4^th Early Stage Researchers Workshop on PET/MR:
"Pitching Session"
May 20, 2015, Elba, IT

Following the success of the "ESRs Pitching Session" during PSRM14 in Kos, the COST Action TD1004 on PET/MR organizes the "4^th ESRs Workshop on PET/MR" during PSMR15 in Elba. The event will take place on the afternoon of May 20, 2015. As it happened last year, a number of ESRs will have the opportunity to present themselves in only 2 minutes, with only one slide as background, to the PSMR15 attendants. This will definitely give them the opportunity to introduce themselves and their work to potential collaborators. The best pitching will be awarded. The COST Action TD1004 will support up to 15 ESRs who will participate to this Workshop. This grant is not compatible with the student grant of the conference.

The main selection criteria for the ESRs are:

• Be a member of one of the 22 TD1004 COST Action countries http://www.pet-mri.eu/countries.html
• Previous participation in an STSM
• Oral presentation in PSMR15 (preferably as first author)
• Poster presentation in PSMR15 (preferably as first author)
• Previous contributions in PET/MR domain (other publications etc)

Additional criteria that will be considered are:

• Gender balance
• Fair geographical distribution
• Lack of funding from other resources.

The interested ESRs can express their interest by contacting Prof. George Loudos at <gloudos@teiath.gr>, preferably before April 18..

2^nd Training School on PET-MR,
April 2015, University of Leeds, UK

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Previous Events

4^th Tübingen PET/MR Workshop

February 23 - 27, 2015

The COST Action TD1007 endorsed the 4^th Tübingen PET/MR Workshop. The programme included invited internationally renowned experts from the fields of nuclear medicine, radiology and imaging science to provide a platform for a vital exchange of experiences. Round table discussions targeted immediate questions in the realms of innovative research, clinical applications, workflow issues and technical challenges linked to this new technology (more info). 

 

Data Processing Challenges in PET-MR
A combined Workshop,
UCL Research Update and European COST activity
Wednesday 7^th - 9^th January 2015 – Central London

 

We are pleased to announce a 3-day workshop/seminar that will address current challenges and issues in data processing for simultaneous PET-MR including attenuation correction, motion correction, combined reconstruction and joint kinetic modelling. The workshop sessions will include presentations from leading researchers in the field with opportunity for discussion of controversial topics. One day includes presentations on current PET-MR methodological research at UCL, while the overall meeting has been organised so that participants in the PET-MR software development subproject of the EC COST TD1007 initiative can also attend. 

COST Session 1
Thursday 08/01/2015 (17:00-19:00) Chadwick B05, Chadwick Building, UCL, Gower Street, London, WC1E 6BT
WP: Data and Image analysis session: Major achievements

COST Session 2
Friday 09/01/2015 (09:30-13:30)  Perinatal Seminar room, 1st floor, South Wing, St. Thomas’ Hospital
Forward planning - MR simulations

More information | Directions to Chadwick Building | Directions to Perinatal Seminar Room

3^rd Early Stage Researchers Workshop
PSMR 2014 Conference
May 19th - 21th, 2014
Helona Resort, Kos Island, Greece

 

The TD1007 Action organized for the third year the Early Stage Researchers Workshop on PET/MR during the PSMR conference. 

This year a special pitching session devoted to ESRs took place, where 15 ESRs presented for 2 min themselves and their project to the conference participants and the best pitching was given a special award.

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Action Conference PSMR 2014 
May 19th - 21th, 2014
Helona Resort | Kos Island, Greece

The PSMR14 Conference took place between May 19 and May 21, 2014 at Kos Island, Greece. More than 180 scientists from 28 countries were present in Kos Island. 
The conference started with an invited lecture on MR spectroscopy by Prof. Andrew Maudsley and included 12 sessions, with 55 oral and 55 poster presentations. The conference was under the Technical Sponsorship of IEEE and ESMI, while COST Office and 10 industrial partners supported it. The exhibition included booths from IEEE, Philips, Bruker, SensL, Raytest, RS2D and Weeroc. The industrial session included presentations from Bruker, Siemens, Philips and SensL, as well as a review of funding opportunities in terms of Horizon 2020. The best oral and poster presentation, as well as the best pitching were awarded to five ESRs. The conference ended with a guided tour in Asklipeio and in Kos town.
All conference abstracts (300 words version) were published in the open access Journal European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Physics. Full articles are being submitted in the IEEE TNS and following a peer review procedure, will be published in a special issue devoted to PSMR14. 

 
 more information

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1^st Training School on PET/MR
Technological Educational Institute of Athens,
13-16 May 2014, Athens, Greece

 

The Action "1^st International Training School on PET-MRI Engineering" took place in Athens, from May 13^th to May 16^th 2014. The school focused mainly on the software aspects of PET/MR technology and included also the key hardware aspects.
 
The school was open for Masters and early PhD students, interested in this interdisciplinary, emerging topic. Emphasis was given to the promotion of ESRs, thus nine young lecturers were selected, in order to share their experience on PET/MR basics, Multimodality Image Processing, Simulation tools, Reconstruction & Corrections, Pulse Programming in MR, Kinetic Modeling for PET and MR, as well as their combination.

Thirty three students from sixteen (!) countries attended the school with the support of the Action; twelve were female. The Training School was held only a few days before the annual International Conference of the Action (3rd PSMR Conference on PET/MR and SPECT/MR) and 12 students were also present in the conference and benefit by also attending this event.
More info are found on the Training School webpage. 

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Nano World Cancer Day 2014, Workshop
Thursday, January 30, 2014,
Athens, Greece

 

The TD Action 1007 participated in the Nano World Cancer Day Workshop, which was organized in Athens by Nanomedicine: “European Technology Platform”. The Action chair has been invited to give a lecture on nanotechnology applications.

 

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European Association of Nuclear Medicine Conference, EANM 13
Pre-Congress Symposium 3 (co-organised with FLI and COST TD1007):
MRI-PET: Current Status and Future Perspectives
Saturday, October 19, 2013
09:00 - 12:45, Hall Tête D'Or 1/2

 

The TD Action 1007 successfully organized a pre-congress symposium on MRI-PET in EANM 13, the largest European Conference on Nuclear Medicine, which took place in Lyon between October 19 and 23. The symposium covered the most important technical and application aspects of PET/MR and targeted a very large audience that included all nuclear medicine practitioners from across the world. The Symposium was organized by Prof. Alexander Hammers and Prof. Dimitris Visvikis, both active Action members. The analytical Symposium program was:
09:00-09:05 Welcome (A. Hammers, Lyon & D. Visvikis, Brest)
09:05-09:35 MRI-PET System Developments (P Marsden, London)
09:35-10:05 Exploiting PET/MR Synergy in Quantitative PET Imaging (D. Visvikis, Brest)
10:05-10:35 Contrast agents in PET/MR: possibilities and challenges? (R. Torres Martin de Rosales, London)
10:35-11:00 BREAK
11:00-11:30 Clinical MRI-PET in Oncology (A. Loft, Copenhagen)
11:30-12:00 Clinical MRI-PET in Neurology (A. Drzezga, Cologne)
12:00-12:30 Clinical MRI-PET in Cardiology (S. Nekolla, Munich)
12:30-12:45 Closing Remarks (A. Hammers, Lyon & D. Visvikis, Brest)

 

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1st Early Stage Researchers Workshop
Elba, Hotel Hermitage, 28 May 2012

ESRs and Action Chair

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1st Tübingen PET/MR Workshop

19 - 23 March, 2012