NMISTC Report October 25, 2008 Nuclear Medical and Imaging Sciences Technical Committee Report to NPSS AdCom Charles Watson October 25, 2008

NMISTC Report October 25, NMISC actions  3 NMISC motions are on the November ballot for TABARC; TAB in Feb 09:  Increase IEEE Young Investigator Medical Imaging Science Award to $1500  Increase The Edward J Hoffman Medical Imaging Scientist Award to $3000  Rename the YI award in honor of Bruce Hasegawa  Sub-Committe Chairs/Officers  NSS/MIC Oversight: Tom Lewellen to replace Craig Woody  AdCom Representative: Tom Lewellen to replace Ron Jaszczak  Awards/Fellows: Anna Celler to replace Paul Kinahan  Communications: Ron Huesman to remain  Secretary/Nominations: Steve Meikle to remain  A summary of the Oversight Committee’s work on NSS/MIC site selection for 2012, prepared by Craig Woody and Tom Lewellen, was circulated to NMISC for comment  NMISC annual meeting was held Oct 23, 2008; will report on this at next AdCom

NMISTC Report October 25, NMISC elections  Five new members have been elected to NMISC (thanks to Steve Meikle)  Ron Jaszczak (Duke University)  Irene Buvat (CNRS, France)  Kris Inewski (Redlen Technologies, Canada)  Georges El Fakhri (Massachusetts General Hospital)  Ray Muzic (Case Western Reserve University)

NMISTC Report October 25, MIC status  2007, Honolulu (Benjamin Tsui, General Chair; Eric Frey, MIC Program Chair)  Defer to Craig Woody for financial status  $246k out of $1236k total budget returned to IEEE  2008, Dresden (Uwe Bratzler, General Chair; Wolfgang Enghardt, MIC Program Chair)  Defer to Uwe Bratzler for status  2100 abstract submissions (total) from nearly 60 countries, 207 rejected (9.9%)  Over 2000 registered  10 special-focus workshops on site  2 satellite workshops with IEEE technical co-sponsorship:  Joint Workshop on Detector Development (DESY, Hamburg), Oct 16 – 17  Hybrid Imaging with MR-PET (Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich), Oct 27 – 28  2009, Orlando (Richard Lanza, General Chair; Ramsey Badawi, MIC Program Chair)  Defer to Dick Lanza for details  The MIC deputy chair will be Craig Levin  Martin Tornai will be co-chair for MIC workshops.  Will submit an R13 to NIBIB for support of MIC 2009, limit is $10,000.

NMISTC Report October 25, MIC status continued  2010, Knoxville (Ron Keyser, General Chair; David Townsend, MIC Program Chair)  First meeting of the Organizing Committee was held Thurs Oct 23  Defer to Ron Keyser for details  The contract for the convention center and the hotels has been signed and a deposit given  The convention center deposit covered by the City of Knoxville – to be repayed with advance from IEEE  2011 (David Townsend, General Chair)  Will be in Valencia, Spain (Spain’s third largest city, on the eastern Mediterranean coast)  Valencia Conference Center and the neighboring Sorollo and Hilton Hotels  Defer to Craig Woody for additional details  2012 (Tom Lewellen, General Chair)  Considered several sites on the West coast of North America  Albuquerque, Seattle, Vancouver, Spokane, Anaheim, Reno or San Diego  Four additional site visits made  Anaheim was chosen by vote of Oversight Committee

NMISTC Report October 25, To be done  Reconcile RITC and NMISTC bylaws:  The term of office of the Chairperson of the Oversight Subcommittee shall be one year, but the Chairperson may be re-appointed to the same position for no more than one additional term.  Provide NMISTC guidance to Oversight sub-Committee on location and growth of NSS/MIC