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Introduction

We are pleased to confirm that the next ‘PET- Technology and Application’ course is to be held in March 2016 at our Guy’s Campus, London.

The course fees are: £770 corporate, £660 non corporate, £300 student

Please note there is an early bird discount of £100 for corporate/non corporate attendees and £50 early bird discount for students. The early bird offers expires on 1 December 2015.

What does the course cover?
• How PET radioisotopes are produced
• The chemistry of labelling compounds with shortlived positron-emitting radionuclides
• The design of PET tracers: impact on interpretation of scanning data (eg position of labelling, metabolism and sterochemistry)
• PET instrumentation: how does a PET scanner or a cyclotron work?
• How PET data is analysed (kinetic modelling, image analysis)
• How PET is used as a tool in basic biomedical research, pre-clinical studies, probing in vivo biological processes/mechanisms, drug development and discovery, diagnosis and treatment of disease

Deadlines

• Dec 01 2015
  Early bird registration deadline

  
• Mar 11 2016
  Standard registration deadline

  

Downloads

• Course Programme
• Course Flyer

Speakers

• Professor Tony Gee Tony Gee is Professor of PET and Radiochemistry in the Division of Imaging Sciences at King's College London and a visiting Professor at the Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London. He obtained a BSc(Hons) in Chemistry at the University of Sussex (1985), and his PhD in Radiopharmaceutical Organic Chemistry at Uppsala University, Sweden (1991). Since then he has worked as the Director of PET Chemistry at the Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals Clinical PET centre, UMDS, London, and the Aarhus University Hospital PET Centre in Aarhus Denmark, before moving to GlaxoSmithKline to spearhead the use of PET imaging in drug discovery and development before moving to his current position at King's College, United Kingdom
  , United Kingdom

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Venue

King's College London

Gordon Museum, King's College London, King’s College London, Gordon Museum , Hodgkin’s Building, St.Thomas's Street , London, SE19RT, United Kingdom

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King's College London

King's College London

Contact information

Jasbir Bains
King's College London
King's College London,
4th Floor, North Wing,
St Thomas’ Hospital,
London,
SE1 7EH
(+44) 020 7188 7188
Contact us by email

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