At the 12th floor of Her Majesty
Cardiac Center, Assoc. Prof. Rujaporn
Chanachai Ph.D., Head of the Division
of Nuclear Medicine, Department
of Radiology, Faculty
of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital,
Mahidol University stated that
the long-distant medical conference
was a result of setting up of
the PET-CT (Positron Emission
Tomography/Computed Tomography)
at the Siriraj Imaging Center
on March 5th, 2007.
PET-CT is used to diagnose various
types of cancer as well as brain
and cardiac muscle. Even though
the PET-CT is a high capacity
and effective instrument, it is
new, and there isn’t enough
medical specialists who can read
the result. The Faculty thus sees
the importance of hosting conference
inviting all related medical personnel
to gain more experience in reading
the result and usage of PET-CT.
The conference allowed the opportunity
to exchange and consult with the
experts in leading institute abroad.
The high-speed internet on the
campus was connected to the Faculty
of Medicine, Fukui University,
Japan. The conference attendants
in Japan include The Molecular
Imaging Division and Biomedical
Imaging Division, and the conference
was chaired by Prof. Yasuhisa
Fujibayashi, President of Japanese
Society for Molecular Imaging.
Furthermore, the Faculty
of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital,
Mahidol University invited other
medical specialists in the field
of nuclear medicine from other
medical institutes such as from
Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn
University, Faculty of Medicine,
Ramathibodi Hospital, and Chulabhorn
Cancer Centre, Chulabhorn Research
Institute to attend this conference.
The benefits from this conference,
not only to develop radiologists’
knowledge in nuclear medicine,
but also to exchange ideas with
experts abroad in diagnosis. The
conference would assist in increase
the accuracy of diagnosis performance,
and further lead to international
collaboration in medicine, which
will develop diagnosis, using
PET-CT technology as well as maximize
the benefit of the available information
technology at Faculty
of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital,
Mahidol University.
Further planning at the Faculty
of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital,
Mahidol University includes organizing
of meetings and other related
activities every 2 months. The
goal is to benefit the patient
who receives the treatment.
Post
date: March 17, 2008
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