Congratulations to the ACNM Abstract Award winners!

*Listing the last 5 years if available - View Award Archives Here

2024 best abstract on " CLINICAL ONCOLOGY PET " presented by a MD of a country member of the ALASBIMN (Latino -American-Society of Biology and Nuclear Medicine: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico,  Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela)

  • David Cardoza-Ochoa, MD: "Incremental value of 18F-Fluoroestradiol PET/CT over 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with breast carcinoma"

 

2021 ACNM Annual Meeting Best Abstract Award For Using
Methodology Such as Computer Programming or Physics *Supported by MIM

  • Ashwin Parihar: "68Ga-Dota-Exendin PET/CT versus Contrast Enhanced Computed Tomography in Patients with Hyperinsulinemic Hypoglycaemia"
  • Nicholas DiSanti: "99MTC-MAA SPECT/CT Measuring Reperfusion Following Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Is Anticoagulation Superior to Reperfusion Therapy"

Ralph Blumhardt Award Recipients 

2024

  • Piyush Aggarwal MBBS, MD: "Safety and efficacy of 177Lu-DOTATATE in the children and young adult population: A single-centre experience"
  • Atena Aghaee: "Effects of radioiodine therapy on fertility indicators among men with differentiated thyroid cancer: A cohort study"
  • Andres Ricaurte Fajardo, MD: "Utility of PSMA PET-Derived Visual PSG Score and Total Tumor Volume in Association with Outcomes Following 225Ac-J591 Therapy for Metastatic Castration-Resistant Prostate Cancer"
  • Ubaira Shaukat, MD: "Comparison of qPET method with Deauville score for assessment of treatment response on interim PET in lymphoma"

2023

  • Joseph Sisti: “Bone Scan with SPECT/CT in Evaluation of Complications with Orthopedic Hardware”
  • Paulina Cegla: "[18F]FDG PET/CT Imaging and Hematological Parameters Can Help Predict HPV Status in Head and Neck Cancer: A Neural Network Analysis’"
  • Thangalakshmi Sivathapandi: "Is Lu-177 DOTATATE a 'no-go' for neuroendocrine cancer patients with impaired renal function? - A single center experience"
  • Jigyasa Chopra: "Assessing the range of variability of furosemide dosage in diuretic renal scintigraphy"

2022

  • Ali Ghafari: “Predicting Classification Accuracy of the Convolutional Neural Networks used in PET Imaging using Five Different Machine Learning Regressors”
  • Surekha Yadav: "To Revascularize Or Not To Revascularize: A Novel Quantitative Scoring To Answer The ‘When’ And ‘Whom’"
  • Ashwani Sood: "Concomitant 177Lu-DOTATATE and low-dose capecitabine versus 177Lu-DOTATATE alone in patients with advanced well-differentiated gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours – preliminary results of a randomized controlled trial"
  • Atena Aghaee: "Feasibility of sentinel lymph node mapping in renal cell carcinoma using intraoperative radiotracer injection"

2021

  • Jianyuan Zhou: “A Novel Approach Using FDG PET/CT Based Radiomics to Assess tumor Immune Phenotypesin Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer”
  • Atena Aghaee: “Repeat Injection Following Sentinel Node Non-Visualization on Lymphoscintigraphy Images Can Decrease Axillary Dissection Rate in Breast Cancer Patients”
  • Mikhail Yadgarov: “Quantitative Assessment of Asphericity as a New Predictor of Adverse Outcome in Patients with Neuroblastoma”
  • Patrick Earl Fernando: “A Comparative Study of Different Methods of Estimating Glomerular Filtration Rate in a Subset of Filipinos with Normal Renal Function”

2020

  • Nidal Rabdi: "Prospects of Decreasing the “Radioiodine Load” in Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer (DTC): The Case at an Academic Tertiary Hospital"
  • Issa Loutifi: “Quantitative Analysis of F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT Uptake in the Orbit & Ocular Muscles"

Dr. Tapan K. Chaudhuri Award Recipients 

2024
  • Ashwin Singh Parihar, MBBS, MD: "Incremental value of 18F-Fluoroestradiol PET/CT over 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with breast carcinoma"

Ursula Mary Kocemba-Slosky, PhD, Award Recipients

2024

  • Leah Gajecki: "Novel IL13Rα2-targeting antibodies for immunoPET in glioblastoma"
  • Emran Askari, MD: "Is It Justified to Treat Prostate Cancer Patients with a Superscan Pattern with 177Lu-PSMA? A Single-Center Experience"
  • Saira Niazi: "Evaluation of hepatic and pulmonary toxicity from chimeric antigen receptor T-Cell therapy using FDG PET/CT in multiple myeloma patients"

2023

  • Yousif A. Lucinian: "FDG-PET/CT and Rest Myocardial Perfusion Imaging to Predict High-Degree Atrioventricular Block Recovery in Cardiac Sarcoidosis"
  • Shubha G Ravindra: "Spatial Patterns of Tau PET in Various Etiologies of Cognitive Impairment-A step towards Unravelling the Puzzle"
  • Aditi Khurana: "Multi Time Point Imaging in 99mTc-Pertechnetate Scintigraphy of Ectopic Gastric Mucosa in Duplication Cysts- Value Added Services"


2022

  • Ashwin Singh Parihar: "Diagnostic accuracy of 99mTc-Sestamibi SPECT/CT for the characterization of solid renal lesions"
  • Ephraim Parent: "18F-Fluciclovine PET-MRI discrimination of recurrent intracranial metastatic disease from radiation necrosis"
  • Dustin Osborne: "Head Motion Correction and Registration Using Artificial Intelligence"

2021

  • Sonya Youngju Park: “Pilot Study Evaluating the Role of Novel PSMA Ligand 18F-Florastamin PET/CT in Men with Clinical Suspicion of Prostate Cancer”
  • Heying Duan: “Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRT) in Non-Midgut Neuroendocrine Tumors (NETs) from a Single Institution Experience”
  • Ashanth Thomas: “Every Breath Counts: A Novel Application of Quantitative Lung with SPECT/CT to Evaluate the Efficacy of BLVR”

2020

  • Xuyi Yue: “Clinical Production of 1-(2-[18F]Fluoroethyl)-L-Tryptophan for Imaging of Tryptophan Metabolism"
  • Paulina Cegla: “Second Primary Cancer Detected at Standard 18F-Fluorocholine PET/CT Study- Multicenter Retrospective Analysis on a Group of 1345 Prostate Cancer Patients”
  • Ashwin Prihar: “Accuracy of 18F-FDG PET/CT Guided, Real-Time Automated Robotic-Arm Assisted, Metabolic Biopsies for Thoracic Lesions"

 

Hussein Abdel-Dayem Early Career Clinical Investigator Award Recipients

  • Frank Lin, MD: “Phase 1/2 Study of Lu-177-DOTATATE in Combination with Olaparib in Metastatic GEP-NET: Early Results"
  • Habibollah Dadgar: "Preliminary comparison of 68Ga-FAPI-46 against 18F-FDG, 68Ga-DOTATATE and 68Ga-Pentixafor PET/CT/MR imaging in the assessment of various cancer types"


ACNM Annual Meeting Award Recipients

2024

  • Surekha Yadav, MBBS, MD: "The Impact of Post-Treatment Imaging in Peptide"

2023

  • Ashwin Parihar: "Does Patient Weight Impact Normal Tissue Standardized Uptake Values on 18F-DCFPyL PSMA-PET/CT in Men with Prostate Cancer?"
  • Sean Ide Bolet: "The Diagnostic Value of Gastric Emptying Scintigraphy in Lung Transplant Recipients"

2022

  • Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk: "Tandem-PRRT based on personalized dosimetry vs 177Lu-DOTATATE as an effective method in the treatment of neuroendocrine neoplasms"
  • Emran Askari: "Prognostic Implications of Pre-ablation Stimulated Thyroglobulin: A Retrospective Analysis of 1706 Differentiated Thyroid Cancer Patients"

2021

  • Susan Shafiei: "Different Dose Strategies for Radioiodine Therapy of Patients with Graves’ disease, A Clinical Trial"
  • Golmehr Sistani: "The Efficacy of 177Lu-Dotatate Induction and Maintenance Therapy in the Treatment of Various Types of Neuroendocrine Tumours with Variable Dose: Phase II Registry Study"

2020

  • Katherine Zukotynski: “The Use of Random Forests to Identify Brain Regions on Amyloid and FDG PET Associated with MoCA Score"
  • Darren Veach: “A Non-Human Primate (NHP) Model for Pre-Clinical Testing of DOTA-Radiohaptens: A Key Component of “Curative” Pretargeted Radioimmunotherapy (PRIT)"

 

Younis-Bashir Abstract Award

2024

  • Tahira Yasmin, MD: "Prospective Evaluation of Prostate Cancer Detection: PSMA PET-CT vs. Multiparametric Pelvic MRI"

2022

  • Sana Gill: "Routine Use of Lateral Vertebral Assessment with DXA Scan for Detection of Silent but Debilitating Vertebral Fractures"