HBM2004 - SATELLITE EVENT


Partial Volume Effect Correction in PET/SPET: from theory to practice

Saturday, 12 June 2004 - Budapest Congress Centre,  Room “Brahms”, Budapest, Hungary

  http://pveout.area.na.cnr.it

 

Organised by the

PVEOut Project Consortium

“Enhancement of Clinical Value of Functional Imaging through Automated Removal of Partial Volume Effect”,

a EU Fifth Framework Programme project

 For queries e-mail pveout@ibb.cnr.it

MEETING AIM

The meeting is devoted to discussing strategies for partial volume effect correction of PET/SPET studies. The results of PVEOut project will be presented with a particular emphasis on the PVELab software, available as beta version to scientific community.

Preliminary program

Chairmen: Alan Colchester – Olaf Paulson

14:00

Welcome (Bruno Alfano, PVEOut Co-ordinator)

Introduction to Partial Volume Effect Correction methods

14:10

PVE-Correction: a review of the literature (Mario Quarantelli)

14:25

A new voxel-based PVE-correction method developed inside PVEOut project (Bruno Alfano)

14:40

Implementation of the PVE correction algorithms in PVELab (Claus Svarer)

Preliminary steps in the PVE-correction process

15:00

Segmentation of brain tissues on MR images using data driven techniques   (Ali Hojjat - Alan Colchester)

15:20

Multiparametric segmentation (Bruno Alfano)

15:30

Registration (Claus Svarer)

15:45

VOI definition (Mario Quarantelli)

16:00

PET Compartment model based analytical PET simulator for PVELab (Laszlo Balkay)

16:15

Coffee break

Preliminary results of PVE correction in phantoms and in human studies

16:35

STEPBrain: a stereolitographed phantom of the brain for Nuclear Medicine, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance applications  (to be defined)

16:45

Quantification of [11C]FLB 457 Binding in the Human Brain with PET Before and After Partial Volume Effect Correction (Judit Sóvágó)

17:00

Cortical GABA-A CBZR and  rCBF in Alzheimer`s disease: SPET studies with Partial Volume Effect correction (Mario Quarantelli)

PVELab

17:15

Demo of a complete analysis process using PVELab (Claus Svarer)

17:35

Issues in voxel-based analysis of PV-corrected data (Mario Quarantelli)

17:45

General discussion

18:00

End of meeting

REGISTRATION

The registration is free of charge.

We recommend to be registered in advance by sending an email to pveout@ibb.cnr.it with subject: HBM2004 PVEOut Satellite Meeting, containing your name and affiliation.