania. We expect him to be confirmed at our annual meeting on Oct 30.

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NMISC elections

We have six candidates for five open positions on NMISC. The election is in progress. George Kontaxakis worked with Jane Lehr and Mary Curtis to submit our slate at the same time as those for other TCs, and have electronic balloting for the first time. The election will be finalized in mid-December. The candidates are:

Paul René Michel Lecoq

Vesna Sossi

Juan José Vaquero

Jinyi Qi

Stefaan Tavernier

Dimitris Visvikis

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NMISTC awards at the 2009 MIC

Anna Celler and her Awards Sub-Committee selected the following recipients for the two NMISTC awards this year:

The 2009 Edward J. Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award:

Prof. Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Johns Hopkins University

Citation: "For contributions to the development of digital phantoms and quantitative SPECT methods"

Nominator: Eric C. Frey, Ph.D.

The 2009 Bruce H. Hasegawa Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award:

Dr. Katia Parodi, University of Heidelberg

Citation: "For contributions to PET applications in ion beam radiotherapy"

Nominator: Wolfgang Enghardt, Ph.D.

A flyer with the names, pictures and short bios of both the RITC and NMISTC award winners was prepared and placed in the attendees' bags at the NSS/MIC registration.

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TCS of Bratislava Summer School, July 6 – 15

Carlos Granga, one of the Schools’ organizers, has provided a brief report on the meeting that is attached to this report as an Appendix. It appears to have been very successful (85 students, 30 lecturers).

We have not had further discussions on IEEE NPSS participation in the review of the papers for the Conference Record of the meeting (to be published by AIP)

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NSS/MIC Joint Oversight Sub-committee’s operating procedures

Tom Lewellen, the Chair of the JOS, wrote a detailed description of the current procedures and guidelines used by JOS, greatly improving the transparency of the NSS/MIC site selection process. This document has been circulated to the NMISC (and RISC) for feedback. Tom will review this process at the annual NMISC meeting Oct 30, and solicit comments and suggestions for improvements. This report is attached in the file “Appendix_7.3.2_NSS_MIC_OS_procedures_and_guidelines.pdf”.

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Changes to NMISTC bylaws

The changes to the NMISTC bylaws approved by NMISC and by AdCom at its July 2009 meeting will be published in the December NPSS newsletter, completing the amendment process.

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Medical Imaging Conference status and plans

Tom Lewellen will provide an overview. Some highlights are:

2008, Dresden: Ron Keyser is finalizing the financial report:Total Receipts: $1867526.Total Outlays: $1580196.Net Income: $287330. (18.18%, or 16.5% considering in-kind support)

2009, Orlando: MIC had 581 submissions; 514 (88.5%) were accepted. Overall NSS/MIC attendance > 1750

2010, Knoxville: First Call for Papers has been distributed. An organizing committee meeting will be held Oct 29.

2011, Valencia, Spain: David Townsend is General Chair.

2012, Anaheim: Vesna Sossi will be the MIC Program Chair.

2013: A difficult choice between Beijing and Seoul. Tom and the JOS have prepared a detailed site visit report and recommendation that will be discussed at the NMISC meeting.