Tytuł referatu:
"Future Directions of Combining Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging"

Zapraszamy na seminarium, które odbędzie się w dniu 10 grudnia (wtorek) o godz. 16.15 w sali A-1-08. Prelegent: Prof. Volkmar Schulz z Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH-Aachen University. Temat seminarium: "Future Directions of Combining Positron Emission Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging”.

Curriculum vitae prelegenta

Announcement about the seminar

The combination of positron emission tomography (PET) with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a promising tool due to the high complementarity of these two imaging techniques. Commercial hybrid whole body scanners have been introduced during the last decade by nearly all big vendors [1]. Technical challenges such as attenuation correction and MR-compatible detector technology have been an active area of research for the last decades [2]. The overall system design of PET and MRI was motivated by an earlier combination of PET with Computed Tomography (CT) as a whole-body imaging modality. In typical clinical practice, however, MRI is mostly used to image specific organs rather the entire body. In addition, unlike CT, MRI offers a wide range of very special contrasts for almost all organs. In order to take advantage of this diversity of MRI, we have developed a new MR-compatible PET-detector platform with which we will initiate a paradigm shift from full-body to special PET/MRT scanners [3,4]. The development and application of this technology will be presented during the presentation.

[1] Vandenberghe, Stefaan, and Paul K. Marsden. "PET-MRI: a review of challenges and solutions in the development of integrated multimodality imaging." Physics in Medicine & Biology 60.4 (2015): R115.

[2] Schulz, V., et al. "Automatic, three-segment, MR-based attenuation correction for whole-body PET/MR data." European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging 38.1 (2011): 138-152.

[3] Weissler, Bjoern, et al. "A digital preclinical PET/MRI insert and initial results." IEEE transactions on medical imaging 34.11 (2015): 2258-2270.

[4] Schug, David, et al. "Initial PET performance evaluation of a preclinical insert for PET/MRI with digital SiPM technology." Physics in Medicine & Biology 61.7 (2016): 2851.

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