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Scientific Program

#Sunday, May 4th, 2008

#Monday, May 5th, 2008

#Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

#Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Sunday, May 4^th, 2008

08:00 - 08:30    Registration 

08:30 - 09:15    Inauguration

09:15 – 09:30   Refreshments and Photo Opportunity   

09:30 – 10:00   Medical Imaging inAlgeria, present status and outlooks

                           Boudjema Mansouri

10:00 – 10:40 Introduction to Image formation in diagnostic radiology: An Overview 

                           Mahadevappa Mahesh

10:40 – 11:30  Introduction to Image Quality Characteristics

Adel Mustafa

11:30 – 12:00 Medical Physics in Algeria, present status and future developments

                        Abdelkader Toutaoui

12:00 – 12:40  Nuclear Medicine:  Current trends: An overview

                        Habib Zaidi  

12:40 – 14:00 

14:00 – 14:40  The physics of mammography;  principles, advances 

                        Adel Mustafa

14:40 – 15:20  Nuclear Medicine: SPECT Imaging

                        Habib Zaidi

15:20 – 16:00  Fluoroscopy in cardiovascular and interventional radiology; advances in image receptors.  Mahadevappa Mahesh

16:00 – 16:30   Clinical applications of nuclear medicine in Algeria

Rachida  Drahmoune

16:30 – 17:00 Regulations and radiation protection in nuclear medicine inAlgeria

                        Abdessalam Brihmat

Monday, May 5^th, 2008

8:30 – 9:15      CT Principles: Conventional to Multidetector

Mahadevappa Mahesh

9:15 –  9:45     Cone Beam CT

                        John Boone

9:45 – 10:30    The physics of PET imaging

                        Habib Zaidi

10:30 – 11:00  Refreshments Break

11:00 - 11:45  Basic concepts in digital imaging

                       John Boone

11:45 – 12:45 Digital Radiography: computed radiography, new digital receivers, DSA, image Processing techniques

Anthony Seibert

12:45 – 14:00 

14:00 -  14:30 Digital mammography

                        Mahadevapa Mahesh         

14:30 – 15:30  Computers in diagnostic radiology and picture archiving and communication systems

                         Anthony Seibert

15:30 - 18:30  Faculty visit to a Hospital Based Radiology Department

Tuesday, May 6^th, 2008

8:30 - 9: 30     Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Part 1

                        Anthony Seibert

9:30-  10:00    Hybrid PET/CT systems

                        Habib Zaidi

10:00  - 10:30 Contribution of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and computer vision to                               medical imaging

                        Nacera Benamrane

10:30 -  11:00  Refreshments Break

11:00 - 12:00 Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Part 2

                        Anthony Seibert

 12:00 – 12:30 Patient Dose in X-ray CT

                        Adel Mustafa

12:30 – 1:00   30  Contribution of the Algerian Secondary Standard Dosimetry Laboratory to the                       regional development of medical applications.        

                        Mehenna Arib 

1:00  - 2:15      

14:15 -  15:00 Risk benefit analysis in diagnostic radiology

                        Adel Mustafa

15:00 - 15:30  Radiation dose management in conventional radiology and in CT

                        Mahadevapa Mahesh

15:30 – 16:00  Radiation dose assessment in nuclear medicine

                        Abdesselam Brihmat

16:00  -  19:00  Visit to the Regional Secondary Standard Laboratory

Wednesday, May 7^th, 2008

8:30 – 9:00      Radiation Dose management in interventional radiology

                        John Boone

9:00 – 9:30         Contribution of medical imaging to radiation therapy

                             M'hamed Afiane

9:30 – 10:00   The role of CT andMRI in radiation therapy treatment planning

                             Anthony Seibert

10:00 – 10:30  The role of nuclear medicine in radiation therapy treatment planning

                               Habib Zaidi

10:30  -  10:50   Refreshments Break

10:50 – 11:20  Quality Assurance in Diagnostic Radiology

                          Anthony Seibert

11:20- 11:50    Quality Assurance in Computed Tomography

                          Adel Mustafa                      

11:50 – 12:20   Quality Assurance in Fluoroscopy and interventional radiology

                           John Boone

12:20 - 13:40 

13:45 – 14:15   Quality Assurance in Planar and SPECT nuclear medicine imaging

                          Said Kenida

14:15 – 15:00  Medical physics education; the medical physicist, radiology residents and   radiological       technologists, 

                          Anthony Seibert

15:00 – 15:30  Performance characteristic of PET Imaging systems

  Habib Zaidi

15:30 -  16:30  Panel Discussion

                          Local Faculty and Habib Zaidi, Anthony Seibert, Adel Mustafa, John Boone           

16:30 – 17:00  Distribution of Certificates and Closing Ceremony

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