Speaker: Alberto Del Guerra

Title: PET technique and applications

Affiliation: Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita’ di PISA and INFN, Sezione di Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, 56127 PISA, Italy

Abstract: PET has established itself as an imaging technique since the early 90's mainly for oncology applications for diagnosis, staging and prognosis of cancer lesions. With the advent of molecular medicine, PET has had an impressive technological development in order to provide the performance of spatial resolution and sensitivity that were required for the new fields such as cardiology and neurology. This presentation illustrates the basic physics principle, the current technologies, the most recent advancements and the major applications of PET in clinical and preclinical PET imaging and in hadron therapy. Finally the new PET-MR hybrid systems will be discussed that have recently entered the preclinical and clinical research.

© 2013, EMRG

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