Conveners
Monday Afternoon Session
- Tomasz Kozik (Jagiellonian University, Krakow)
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been used for early cancer detection, as it provides high spatial resolution and soft tissue contrast. Yet its specificity is low. Standard contrast enhanced MRI is based on tumors vasculature (i.e. Gd-based) and it does not provide sufficiently high specificity for tumor diagnosis and thus targeted contrast agents providing T2 contrast have been applied to...
The effect of debris exposure on the osteoimmunological crosstalk is poorly understood. For the first time, we report that titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs), similar in size and composition to wear debris associated with prosthetic implants, altered bone exosomes biogenesis and cargo. Using mass spectrometry analysis, we identified urokinase-type plasminogen activator (uPA),...
Positronium Imaging [1-4] is a branch of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) which focuses on the spatial and structural correlation probed by positronium (positron-electron atom) formation in the test sample or in the tissues of patient. It is possible due to the (main) influence of the size of the free volumes (nm scale) on the mean lifetime of the long-lived positronium state -...
The current generation of commercial PET scanners has excellent performance and diagnostic image quality, but the system sensitivity and dynamic imaging capability are limited by the scanner’s axial length. In recent years there has been an interest in developing whole-body PET scanners with much longer AFOV that not only increase the system sensitivity but can also image the whole-body of a...
