We would like to congratulate Dr John Buscombe for being elected as President-Elect of the BNMS following the Annual General Meeting held at 17.00 on Sunday 21st May at ICC, Birmingham.

John will be President-Elect for one year, followed by two years as President and another year as Immediate Past-President, for a total term of four years.

In this respect, we would like to say a big thank you to Dr Alp Notghi, who has now finished his term as Immediate Past President.

The 45^th Annual Spring Meeting of the British Nuclear Medicine Society (BNMS) took place on 20^{th -} 22^nd May 2017. The event was hosted at the International Convention Centre (ICC), Birmingham, for the 2^nd year in a row with over 450 delegates attending over the 3 days.

The meeting provided a knowledge update for all those involved in Nuclear Medicine including clinicians, clinical scientists, radiopharmacists, radiographers, technologists and nurses, with a specific focus on UK practice. The large and impressive exhibition hall at the ICC provided a good environment for networking and interfacing with colleagues from industry with 28 exhibitors in attendance this year. There were over 60 invited speakers, with Professor Irene Virgolini, of the Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria, delivering this year’s annual lecture on ‘Radionuclide Theranostics in Prostate Cancer’.

The next scheduled BNMS meeting is the Autumn Meeting on 15^th September 2017, in Liverpool.

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Awards

The Norman Veall Medal was awarded to Sarah Allen, Guy's Hospital (Citation).

The President's Medal was awarded posthumously to Dr Muriel Buxton-Thomas.

The BNMS Roll of Honour was awarded to Prof. Ignac Fogelman.

The Radiographers, Technologists and Nurses Group Award was awarded to Caroline Townsend, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. 

3rd Poster Prize - £50

Sponsored by 

(P43) An automated monitoring system for isolated limb perfusion 

Chelsey Turner, Alison Bolster, and Jamie Wright 

Department of Nuclear Medicine, Glasgow Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK

2nd Poster Prize - £150

Sponsored by

(P69) Towards a normal range for colonic transit reporting

Katie Addison, Jonathan Price, and Andy Irwin 

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

1st Poster Prize - £300

Sponsored by 

(P74) Effect of varying levels of plasma haemolysis on Cr-51 EDTA glomerular filtration rate measurements

Elaine Quinn, Dorota Ferguson, Christos Chatzigiannis, and Sandra Biggart

Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, UK

Radiographers, Technologists and Nurses Poster Prize - £300
Sponsored by 

(P59) Experience of implementing radiotherapy planning in PET/CT

Carla Abreu^a, Christopher Thomas^c, Andriana Michaelidou^b, Sofia Pereira^a, Armidita Jacob^a, Katharine Chalmers^a, Luis Alves^a, Joemon John^a, and Lucy C. Pike^a

^aKing's College London & Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital, Division of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, UK, ^bClinical Oncology, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK, ^cDepartment of Medical Physics, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK

Radiographers, Technologists and Nurses Oral Prize - £300
Sponsored by  

(37) Nationwide survey of lower limb lymphoscintigraphy practice
Mafalda Nunes-Branco, Nadra Musa, Gill Vivian, and Nick Gulliver
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom

Multimodality Poster Prize - £300

Sponsored by 

(P51) Can pacing leads and calcified coronary arteries influence the interpretation of CT-based attenuation corrected myocardial perfusion scans? A phantom study

Robin Taylor, Lois Collins, Joanne Prosser, Alistair Tarbuck, Duncan Murray, Ajay Sreedasyam, and Sharon Hutchison 

Department of Medical Physics, Raigmore Hospital, Inverness, UK

Multimodality Oral Prize - £300

Sponsored by 

(80) Response assessment of bone metastases in breast cancer: comparison of [18F]fluoride, [18F]-FDG PET/CT and diffusion-weighted MRI
Gary Cook^a, Gurdip Azad^a, Ben Taylor^b, Musib Siddique^a, Angela Swampillai^b, Ines Sandri^b, Mark Harries^b, Janine Mansi^b, and Vicky Goh^a 

^aKing's College London, London, United Kingdom and ^bGuy's & St Thomas' NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Radiopharmacy Oral Prize - £250

Sponsored by 

(40) One-step labelling of PSMA PET Radiotracers with gallium-68: Utilising the THP chelator
Jennifer Young^a, Vincenzo Abbate^b, Cinzia Imberti^a, Levente Meszaros^a, Michelle Ma^a, Robert Hider^b, Greg Mullen^a, and Philip Blower^a
aDivision of Imaging Sciences and Biomedical Engineering, London, United Kingdom and ^bInstitute of Pharmaceutical Science, King's College London, London, United Kingdom

3rd Radioptherapy Prize - £100

Sponsored by 

(15) Internal dosimetry considerations for paediatric radioimmunotherapy
April-Louise Smith^a, Thomas Sanderson^a, Eoin O'Mahoney^a, Sofia Michopoulou^b, John Langford^b, Matt J. Guy^b, and John C. Dickson^a 

^aUniversity College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom and ^bUniversity Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, Southampton, United Kingdom

2nd Radiotherapy Prize - £200

Sponsored by 

(62) Predictors of 223Ra-dichloride treatment outcome in clinical practice in relation to the Alsympca trial
Sean Main^a, Maryam Jessop^b, Angus Robinson^a, and Sabina Dizdarevic^b,c
aSussex Cancer Centre, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom, ^bDepartment of Medical Imaging and Nuclear Medicine, Brighton and Sussex University Hospital NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom and ^cBrighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom

1st Radiotherapy Prize - £300

Sponsored by 

(17) First whole-body biodistribution and radiation dosimetry of [18F]tetrafluoroborate ([18F]TFB), a PET probe for imaging sodium-iodide symporter expression in thyroid cancer patients
Jim O' Doherty^a, Maite Jauregui-Osoro^a, Teresa Brothwood^b, Teresa Szyszko^a, Paul Marsden^a, Mike O' Doherty^a, Gary Cook^a, Phil Blower^a, and Val Lewington^b 

^aPET Imaging Centre, King's College London, London, United Kingdom and ^bDept of Nuclear Medicine, Guys' and St Thomas' Hospital, London, United Kingdom

3rd Oral Prize - £50

Sponsored by

(51) Use of the CT scout view (Topogram) for accurate attenuation correction of planar quantitative studies
Gregory James, Joseph O'Brien, John Courtney, and Bill Thomson
City Hospital, Birmingham, United Kingdom

2nd Oral prize - £150 

Sponsored by

(39) ¹⁸F-labelled tracers for hNIS: Pros and cons
Julia Blower, Hussein Bdair, Jaclyn Lange, and Philip Blower
King's College London, London, United Kingdom

1st Oral Prize and President's Cup - £300 

Sponsored by

(12) Biodistribution, radiation dosimetry and preliminary results of a novel 18F-fluoroethyl triazole [{Tyr3}] octreotate analogue for PET imaging in locally advanced and metastatic neuroendocrine tumour patients
Suraiya Dubash^a, N. Keat^b, P. Mapelli^a, F. Twyman^a, L. Carroll^a, K. Kozlowski^a, A. AL-Nahhas^a, S. Azeem^b, M. Huiban^b, A. Frilling^c, T. Barwick^a, A. Rockall^a, R. Sharma^a, and E. Aboagye^a 

^aDepartment of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom, ^bImanova Centre for Imaging Studies, London, United Kingdom and ^cDepartment of
Surgery, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, United Kingdom

Young Investigators' Prize - £500

(6) Is dopamine transporter (DaT) right anterior putamen/background ratio an index of non-planning impulsivity in patients with Parkinson’s disease?
Guglielmo La Torre^b, Aleksandra Maria Herman^a, Maryam Jessop^d,
Nadia Abdula^d, Ania Crawshaw^c,e, Patrick Begley^d, Emma Wroe^d, Romi Anirban Saha^d,
Theodora Duka^a, and Sabina Dizdarevic^b,d 

^aSchool of Psychology University of Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, ^bBrighton and Sussex Medical School, Brighton, United Kingdom, ^cUniversity Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom, ^dBrighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, Brighton, United Kingdom and ^eUniversity of Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom

Student Prizes

Sponsored by  

1st Prize       £300               Anika Sharmila, King's College London         Oral abstract 24      

'Does measurement of tumour shape in 18F-FDG PET scans of lung cancer improve predictive and prognostic assessment?'

2nd Prize      £200               Islam Mostafa, King's College London          Oral abstract 25

'Are texture analysis parameters dependent on volume in 18F-FDG PET/CT?'

3rd Prize       £100               Numan Dawood, University of Leicester        Oral abstract 57

'Radionuclide depth estimation using a novel SFOV hybrid gamma-optical camera with an anthropomorphic breast phantom'

Below are links to various articles relating to how Brexit will impact on Nuclear Medicine. 

The Report on the 2015 BNMS DaTSCAN Audit can now be viewed here