2010: 2nd Jülich MR-PET Workshop
Current Status of Instrumentation and Application/ Future Developments
Flyer 2nd Jülich MR-PET Workshop (PDF)
May 10-11, 2010, after the ISMRM conference in Stockholm
Preliminary topics
- Advances in molecular probes for MR and PET
- Update of small animal MR-PET
- Update of human MR-BrainPET
- Recent progress in whole-body MR-PET imaging
- Challenges of data/image processing in MR-PET
- Issues in comparative MR-PET applications
- Challenges of ultra-high field MR-PET
Abstracts (maximum 500 words) will be accepted until March 1st 2010
(to be sent to: mr-pet@fz-juelich.de)Further information will follow soon.
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2008: MR-PET: A Hybrid Imaging System
Satellite workshop of the 
2008 IEEE NSS/MIC Symposium at Dresden
October 27-28, 2008
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
Location of the workshop: Lecturing Hall of the Central Library, Building 4.7, Helmholtz-Ring H3
Program Flyer (PDF, 774 KB)
In the last few years there has been increasing interest in hybrid MR-PET scanners. Several groups have been developing such scanners for the study of rodents. Some of these prototypes utilize innovative solid-state electronics such as APDs as a replacement of magneto-sensitive photomultipliers. First studies demonstrating the advantages of simultaneous MR-PET measurements have already been published. An industrial prototype for combined 3T-MR-PET in humans has being constructed and installed at the University of Tübingen, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and the Forschungszentrum Jülich. The first acquired images of simultaneous MR-PET measurements demonstrate the feasibility of the new approach.
The workshop on MR-PET was to offer a platform to present and discuss the present state of both animal and human MR-PET scanners. The ability of MR-PET systems to retain the typical PET attribute of absolute quantitation, new instrumental progress as well as developments towards whole-body MR-PET and the involvement of ultra-high field MR were addressed. For each topic there was an invited speaker and a limited number of proffered presentations.
The program comprised six topics:
- state-of-the-art of small animal MR-PET scanners
- state-of-the-art of human MR-BrainPET scanners
- issues of quantitative PET in hybrid imaging
- improved MR-compatible PET components
- advantages and challenges of whole-body MR-PET and
- future MR-PET scanners utilizing ultra-high field.
The speakers, moderators and more than 100 attendees from 20 countries made the workshop a great success.
For further questions: mr-pet@fz-juelich.de
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