A statement from Dr. David Faul, Biograph mMR Collaborations Manager, North America Siemens Healthineers, “At the recent ISMRM-SNMMI MR PET Workshop at USC in Los Angeles, Lawson Health Research Institute won both the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation Awards.  This is an astonishing achievement for the Lawson team and a recognition of the scientific excellence of its research, especially considering that oral talks and posters were presented at the Workshop by the world’s leaders in MR PET research and development including Stanford, MGH Martinos Center, Mayo Clinic, and Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele.  Lawson’s success at the Workshop left me feeling that the Siemens Healtineers support of Lawson research is well justified.”
 

Abstracts/presentations given by Western/Lawson post-doctoral fellows and graduate trainees
 

Monitoring Bacteria Post-ingestion: PET/MRI of 89Zr-labeled Lactobacillus crispatus. Ranganathan VT, Donnelly SC, Rabbath E, Fox MS, Gelman N, Thiessen JD, Jago H, Brown T, Biernaski H, Huston Y,  Suchy M, Kovacs MS, Thompson RT, Prato FS, Burton JP, Goldhawk DE. 2023. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA. Winner of the Best Oral Presentation Award
 

Prognostic Implications of Inflammation and Perfusion Post-Myocardial Infarction: A Hybrid PET/MRI Study. Wilk B, Smailovic H, Biernaski H, Kovacs M, Wisenberg G, Thiessen JD, Prato FS. 2023. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA. 

Comparing voltage mapping and hybrid PET/MRI in a canine model of atrial fibrillation. Wilk B, Skanes A, Lim H, Biernaski H, Sykes J, Kovacs M, Hicks J, Thiessen JD, Prato FS. 2023. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA. 
 

Hybrid PET/MRI for Respiratory Motion Corrected, ECG-Gated, sequential 13N-Ammonia PET Perfusion in Myocardial Infarction Animal Model. Lim H, Wilk B, Moran G, Faul D, Thiessen JD, Prato FS. 2023. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA. Winner of the Best Poster Award

Non-Invasive Imaging of [18F]FDG Extraction Fraction by PET/MRI: a Potential Glucose Transporter Expression Biomarker. Deller G, St. Lawrence K, Liu L, Soddu A, Narciso L. 2023. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA. 

A combined FDG-PET/resting-state fMRI study investigating disruptions in effective connectivity in behavioural-variant Frontotemporal Dementia. Dassanayake P, Cakmak J, Joshy M, Liu L, Aiello M, Finger E, Anazodo U, St. Lawrence K. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA

Simplifying Cerebral Aerobic Glycolysis Imaging by Hybrid PET/MRI. Narciso L, Deller G, Liu L, St. Lawrence K. ISMRM-SNMMI Co-Provided Workshop on PET/MRI, USC Health Sciences Conference Centre, Los Angeles, USA.