A symposium within the OHBM 2021 Annual Meeting, organized by Arianna Sala (ULiège) in collaboration with Igor Yakushev (TUM), brings together a panel of international speakers to initiate scientific discussion on the use Positron Emission Tomography to study brain networks and connectivity.

Up until now, scientists have published more than 40,000 studies on brain functional connectivity. More than 2/3 of them are based on functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) – Enough fMRI? Can we also use Positron Emission Tomography (PET) to obtain unprecedented insights into brain connectivity? This question will be discussed at the OHBM symposium “PET Imaging of Brain Connectivity: Hype or future?”. While fMRI measures neural activity through changes in oxyhemoglobin vs. deoxyhemoglobin in blood, PET captures biological processes in a more direct way, through the measurement of e.g., glucose metabolism, neurotransmission, and pathological protein aggregation. This symposium provides an overview of methods and applications of PET-based connectivity modelling in health and disease, highlighting its advantages and limitations. Given an increasing pool of publicly available PET data, the presented concepts might be of interest to the broad neuroimaging community.

The symposium will be available on demand during the OHBM 2021 conference (21st-25th June). Tune in to our live sessions on the 22nd (5:10pm CEST) and 25th (1:10am CEST) June to be a part of the exciting discussion with a panel of international speakers.

Details on the event: 

https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/files/2021%20Annual%20Meeting/1062_sy_PETupdate.pdf

Join the symposium:

https://www.humanbrainmapping.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=4041