EXPLORER Symposium

srcherry@ucdavis.edu-@SimonRCherryeroncali@ucdavis.edu  -@EmilieRoncalirdbadawi@ucdavis.edu  -@rdbadawi@TotalBodyPET

Simon Cherry, Ramsey Badawi, and Emilie Roncali

<H2>SEEING IS BELIEVING:</H2>
<H2>ADVANCES IN MEDICAL IMAGING</H2>
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A Symposium to celebrate the opening of the
EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center
 
Monday September 9th, 2019
8.30 am to 5 pm
Auditorium, Betty Irene Moore Hall
UC Davis Medical Center 
2570 48th Street, Sacramento, CA 95817
 
Official program:
 ~ SCHEDULE ~ 
8.00 - 8.40 am             Registration and Continental Breakfast
SESSION I                           Chair: Ramsey Badawi
8.40 am                              Welcome
                                             Simon Cherry & Ramsey Badawi (Biomedical Engineering & Radiology, UC Davis)
 
Symposium Opening
                                             Allison Brashear (Dean, School of Medicine)
 
8.50 am                              Total-Body Positron Emission Tomography: EXPLORER and Beyond
                                             Simon Cherry (UC Davis)
 
9.15 am                              Nonhuman Primate Total-Body PET Studies with the miniEXPLORER: 
Road to Translation
Gregory Wheeler (UC Davis)
 
9.30 am                              Total-Body Dynamic PET Parametric Imaging
                                             Xuezhu Zhang (UC Davis)
 
9.45 am                              In Vivo Real-Time Tracking of Single Cells Using Whole-Body PET/CT
                                             Guillem Pratx (Stanford University)
 
10.00 am                            Coffee and Tea Break
 
10.30 am                            INVITED: The Promise of Theranostics for Seeing and Treating Cancer
                                             Carolyn Anderson (University of Pittsburgh) 
 
11.00 am                            Preclinical Development and First-in-Human Imaging of the Integrin Αvβ6 with [18F]Αvβ6-Binding Peptide in Metastatic Carcinoma
                                             Sven Hausner (UC Davis)
 
11.15 am                            Translation of 89Zr-VRC01 for PET/MR Imaging of Persistent HIV: First-in-Human
                                             Dennis Beckford-Vera (UCSF)
 
11.30 am                            Total-Body, Time of Flight PET’s Role in Detection of Methylation Abnormalities Associated with Mental Disorders
                                             Thomas Budinger (UC Berkeley)
11.45 am                            INVITED: Imaging Over the Horizon
                                             Paula Jacobs (National Cancer Institute) 
 
12.15 pm                                              ~Lunch and Poster Viewing ~
-1.30 pm
 
SESSION II                         Chair: Emilie Roncali
1.30 pm                              INVITED: Realizing 10.5T Whole-Body MRI: Challenges and Opportunities
                                             Gregory Metzger (University of Minnesota) 
 
2.00 pm                              Imaging a Stress Test for the Brain: Simultaneous [15O]-water PET/MRI of Cerebral Blood Flow in Cerebrovascular Disease
                                             Audrey Fan (Stanford University)
 
2.15 pm                              Strongly Interacting Magnetic Particle Imaging
                                             Steven Conolly (UC Berkeley)
 
2.45 pm                              Coffee and Tea Break
 
3.15 pm                              INVITED: How Emerging Technology in CT Enables New Quantitative Imaging Applications
                                             Andrew Karellas (University of Arizona) 
 
3.45 pm                              A Dual-Layer Flat-Panel Detector for X-ray Image Guidance and Quantitative Imaging
                                             Linxi Shi (Stanford University)
 
4.00 pm                              INVITED: The Transformation Imaging has Made in Health Care and Clinical Research in Oncology and a Look to the Future
                                             Patricia Price (Imperial College London)
 
4.30 pm – 6:00 pm                         ~ Reception and Poster Viewing ~
 
~ Tours ~
5.50 pm & 6.10 pm          Bus leaves for tours of the EXPLORER MOLECULAR IMAGING CENTER

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