14:00

Welcome (Bruno Alfano, PVEOut Co-ordinator)

Introduction to Partial Volume Effect Correction methods

14:10

PVE-Correction: a review of the literature (Karim Berkouk, DG Research, European Commission)

14:25

A new voxel-based PVE-correction method developed inside PVEOut project (Bruno Alfano, IBB-CNR Naples, Italy)

14:40

Implementation of the PVE correction algorithms in PVELab (Claus Svarer, NRU, Copenhagen, Denmark)

Preliminary steps in the PVE-correction process

15:00

Segmentation of brain tissues on MR images using data driven techniques   (Ali Hojjat - Alan Colchester, University of Kent, canterbury UK)

15:20

Multiparametric segmentation (Bruno Alfano, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy)

15:30

Registration (Claus Svarer, NRU, Copenhagen, Denmark)

15:45

VOI definition (Mario Quarantelli, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy)

16:00

PET Compartment model based analytical PET simulator for PVELab (Laszlo Balkay, University of Debrecen, Hungary)

16:15

Coffee break

Preliminary results of PVE correction in phantoms and in human studies

16:35

STEPBrain: a stereolitographed phantom of the brain for Nuclear Medicine, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance applications (Mario Quarantelli, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy)

16:45

Quantification of [11C]FLB 457 Binding in the Human Brain with PET Before and After Partial Volume Effect Correction (Judit Sóvágó, Dept. of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden)

17:00

Cortical GABA-A CBZR,  rCBF and Glucose metabolism in Alzheimer`s disease: SPET and PET studies with Partial Volume Effect correction (Mario Quarantelli, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy - Karim Berkouk, DG Research, European Commission)

PVELab

17:15

Demo of a complete analysis process using PVELab (Claus Svarer, NRU, Copenhagen, Denmark)

17:35

Issues in voxel-based analysis of PV-corrected data (Mario Quarantelli, IBB-CNR, Naples, Italy)

17:45

General discussion

18:00

End of meeting