Secretariat, Alumni Association, IDAC
Date	Monday, April 3, 2017 (18:00 – onward)
Room	Medium-size Conference Room, IDAC Center for Clinical Aging Research 1F
Title	Phase Difference Enhanced Imaging (PADRE) and its clinical applications for neurodegenerative disorders
Speaker	YONEDA Tetsuya
Affiliation	Faculty of Life Sciences Kumamoto University Medical Technologies and Sciences
Organizer	Yasuyuki TAKI (Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology Devision of Meidcal Neuroimaging Analysis Department of Community Medical Supports Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization・ext 8559)
Abstract	Phase difference enhanced imaging (PADRE) is a post-processing protocol to detect the tissue magnetism on MRI. PADRE can delineate small structures of human tissues by using phase information of MRI because it is quite sensitive to magnetic susceptibility changing. One of the most important clinical applications is brainstem imaging for detecting various neurodegenerative disorders. This talk will mainly focus on how we can detect neurodegenerative disorders on PADRE image and future directions including amyloid detection for preclinical diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease.