EDUARDO TINOIS (A)

(A) Physicist of the Radiodiagnosis Group in the Medical Physics Area of UNICAMP’s Biomedical Engineering Center (involved in activities related to Nuclear Medicine from 1996 to 2000 and Magnetic Resonance Imaging area at the present time).

Applying for a doctorate in Applied Mathematics, focusing the area of Tomography Inverse Problems in UNICAMP’s Statistics and Computing Science;

Master in Physics Applications in Medicine with focus in Nuclear Medicine into the Department of Physics Applications in Medicine and Biology; College of Art, Philosophy and Science in Ribeirão Preto, Universidade de São Paulo − USP (1996);

Bachelor degree in Physics by UNICAMP (1993).
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Abstract

Functional image is the state-of-art in diagnostic medical imaging (medicine diagnosis through images). Magnetic resonance has leaped forward pursuing the same direction through the various extremely fast acquiring techniques allowing measurements to be taken in oxygen consumption due to the BOLD effect. Their main applications dealt with studies related to the cerebral functioning and have even been able to supply useful data for surgical planning. Nuclear medicine through PET is monitoring glucose levels consumption in tissues through ionizing radiation. Its major application has been in investigations on tumors and metastasis, which naturally increase glucose levels due to the higher metabolic levels. More recently, dynamic PET is making feasible the assessment of the glucose consumption as a function of time, providing more accurate measurements of regions exhibiting greater activity.

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