7th Conference on PET/MR and SPECT/MR

Session

Session 1 - Brain and organ specific systems

May 21, 2018, 9:30 AM

La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

Conveners

Session 1 - Brain and organ specific systems

• Taiga Yamaya (QST, Japan)

26. Evaluation of the MINDView PET insert in a 3T MRI

Antonio Gonzalez (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging, i3M-CSIC)

5/21/18, 9:30 AM

Talk

We report in this work the current status performance of the brain PET insert developed under the MINDView project. Final construction has been accomplished. Pilot performance studies have been carried out at the lab, partially following the NEMA protocol. It has later been installed at the nuclear medicine department in Klinikum rechts der Isar (Munich) and exhaustively tested inside the...

77. Design and detector performance of the PET component of the TRIMAGE PET/MR/EEG system

Giancarlo Sportelli (Università di Pisa)

5/21/18, 9:50 AM

61. Next-generation breast cancer PET-MR imaging with HYPMED: System and workflow design

Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)

5/21/18, 10:10 AM

Talk

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...