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Most relevant scientific articles
• Gispert J.D., Suárez-Calvet M., Monte G.C., Tucholka A., Falcón C., Rojas S. et al. Cerebrospinal fluid sTREM2 levels are associated with gray matter volume increases and reduced diffusivity in early Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s and Dementia. 2016;12(12):1259-1272.
• Suárez-Calvet M., Kleinberger G., Araque Caballero M.A., Brendel M., Rominger A., Alcolea D. et al. sTREM2 cerebrospinal fluid levels are a potential biomarker for microglia activity in early-stage Alzheimer’s disease and associate with neuronal injury markers. EMBO Molecular Medicine. 2016.
• Demirtas M., Tornador C., Falcón C., López-Sola M., Hernández-Ribas R., Pujol J. et al. Dynamic functional connectivity reveals altered variability in functional connectivity among patients with major depressive disorder. Human Brain Mapping. 2016.
• Gispert J.D., Monte G.C., Falcón C., Tucholka A., Rojas S., Sánchez-Valle R. et al. CSF YKL-40 and pTau181 are related to different cerebral morphometric patterns in early AD. Neurobiology of Aging. 2016;38:47-55.
• Mayoral M., Martí-Fuster B., Carreno M., Carrasco J.L., Bargallo N., Donaire A. et al. Seizure-onset zone localization by statistical parametric mapping in visually normal 18F-FDG PET studies. Epilepsia. 2016;57(8):1236-1244.
Highlights
DOCTORAL THESIS:
• Gemma Monté Rubio. Universitat de Barcelona. “Computational analysis of schizophrenia: Implementation of a multivariate model of anatomical differences”.
• Judith Gallego Blanco. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. “Quantification of dopaminergic neurotransmission SPECT studies with 123I-labelled radioligands”.
• Javier Jiménez González. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. “Improvements in the registration of multimodal medical imaging: application to intensity inhomogeneity and partial volume corrections”.
NEW PROJECTS:
• European Project. H2020-IMI2-JTI-2015-05. Topic 4 - AMYPAD (Amyloid Imaging to prevent Alzheimer’s Disease), (http://amypad.org/). Rol JD Gispert WP-leader.
• Cohort Projects CIBER. “Búsqueda de biomarcadores para la detección temprana de la enfermedad de Alzheimer en la cohorte del proyecto Vallecas”.
INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATIONS :
• JD Gispert member of the Imaging Scientific Advisory Group of the project IMI-EPAD (European prevention of Alzheimer’s Dementia; http://ep-ad.org/)
• Dr Aldo Badano from Center for Devices and Radiological Health de la U.S. Food and Drug Administration. The activity is focused on the Monte Carlo simulation of RX detectors for medical imaging.
• Dr. Luca Cozzi from Humanitas Cancer Center, Milano, Italia. Dr. Cozzi is a scientific advisor to Varian and acts as a liaison between one of our groups and the company.
• Prof. Vasiliy Shvedunov from Lomonosov Moscow State University. We collaborate in the development of a microtron prototype with application in intraoperative radiotherapy. The beam modifiers are designed using the PENELOPE/penEasy code.
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• Dr. Alberto Bravin from European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France). PENELOPE/ penEasy is being evaluated for dosimetric studies of a new radiotherapy technique using synchrotron radiation in the framework of the EU action FP7 COST TD1205 (https://www.syra3.eu).
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