PET BASICS-course (PGS_1709-3007)

When

March 23, 2026 - March 25, 2026

All Day

Event Details

PET Basics course oﬀers a broad overview to PET imaging and introduces participants to interdisci-plinary nature of PET research. Course includes basics of PET physics, radiochemistry, data analysis, research and clinical applications.

Place: Haartman Lecture Hall (TG1) and https://utu.zoom.us/j/61706040087

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_1709-3007)

Please register latest March 9, 2026 to Minna Kangasperko, minna.kangasperko@utu.fi Further information: Assoc Prof Riku Klén, riku.klen@utu.fi

Course Ad >> PET-Basics March 2026

Haartman Lecture Hall: building 18 – TG1; PET Centre: building 14.

Monday 23.3.2026

Haartman Lecture Hall of T Hospital, (Building 18, 1st floor)

8.45–9.15	Ilkka Heinonen	Introduction of PET and Turku PET Centre
9.15–9.45	Virva Saunavaara	Radiation physics and safety
9.45–10.15 10.15-10.30	Virva Saunavaara Break	PET instrumentation
10.30–11.00	Anu Airaksinen	Introduction to radiopharmaceutical chemistry
11.00–11.30 11.30-12.30	Mikael Bergelin Break	Production of PET radionuclides
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 14.00-14.15	Xiang-Guo Li Break	Radiochemistry of radiometals: ⁶⁸Ga, ⁶⁴Cu and ⁸⁹Zr
14.15–14.45	Riikka Kivelä	Radiopharmacy and GMP guidelines for PET
14.45–15.15	Jarkko Johansson	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)

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Tuesday 24.3.2026

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 10.00-10.15	Richard Aarnio Break	Radiometabolism of PET tracers
10.15–11.15 11.15-12.15	Marco Bucci Break	Quantification of PET
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 13.45-14.00	Kirsi Virtanen Break	Brown adipose tissue imaging in humans
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

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Wednesday 25.3.2026

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 10.00-10.15	Mia Ståhle Break	Preclinical cardiovascular research
10.15–10.45	Jussi Hirvonen	Neurotransmitter systems studied with PET
10.45–11.15 11.15-12.15	Juha Rinne Break	PET in clinical neurology
12.15–12.45	Juhani Knuuti	PET in clinical cardiology
12.45-13.15 13.15-13.30	Kari Kalliokoski Break	Imaging of exercise responses with PET
13.30–14.00	Simona Malaspina	PET imaging of infection/inflammation
14.00–14.30	Jukka Kemppainen	Oncological research
14.30–15.00	Eleni Rebelos	Biomarkers of renal imaging
15.00-15.15	Riku Klén	Closing words