56th Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference organized by the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society: Orlando, FL, USA, 25-31 October 2009

Over the past 50 years, the IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (NSS/MIC) has become a premier annual meeting in the area of radiation detection instrumentation and associated applications ranging from fields of high-energy physics to medical imaging. In 2009, the conference drew more than 1800 scientists and trainees from 48 countries. This article focuses on the Medical Imaging Conference (MIC) portion of the meeting, where Program Chair RD Badawi and the conference committee had prepared an excellent scientific and educational program.