Posted 1:03 p.m. Monday, June 28, 2010
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UW-L student Michael Pawlak earned best student NMT presentation.[/caption]
UW-L students won five of the six best student presentation awards at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) 57th annual meeting June 5-9 in Salt Lake City.
UW-L nuclear medicine technology (NMT) major Michael Pawlak won best student presentation overall and best student presentation in the instrumentation category at the event which draws thousands of nuclear medicine technologists, physicians, health physicists and students from across North America and the world.
Pawlak's research examined the problem of detector dead time associated with 82Rb cardiac Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans. He found that reducing the dose will reduce dead time (lower count rates) but it also reduces image quality. Pawlak is currently interning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Other UW-L NMT students recognized at the SNM, include Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) interns Amanda Keller and Stacy Sengpiel who won third best paper overall and best student presentation in radiopharmacy. Marshfield Clinic interns Sara Martin, Mike Poppe and Lance Schilling won best presentation awards in cardiology, PET and general imaging respectively.
Find out more about NMT at UW-L at www.uwlax.edu/nmt/.
UW-L student Michael Pawlak earned best student NMT presentation.[/caption]
UW-L students won five of the six best student presentation awards at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's (SNM) 57th annual meeting June 5-9 in Salt Lake City.
UW-L nuclear medicine technology (NMT) major Michael Pawlak won best student presentation overall and best student presentation in the instrumentation category at the event which draws thousands of nuclear medicine technologists, physicians, health physicists and students from across North America and the world.
Pawlak's research examined the problem of detector dead time associated with 82Rb cardiac Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scans. He found that reducing the dose will reduce dead time (lower count rates) but it also reduces image quality. Pawlak is currently interning at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Other UW-L NMT students recognized at the SNM, include Froedtert & Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) interns Amanda Keller and Stacy Sengpiel who won third best paper overall and best student presentation in radiopharmacy. Marshfield Clinic interns Sara Martin, Mike Poppe and Lance Schilling won best presentation awards in cardiology, PET and general imaging respectively.
Find out more about NMT at UW-L at www.uwlax.edu/nmt/.