If you are interested in taking part in the seminar please
send an e-mail to .
Please include last and first name, matriculation number, current semester, discipline (diploma, master, bachelor) including major, and a desired topic.
April 30th, 2007 will be the last withdrawal date to withdraw your registration. Not withdrawing before this date will result in a 5.0 grade for unacceptable or incomplete work.
Abstract
The term molecular imaging can be broadly defined as the in vivo characterization and measurement of biologic processes at the cellular and molecular level. In contradistinction to "classical" diagnostic imaging, it sets forth to probe the molecular abnormalities that are the basis of disease rather than to image the end effects of these molecular alterations.
R. Weissleder, U. Mahmood: Molecular Imaging, Radiology 2001 219:316-333.
A new set of technologies, collectively termed "molecular imaging", is providing biologists with exciting new opportunities to study noninvasively and repetitively the mechanisms underlying normal development and disease in small-animal models. Using these imaging technologies, researchers can now measure, in living animals, dynamic biological processes such as metabolic activity, cell proliferation, apoptosis, receptor occupancy, reporter gene expression, and antigen modulation.
H. Herschman: Molecular Imaging: Looking at Problems, Seeing Solutions, Science 2003 302:605-608.
This seminar will allow its participants to gain insights into the field of molecular imaging. Topics will range from tracers, nuclear probes over micro-bubble US, PET/CT, MR Spectroscopy and Diffuse Optical Tomography to applications in pharmacokinetics, drug development and cancer diagnostics.
presentation (approximately 60 minutes + discussion) in Powerpoint or PDF format
Timeline
You are required to meet the following deadlines for discussing your work with your supervisor:
4-6 weeks before presentation: Outline
2 weeks before presentation: Handout
1 week before presentation: Presentation Slides
The deadlines for the documents have been fixed. The e-mail has to be sent to your supervisor.
Outline of work per mail up to Thursday 3.5. 23:59
Presentation slides per mail up to Thursday 24.5. 23:59
Report per mail up to Thursday 28.6. 23:59
Note: the presentations will take place during the week of the 11th of June (exact date and time to be
decided between participants and supervisors, proposed Friday 16th from 13:00 to 17:00). Eventually
depending on the weather a visit to a beer-garden after the presentations is planned.
This seminar will allow its participants to gain insights into the field of molecular imaging. Topics will range from tracers, nuclear probes over micro-bubble US, PET/CT, MR Spectroscopy and Diffuse Optical Tomography to applications in pharmacokinetics, drug development and cancer diagnostics.