Photon Counting CT Collaborative Meeting - Iowa City, IA
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
2026 symposium agenda
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Symposium for the next generation of lung imaging 

June 3rd : Seebohm Conference Room, 283 Eckstein Medical Research Building (EMRB

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Agenda 

8:30 AM                             Light breakfast and coffee 

9:00 AM                             Drs. Bruno Policeni and Sean Fain, Department Welcome 

9:15 AM                             Dr. Eric Hoffman, The Origins of Quantitative CT Lung Imaging             

10:00 AM                           Dr. Yoshiharu Ohno 

Upright MDCT: Uses for Cardiopulmonary Imaging? 

10:50 AM                          Break 

11:00 AM                          Chair of morning sessions, Dr. Jessica Sieren 

11:05 AM                          Dr. Alejandro Comellas 

From Airways to Parenchyma: Clinical Needs in Lung Imaging and the Promise of Photon-Counting CT 

11:25 AM                          Dr. Joseph Reinhardt 

CT Metrics related to Clinical Factors 

11:45AM                           Dr. Sarah Gerard 

Lung ventilation and perfusion assessment 

12:05 PM                          LUNCH, EMRB atrium 

1:00 PM                             Chair of afternoon sessions, Dr. Sean Fain 

1:05 PM                             Dr. Kishore Rajendran 

Introduction to Photon-counting detector CT: Technical benefits and clinical applications 

2:00 PM                             Dr. Rodrigo Bello 

Thoracic Radiology PCCT Perspectives 

2:20 PM                             Dr. Mammoud Abou Alaiwa 

CT imaging in porcine models of airway disease and early PCCT experience 

2:40 PM                             Dr Jessica Sieren 

PCCT and EID-CT in COPD 

3:00 PM                             Break 

3:10 PM                             Dr. Graham Barr 

Structure precedes function: CT scanning in the general population to understand COPD 

4:00 PM                             Poster session, EMRB atrium 

5:00 PM                             Facility Tours 

 

Photon Counting Collaborative Meeting (June 4th)

June 4th (8.30am - noon): 2189 Medical Education Research Facility (MERF

  • Functional imaging metrics
  • Structural imaging metrics
  • Cardio-pulmonary applications
  • Protocol optimization and/or harmonization
  • AI and quantitative image analysis
  • Position dependent metrics  

 

Keynote Speakers:

Dr. Yoshiharu Ohno

Dr. Yoshiharu Ohno M.D., Ph.D. 

Professor and Chairman of Diagnostic Radiology 

Manager of Joint Research Laboratory of Advanced Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence 

Department of Diagnostic Radiology, 

Fujita Health University School of Medicine 

 

Dr. Graham Barr

Dr. R Graham Barr, MD, DrPH  

Hamilton Southworth Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology,  

Chief, Division of General Medicine 

Department of Medicine  

Columbia University 

 

Dr. Rajendran Kishore

Kishore Rajendran, PhD

Associate Professor of Radiology

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 

 

Location:

Seebohm Conference Room, 283 Eckstein Medical Research Building (EMRB 

University of Iowa