Finnish Biomedical Imaging Node – Annual Report 2022

Welcome to the fourth annual In Vivo Animal Imaging: Methods and Applications minisymposium and course on December 7th 2022 – January 13th 2023, organized by the Helsinki In Vivo Imaging Platform and Doctoral Programmes in Biomedicine & Chemistry and Molecular Sciences at the University of Helsinki! The Zoom webinars in the minisymposium are open to all without registration, and include several talks from invited international speakers focusing on recent and scientifically exciting applications of a range of in vivo imaging modalities. This year we will be covering topics within cancer & metastasis, immunology, neurobiology and drug transport in the cerebrospinal fluid. For students & other researchers new to subject, the course will also cover the principles of in vivo animal imaging modalities including intravital microscopy, optical small animal imaging, microCT and PET/SPECT/CT, with the aim of opening up the field of in vivo animal imaging and its use in pre-clinical research applications for those who might benefit from… Read more

Traditional Turku PET Symposium ( https://turkupet2022.fi/ , #TurkuPET2022) brought more than 200 PET enthusiasts to Turku, Finland, in the beginning of June 2022 to share the latest advancements in all the fields of PET research and to enjoy Finnish summer in great company. The first Turku PET Symposium was organised in 1977 so this meeting already has a tradition of over 40 years. The scientific program of the symposium covered the whole field from cyclotrons and radiochemistry to preclinical and clinical applications of PET together with multimodality imaging. Attendees got to listen to insightful plenary lectures given by international leaders of each field, and discuss over free papers and posters with wide range of experts. Future prospects of PET were also thoroughly discussed during the days. Professor Terry Jones, one of the great pioneers of PET, gave a fascinating talk about the future of PET instrumentation. As a fun fact,… Read more