[18a-D62-1~6] 2.4 Medical application

11:15 AM - 11:45 AM JST(2:15 AM - 2:45 AM UTC)

[18a-D62-6] [The 30th Ionization Radiation Division Academic Award Speech] Practicing “applied physics in nuclear medicine”: Bench-to-clinical research on PET

〇Taiga Yamaya¹, Miwako Takahashi¹, Hideaki Tashima¹, Eiji Yoshida¹, Chie Toramatsu¹, Go Akamatsu¹, Fumihiko Nishikido¹, Akram Hamato¹, Han Gyu Kang¹, Sodai Takyu¹, Yuma Iwao¹, Shunsuke Kurosawa², Kei Kamada², Akira Yoshikawa², Hideaki Haneishi³, Mikio Suga³, Kazuya Kawamura³, Mariko Ishibashi⁴, Yoichi Imai⁵ (1.QST, 2.Tohoku Univ., 3.Chiba Univ., 4.Nippon Medical School, 5.Dokkyo Medical Univ.)

Keywords:

PET,Nuclear Medicine

Although Japan is active in radiation measurement research, approximately 90% of PET systems in Japan rely on imports, and Japan lags behind the rest of the world in nuclear medicine applications. There is a strong need for new technologies to solve clinical problems, and applied physics has a large role to play. Therefore, we launched the Future PET Creative Research Unit with the support of the Nakatani Foundation, with the aim of conducting applied physics research that leads to clinical practice, which we defined as Bench-to-Clinical (B2C) research.