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Volume 5, Issue 5(Suppl) OMICS J Radiol
ISSN: 2167-7964 ROA, an open access journal
Page 33
Medical Imaging 2016
October 20-21, 2016
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October 20-21, 2016 Chicago, USA
International Conference on
Medical Imaging & Diagnosis
Zang Hee Cho, OMICS J Radiol 2016, 6:5(Suppl)
Ultra high field MRI and PET fusion imaging for neuroscience research: From Parkinson diseases to
cognitive sciences
Recent progresses on new imaging and system developments, especially on the brain dedicated PET-MRI, using high
resolution HRRT-PET and ultra-high field 7.0 T magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and their applications to basic and
clinical neuroradiology will be discussed. With high field MRI, such as the 7.0 T MRI, one can now visualize the subfields of
the hippocampus and brainstem in vivo as well as tractography hitherto unable to do with existing MRI systems. Together with
molecular imaging using positron emission tomography (PET), now, it is possible to visualize metabolic functional changes
quantitatively in human brain.
Biography
Zang Hee Cho was the Professor of Radiological Science at University of California at Irvine and the University Professor and Director of the Neuroscience
Research Institute, Incheon, Korea since 1985, until he moved to Advanced Institutes of Convergence Technology, Seoul National University. He has been a
pioneer in positron emission tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance imaging since the inception of the computerized tomography (CT) in 1972. He was the
first one who pioneered world’s first "Ring PET", the first molecular imaging device, in 1975.
More recently, he pioneered the first PET-MRI (Proteomics 2008) demonstrating that in vivo human sub-millimeter high resolution molecular imaging is possible
and published over one hundred neuroscience and related scientific publications. He has more than 300 peer reviewed scientific publications covering from nuclear
physics to neuroscience and published 3 graduate level text books. Among the numerous honors and awards, he was elected as a Member of the US National
Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine in 1997.
Zang Hee Cho
Seoul National University, South Korea