Letter of invitation

It is our pleasure to invite you for the International Workshop on bio-medical applications for micro-PET, which will be held at Centro Nacional de Aceleradores (CNA, Seville, Spain).

Presently, the CNA has a cyclotron in which PET nuclides (18F, 11C, 13N and 15O) are produced. The radio-pharmacy laboratories allow to produce radio-pharmaceuticals which are labelled with these nuclides. A Phillips mosaic Micro-PET, as well as a CT scanner, are used to obtain images of small animals. Recently, researchers in CNA have started to take full advantage of the facilities of the CNA, obtaining animal images with different radio-farmaceuticals. Next year, a PET-CT scanner for humans will be available, which will allow to perform clinical studies.

This International Workshop on bio-medical applications for micro-PET aims to promote worldwide scientific collaboration among scientists involved in various aspects of microPET applications. The scientific program of the workshop is broad-based, including different aspects of microPET are considered. Emphasis is on clinical applications studies.

The workshop will be held in Seville, Spain on September 20-21, 2010. The beautiful capital of Andalucía is especially suitable to make the participants feel its friendly atmosphere not only during the sessions but also during the time of relaxation.

Congress Information

Centro Nacional de Aceleradores CNA

Contact person: Joaquin Cobos

Address: Parque Tecnológico Cartuja 93, Av. Thomas Alva Edison, 7 E-41092 Sevilla, Spain

Phone: (+ 34) 954460553

Fax:     (+ 34) 954460145

URL: http://www.cna.us.es/workshopcna

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Abstracts

You are invited to present contributions to this workshop. We kindly request you to share this information with your colleagues.

Abstracts:

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-Last date for submission of abstracts is June 30th, 2010.

Results of the review process will be sent by email to all authors on July 30th, 2010. Thank you very much for your contribution.

Scientific program

The scientific program of the workshop is broad-based, including different aspects of microPET are considered. Emphasis is on clinical applications studies. The presentations include invited talks and oral contributions.

Main topics of the conference are as follows:

-MicroPET imaging.

-Applications for microPET image (Oncology, Neurology, …)

-Radiochemistry for PET compound production.

-Relationship between pre-clinical and clinical research in PET imaging

-Translational Imaging in drug research.

-Instrumentation for MicroPET and related equipment