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GISPERT J.D., RAMI L., SáNCHEZ-BENAVIDES G., FALCON C., TUCHOLKA A., ROJAS S. ET AL. Nonlinear cerebral atro- phy patterns across the Alzheimer’s disease contin- uum: Impact of APOE4 genotype. Neurobiology of Aging. 2015;36(10):2687-2701.
NINEROLA-BAIZAN A., ROJAS S., BONASTRE M., TUDELA R., LOMENA F., PAVIA J. ET AL. In vivo evaluation of the do- paminergic neurotransmission system using [123I] FP-CIT SPECT in 6-OHDA lesioned rats. Contrast Media and Molecular Imaging. 2015;10(1):67-73.
CORDOVA-PALOMERA A., TORNADOR C., FALCON C., BAR- GALLO N., NENADIC I., DECO G. ET AL. Altered amygdalar resting-state connectivity in depression is explained
Highlights
PHD THESIS: :
• Aida Niñerola Baizán. Universitat de Barcelona. “Quantification of striatal dopamine transporter SPECT in animal models and clinical research”.
• Miguel L. Rodríguez Castillo. Universitat Politècni- ca de Catalunya. “Automation of the Monte Carlo simulation of medical linear accelerators”.
• Carles Gomà. Eidgenössische Technische Hoch- schule Zürich (ETH Zürich). “Radiation dosimetry of clinical proton beams”.
NEW PROJECTS:
• Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, Ger- many). Development of the PRIMO system for automatic Monte Carlo simulation of medical li- nacs and study of its applications in the clinical practice.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS:
• Dr Aldo Badano from the Center for Devices and Radiological Health de la U.S. Food and Drug Ad- ministration. Our activities are focused on the Monte Carlo simulation of indirect x-ray detectors for medical imaging.
• Dr. Luca Cozzi from the Humanitas Cancer Center, Milano, Italia. Dr. Cozzi is scientific advisor for Varian. He acts as a link between one of our groups and the linear accelerator manufacturing company.
by both genes and environment. Human Brain Map- ping. 2015;36(10):3761-3776.
SAMPEDRO F., VILAPLANA E., DE LEON M.J., ALCOLEA D., PEG- UEROLES J., MONTAL V. ET AL. APOE-by-sex interactions on brain structure and metabolism in healthy elderly controls. Oncotarget. 2015;6(29):26663-26674.
GALLEGO J., NINEROLA-BAIZAN A., COT A., AGUIAR P., CRESPO C., FALCON C. ET AL. Validation of semi-quantitative methods for DAT SPECT: Influence of anatomical variability and partial volume effect. Physics in Med- icine and Biology. 2015;60(15):5925-5938.
• Prof. Vasiliy Shvedunov from Lomonosov Mos- cow State University. We collaborate in the de- velopment of a microtron prototype with applica- tions in intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT). The PENELOPE/penEasy Monte Carlo code is employed for the design of the beam modifiers.
• Dr Alberto Bravin from European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France). In the framework of the EU FP7 COST TD1205 action (https://www.syra3.eu) PENELOPE/penE- asy is being assessed for dosimetric studies of a new radiotherapy technique with synchrotron radiation.
DATA BASES:
• A data base of 575 MRI studies has been collect- ed from a cohort of middle-aged subjects, cogni- tively healthy and descendants of the first degree of Alzheimer’s disease. The selection of this sam- ple was made after genetic analysis of the entire cohort of 2743 subjects, allowing us to collect the largest number of subjects homozygous for e4 allele of the APOE gene, the greatest genetic risk factor of Alzheimer disease.
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