Dr. Robin de Graaf’s talk on Deuterium Metabolic Imaging (DMI) – Technical Innovations and (Pre)clinical Applications discusses the long-standing goal of non-invasive imaging of metabolic pathways in neurological diseases to monitor disease progression or therapy efficacy. Robin highlights the advantages of DMI over traditional methods like FDG-PET, including its ability to produce high-contrast 3D metabolic maps using deuterium's favorable MR characteristics. The technique has been effectively applied using deuterated substrates to identify abnormal metabolic profiles in various conditions, including high-grade brain tumors and other neurological disorders. Robin also discusses the origins, current state, recent technical innovations, and future (pre)clinical and research outlooks of deuterium-based MR metabolic imaging.
On Demand Session
Robin A. de Graaf
Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging at Yale University