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The long term goal of the VUIIS Cancer Imaging Group (CIG) is to be an international leader in the development and application of imaging techniques that can be used to quantitatively probe fundamental cancer biology as well to assess and predict the responses of tumors to treatment.
CIG researchers currently employ MRI, optical, x-ray radiography and CT, SPECT, PET, and ultrasound to conduct studies in anatomical and morphological imaging as well as physiological and molecular imaging of cancer. These studies are concerned almost exclusively with pre-clinical small animal models of cancer, though CIG investigators are engaged in a few clinical studies.
Please see the schedule below for a list of topics and presenters. If you have further questions, please contact Tom Yankeelov.
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Fall 2009 Schedule of Speakers
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Please join us from 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. every other Thursday
in the VUIIS classroom, AA-1119.
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| Sep. 3 |
Jashim Uddin: Synthesis and evaluation of LM-4777 as a COX-2 Targeted Imaging Agent in Acute Inflammation
Todd Miller: Discovering imaging biomarkers predictive of therapeutic response to IGF-IR inhibitors
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| Sept. 17 |
Kevin Waddell: Opportunities in Cancer Imaging with Hyperpolarized NMR
Zhaozhong Han: Recombinant peptides for Imaging Assessment of Tumor Response to Therapies
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| Oct. 1 |
Sam Soebbing: Noninvasive In Vivo Detection of MMP-7 Activity using Novel Proteolytic Solubility-Switch SPECT Probes
Amanda Lowery: Strategies for Targeted Nanomedicine in Cancer Therapy
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| Oct. 15 |
Xia Li: Validation of an Algorithm for the Nonrigid Registration of Longitudinal Breast MR Images
Randy Scherer: Mix and Match Nanodendrons for Targeting and Treatment of Breast Cancer Metastases
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| Oct. 29 |
Nkiruka Atuegwu: Mathematical Modeling of Tumor Growth and Treatment Response Based on Quantitative Imaging Data
Nilesh Mistry: Assessment of Nitrite induced changes in rats with C6 gliomas
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| Nov. 12 |
Susan Kost: Probing diffusion properties in protein solutions and tissues by temporal
diffusion spectroscopy
Lori Arlinghaus: Advances in Diffusion Imaging of the Breast
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| Dec. 3 |
Chad Quarles: Assessment of Tumor Oxygen Consumption using 17-Oxygen MRI
Eva Harth: Design of nanoscopic architectures for MRI and fluorescent imaging
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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Spring 2009 Schedule of Speakers
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| Jan. 15 |
John H. Neugebauer, Koning Corporation: CT imaging of the breast with a novel system
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| Jan. 29 |
Nathan Mutic: Insights on relationship between molecular mechanisms of TK1 expression and FLT PET
(Click here for powerpoint.)
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| Feb. 12 |
Eliot McKinley: FLT-PET Imaging of Colorectal Cancer: Results to date
Ed Donnelly: Phase contrast radiography
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| Feb. 26 |
Ghazal Hariri: Imaging radiation-guided drug delivery to cancer
Natenael Semmineh: Investigation of Contrast Agent Leakage Effects on DSC-MRI
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| Mar. 11 |
Jim Nutaro : The General Systems Problem Solver: Klir's method for prognosis from images
(* 11:45 - 12:45 *)
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| Mar. 12 |
Michelle Martin: The use of two-photon microscopy and MRI to examine microenvironmental influences in early breast cancer metastasis
Jashim Uddin: Design of COX-2 targeted imaging agents
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| Mar. 26 |
Nikki Atuegwu: Mathematical modeling of tumor growth
Julie Stirling: Imaging Bone Metastases
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| Apr. 9 |
Lori Arlinghaus: Improving diffusion-weighted MR methods in breast cancer imaging
Jack Virostko: Bioluminescence tomography
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| Apr. 23 |
Roberto Diaz: Noninvasive assessment of tumor response to systemic therapy
J. Oliver McIntyre: Imaging proteolytic activity (and response to therapy?) in the microenvironment of tumors (Click here for powerpoint)
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| May 21 |
Charles Manning: Molecular determinants affecting FLT-PET in CRC
Jason Buck: TSPO Targeted Probes for Cancer Imaging
Joint CIG-ICMIC meeting
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| June 2 |
Andrew Buckler: Quantitative Biomedical Analytics (Abstract)
Buckler Biomedical
** NOTE special Tuesday seminar, 1:30-2:30 p.m. **
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Fall 2008 Schedule of Speakers
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| Sept. 25 |
Tom Yankeelov: Update on CIG developments
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| Oct. 9 |
Jack Virostko: 3D optical imaging
Richard Dortch: Multi-exponential T2 measurements
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| Oct. 16 |
Ramesh Paudyal (postdoctoral candidate)
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| Nov. 6 |
Richard Baheza: Susceptibility-weighted imaging of calcifications
Xia "Lisa" Li: Longitudinal registration of human breast cancer data
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| Nov. 20
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Zhengyu Yang: Co-registration and analysis of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption and Ionization (MALDI) measurements with MR relaxation measurements
Michelle Martin: Imaging of early breast cancer metastasis to liver
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| Dec. 4
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Mary Loveless: Characterization of the Arterial Input Function Using a Reference Region Model for Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DCE-MRI)
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| Dec. 11 |
Joel Garbow (Washington University, St. Louis): Diagnosis, Staging, and Therapeutic Response of Cancer: Insights from Small-Animal MRI
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| Dec. 18 |
Shaun Gleason (Oak Ridge National Lab)
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