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ABSTRACT
Medical imaging is the technique and process of creating visual representations of the: interior of a body for clinical analysis and medical intervention and, of the function of some organs or tissues (physiology). Medical imaging is often perceived to designate the set of techniques that non-invasively produce images of the internal aspect of the body.
In this talk we will review the different imaging modalities while providing a brief history of their development and key technical aspects.
BIO
Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro, phD in Physics, was born in Valencia (Spain) in 1992. During her 10-year academic career, she has been working on the study and improvement of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) instrumentation. She has contributed to various well recognized items in the imaging research area, but especially in PET detector development and their assembling into fully-operating systems.
From 2014 to February 2019, she carried out her master and phD studies at the Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M) in Valencia, where she was involved in building dedicated PET scanners. She got her phD diploma in December 2018 with Cum Laude and international distinction.
In March 2019, she joined the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow where her research focused on the study of TOF-PET detector blocks. In January 2023 she got a Ramón y Cajal postdoctoral position at the Spanish Research council (CSIC) and came back to i3M, where she is involved in the development of trimodal PET inserts and on the design of a detector block for total-body PET scanners. More recently, she got an ERC starting grant for the development of PHOENIX, the first pediatric PET scanner based on BGO scintillators.
Also, she is deeply involved with educational activities, she joined (as organizer and lecturer) the IEEE NPSS EduCom and the WIE community in 2024. She belongs to the NMISC council and, is co-founder and president of the association Women of Science together with the Foundation Spanish Royal Academy of Science.
