Positron Emission Tomography in Research and Diagnostics

Tematyka

We have a great pleasure to invite you to the Conference on Positron Emission Tomography in Research and Diagnostics. The conference organised by the Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland, and the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the Warsaw Medical University will take place on May 16-19, 2012.

The program of PETRAD will cover various aspects of Positron Emission Tomography in clinical practice and research, also covering information about modern techniques in domain. The key-note and lectures will focus on the recent advances in application of instrumentation and on future trends, thus giving a detailed view of what is currently important in the field. Oral sessions will be complemented with posters. We also expect a large participation of medical equipment producing Companies, allowing the exchange of information regarding the most recent developments of this nuclear imaging method.
The conference will be preceded by inauguration of the Radiopharmaceuticals Production and Research Centre at the University of Warsaw. The Centre's construction and equipment was financed by funds from the Ministry of Sciences, Ministry of Health, International Atomic Energy Agency and European Structural Funds. The Centre activity, based on GE Medical Systems PETtrace cyclotron, will be strongly connected to the Warsaw Medical University Department of Nuclear Medicine which operates a PET-CT scanner, and to the other establishments of the Warsaw Consortium for PET Collaboration.

Warsaw - the capital of Poland - is the city where Maria Skłodowska-Curie spent her youth and where she came back, as a winner of two Nobel prizes, donating 1 g of radium to found the Radium Institute, now the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology. Today, nuclear medicine facilities are in full development in the Polish capital, home to 3 out of the 12 PET CT scanners currently operating in Poland.

Welcome to PETRAD and to Warsaw!