Title: Dedicated PET Scanners for Breast Imaging

Speaker: TAVERNIER Stefaan, Paul, Karel

Moderator: Dr. Wei Long

Time: 10:00, April 11,2013

Place: Room C305, IHEP Main Building

Abstract:

One in 10 women will eventually develop breast cancer, and about half a million worldwide die every year from the disease. However, the prospects for cure are good if the cancer is detected at an early stage.Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a proven and powerful tool for detecting cancer. Therefore developing dedicated PET scanners for breast imaging is of paramount importance. The speaker will review the field of dedicated breast PET scanner development, and present the results obtained with the ClearPEM scanner. Promising lines for further development will also be discussed.

About the speaker:

TAVERNIER Stefaan, Paul, Karel

- since 2000 : Full professor at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Gewoon Hoogleraar)

- emeritus professor since October 2009 

- Spokesman of the CERN project RD-18 (Crystal Clear), 1995-2010

- member of the IEEE medical imaging council since 1/1/2010

- since 2010, member of the board of directors of the company PETsys (Portugal)

- since 2012: scientific consultant for the company Ion Beam Applications (Belgium)

- since 2012: scientific advisor for a law firm (Lowndes, Drosdick, Doster, Kantor & Reed,P.A. 215 N. Eola Drive Orlando, FL 32801, USA)