EMIM 2013 | Torino

THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO CONTRIBUTED TO THE SUCCESS OF the EMIM 2013!

Date

May 26-28, 2013

Place

Torino, Italy

Venue

Torino Incontra – Centro Congressi
Via Nino Costa 8

EMIM 2013 ONLINE PROGRAMME | look inside

The video streams of the educational talks are available for all ESMI members through the member portal – enjoy!

Plenary Lectures

  • Stefan W. Hell – Goettingen, Germany
    Nanoscopy with focused light

  • Heinrich Schelbert – L.A., United States
    Functional and Molecular Imaging of the Heart: Where will it take us?
  • Fritjof Helmchen – University of Zuerich, Switzerland
    Imaging neural networks at work
  • Zaver Bhujwalla – Baltimore, United States
    Imaging the Tumor Microenvironment
  • Mark Dewhirst – Duke University Medical Center, United States on Harnessing imaging to achieve controlled drug delivery to tumors
  • Lucia Crane & Tessa Buckle & Astrid van der Veeldt – the winners of the ESMI PhD award for excellent thesis 

Parallel Sessions

14 Parallel Sessions are scheduled. Each parallel session starts with an overview talk of about 25 min. Followed by five talks that have been choosen from the excellent abstract submissions. Parallel Session titles per category:

CANCER
  • Cancer Metabolism
  • Tumor detection and therapy monitoring
  • Optical and Photoacoustic Imaging in Cancer
CARDIOLOGY
  • Cardiac Vascular Imaging
  • Myocardial perfusion, metabolism, and angiogenesis
CHEMISTRY/PROBES
  • Agents for multi-contrast MRI approaches 
  • Nano-particle concepts for multi-modal imaging 
  • Agents for target-specific imaging 
NEUROLOGY
  • Cerebral Diseases
  • Cellular and metabolic Neuro-Imaging
TECHNOLOGY/METHODOLOGY
  • Novel Methods in Molecular Imaging
  • Technology Developments in Molecular Imaging
INFLAMMATION, INFECTION, and IMMUNITY
  • focus on ESMI STUDY GROUPS
  • Image-Guided Drug Delivery
  • Intra-Operative Imaging
LATE-BREAKING SUBMISSIONS

Educational Sessions 2013

The 4 educational sessions:

1) Advanced Microscopy –
Studying molecular processes at cellular and subcellular level
organised by Peter Friedl

2) Optoacoustic Imaging – 
From principles to application 
organised by Daniel Razansky

3) Hybrid Imaging – 
Merging the best 
organised by Bernd Pichler and Fabian Kiessling

4) MALDI, RAMAN, phase contrast Tomography – 
Emerging non-conventional imaging techniques 
organised by Markus Rudin

EMIM 2013 Steering Committee

  • Silvio Aime – Torino
  • Kevin Brindle – Cambridge
  • Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas – Lyon
  • Peter Friedl – Nijmegen
  • Florence Gazeau – Paris
  • Mathias Hoehn – Cologne
  • Andreas Jacobs – Muenster
  • Fabian Kiessling – Aachen
  • Juhani Knuuti – Turku
  • Twan Lammers – Aachen
  • Kai Licha – Berlin
  • Clemens Löwik – Leiden
  • Adriana Maggi – Milan
  • Chrit Moonen – Utrecht
  • Michal Neeman – Rehovot
  • Klaas Nicolay – Eindhoven
  • Vasilis Ntziachristos – Munich
  • Bernd Pichler – Tübingen
  • Daniel Razansky – Munich
  • Jorge Ripoll – Madrid
  • Markus Rudin – Zuerich
  • Michael Schaefers – Muenster
  • Markus Schwaiger – Munich
  • Bertrand Tavitian – Paris, France
  • Alexander Vahrmeijer – Leiden
  • Gooitzen van Dam – Groningen
  • Annemie van der Linden – Antwerp
  • Juan José Vaquero – Madrid
Participating societies/projects

We are very pleased that the the large scale integrating project INMiND the European Society for Radiology – ESR the European Society of Molecular and Functional Imaging in Radiology – ESMOFIR the European Association for Nuclear Medicine – EANM, European COST Action TD 1004 and TD 1007 COST Action contributed to the EMIM 2013 programme – THANKS!

Thanks for your participation!

Platinum

BRUKER

BRACCO IMAGING S.p.A

Gold

MEDISO
MR SOLUTIONS
PERKINELMER
SEDECAL
VISUALSONICS

Silver

BIOSCAN
BIOSPACE LAB
EPHORAN
FLUOPTICS
INTRACE MEDICAL
INVICRO
ITHERA MEDICAL
LI-COR
MAUNA KEA TECHNOLOGIES

MILABS
MILTENYI BIOTEC
NIKON
RAYTEST
SIEMENS
S-SHARP
STELAR
TOMOWAVE

Friends
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EMIM 2013 in Torino, Italy

Welcome by the former ESMI president Silvio Aime

Dear Participants, Colleagues, Dear Friends,

on behalf of the European Society for Molecular Imaging it is our great pleasure to welcome you to Torino, Italy for the society’s 8th annual meeting: the European Molecular Imaging Meeting.

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ESMI Award 2013

The ESMI Award 2013 was presented to Kevin Brindle from Cambridge. Thank you very much for your excellent science, contribution, your commitment, your visions, and your passion…

ESMI YIA 2013

The ESMI Young Investigator Award 2013 was presented to 

Aurélien Godinat from Lausanne for his work on “A Biocompatible In Vivo Ligation Reaction and its Application for Non-Invasive Bioluminescent Imaging of Protease Activity in Living Mice” read the abstract

80 young investigators applied for the ESMI Young Investigator Award 2013; 29 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, innovation of work, quality of presentation, and the ability to answer requests. Within the Closing Ceremony on Tuesday 28 May 2013 the three best evaluated Young Investigator Award applicants presented their talks.

The further YIA finalists:

Marianne Mertens from Aachen on “Imaging of tissue-engineered vascular grafts” abstract

Katrien Vandoorne from Rehovot/Eindhoven on “Chronic Akt1 deficiency attenuates adverse remodeling and enhances angiogenesis after myocardial infarction” abstract

ESMI Poster Awards 2013

All in all 192 posters were presented. This year 12 Poster Walkschaired by two poster chairs took place. Per poster walk one poster award was given. The Poster Awards 2013 were presented to 12 outstanding scientific contributions:

  • Neurology Imaging
    Thomas Viel on Multimodal imaging of microglial activation and matrix-metalloproteinase (MMP) alterations after experimental cerebral ischemia. (poster# 7)
  • Chemistry/Probes
    Katie-Louise Finney on Enhancing the Sensitivity of PARASHIFT Proton Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscop (#29) and 
    Francesca Garello on NIRF imaging of fluorescent Glucan Particles in an autoimmune model of rheumatoid arthritis (CIA)(#54)
  • Technology/Methodology
    Norbert Lutz on Characterizing tumor pH heterogeneity: a novel method using multiparametric 31P NMR lineshape analysis (#76)
  • Image-Guided Drug Delivery
    Simonetta Geninatti Crich on A theranostic approach based on the use of a dual boron/Gd agent to improve the efficacy of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy in the pulmonary metastasis treatment. (#87)

Find all the abstracts of the poisters presented within poster session 1 here

  • Technology/Methodology
    Manuela Ventura on Dual MR and CT imaging of contrast agent-enhanced Calcium Phosphate cements. (#96)
  • Cancer Imaging
    Katrin Schwegmann on MMP-2/-9 guided Fluorescence Endoscopy for detection of early colorectal cancer. (#116)Gabriella Baio on The MR spectroscopy choline peak in breast cancer diagnosis by a 3T MR scanner is correlated to calcium sensing receptor expression. (#126)
    Jennifer Schmitz on Non-invasive in vivo identification of intratumoral heterogeneity in the PyV-mT transgenic mouse model using sequential PET/MRI. (#148)
  • Cardiovascular Imaging
    Birgit den Adel on E-selectin targeted MRI visualizes progression of atherosclerotic plaques (#159)
  • Intra-Operative Imaging
    Gezim Bala on Intra-operative near-infrared fluorescence imaging in breast cancer with Her2-specific nanobodies. (#180)
  • Inflammation, Infection, and Immunity
    Cristina Martelli on Visualization of Inflammation and Angiogenesis induced by innovative biodegradable synthetic scaffolds for bone tissue engineering. (#189)

Find all the abstracts of the poisters presented within poster session 2 here