Am Donnerstag, dem 17.02.2016 findet in der Lukasklause ab 16.00 Uhr das STIMULATE-Kolloquium statt.
Vortragender: Prof. Dr. Florian Grüner, Universität Hamburg
Thema: "Novel Imaging of Medical Diagnostic Agents with X-ray Fluorescence"
Abstract:
Molecular medical imaging is a key component of modern medical diagnosis to allow early and personalized therapy of common diseases like diabetes, cancer or severe viral infections like hepatitis. However, all in vivo medical imaging methods suffer from limitations for the purpose of molecular imaging in humans: low sensitivity to molecular processes or limited spatial and/or temporal resolution. To overcome these limits, we will develop a compact laser-driven Thomson X-ray source and a dedicated novel detector for medical X-ray fluorescence imaging of gold nanoparticles coupled to biomarkers. This imaging modality has been demonstrated so far only at either large-scale synchrotron facilities, whose size and cost prevent them from clinical application, or small laboratory X-ray tubes with their unacceptably large spectral bandwidth and low brilliance. Our approach will pave the way towards compact X-ray sources with sufficient brilliance, especially with low-divergence and small bandwidth X-ray beams. The overall goal is to develop an in-vivo imaging method proving a sensitivity of up to two orders of magnitude better than Magnetic Resonance Imaging.
CV:
- since 2011 W 3 professor (chair) of accelerator physics, University of Hamburg (UUH)
- 2008-2011 W 2 tenure track professor at Ludwig-Maximilians Universität (LMU), Munich
- 2007 visiting scientist, group of Wim Leemans, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
- 2007-2008 postdoctoral researcher at Max-Planck-Institute of Quantum Optics (MPQ) in
group of Prof. Ferenc Krausz
- 2005-2007 scientific assistant, LMU
- 2004-2005 own DFG project “Simulation of interaction of swift heavy ions with solids“
- 2003 Diss. in Physics, LMU, "summa cum laude"
- 2000 Diploma in Physics, LMU, "with distinction"
- 1994-2000 studies in physics at the LMU
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