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Animal Imaging Workshop

General information
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Time: November 5th, 2009

Place: Mauno Koivisto Center, Biocity, Tykistökatu 6, Turku, Finland (map)

Registration deadline: 30th of October

The number of demonstration participants is limited to 20. If there are more intrested, the participants will be selected according to the order of registration.

Travel information
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For the participants, who are the members of Nordic Imaging Network, the network will cover the costs of the travels. There is a maximum travel claim allowance of 500 eur. No business class tickets will be reimburse.

Program
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9.00
Morning coffee

9.15
Introduction
Eleanor Coffey, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku and Åbo Akademi

9.30-10.15
PET/MRI - the next Generation of Multimodality Imaging Combines Functional, Molecular and Morphological Information
Professor Dr. Bernd Pichler, University of Tübingen, Germany

10.15-11.00
MR imaging of malignant brain tumour models in small rodents
Associate Professor, PhD. Frits Thorsen, University of Bergen, Norway

11.00-11.45
Fluorescence Imaging of Disease Biology and Therapeutic Response in vivo with FMT2500 and VisEn Agents
Field Application Scientist, Sasha Belenkov, VisEn Medical

12.00-13.00
Lunch

13.15-14.00
Nanomaterials for bioimaging and biosensing
professor Mika Linden, Åbo Akademi University

14.00-14.45
A Novel Instrumentation Blueprint for Multimodal Optical Tomography in Small Animals
Dr. Joerg Peter, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Germany

15.00
Demonstrations and site visits

On Site Demonstrations

VisEn Medical
Quantitative Tomography Imaging - FMTTM 2500 System
Multimodality Imaging- Inveon PET/CT and FMTTM 2500

Cell Imaging Core (Jouko Sandholm)
Optical in vivo imaging - CaliperLuminaII imaging system
Imaging at CIC (site visit)

VisEn Medical (http://www.visenmedical.com) is a company pioneering translational in vivo imaging - from research to medicine. The company has developed a unique portfolio of fluorescence-based agents and system solutions that enable scientists to, non-invasively, visualize and quantify biological mechanisms and therapeutic responses deep within the body at the molecular level, VisEn is pioneering a new era of in vivo imaging.