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SUMMARY:‘Image guided surgery\, arguments for combining fluorescence app
 roaches with nuclear medicine and vice versa’ - Dr Fijs W.B. Van Leeuwen
  (Leiden University Medical Centre)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160412T131500
DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20160412T141500
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DESCRIPTION:(Near-infrared) fluorescence guidance is increasingly gaining 
 interest within surgical and molecular imaging disciplines. This is define
 d as the field of Image Guided Surgery or rather Interventional Molecular 
 Imaging. The promise of fluorescence to visualize molecular features of di
 sease in real-time\, and with microscopic detail\, is considered highly de
 sirable. Unfortunately\, the technology also has major shortcomings that a
 re predominantly related to signal attenuation and scattering. Integrating
  fluorescence imaging with three-dimensional nuclear medicine-based pre-in
 terventional imaging (the hybrid surgical guidance concept) helps to overc
 ome these limitations. At the same time the beneficial features of fluores
 cence imaging allow for refinement of findings obtained with more routinel
 y used nuclear medicine-based modalities. In this set-up\, the multimodal 
 tracers used can be detected via two signatures\, namely fluorescence- and
  radioisotopes and dedicated modalities allow detection of both signals. \
 nBased on both clinical (combined > 750 patients) findings and pre-clinica
 l efforts in tracer development\, this lecture attempts to illustrate the 
 strengths and shortcomings of fluorescence imaging in relation to those of
  nuclear medicine. At the same time the hybrid approaches used help to def
 ine the areas where the individual read-outs provide most (clinical) value
 .\n\nSpeakers:\nDr Fijs W.B. Van Leeuwen (Leiden University Medical Centre
 )
LOCATION:Old Road Campus (71a\, b and c)
TZID:Europe/London
URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/75cc1499-f05a-46e3-a4a4-1443b0f62399/
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