Molecular and functional imaging

Front row from left are Imperial College London consultant neuroradiologist Dr Adam Waldman, principal clinical scientist David Collins and reader in physics applied to medicine Dr Jeffrey Bamber, both from the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Trust Surrey, Nottingham University Hospital’s QMC Campus consultant radiologist Dr Rakesh Ganatra and senior lecturer and honorary consultant radiologist Dr Christina Messiou, also from the Insitute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Trust, Surrey.  On the stairs are The Institute of Cancer Research team leader – pre-clinical imaging Dr Simon Robinson, University of Birmingham medical physicist Dr Stuart Green, co-director, CR-UK and EPSRC Cancer Imaging Centre, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Professor Martin Leach and Université Européenne de Bretagne, France, director of research Professor Dimitris Visvikis.

The British Institute of Radiology hosted an insightful Molecular Imaging event at its headquarters in Portland Place, London.

The two-day meeting was organised by Dr Rakesh Ganatra, Dr Alistair Howseman and the BIR’s nuclear medicine committee on behalf of The British Institute of Radiology.     

Molecular imaging spans a wide range of imaging modalities and is a rapidly developing field in both research and clinical use.

See the full report on page 4 of the December 2010 issue of RAD Magazine.