Triple Ring Technologies Med Tech Frontier Series for 2009 Produced in Partnership with FountainBlue
Triple
Ring Technologies, Inc. is pleased to offer informational presentations on
topics of technical and scientific interest to the medical device community
through its free Med Tech Frontiers Series for 2009. Details for the next event
are below:
Topic: The Bright Future of Nuclear
Medicine: PET and SPECT Imaging
Date: Thursday October 1, 2009
Time: 6:00 – 9:00 pm, presentation
begins at 6:45 pm
Location: Triple Ring Technologies, 39655
Eureka Drive, Newark
Speaker: Dr. Tobias Funk, Staff Physicist,
Triple Ring Technologies
Cost: The seminar is free of charge,
but registration is required for planning purposes
On-Site registration: A limited number of on-site
registrations may be available
About the Seminar:
Single
Photon Computed Tomography (SPECT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) are
highly sensitive medical imaging modalities that are clinically used for
diagnosis and staging of diseases such as cancer and heart disease. SPECT and
PET are based on radiolabeled tracers that are injected into the patient and
concentrate at specific sites depending on the biochemical characteristics of
the tracer. The radioactive probes decay and emit γ-photons that are recorded
by the imager. The resulting images are used to reconstruct a 3D representation
of the radiotracer distribution in the body. Importantly, in contrast to
anatomic imaging modalities like CT, SPECT and PET are functional and molecular
imaging modalities. Thus they are sensitive to metabolic processes, perfusion,
and biologic processes taking place at the cellular and subcellular levels.
In this
seminar we review the basic principles of SPEC and PET, provide an overview of
common procedures, and discuss in some detail the challenges and opportunities
in the development of instrumentation for these modalities.
About the Speaker:
Dr.
Tobias Funk has over 10 years of experience in the development of instrumentation
for science and medicine. Dr. Funk has broad experience in the areas of
SPECT/CT imaging, image reconstruction, X-ray spectroscopy and NMR of
biological and solid state materials, and he has expertise in low temperature,
vacuum technology, detector physics, algorithm development and modeling and
simulation of complex systems. Dr. Funk has worked as a researcher at Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory and in the Department of Radiology at the University
of California, San Francisco. He received his MS and Ph.D. from Free University
Berlin, Germany.
About
Triple Ring:
Triple
Ring Technologies is an innovative contract research and medical product
development company that teams with clients to complete complex technical
projects - from conceptual design through development and product launch. Our
extensive start-up experience, breadth of technical capabilities, and unique
interdisciplinary team model set us apart from other technical consulting
alternatives. Our highly skilled technical experts are chosen for their ability
to solve early-stage technical problems collaboratively. With Triple Ring,
clients get the brainpower of a full team without the cost, time, and overhead
of finding and hiring skilled technical specialists.
The
Triple Ring team has worked together for more than ten years, and is
headquartered in a large research & development facility in Newark, CA that
includes laboratories for optics, electronics, and x-ray technology
development. Our clients include early stage investors, entrepreneurs, and
established companies in the medical device, life sciences, industrial
instrumentation, optics, digital imaging, and renewable energy fields.
Triple Ring Technologies, Inc. is pleased to continue its
successful monthly MedTechFrontiers Series for 2009, offering free
informational seminars on topics of technical and scientific interest to the
medical device community. Details for the next event are below:
MedTechFrontiers Event: Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging
for Medical Applications
Date:Thursday
March 5, 2009
Time:6:00 – 9:00
pm
Location: Triple Ring Technologies, 39655 Eureka Drive, Newark
Speaker:Kate
Bechtel, Senior Scientist, Triple Ring Technologies
Cost: The seminar is free of charge, but RSVPs are
required to help plan for food.
On-Site Registration: A limited number of on-site
registrations may be available.
Optical spectroscopy and imaging techniques are rapidly
gaining momentum in the medical device marketplace.These bleeding-edge technologies are in
late-stage development in the laboratory, undergoing clinical trials, or
recently released on the market.How do
they work and what else lies in store?
Our team at Triple Ring Technologies is actively involved
in this exciting area of development.We
will present an overview of optical technologies; provide introductory
information for several widely-used methods such as diffuse reflectance
spectroscopy, fluorescence, Raman scattering, optical coherence tomography
(OCT) and diffuse optical tomography (DOT); and explain how the collected
information is utilized.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Kate Bechtel has over 10 years of experience in
researching and developing optic-based instruments for analytical and medical
applications.She has worked on
non-invasive glucose sensing using Raman spectroscopy; the detection of early
stage breast cancer and atherosclerosis using Raman, diffuse reflectance, and
fluorescence; and optical coherence tomography for deep tissue imaging.Kate received her Ph.D. in
Analytical/Physical Chemistry from StanfordUniversity and was a
postdoctoral researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the
Spectroscopy Laboratory.
Triple Ring Technologies is an innovative contract research and development company that teams with clients to complete complex technical projects - from conceptual design through development and product launch. Our extensive start-up experience, our breadth of technical capabilities, and a unique interdisciplinary team model set us apart from other technical consulting alternatives. Our highly skilled technical expertshttp://www.tripleringtech.com/technicalteam.html are chosen for their ability to solve early-stage technical problems collaboratively. With Triple Ring, clients get the brainpower of a full team without the cost, time, and overhead of finding and hiring skilled technical specialists.
The Triple Ring team has worked together for more than ten years, and is headquartered in a large research & development facility in Newark, CA that includes electronics and optics labs. Our clientshttp://www.tripleringtech.com/who_we_help.html include early stage investors, entrepreneurs, and established companies in the medical device, life sciences, industrial instrumentation, optics, digital imaging, and renewable energy fields.
Beginning in 2009, Triple Ring Technologies is pleased to launch a free monthly informational presentations on topics of technical and scientific interest to the medical device community. The intent of our monthly series is to:
Profile technologies and innovators within the Triple Ring network
Share learnings with the life science community in Silicon Valley
Facilitate discussion between technologies and business professionals
Create a community in support of life science innovations
Below are additional details about the monthly technical seminars, held on the first Thursdays of each month, from 6 - 9 p.m. at the Triple Ring Technologies facilities, located at 39655 Eureka Drive, in Newark.
Please note that these seminars are provided free of charge to the life science community in Silicon Valley. Please RSVP by noon the day before the event to ensure that there is sufficient space and food to accomodate everyone. A limited number of on-site tickets may be available for $10 each, first come, first served.
Triple Ring Technology's' February 5 launch event was on the topic of High
Performance Medical Imaging Application of ATCA featuring Gus Lowell, Chief System
Architect, Triple Ring Technologies.
About the Seminar:
Triple Ring Technologies (TRT) is pioneering the use of
Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA, or ATCA)
in medical applications. The ATCA and its cousin MicroTCA (or
μTCA™), are standards developed by the PICMG consortium.
Among ATCA’s objectives are:
Enable reduced development time
and costs
Support reduced total cost of
ownership
Support a rich mix of processors
and integrate with multiple network elements
Offer high levels of modularity
and configurability
Support appropriate scalability of
System performance and capacity
Gus Lowell, TRT’s Chief System Architect, will discuss how
TRT is using the ATCA platform as the basis for the data processing and control
components of a new Cardiac Imaging system, the ScanCath™, which processes
sensor data in real-time at a rate of approximately 40Gb/s – comparable to
supercomputing speeds! The slides from Gus’s presentation are available at
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FountainBlue is pleased to partner with Triple Ring Technologies to produce monthly informational presentations on topics of technical and scientific interest to the medical device community.
FountainBlue works with Triple Ring to provide marketing, outreach and logistical support for each of the events in the series. Each of these events are free of charge to FountainBlue members, Triple Ring Technologies members and guests, as well as the general life science community in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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