RESTON, Va. -- The explosive growth in the power of digital computers used for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine will be showcased at SNM's 54th Annual Meeting June 2-6 in the Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C. SNM, the world's largest society for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine, debuts its InfoSNM program, offering both educational programs on information science and technology and novel uses of computers in research and education as well as in the clinic.

"The use of computers and information science-and how they are essential to clinical data processing, image data management, education and science for molecular imaging and nuclear medicine-will be featured at InfoSNM," said SNM's Scientific Program Chair Frederic H. Fahey. "More than 4,000 doctors, technologists, scientists and pharmacists from around the world will have the opportunity to participate with this extraordinary first-time program," he added.

"Computers are an essential part for molecular imaging research and nuclear medicine procedures," said Fahey, who anticipates that the popularity of this program will increase in years to come. InfoSNM will offer computer demonstrations by vendors, computer classrooms used for commercial presentations and general computer education, and computer-based presentations on the use of information science and technology that has been developed in laboratories, said Fahey. "I am encouraged by the tremendous amount of interest and support that InfoSNM has received. Computers and information science touch so many aspects of what molecular imaging and nuclear medicine professionals do every day," he added.
From June 3-5, novel research-for the clinic or research lab-will be presented in six computer presentation sessions. Times have been designated for presenters to describe their work, give demonstrations and answer questions. Topics include

* the development of a PET/CT database of patient information and scanning parameters;
* clinical trial data collection and image analysis using hand-held technology;
* a tumor metrics measurement and tracking system;
* using simulation to research ideas in emission tomography;
* dementia evaluation using automated software-based age/sex-matched normal database comparison;
* 4-D phantoms for medical imaging simulation of mice and men;
* coregistration and visualization of cardiac CT studies and dynamic PET studies using scene-graphs, direct volume rendering and 2-D transfer functions; and

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