The Laboratory organized the 2022 edition of a workshop in the MEDAMI series , MEDAMI 2022 – Multimodality molecular neuro-imaging: clinical and technical state-of-the-art.
Following the series of previously conducted symposia on dedicated medical imaging instrumentation and applications, the 7th issue of this event was held on September 4-7, in the beautiful city of Portorož, Slovenia.
The MEDAMI workshops are unique in that they address a medical imaging topic from the medical, clinical, and instrumentation perspective. They foster synergistic interactions between cutting edge applications and
latest technical developments. Stakeholders from academia, medical institutions and organizations, regulatory agencies, and industry have an opportunity to jointly discuss strategic directions of the medical imaging field.
This year’s forum was attended by 59 participants with 40 oral presentations and 5 posters. Some of the key topics addressed were:
- Brain Imaging in research and clinics − status and next frontiers
- Multimodality imaging advances in the context of understanding brain function in health and disease: neurodegeneration / dementia / brain trauma / psychiatry / addiction / brain cancer
- Role of animal models in the investigation of brain illness
- Brain-body connection: Role of high sensitivity / whole body scanners in brain imaging
- Data harmonization
- Technical Advances in brain imaging:
- TOF-PET: What timing resolution is needed? What is the impact?
- Photon counting/spectral/low dose CT: revolutionizing trauma imaging?
- Is there a role for brain only scanners?
- AI / ML / Deep learning: what does it bring to imaging?
- Imaging accessibility to a wider community.
Our group was strongly represented also with contributions related to PET detector development: Rok Pestotnik with presentation of Flat panel TOF PET Imager, Dania Consuegra presented Cherenkov TOF-PET module performance using HRFlexToT electronics, Gašper Razdevšek on PET scanners based on pure Cherenkov detectors: a Monte Carlo Study, and Matic Orehar with Spatial resolution of a flat panel limited angle TOF-PET scanner.