Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Current as of December 2019 Prof. Alberto Signore, is presently the Head of the Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Psychology, “Sapienza” University of Rome, Italy, and he is Honorary Full Professor at Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, University Medical Center, Groningen, The Netherlands. He is also the Dean of the Technical Faculty for Radiology and Nuclear Medicine (TSRM) in Sora (FR) and vice-Director of the Specialization School of Nuclear Medicine of “Sapienza” University of Rome. He graduated in Medicine in 1984, then specialist in Endocrinology (1987) and Nuclear Medicine (1991). He obtained a PhD in 2007 at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. He is now also Consultant in Nuclear Medicine at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA; Treasurer of the International Research Group in Immunoscintigraphy and Therapy (IRIST); past-Chair of the “Inflammation/Infection” Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM); Associate Editor of the Q J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, and member of the Editorial Board of the Nucl Med Commun, Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, Nucl Med Rev, and other journals. He has been Visiting Professor in Nuclear Medicine, University of Ghent, Belgium; Consultant of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of United Nation Organization (UNO); Past-President of the International Society of Radiolabelled Blood Elements (ISORBE); Secretary and Past-President of the International Research Group in Immunoscintigraphy and Therapy (IRIST); Past-President of the international scientific association Nuclear Medicine Discovery (Nu.Me.D.). From the scientific point of view, he is promoter of 14 PhD students; author of over 250 scientific publications in national and international journals (total citations = 6175, H index = 41); editor of 7 books; author of more than 35 book chapters and he deposited 5 international patents. Amongst the many awards and recognitions, it is to be mentioned, the recent award for best Basic-Science publication in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine in 2015; the “Marie Curie” award of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM), in 2004; the “Masahiro Iio” award of the World Federation of Nuclear Medicine and Biology (WFNMB), in 1994.

Section 1. Basic principles and instrumentation
Section 2. Single photon nuclear medicine imaging
Section 3. Positron nuclear medicine imaging
Section 4. Nuclear medicine therapy