Speaker
Dennis Schaart
(Delft University of Technology)
Description
Breast cancer is a leading cause of cancer death in women and a major socio-economic issue. With currently available methods, early diagnosis frequently fails. Moreover, beyond mere detection, there is an ever-increasing need for improved non-invasive characterisation of cancer. Targeted therapies require an in-depth analysis of cancer to select and guide appropriate treatment. Both, PET and MRI can provide molecular and functional information that may be of pivotal importance for tailoring therapy. However, current whole-body PET/MRI systems lack the necessary sensitivity and resolution for this task. HYPMED addresses this by engineering an innovative multimodal imaging tool. HYPMED will integrate a fully-digital MRI-transparent PET-detector into a novel multi-channel PET-transparent MRI surface coil. The PET-RF insert will allow unprecedented imaging of breast cancer with high-resolution/ultra-high sensitivity PET, combined with high-level structural and functional MRI, and allow minimal-invasive MRI- and PET-guided targeted biopsy. This presentation focuses on the unique system and workflow design solutions implemented in HYPMED, which will enable next-generation clinical imaging for the discovery and diagnosis of breast cancer.
Primary author
Dennis Schaart
(Delft University of Technology)
Co-authors
Dr
Andre Salomon
(Philips Research)
Dr
Björn Weissler
(RWTH Aachen)
Prof.
Christiane Kuhl
(RWTH Aachen)
Dr
David Schug
(RWTH Aachen)
Mr
Dimitri Kuznetsov
(Delft University of Technology)
Dr
Jeremy Brown
(Delft University of Technology)
Mr
Jeroen Koeleman
(Futura Composites BV)
Mr
Kevin Kamman
(Delft University of Technology)
Mr
Marcel De Koning
(Futura Composites BV)
Mr
Martino Borgo
(Futura Composites B.V)
Mr
Nicolas Gross-Weege
(Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
Dr
Pierre Gebhardt
(RWTH Aachen)
René Bakker
(Delft University of Technology)
Dr
Sebastian Aussenhofer
(Noras MRI Products)
Ms
Teresa Nolte
(Philips Research Europe/RWTH Aachen)
Dr
Thomas Dey
(RWTH Aachen)
Mr
Turgay Celik
(NORAS MRI products GmbH)
Prof.
Volkmar Schulz
(Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging, Institute of Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH-Aachen University)
