Conveners
(T1-9) Medical Imaging II - DMBP / Imagerie médicale II - DPMB
- Melanie Martin (University of Winnipeg)
Mercedes Martinson
(U)
17/06/2014, 08:45
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
X-ray phase based imaging is becoming increasingly important due to the high contrast that can be obtained from soft tissues. A number of synchrotron facilities use phase contrast routinely for imaging of biomedical systems. One of the simplest and most used phase contrast method is in-line or propagation based phase contrast. Due to the small beam size available from synchrotron sources...
Mathieu Laliberté
(I)
17/06/2014, 09:00
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Identification of cancer cells in tumors is still a challenge in the biomedical field. Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) microscopy may be useful for fast retrieval of 3D imaging and to distinguish cancer cells from the non-cancerous environmental cells as it is a label-free imaging technique that is capable of real-time, non-pertubative examination of living cells and organisms...
Cornelia Hoehr
(TRIUMF)
17/06/2014, 09:15
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
One of TRIUMF's main objectives is to develop isotopes for use across applications in science and medicine. The nuclear medicine division has a long history of producing short-lived F-18 and C-11 as Positron Emission Tomography (PET) tracers for the Pacific Parkinson's Research Centre. Recently, we have expanded to investigate the production of isotopes to help address looming shortages of...
Marie-Andrée Houle
(INRS)
17/06/2014, 09:45
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Oral (Student, In Competition) / Orale (Étudiant(e), inscrit à la compétition)
Osteoarthritis is a debilitating and painful disease involving the dysfunction and degradation of joint tissue. It affects mainly the knees and the hips and the most widely recognised change in the cartilage is the loss of the proteoglycans and the degradation of the articular cartilage. The irreversible stage of this degeneration is thought to be damage to the collagen type II meshwork, which...
Bryan van der Ende
(Atomic Energy Canada Ltd.)
17/06/2014, 10:00
Instrumentation and Measurement Physics / Physique des instruments et mesures (DIMP-DPIM)
Oral (Non-Student) / orale (non-étudiant)
A Monte-Carlo simulation via the MCNP computer program is a convenient method of indirect detector calibration when a direct calibration is not feasible. This is the case when very-short-lived gaseous radioactive sources are involved. Before being relied on, the MCNP model is normally validated with commercially available calibrated radioactive sources. This presentation will discuss the...
Melanie Martin
(University of Winnipeg (Physics) and Manitoba (Radiology, Physics & Astronomy))
17/06/2014, 10:15
Medical and Biological Physics / Physique médicale et biologique (DMBP-DPMB)
Invited Speaker / Conférencier invité
We have developed a new method for distinguishing the size of submicron structures using diffusion weighted magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). This method relies on MRI signal changes because water in samples undergoes diffusion. The mean-square displacement of the water molecules depends on the diffusion time. Molecules diffusing in a uniform medium with no barriers experience unrestricted...
