Conveners
KEY NOTE SESSION 1
- Franco Garibaldi (ISS)
KEY NOTE SESSION 1
- Franco Garibaldi (ISS)
David Townsend
(CIRC, University of Singapore)
03/09/2014, 08:45
Nuclear science is a very productive environment for the development of instrumentation for the detection and imaging of particles. Over many decades, advances in this field have resulted in the transfer of technology into other related fields, and specifically for this conference, translation into medical imaging. Although performance specifications may differ, there are many common aspects...
Prof.
Simon Cherry
(University of California - Davis)
03/09/2014, 09:20
Positron emission tomography is a powerful technology with biomedical applications that span humans, animals and plants. This presentation will focus on the use of PET across a wide range of different scales, and the design of PET technology and systems appropriate for these scales. In particular recent progress in developing very small field-of-view PET scanners for preclinical research...
Joel Karp
(University of Pensilvania)
03/09/2014, 09:55
Hal Anger is credited with suggesting the use of time-of-flight (TOF) as far back as 1966 to localize the activity due to positron annihilation, even though his sodium iodide dual Anger camera from that time did not achieve very good timing resolution. Although plastic detectors and fast PMTs were capable of 200 ps timing resolution, it wasn't until the early 1980's that scintillation...
Bernd Pichler
(Univeristy of Tubingen)
03/09/2014, 11:00
George El Fakhri
(University of Harward)
03/09/2014, 11:35
Annibale Versari
(Azienda Ospedaliera Arcispedale Santa Maria Nuova)
03/09/2014, 12:10
PET/CT is an imaging device which allows to have information “in vivo” about biology (PET) and morphology (CT) of tissues. Many radiopharmaceuticals are available to evaluate the functional aspects of tumors and organs. The most common agent is 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG), expression of glucose metabolism, mainly used in oncology but other interesting radiotracers can evaluate cell...
