Theodoros Pipikos NUCLEAR PHYSICIAN Attending Physician, Nuclear Medicine & PET/ CT

• EANM
• Greek association of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging

• Associate of Nuclear medicine department of Onassis Cardiosurgery center (2012-2014)
• Researcher of Cardiac and vessels sector of BRFAA. (2013-2015)

Education Experience:

• Basic life support instructor.

Clinical Interest:

• Nuclear Cardiology
• Movement disorders
• PET/CT in oncology, Hybrid imaging.

Research Interest: 

• Nuclear cardiology, biomarkers in Cardiology, Nuclear Rheumatology, Hybrid imag-ing.

• Award in 4th Hellenic Oncological imaging congress (12/2015):Postablation imaging in differentiated thyroid cancer: Does SPECT/CT makes a differ-ence? 
• 3rd Hellenic Oncological imaging congress :PET/CT in the evaluation of soli-tary pulmonary nodules. Role of delayed imaging

• PET/CT in Lymphomas- A Case-Based Atlas (Springer 2016)

• Contribution of FLT-PET/CT in metastatic brain tumors.Alexandra Nikaki, RoxaniEfthymiadou ,IoannisTsougos, VassiliosPrassopoulos ,VassilikiFilippi ,FaniVlachou, DespinaSavvidou , Theodoros Pipikos ,IoannisAndreou ,PanagiotisGeorgoulias,Dec 2014 · PhysicaMedica
• Evaluation of SPECT/CT Imaging in the Assessment of Equivocal Bone Les-sions in Planar Bone Scintigraphy.
• T. Pipikos , F. Vlachou , A. Nikaki ,V. Prassopoulos, Conference Paper · Oct 2014 
• Brain SPECT with DaTSCAN (I-123 Ioflupane). Impact of Uniform Attenua-tion Correction Using Chang Algorithm in Image Quality and Clinical Deci-sion. Pipikos, T; Vlachou, F; Nikaki, A; Gogos, K; Dalianis, K; Antoniou, D; Papoutsani, D; Tsiakas, E; Prassopoulos, V European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, 2013; 40
• “ The role of PET/CT in the diagnosis and surveillance of malignant mela-noma” “Medical analects”, June 2015..
• PET/CT in Lymphomas- A Case-Based Atlas (Springer 2016)
• Bone SPECT in inflammatory back pain (IBP), John Koutsikos, Theodoros Pipikos, Dimitrios Kassimos, George Koniaris, Maria Tsakoumagou, Antigo-ne Velidaki, Dimos Patrikos and Athanasios Zafirakis, – Nucl Med. 2009; 50 (Supplement 2):1352.
• The clinical significance of intestinal accumulation in non-gastroenteric scin-tigraphic studies. John Koutsikos, Theodore Pipikos and Antigoni Velidaki- J Nucl Med. 2012; 53 (Supplement 1):1084.
• Effect of low dose CT attenuation correction in the incidence of ischemia during myocardial perfusion scintigraphy – Pipikos T.; Vlachou F.; Nikaki A.; Koletti L.; Gogos K.; Dalianis K.; Prassopoulos V., ( Pipikos, Vlachou, Ni-kaki, Koletti, Prassopoulos) , European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular ImagingUpdate on the utility of bone SPECT imaging for evaluation of patients with ancylosing spondylitis – Koutsikos J.; Pipikos T.; Episkopopoulou S.; Kassimos D.-Journal of Nuclear Medicine
• SPECT/Low Dose CT perfusion study in the investigation of suspected pulmonary embolism- Pipikos T.; Vlachou F.; Nikaki A.; Dalianis K.; Prassopoulos V, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging