ASSOCIATED GROUPS

Nuclear Medicine

Main lines of research

Oncology

  • New diagnostic methods based on the identification and visualization of molecular targets employing metabolic mechanisms, receptor systems, hypoxia, angiogenesis and apoptosis.
  • New applications for sentinel node detection and radioguided surgery models.

Cardiovascular research

  • New methods for non-invasive assessment of ischaemic heart disease and heart failure.
  • Cardiovascular functional studies.
  • New methods for assessing cardiac innervation.

Functional Neuroimaging

  • Development of new functional imaging methods for evaluating neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson, Parkinson-Plus, Alzheimer, MCI).
  • Dopaminergic system studies using IBZM and Datscan.

Challenges

  • Introduce new technologies to clinical research (given that imaging techniques are evolving very rapidly towards multimodal systems that integrate biological, molecular, anatomical and functional information in a single examination) and include these technologies, mainly PET/CT and PET/MR, in the group and hospital’s research activities.

New Molecular Imaging Techniques

  • Develop new hybrid molecular imaging technologies, mainly PET/CT and PET/MR, building on pre-clinical and clinical molecular imaging models developed using SPECT and conventional nuclear medicine technologies.

PET Imaging Biomarkers

  • Develop new PET radioactive tracers to be used as biomarkers in new imaging tecnologies building on our experience with radioactive tracers to view in vivo diagnostic and therapeutic targets.

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