13 Parallel Sessions...

...were organised by the joint efforts of the Scientific Programme Committee.

The session topics:

• Molecular Neuroimaging
• Image Guided Therapy
• Probes/Chemistry (together with COST action D38)
• Biomedical Applications of Photonics (together with the dutch IOP Photonics)
• Imaging Cancer Treatment and Evaluation (together with the ESR)
• Ex vivo and in vivo Microscopy and Cell Tracking (together with ENCITE)
• Theranostics (together with EANM/COST action BM0607)
• Imaging in Drug Discovery and Development
• Imaging in Cardiovascular Disease (together with the ESR)
• Reporter Systems and Reporter Animals for Molecular Imaging
• Inflammation and Neurodegeneration
• Image Guided Surgery
• (Hybrid) Imaging Technologies

Plenary Speakers and talk titles:

• The Inaugural Lecture on "Metabolic Imaging in Health and Disease" was given by Professor Sir George C. Radda. Sir George Radda is well known for his pioneering efforts in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) methods used to study the human body; he published the first use of phosphorus NMR to study tissue metabolites in 1974. He is Chairman of the Singapore Bioimaging Consortium (SBIC). He was also a key driver in building up bioimaging capabilities for clinical R&D in Singapore through the establishment of the Clinical Imaging Research Centre (CIRC)

• Daniel C. Anthony - Head of Experimental Neuropathology Laboratory at the University of Oxford, University Lecturer and Fellow on
  "Imaging Inflammation with Targeted Contrast Agents"
  

• Robert J. Gillies - director Molecular and Functional Imaging at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa on
  "Heterovalent Targeting"
  

• Ton G. van Leeuwen - Head of the Biomedical Engineering and Physics department in the Faculty of Medicine at the Academic Medical Centre of the University of Amsterdam on "Promises and Pitfalls of Photo-Acoustic Molecular Imaging with Gold Nanoparticles"

• Mark Lythgoe - Director of the Centre for Advanced Biomedical Imaging at the University College London - UCL on
  "Optogenetics and MRI: Shedding Light on the Brain"

• Gero Miesenboeck - Waynflete Professor of Physiology at the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at the University of Oxford on
  "Lighting Up the Brain"

• Nadine Peyriéras from the CNRS-NED Team "Multiscale Dynamics in Animal Morphogenesis" Gif sur Yvette on "Visualization of Protein Tubules Involved in Cell Division and Cell Boundaries in Live Embryos"
  

• Hong Zhang - lecturer at the van't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences University of Amsterdam on "Construction of upconversion Photonic Nanoplatform for Bioimaging and Photodynamic Therapy of Cancer"
  

Scientific Steering Committee:

Participating societies/projects

We are very pleased that the European Society for Radiology – ESR, the European Association for Nuclear Medicine – EANM, the European Network for Cell Imaging and Tracking Expertise – ENCITE, European COST Actions, and the Dutch IOP Photonics co-organized sessions and contributed to the set-up of an excellent programme. THANKS!

Thanks for your support!

Platinum

Caliper Life Science

GE Healthcare

 

Gold

MILabs together with Skyscan

Philips together with Bioscan

 

Silver

ART Technologies	Biospace lab
BRACCO	Bruker
carestream	CheMatech
CT Imaging	fluoptics
iTheraMedical	LI-COR
MiltenyiBiotec	MR solutions
O2view	Siemens
PerkinElmer	Visualsonics

 

Friends

Berthold Technologies, Digisens, novartis, Zinsser Analytic

 

EMIM 2011 in Leiden, The Netherlands

Welcome by the ESMI president Clemens W.G.M. Löwik

 

Dear Colleagues,

under the auspices of the European Society for Molecular Imaging, contributing associate societies and collaborative partner organisations, we offer you a very warm welcome to the 6^th European Molecular Imaging Meeting – EMIM that is to be held in the beautiful city of Leiden, The Netherlands read more

 

EMIM 2011 Programme

• complete EMIM 2011 programme overview

Overview per day

• Day 1: Sunday 19 June 2011

• Day 2: Monday 20 June 2011

• Day 3: Tuesday 21 June 2011

• programme of the educational session

EMIM 2011 Abstracts

Abstracts of talks per session

Abstracts of posters per category

ESMI Awards 2011

The ESMI Award 2011 was presented to Annemie van der Linden from Antwerp. The laudatio was given by Andreas Jacobs. Thank you very much for your contribution, your commitment, your visions, and your passion...

ESMI YIA 2011

The ESMI Young Investigator Award 2011 was presented to Mariska de Smet from Eindhoven for her work on
"MR monitoring of HIFU-mediated local drug delivery with temperature sensitive liposomes". 

130 young investigators applied for the ESMI Young Investigator Award 2011; 42 were shortlisted and their talks evaluated within the respective Parallel Sessions. The evaluation criterias were: the pre-score given by the reviewers, the scientific quality of the talk, quality of presentation, and the ability to answer requests. Within the Closing Ceremony on Tuesday 21 June 2011 the six best evaluated Young Investigator Award applicants presented their talks:

• Philipp Böhm-Sturm "In vivo tracking of human neural stem cells in the mouse brain with 19F MRI"
  
  
• Nadav Kimelman-Bleich "In vivo stem cell tracking using multimodality molecular imaging"
  
  
• Laura Sasportas "Quantititative, dynamic and long term in vivo imaging of intravascular circulating tumor cells in awake animals, with a novel miniature fluorescence microscope"
  
  
• Joost van der Vorst "Preclinical optimization and clinical translation of near-infrared fluorescence imaging of colorectal liver metastases using indocyanine green"
  
  
• Danielle Vugts "Preclinical in vivo evaluation of a Zr-89 labeled anti-CD44 antibody as prelude to clinical immuno-PET studies"

ESMI Poster Awards 2011

All in all 195 posters were presented. This year special attention has been put on 10 Guided Poster Walks in order to enhance the knowledge exchange of experienced and young researchers. The Poster Awards 2011 were presented to fourteen outstanding scientific contributions in ten diverse fields of MI:

• Development in Imaging Technology
  Jan Klohs, Zürich (Poster No. 3)
• Imaging Ananlysis and Quantification
  Felix Gremse, Aachen (Poster No. 45)
  
• Imaging Cancer Treatment and Evaluation
  Joost Haeck, Rotterdam (Poster No. 94) Greco Adelaide, Naples (Poster No. 29) Thomas Viel, Muenster (Poster No. 37)
  
• Tumour Biology Metabolism
  Dennis Doleschel, Aachen (Poster No. 98)
  
• Probe Design
  Lena Schönzart, Berlin (Poster No. 138) Carlos Geraldes/André Martins, Coimbra (Poster No. 73)
  
• Imaging in Cardiovascular Disease
  Birgit den Adel, Leiden (Poster No. 160)
  
• Animal Models
  Carol van der Donckt, Wilrijk (Poster No. 107)
  
• Inflammatory and Metabolic Disorders
  Eva Korpos, Muenster (Poster No. 149)
  
• Molecular Neuroimaging
  Daniel Kalthoff, Cologne (Poster No. 153)
  
• Others
  Jeannine Missbach-Guentner, Göttingen (Poster No. 195) Matthias D'huyvetter, Jette (Poster No. 184)

Abstracts of posters per category