 This image is from the poster advertising the next Dean's Workshop on Friday, Nov. 30. It shows scientists working with the new technology available at the state-of-the-art Positron Emission Tomograpy Center. |
The molecular imaging capabilities of the new state-of-the-art Positron Emission
Tomography Center and the collaborative research opportunities it offers to
Yale scientists will be the focus of the next Dean’s Workshop Presentation
at the School of Medicine.
T H I S
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE NEWS
Workshop will showcase new
Positron Emission Tomography Center
The event, titled “A Window into the Body: Molecular Imaging with Positron
Emission Tomography,” will take place 1:30-3:30 P.M. on Friday, Nov. 30,
in the auditorium of the Anlyan Center, 300 Cedar St. It is free and open to
the Yale community.
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a non-invasive diagnostic imaging technique
that provides quantitative images of organ function in health and disease. PET
scans can detect biochemical and pharmacological changes in body tissues prior
to the occurrence of structural damage caused by disease. Armed with this information,
researchers have the ability to identify early biomarkers of disease that can
advance the development of effective drug therapies.
In this workshop, Dr. Richard E. Carson, director of the Yale PET Center, and
his research colleagues will provide an overview of the PET imaging process and
the center’s wide-ranging capabilities. Carson’s review of the basics
of PET imaging will include a discussion of cyclotrons, radiopharmaceuticals,
tracer kinetics, and high-resolution images of physiology and pharmacology.
Dr. Henry Huang, associate professor of diagnostic radiology, will discuss the
unique issues surrounding imaging agent development, with special emphasis on
newly developed PET agents for the serotonin transporter. The characterization
and translation of radioligands from preclinical investigation to clinical research
in humans will be highlighted by Yu-Shin Ding, professor of diagnostic radiology.
PET Center scientists will be joined by Yale collaborative researchers from the
Departments of Psychiatry, Neurology and Neurobiology, who will describe the
unique role PET imaging is playing in their respective research areas.
A presentation on post-traumatic stress disorder by Dr. Alexander Neumeister, director of Medical Imaging Program in the clinical
neuroscience division, will demonstrate how PET imaging is allowing a greater
understanding of the impact of trauma on brain function and providing insights
for improved treatments. A discussion of research on schizophrenia being done
by Dr. Stacy Castner, associate professor of psychiatry and neurobiology, will
reveal how PET is assisting scientists in examining the neural basis for key
changes in cerebral metabolism associated with improvements in cognitive function.
The unique ability of PET imaging to provide researchers with a non-invasive
in vivo method to view axonal regeneration will be explored by Dr. Stephen Strittmatter,
the Vincent Coates Professor of Neurology and professor of neurobiology.
At the conclusion of the symposium, attendees will be invited to tour the new
Yale PET Center.
The Dean’s Workshop series brings together physicians and scientists from
across the School of Medicine, the Yale-New Haven Medical Center and the university
to address topics of critical importance in advancing biomedical research and
patient care. For more information about the Dean’s Workshop series, visit
the website at info.med.yale.edu/workshops. For more information about the Yale
PET Center, visit http://petcenter.yale.edu.
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