Monday, 27. Oct. 2008
8.00 Departure from hotels with shuttle bus to Jülich
9.00 Registration
10.00 Welcome addresses and introductory lectures
Moderation: H. Herzog, K. Ziemons (Jülich)
A. Bachem (Chairman of the Board of Directors, Jülich)
J. Shah (Director Brain Imaging Physics, INB-3, Jülich)
10.20 Hybrid imaging: Expectations and hopes towards MR-PET
(T. Kuwert, University Erlangen)
10.50 Coffee break
11.15 The Philips MR-PET-Project (V. Schulz, Philips, Aachen)
11.45 The Siemens MR-PET-Project (R. Krieg, Siemens, Erlangen)
12.30 Lunch break
14.00 State-of-the-art of small animal MR-PET scanners
Moderation: P. Vaska (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton)
Keynote-lecture by B. Pichler (University Tübingen)
14.30 Performance assessment of the combined microPET Focus
120® and split magnet MR System. (R. Hawkes, Cambridge)
14.50 Evaluation of an MR compatible PET scanner for pre-clinical
molecular imaging studies (J.E. Mackewn, London)
15.10 Discussion
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 State-of-the-art of human MR-brain PET scanners
Moderation: K. Wienhard (MPI Cologne)
Keynote-lecture by M. Schmand (Siemens, Knoxville)
16.30 Optimizing MRI-PET inserts for uniform spatial resolution
and enhanced efficiency (C. Thompson, Montreal)
16.50 MR-compatible blood sampler for PET (J. Breuer, Cologne)
17.10 Discussion
17.30 Sightseeing INB-3
18.30 Departure of shuttle bus to IBIS hotels
20.00 Dinner at the Water Tower Belvedere,
Lousberg , Aachen
Program:
Tuesday, 28. Oct. 2008
8.00 Departure from hotels with shuttle bus to Jülich
9.00 Issues of quantitative PET in hybrid imaging
Moderation: U. Pietrzyk (Jülich)
Keynote-lecture by D. Townsend (Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville)
9.30 MR-PET hybrid image processing: The next challenge
(L. Caldeira, Lisbon)
9.50 Attenuation correction in hybrid MR-brainPET imaging
(E. Rota Kops, Jülich)
10.10 Discussion
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Improved MR-compatible PET components
Moderation: S. Tavernier (VUB Brussels)
Keynote-lecture by Y. Choi (Samsung Medical Center, Seoul)
11.30 Study of monolithic scintillator blockdetectors for PET
using APD and SiPMT arrays (P. Bruyndonckx, Brussels)
11.50 Applying ClearPEM technology to PET-MRI (J. Varela, Lisbon)
12.10 Discussion
12.30 Lunch break
14.00 Advantages and challenges of whole-body MR-PET
Moderation: J. Perez (CIEMAT Madrid)
Keynote-lecture by G. Delso (Technical University Munich)
14.30 High performance PET detectors for whole body clinical
PET/MR that do not use shielded cables (C.S. Levin, Stanford)
14.50 Anatomical accuracy of lesion localization in retrospective automatic
rigid image registration between FDG-PET and MRI (A. Kiefer, Erlangen)
15.10 Discussion
15.30 Coffee break
16.00 Future MR-PET scanners utilizing ultra-high field MR
Moderation: P. Marsden (King's College London)
Keynote-lecture by J. Shah (Jülich)
16.30 Acquisition of simultaneous PET-MRI images with the RatCAP PET
scanner in the 9.4T microMRI (D. Schlyer, Brookhaven)
16.50 Dual tracer approaches: Possible applications in
hybrid MR-PET imaging (H. Iida, Osaka)
17.10 Discussion
18.00 Concluding remarks
18.30 Farewell
19.00 Departure of shuttle busses to Aachen and Düren
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