Dr
Benjamin Welch
(Dilon Technologies)
06/09/2009, 15:30
Dr
Roberto Pani
(representing the INFN ECORAD collaboration, INFN Roma1, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome)
06/09/2009, 15:40
Over the last five years, INFN has been studying the potential of LaBr3:Ce scintillation crystals for nuclear medicine application. The continuous improvement of each generation of crystals has resulted in the fabrication of detectors with excellent imaging characteristics at 140 keV with detection efficiencies between 70 and 90%, with energy resolution of 7%, with intrinsic spatial...
Dr
Francesco Scopinaro
(University “Sapienza)
06/09/2009, 16:00
We worked with two models—1in2 and 4 in2 FOV—of high-resolution hand-held cameras (HRCs), to verify if a HRC shows advantages over an Anger camera (AC) plus common gamma probe (GP). Methods: 280 patients with T1 breast cancer were divided in two groups of 140—one studied with AC-GP, the other with HRC. Patients were age, body mass index, and tumour size matched. Results: HRC detected more...
Dr
Doron Kopelman
(Department of Surgery BHaEmek Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
06/09/2009, 16:30
Hypothesis: The ability to obtain detailed visual assessments of radio-labeled tissues intra-operatively is expected to improve localization and removal of such targets. We have tested the capacity of a newly developed portable gamma camera to precisely locate sentinel lymph nodes using an injected radiotracer contrast agent both in an animal model and a preliminary clinical study. Design:...
Dr
Douglas J. Wagenaar
(Director of Research, Gamma Medica-Ideas,)
06/09/2009, 17:00
Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) for single-photon emission imaging applications has seen remarkable progress in recent years. CZT is a room-temperature semiconductor that is capable of excellent energy resolution and intrinsic spatial resolution (including depth-of-interaction) – making it versatile in spectroscopic and pinhole magnification configurations. CZT is used in cutting-edge...
