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Postgraduate Fellow Zhen Li received a Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper Finalist Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2025. She presented her paper entitled “Contrast-enhanced image-guided learning for nasopharyngeal carcinoma diagnosis using non-contrast MRI” in the computer-aided Diagnosis track on the 17th February.

Autistic brains have fewer synapses compared to neurotypical brains, PET scans show.

Six months of high-intensity aerobic exercise preserves the dopamine-producing neurons in the brain, a small pilot study finds.

Tommaso Volpi, PhD, Postdoctoral Associate, Yale Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, received a BIC Brain Imaging Council Travel Award at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI) held in Chicago (June 24-27), for his abstract presentation entitled, “Discordant asymmetries of synaptic density, blood flow and glucose metabolism in temporal lobe epilepsy: a combined [11C]UCB-J and [18F]FDG PET study.”

Qiong Liu, Graduate Student, Yale Biomedical Engineering, won a second place Cardiovascular Council Clinical Science Young Investigator Award at SNMMI 2023 for her abstract presentation entitled, “Dynamic Imaging and Tracer Kinetic Modeling of 18F-flutemetamol PET for Cardiac Amyloidosis Patients.”

At the 2023 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging held in Chicago June 24-27, Richard Carson, Ph.D., presented the first human PET images acquired on the NeuroEXPLORER, an ultra-high performance brain PET imager. This system is currently being installed at Yale, and research PET imaging will begin in the coming weeks.

Yale School of Medicine doctors and researchers with friends and family in Ukraine have organized to raise funds and equipment for overwhelmed hospitals in the embattled country.

Rajiv Radhakrishnan, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, has been named co-medical director of the Yale Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Center.

Ansel Hillmer, PhD, assistant professor of radiology and biomedical imaging and of psychiatry, has been awarded a federal grant to develop a new brain imaging tool to study the brain’s immune system.