Training programme: PET Imaging Essentials and Practice

The programme is targeted at

researchers, physicians, and PhD students with at least a bachelor’s degree the field of biosciences or medicine

universities, research institutes, hospitals, and pharmaceutical companies operating in the imaging, biotechnology and drug development fields

3 weeks. Two weeks online and one week in Finland.

In the end of the programme, the participant will

• understand the interdisciplinary nature of PET imaging,
• understand the essentials of the PET imaging physics, radiochemistry ,and data analysis,
• have knowledge on PET applications, both research and clinical,
• have theoretical and practical skills in modern techniques used in biomedical research and applications.

Week 1, online

• Introduction of PET and Turku PET Centre
• Radiation physics and safety
• PET instrumentation
• Production of PET radionuclides
• Short history of radiochemistry
• 11C radiochemistry
• 18F radiochemistry
• Radiometal chemistry
• Radiopharmacy and GMP guidelines for PET
   

Week 2, online

• Image acquisition and reconstruction
• Information technologies and image analysis in PET
• Small animal imaging and pre-clinical evaluation of PET tracers
• Radiometabolism of PET tracers
• Quantification of PET
   

Week 3, Finland

• Tour to the facilities of Turku PET Centre
• Neuroimaging of small animals with PET
• Neurotransmitter systems studied with PET
• Statistical analysis of brain-PET data
• PET in clinical neurology
• PET in cancer diagnosis and therapy
• Oncological research
• PET imaging of exercise responses
• Multimodality imaging using CT, MRI and PET
• Medicinal chemistry in PET & drug development
• PET in clinical cardiology
• Quantitative PET imaging of metabolic diseases
• PET in clinical endocrinology
• Preclinical cardiovascular research
• PET imaging of infection/inflammation
• Preclinical inflammation research

35 000 € per group (excluding possible VAT).

Maximum group size 25 participants.