Program Agenda and Speakers
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| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 8:00- 8:10 AM | Hong Yuan, PhD, Director of BRIC-SAI Facility, Radiology, UNC-CH | Welcome notes |
| 8:10- 8:40 AM | Terry Wong, MD, PhD, Director BRIC Molecular Imaging, BRIC, Radiology, UNC-CH | Clinical Challenges: the Human Side of Imaging |
| 8:40- 9:10 AM | Zibo Li, PhD, Director of Cyclotron and Radiochemistry, BRIC, Radiology, UNC-CH | Developing PET Imaging Probes for Preclinical Research |
| 9:10- 9:40 AM | Thaddeus J. Wadas, PhD, Director, Radiochemistry Service and Cyclotron, Radiology, Wake Forest University | Novel Chelation Strategies for 89Zr |
| 9:40- 10:10 AM | G. Allan Johnson, PhD, Center for In Vivo Microscopy, Radiology, Duke University | Magnetic Resonance Histology |
| 10:10- 10:30 AM | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30- 11:00 AM | Ian Shih, PhD, Director, Small Animal MR Imaging, BRIC, Neurology, UNC-CH | Up and Down of fMRI Signals in the Striatum |
| 11:00- 11:30 AM | Sheng-Kwei (Victor) Song, PhD, Radiology, Washington University in St. Louis | Diffusion MRI: A Messy Story of Meatball and Spaghetti |
| 11:30- 12:00 PM | Tamara Branca, PhD, BRIC, Physics and Astronomy, UNC-CH | Hyperpolarized Xenon Gas: a New Magnetic Resonance Imaging Probe for the Detection of Brown Adipose Tissue Mass and Temperature |
| 12:00 -1:40 PM | Lunch break / Industry Exhibition/ Poster Presentation/Lunch Talk |
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| 1:00-1:15PM Mini-lunch talk (MiLabs): 3-Q SPECT and Simultaneous Sub-mm PET-SPECT of Molecules and Organs in Action | ||
| 1:15-1:30PM Mini-lunch talk (VisualSonics): High resolution ultrasound applications in small animal research | ||
| 1:40-2:10 PM | Paul Dayton, PhD, Biomedical Engineering, UNC-CH | Applications of Contrast Ultrasound for Preclinical Imaging |
| 2:10- 2:40 PM | Greg Palmer, PhD, Radiation Oncology, Duke University | Quantitative Intravital Microscopy of Tumor Physiology, Hemodynamics, and Immune Function |
| 2:40- 3:10 PM | Shawn Hingtgen, PhD, Molecular Pharmaceutics, UNC-CH | Developing Stem Cell Drug Carriers for Cancer Therapy with the use of Optical Imaging |
| 3:15–5:00 PM | Poster Presentation/Competition; Lab Demo (Staff guided imaging demonstration) | |