How recent advances in Positron Emission Tomography pave the way for Precision Medicine?

by Prof. Charalambos Tsoumpas (University of Groningen)

Tuesday 14 Dec 2021, 14:00 → 15:00 Europe/Athens

Positron emission tomography (PET) is an advanced technology that facilitates positrons to detect molecules travelling inside our body, thus providing valuable information for detailed understanding of the biological processes. This information is relevant to the early diagnosis of disease since molecular changes precede structural changes. Thus, PET is encountered in many fields of medicine. This presentation will elucidate the role of PET imaging in the new era of personalised medicine and speculate the obstacles towards this direction. Primary emphasis will be given in the current research activities that aim to make PET a more accurate and precise tool by utilising more information from the measurement either from PET (e.g. time of flight, three-gamma positron/electron annihilations, photon-pair entanglement) or from additional imaging techniques (e.g. MRI and CT).

 

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