Dr
Michael Hofmann
(Institut für Nuklearmedizin und PET-Zentrum, Klinikum Hildesheim GmbH)
06/09/2009, 08:30
Dr
Jose Leston
(Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Henri Mondor)
06/09/2009, 09:30
The survival outcome of a patient suffering from a glioma is directly linked to the complete surgical resection of the tumor. To help surgeons delineate precisely the boundaries of a tumor, we developed an intra-operative positron probe with gamma background rejection capability. The probe was designed to be directly coupled to the excision tool such that detection and removal of the...
Dr
Neals Clinthorne
(Department of Radiology, University of Michigan)
06/09/2009, 10:30
PET tracers such as C11-choline potentially provide the ability to distinguish aggressive lesions from those in which “watchful waiting” is a more appropriate course of action. Nevertheless, there remains much controversy regarding the role of PET in detecting and managing prostate cancer with mixed results in the literature depending on the clinical study. Surprisingly, few of these studies...
