Triple Ring Technologies' Med Tech Frontiers Series October 1, 2009

Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. is pleased to offer informational presentations on topics of technical and scientific interest to the medical device community through its free Med Tech Frontiers Series for 2009. Details for the next event are below:

Topic: The Bright Future of Nuclear Medicine: PET and SPECT Imaging
Date: Thursday October 1, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm, presentation begins at 6:45 pm
Location: Triple Ring Technologies, 39655 Eureka Drive, Newark
Speaker: Dr. Tobias Funk, Staff Physicist, Triple Ring Technologies
Cost: The seminar is free of charge, but registration is required for planning purposes
To Register, visit http://www.acteva.com/booking.cfm?bevaid=177802
On-Site registration: A limited number of on-site registrations may be available

About the Seminar:
Single Photon Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) are highly sensitive medical imaging modalities that are clinically used for diagnosis and staging of diseases such as cancer and heart disease. SPECT and PET are based on radiolabeled tracers that are injected into the patient and concentrate at specific sites depending on the biochemical characteristics of the tracer. The radioactive probes decay and emit γ-photons that are recorded by the imager. The resulting images are used to reconstruct a 3D representation of the radiotracer distribution in the body. Importantly, in contrast to anatomic imaging modalities like CT, SPECT and PET are functional and molecular imaging modalities. Thus they are sensitive to metabolic processes, perfusion, and biologic processes taking place at the cellular and subcellular levels.

In this seminar we review the basic principles of SPEC and PET, provide an overview of common procedures, and discuss in some detail the challenges and opportunities in the development of instrumentation for these modalities.

About the Speaker:
Dr. Tobias Funk has over 10 years of experience in the development of instrumentation for science and medicine. Dr. Funk has broad experience in the areas of SPECT/CT imaging, image reconstruction, X-ray spectroscopy and NMR of biological and solid state materials, and he has expertise in low temperature, vacuum technology, detector physics, algorithm development and modeling and simulation of complex systems. Dr. Funk has worked as a researcher at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and in the Department of Radiology at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his MS and Ph.D. from Free University Berlin, Germany.

About Triple Ring:
Triple Ring Technologies is an innovative contract research and medical product development company that teams with clients to complete complex technical projects - from conceptual design through development and product launch. Our extensive start-up experience, breadth of technical capabilities, and unique interdisciplinary team model set us apart from other technical consulting alternatives. Our highly skilled technical experts are chosen for their ability to solve early-stage technical problems collaboratively. With Triple Ring, clients get the brainpower of a full team without the cost, time, and overhead of finding and hiring skilled technical specialists.

The Triple Ring team has worked together for more than ten years, and is headquartered in a large research & development facility in Newark, CA that includes laboratories for optics, electronics, and x-ray technology development. Our clients include early stage investors, entrepreneurs, and established companies in the medical device, life sciences, industrial instrumentation, optics, digital imaging, and renewable energy fields.

For more information about the series, visit http://www.medtechfrontiers.com.
For more information about Triple Ring, visit http://www.tripleringtech.com.

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