Sodium Fluoride PET/CT in Clinical Use

Prof. Kairemo graduated with an MSc (Eng) degree from Helsinki University of Technology in 1980 before undertaking medical training (MD, PhD) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He subsequently completed specialist training in Clinical Chemistry, Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), followed by a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (1989-93).  He has held posts as Professor of Clinical Chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1998-99), Professor of Nuclear Medicine at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden (2001-05) and as Head of the Nuclear Medicine Division, Department of Oncology at HUCH (2004-09). From 2009 to 2018, he was Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Radiotherapy at the Docrates Cancer Center in Helsinki.  Since 2015 he has also been a Visiting Professor (Nuclear Medicine) at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.  Besides holding a few patents he has published more than 200 original articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy.           Dr. Homer A. Macapinlac is the James E. Anderson Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Chair of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. Dr. Macapinlac is certified by the American Board of Nuclear Medicine, with a Certificate of Added Qualification (CAQ) in Nuclear Cardiology. He was also elected as a fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians. Prior to coming to M. D. Anderson, he served as clinical director of the Laurent and Alberta Gershel Positron Emission Tomography Center of Memorial Sloan‐Kettering Cancer Center, New York.Dr. Macapinlac is an active committee member of various groups, and has served as past‐Chair of the Institute of Clinical PET. He was Chair of the Society of Nuclear Medicine PET Center of Excellence and received the SNM Distinguished Service Award for this role. Dr. Macapinlac is also an expert consultant to the IAEA, and an International Visiting Professor for the Radiological Society of North America. He has 199 peer reviewed publications with 11,751 citations and h-Index of 57.

• 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Tracer and Technique.- 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Normal variants and artefacts.- Sodium fluoride imaging in oncology.- 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Monitoring therapy.- Determination of Skeletal Tumor Burden on 18F-Fluoride PET/CT.- 18F-Fluoride: Benign Bone Disease.- Dynamic 18F-Fluoride Imaging.- 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Atlas of interesting images (images with specific teaching points, tracer, technique and pitfalls).- Role of Sodium Fluoride-PET in Primary Bone Tumors.- 18F-Sodium Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography in Cardiac Disease.- 18F-Sodium Fluoride positron emission tomography / computed tomography imaging of the peripheral vasculature.