Turku PET Centre

WikiPET closed

2012-02-03T12:49:00.000+02:00

Our WikiPET site (wiki.turkupetcentre.net and www.turkupetcentre.fi/wiki) are now closed, because the contents were outdated, and more up-to-date content is already available in www.turkupetcentre.fi.

For researcers in TPC: The backup of WikiPET contents is for the moment stored in S:\groups\Imaging\wikipet\.

PGS seminar: Multiple sclerosis pathogenesis

2011-08-29T13:14:00.002+03:00

Multiple sclerosis pathogenesis
Turku University PGS seminar 29.9.2011
Mauno Koivisto Center lecture hall, Biocity, Turku

Programme:
13.00-13.05 Opening words, Laura Airas, University of Turku
13.05-14.00 Professor Tanja Kuhlmann, University of Munster. Pathology of the normal appearing white matter and gray matter in multiple sclerosis.
14.00-15.00 Professor Daniel Anthony, University of Oxford. Animal models in
studies of CNS inflammation – special emphasis on the focal lesion model.
15.00-15.15 Coffee break
15.15-15.45 Professor Anne Roivainen, University of Turku. How to use small animal
positron emission tomography (PET) in central nervous system (CNS) imaging
15.45-16.15 Professor Juha Rinne, University of Turku. PET in imaging of human CNS inflammation
16.15-16.30 MD Eero Rissanen, University of Turku. Imaging secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS) using PET

Imaging in Neuroscience: From Molecules to Human Interaction

2011-06-22T08:52:00.003+03:00

The Brain Research Society of Finland organizes Neuroscience Finland 2011-symposium in 9th September 2011 in BioCity Turku. The title this year is “Imaging in Neuroscience: From Molecules to Human Interaction”. The detailed program can be found at http://www.brsf.org/program.htm.

Deadline for registration and abstracts is August 31, 2011.

Challenges of Live Animal Imaging Facilities, Turku, Sep 26-27, 2011

2011-06-10T09:25:00.002+03:00

Nordic Seminar on Practical in vivo Imaging, "Challenges of Live Animal Imaging Facilities", will be held in Turku 26th - 27th September, 2011.

Registration is free. More information in the first announcement (pdf).

Software sessions in XII Turku PET Symposium

2011-02-03T16:24:00.002+02:00

The programme of software sessions of XII Turku PET Symposium is now ready! Also the abstract submission page is opened.

Carimas 2.0 has been released

2010-12-31T09:52:00.002+02:00

Carimas 2.0 has been finally released, and can be downloaded in Turku PET Centre web pages.
Please contact Sergey Nesterov (@tyks.fi) in case of any questions or comments.

Carimas in YouTube

2010-11-11T07:38:00.001+02:00

Watch Carimas videos in YouTube, http://www.youtube.com/user/CarimasTeam

Turku PET Symposium 2011

2010-07-22T12:58:00.005+03:00

The XII Turku PET Symposium is going to be held on 28 – 31 May 2011.

Note that there will be special sessions for software developers and technologists!

New SW releases because of new Allogg blood sampler

2010-05-21T14:15:00.002+03:00

New Allogg ABBS (automatic blood sampling system) has a different file format and its own calibration constants. Therefore the programs and scripts that process ABSS data files need to be updated. At the moment, program blo2kbq is updated to version 3.8.0, and all scripts using blo2kbq should be updated to call this version.

Scripts that are already updated are:
water_input.vbs
PK11195_input.vbs
TMSX_input.vbs
DEP-D_input.vbs

Lecture by Prof Dirk Duncker on May 26

2010-05-17T12:06:00.002+03:00

Professor of Experimental Cardiology and Director of Cardiovascular Research School COEUR in Rotterdam Medical School, Dirk Duncker, MD, PhD, will give us a talk about "Left Ventricle
Remodelling after Myocardial Infarction: The Effects of Exercise Training" on Wednesday 26th of May. The lecture will be held in the seminar room of Turku PET Centre starting at 15 o'clock.

PET Basics - course 2010

2010-01-08T14:06:00.002+02:00

Dates: 8.3-9.3.2010

Venue: Auditorium of the department of Internal Medicine, Building 6, first floor, Turku University Hospital, Kiinamyllynkatu 4-8, Turku. For a map see http://www.tyks.fi/fi/805

Organiser: Turku PET Centre

Language: English

Please register latest 19.2 to Mirja Jyrkinen, mirja.jyrkinen@tyks.fi; fax 02 2318191

8.3.2010 PET physics, radiochemistry and preclinical imaging

9.15 - 9.30 Juha Rinne Opening and housekeeping
9.30 -10.00 Juhani Knuuti Introduction
10:00 -10.30 Mika Teräs Physics of radiation
Break, Coffee
11.00-11.30 Olof Solin Production of radionuclides for PET
11.30-12.00 Olli Eskola PET radiuocgemistry
12.00-12.30 Mika Teräs PET instrumentation
Lunch
13.30-14.00 Jarkko Johansson Image acquisition and reconstruction
14.00-14.30 Vesa Oikonen How to get numbers – principles of modelling for PET
14.30- 15.00 Jarmo Hietala Investigators view on radiotracer modelling
Break, Coffee
15.15-15.45 Pirjo Rautiainen GMP in PET-tracer production
15.45-16.30 Visit to RK2 Olli Eskola, Jörgen Bergman
16.30-17.15 Visit to PET cameras Mika Teräs, Jarkko Johansson

9.3.2010 PET in research and diagnostics

8.30-9.15 Merja Haaparanta-Solin Preclinical evaluation of new PET tracers
9.15-9.45 Tove Grönroos Small animal imaging with emphasis on PET-CT imaging
9.45-10.15 Heikki Minn PET in oncological research
Break, Coffee
11.15-11.45 Pirjo Nuutila PET in metabolic research
11.45-12.15 Juhani Knuuti PET in clinical cardiology
12.15-12.45 Juha Rinne PET in clinical neurology
Lunch
13.45-14.15 Sami Kajander Multimodality imaging
14.15-14.45 Marko Seppänen Diagnostic PET imaging in Turku PET Centre
14.45-15.00 Juha Rinne Closing

International Master´s Programme in Biomedical Imaging

2009-12-07T14:07:00.001+02:00

International Master´s Programme in Biomedical Imaging starts in
Turku, Finland in September 2010. The programme is jointly administrated by
the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University.
Close cooperators are the national Turku PET Centre, Turku Center for
Disease Modeling, Turku Centre for Biotechnology and Turku University
Hospital.

Application period for the programme will be December 1, 2009 -
February 26, 2010. For more details, see the programme pages at:

http://www.med.utu.fi/bioimaging

http://www.abo.fi/bioimaging

Animal Imaging Workshop & 3D Optical Imaging demonstrations in Turku 5.11.2009

2009-10-11T16:00:00.001+03:00

Nordic Imaging Network will arrange an Animal
Imaging Workshop in Turku on the 5th of November,
2009. Visit NINs homepage for more information and registration.

As part of this workshop, the VisEn Medical company will demonstrate
their 3-D optical imaging device (FMT 250) during the 4th and 5th of
November.

Head of the Cell Imaging Core / Group Leader position

2009-10-11T14:51:00.000+03:00

Head of the Cell Imaging Core / Group Leader position at the Turku Centre for Biotechnology (the Centre), BioCity Turku, Turku, Finland for the period of January 1, 2010 – June 30, 2013.

The Turku Centre for Biotechnology is a joint department of the University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University. Our mission is to promote high quality research and to develop and provide key state-of-the-art research platforms and methods in life sciences.

We are seeking an ambitious senior scientist / group leader to head the Cell Imaging Core (CIC) at the Centre. The responsibilities include leading a successful research group in molecular and cellular biology, managing the day-to-day operation of this key core facility and further developing it and contributing to graduate and undergraduate education. Successful applicants are expected to have a Ph.D, expertise in cell imaging and relevant experience for leading a research group.

The salary is in accordance with the State’s salary system (Universities) for teaching and research personnel level 6-8 (Senior Researcher), where the work specific salary component is between 3 064 – 4 268 €/month. In addition, there is a share increase based on the personal performance, which is, at most, 46% of the base salary.

Please send your CV, list of publications, a brief statement of your research interests, contact information for three references and an outline for your plan to develop and operate the core facility unit to: Minttu Jaakkola, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, Tykistökatu 6B, 20520 Turku, Finland.

Closing date for the applications is October 30, 2009 at 3.15 pm.

For further information please contact Eleanor Coffey, e-mail: eleanor.coffey (at) btk.fi
For more information about the Centre: www.btk.fi
CIC: cic.btk.fi
Turku biomedical science community: www.biocity.turku.fi

Carimas2 beta version is released

2009-09-30T16:35:00.001+03:00

Carimas2 is a package for general medical image processing, it is not ONLY for cardiac study any more. Using Carimas2, you can visualize PET, CT and MRI image data, you can draw ROI manually, you can extract tissue-activity curves based on your defined ROIs, you can perform further analysis such as modeling. A heart module is implemented Carimas2. Using heart module, users can analyze cardiac PET study data in similar way such as in Carimas v1.0.

If you want to join our testing team, please contact Chunlei Han. The download link is
http://www.turkupetcentre.net/carimasturku/files/carimas_200.exe

Turku PET Centre web pages are reshaped

2009-09-04T13:23:00.002+03:00

Official Turku PET Centre web pages are modernized, and can be found in the familiar place,
http://www.pet.fi and http://www.turkupetcentre.fi.

Responsibility for keeping the pages up-to-date is shared to research groups. If you have suggestions or questions regarding the page contents, please contact the group manager instead of the IT group.

Software downloads and most of the modeling contents are not yet moved to the new pages, but are still found in http://www.turkupetcentre.net.

Firefox in Turku PET Centre

2009-08-20T11:05:00.004+03:00

Using Firefox in TUH is prevented by default, because Medbit requests that only Explorer 6 to be used in the TUC network (and PET Centre as well). However, because the academic research work in Turku PET Centre is dependent on modern, safe, standard complying browsers, Firefox is restored to those who have requested that. Firefox then installed and and updated automatically as managed software.

Patlak and Logan programs updated

2009-08-20T10:59:00.002+03:00

Programs for regional calculation of Patlak and Logan (patlak, logan), and programs for calculation of parametric Ki and DV images (imgki and imgdv) were updated to C# versions.

Currently the C# versions are available only inside TPC network. SW is still GPL, but new TPC web pages do not yet allow automatic uploading of SW, and currently there is no download page either. Codes and/or executables (same executables work in Linux/Mono as well) are available by request.

2nd Nordic Imaging Network Symposium, 17-18.9.2009, Bergen

2009-08-11T09:53:00.002+03:00

Second Nordic Imaging Network Symposium is organized by Molecular Imaging Center,
Dept. of Biomedicine in University of Bergen, 17-18 September, 2009. Registration deadline 31.8.
More information in
http://www.uib.no/med/mic/meetings/meetings.html.

TPC Program list in web may not be up-to-date

2009-07-24T08:32:00.003+03:00

Automatic update of software list does not work currently because of failing Unix server in TPC. For the same reason, also other contents of http://www.turkupetcentre.net/ may not be up-to-date. For the time being, only partial updates can be done, manually.

However, inside TPC and hospital network, the folder for executable programs and source codes in svn are updated as usual.

New release of fitk2

2009-07-24T08:27:00.002+03:00

Program for fitting one-tissue compartment model to regional PET data, fitk2, was updated (version 1.1.0). Results are not significantly different between old and new versions, but there are changes in the user interface: usage is now more similar to program fitk3.

SVG plot tooltips

2009-07-17T16:28:00.003+03:00

New Firefox 3.5 does not show SVG plot tooltips (TAC titles), or it shows only an empty box, if Google Toolbar is installed. Disable Google toolbar in Firefox 3.5 for the time being.

2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics, Sep 6-8, 2009

2009-07-03T09:51:00.000+03:00

2nd INCF Congress of Neuroinformatics in Pilsen, Czech Republic.
http://www.neuroinformatics2009.org/.

New release of Patlak

2009-07-01T11:20:00.004+03:00

Patlak program for regional TAC data was updated to a C# version by Ville Korpi. New Patlak has version number 2.0.0 and it can be used as previously inside the hospital network. Results are the same as in previous versions.

If necessary, the previous C version of Patlak can be used with command patlak_1_8_3.

Updated blood input scripts for [O-15]H2O, [C-11]TMSX and [C-11]PK11195

2009-06-30T18:34:00.002+03:00

Blood input scripts for [O-15]H2O, [C-11]TMSX and [C-11]PK11195 were updated, and are available for using inside hospital network in P:\bin\windows\.

PET Centre calendar outside intranet

2009-06-26T10:12:00.000+03:00

You can now see PET Centre calendar, including meeting schedules etc, in any web browser even outside hospital network from this address ;
alternatively you can read it with your Google calendar from this address or with Apple iCal from here.

Anyone who likes to get edit access to this calendar, please let me know.

Do you want to write to this blog?

2009-05-29T09:47:00.000+03:00

Let me know, if you would like to contribute to this weblog, and I'll give you write access.