Australian National Total Body PET: Webinar 8 | A conversation with Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi

Speakers:
Distinguished Research Professor Simon Cherry, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, University of California, Davis
Professor Ramsey Badawi, Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, University of California, Davis
Professor Steven Meikle, Imaging Physics Laboratory, Brain and Mind Centre, The University of Sydney
Ms Alex Burton, Senior Manager, Marketing and Communications, National Imaging Facility

Topic: A conversation with Simon Cherry and Ramsey Badawi: Origins, current progress and the future of Total Body PET

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Australian Total Body PET: Webinar series Imaging to understand whole-body processes such as novel drug interactions during therapeutic development will soon be accessible through Australia’s first research-dedicated Total Body PET (TB-PET).

The Sydney Imaging Core Research Facility at The University of Sydney, in partnership with Northern Sydney Local Health District (NSLHD) and the National Imaging Facility (NIF), have established a Total Body PET facility in the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Royal North Shore Hospital.

TB-PET can be used to capture molecular processes from all organs simultaneously. The high-performance instrument can be used to study diseases that affect the entire body and build a better picture of complex processes such as ageing, metabolism, brain signalling and drug interactions.

Due to its exquisite sensitivity, it also has the potential to use much lower radiation doses compared to conventional PET scanners, making it safe to scan children, healthy volunteers, and to scan patients repeatedly to better understand disease progression and treatment effects.