Conference Proceedings

2011

Burgess, L., Simone, M., Hambley, T., Greguric, I., Fraser, B., Lengkeek, N. Development and evaluation of new ligands for the complexation of 68Ga and 177Lu. 2011 Conference of the Inorganic Division of the RACI (IC11), 4-8 December, 2011. Perth, Australia.

Davies, J. B., Substantiation of irradiation, dose verification and validation processes. 12th Australasian Tissue and Biotherapeutics Forum, 10-13 May 2011. Melbourne, Australia

Davies, J. B., Bosi S. G., Baldock, C. A genipin-gelatin gel dosimeter for radiation processing. International Meeting on Radiation Processing, 13-16 June, 2011. Montreal, Canada.

Le, V. S., Izard, M., Pellegrini, P., Zaw, M. Development of 68Ga Generator at ANSTO. 1st World Congress on Ga-68 and Peptide Receptor Radionuclide Therapy (PRRNT), 23-26 June 2011. Bad Berka, Germany.

Lehnert, W., Gregoire, M-C., Reilhac, A., Meikle, S. R. Comparative study of partial volume correction methods in small animal Positron Emission Tomography (PET) of the rat brain. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE NSS-MIC), 23-29 October, 2011. Valencia, Spain.

Lehnert, W., Gregoire, M-C., Reilhac, A., Meikle, S. R. Performance of an analytical positron range modeling approach in the context of whole body small animal and clinical PET. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE NSS-MIC), 23-29 October, 2011. Valencia, Spain.

Lengkeek, N. A., Burgess, L., Oehlke, E., Pellegrini, P., Fraser, B., Greguric, I. Radiometals research at ANSTO Lifesciences: Diagnostics and therapeutics for nuclear medicine. 2011 Conference of the Inorganic Division of the RACI (IC11), 4-8 December, 2011. Perth, Australia.

Mahony, P., Davies, J. B., Banos, C., Bosi, S. G., Baldock, C. 40 years of gamma irradiation at ANSTO. International Meeting on Radiation Processing, 13-16 June, 2011. Montreal, Canada.

Mume, M., Sellaiyan, S., Kong, L., Uedono, A., Smith, S. V. Monitoring sorption of cations in porous silica with PALS. ARC Centre of Excellence for Antimatter-Matter Studies 2011 Annual Workshop, 3-4 November, 2011. Canberra, Australia.

Peyronneau, M., Loc'h, C., Mattner, F., Pham, T., Jiang, C., Pelegrini, P., Greguric, I., Gregoire, M-C., Katsifis, A. In vitro metabolism of (18F)PBR102 and (18F)Pbr111 in rats and humans. 2011 Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM11), 15-19 October, 2011. Birmingham, UK.

Reilhac, A., Lehnert, W., Jianyu, L., Meikle, S. R., Gregoire, M-C. Iterative-based partial volume effects correction with wavelet-based regularization for quantitative PET imaging. IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference (IEEE NSS-MIC), 23-29 October, 2011. Valencia, Spain.

Verdurand, M., Nguyen, V., Stark, D., Zahra, D., Gregoire, M-C., Greguric. I., Zavitsanou, K. Assessing the ontogeny of CB1 receptors in adolescent and adult rats using in vivo PET with [18F]MK-9470. XXVth International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism and Function and the Xth International Conference on Quantification of Brain Function with PET. 24-28 May, 2011. Barcelona, Spain.

Wimberley, C. J., Fischer, K., Sossi, V., Pichler, B. J., Gregoire, M-C. Improving the stability of the partial saturation approach for a range of experimental conditions. World Molecular Imaging Conference, 7-10 September, 2011. San Diego, USA.

Xiao, D., Zahra, D., Bourgeat, P., Berghofer, P., Tamayo, O. A., Green, H., Gregoire, M-C., Salvado, O. Mouse whole-body organ mapping by non-rigid registration approach. Conference on Medical Imaging 2011 - Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 13-16 February, 2011. Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.

Xiao, D., Zahra, D., Bourgeat, P., Berghofer, P., Tamayo, O. A., Wimberley, C., Gregoire, M-C., Salvado, O. An accurate 3D shape context based non-rigid registration method for mouse whole-body skeleton registration. Conference on Medical Imaging 2011 - Biomedical Applications in Molecular, Structural, and Functional Imaging, 13-16 February, 2011. Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA.

Zavitsanou, K., Dalton, V. S., Verdurand, M. Cannabinoid effects in adolescence, adulthood and in animal models with prenatal psychosis-related susceptibility: involvement of cannabinoid and monaminergic receptor systems. Neuroscience 2011, 12-16 November, 2011. Washington, USA.

2010

Kench P., Lin J., Gregoire M.C., Meikle S.  (2010) Design and Validation of a Baffle for Multiple Pinhole Small Animal SPECT. World Molecular Imaging Conference, September 8-11, Kyoto, Japan.

Callaghan P., Wimberley C., Rahardjo G., Berghofer P., Pham T., Jackson T., Zahra D., Bourdier T., Wyatt N., Greguric I., Mattner F., Loch C., Gregoire M.C., Katsifis A. Comparative assessment of two novel 18 kDa translocator protein (TSPO) ligands ¹⁸F-PBR111 and ¹⁸F-PBR102 after excitotoxin-induced acute neuroinflammation. World Molecular Imaging Conference, September 8-11, Kyoto, Japan.

Di Xiao, David Zahra, Pierrick Bourgeat, Paula Berghofer, Oscar Acosta Tamayo, Catriona Wimberley, Marie-Claude Gregoire, and Olivier Salvado, "An improved 3D shape context registration method for non-rigid surface registration". SPIE, Medical Imaging 2010, Vol. 7623, pages 76232Q, 2010.

Di Xiao, David Zahra, Pierrick Bourgeat, Paula Berghofer, Oscar Acosta Tamayo, Catriona Wimberley, Marie Claude Gregoire, and Olivier Salvado, "A non-rigid registration method for mouse whole body skeleton registration". SPIE, Medical Imaging 2010, Vol. 7626, pages 76261N, 2010.

Delzescaux T., Lebenberg J., Raguet H., Hantraye P., Souedet N., Grégoire M.C. Segmentation of small animal PET/CT mouse brain data using a 3D MRI-based digital atlas: Application in neuroinflammation study on EAE mouse model. 32nd Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society. August 31 – September 4, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Eberl, S; Katsifis, A; Wen, L; Bourdier, T; Henderson, D; Loc'h, C; Mohamed, A; Greguric, I; Pham, T; Fulham, M J. (2010). Quantitative analysis of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligand [¹¹C]PBR170 in baboons with PET.  57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 5-9  June, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Mattner, F, Pham, T, Berghofer, P, Howell, N, Bourdier, T, Rahardjo, G, Kench, PL, Zahra, D, Gregoire, Marie C, Katsifis, A (2010). Pharmacological evaluation of the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor radioligand [¹²³I]-CLINDE in a breast tumour model. 57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 5-9 June, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Towson, J, Mattner, F, Katsifis, A, Verschuer, JD, Eberl, S (2010). Radiation Dosimetry of [¹²³I]-CLINDE.  57th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, 5-9  June, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Szabo, A  A comparison of fluorothymidine uptake versus sigma-2 receptor expression as a marker of cell proliferation in vitro. Sydney Cancer Conference 2010

Smith, SV (2010). Designing ⁶⁴Cu complexing agents for use in Molecular Imaging and Personalised Medicine. 39th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, 25-30 July 2010 Adelaide, Australia

Smith, SV (2010). Nuclear Sensors for Probing Chemistry of Nanopores - Optimizing the Engineering of the Next Generation of Nanomaterials. 39th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry, 25-30 July 2010 Adelaide, Australia.

A. H. Asad, C. Jeffery, S. Smith,  R. I. Price, S. Chan, D. Cryer,. Production of No carrier Added ⁶⁴Cu from a Natural Ni Target. The 13th International Workshop on Targetry and Target Chemistry. Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, 26-28 July 2010, Roskilde, Denmark.

Fuchs, A  (2010) Evaluation of radioisotope quality aspects for preparation of high specific activity [⁶⁸Ga-NOTA]-Annexin I. International Symposium for Technetium and other Radiometals, 8-11 September 2010, Bressanone, Italy.

M Verdurand, V Nguyen, D Stark, D Zahra, M-C Gregoire, I Greguric, K Zavitsanou. Feasibility of imaging the ontogeny of CB1 receptors in adolescent and adult rats in vivo with [¹⁸F]MK 9470 and PET. Foundation Meeting for the Biological Psychiatry Australia, 6 September 2010, Melbourne, Australia .

M Verdurand, V Nguyen, D Stark, D Zahra, M-C Gregoire, I Greguric, K Zavitsanou. Feasibility of imaging the ontogeny of CB1 receptors in adolescent and adult rats in vivo with [¹⁸F]MK 9470 and PET. Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, 22-24 September 2010, Sydney, Australia.

Dalton VS, Walker A, Hodgson DM, Zavitsanou K. (2010) Cannabinoid impact on serotonin receptors in an animal model of prenatal psychosis-related susceptibility. Oral presentation, Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, 22-24 September 2010, Sydney, Australia.

Zavitsanou K,  Dalton VS, Verdurand M. (2010). Cannabinoid effects in adolescence and adulthood: looking at the underlying neurochemistry using animal models. Oral presentation, Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, 22-24 September 2010, Sydney, Australia.

S Selliayan, SV. Smith, T Hughes, T Miller, DR Jenkins, A Uedono. Understanding the Effect of Nanoporosity on Optimizing the Performance of Self-Healing Materials for Anti-Corrosion. Applications . 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques. 1-6 August 2010, Magnetic Island, Australia.

B Pham, P Guagliardo, J Williams SV. Smith. Investigating the Effect of Particle Size on Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy Measurements. 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques. 1-6 August 2010, Magnetic Island, Australia.

E Mume, A Uedono, G Mizunaga,  DE Lynch, SV Smith. The Role of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Studies and Nuclear Sensors for Characterising Porous Materials. 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques. 1-6 August 2010, Magnetic Island, Australia.

N. Fong, A. Musumeci, P. Guagliardo, J. Williams, D. Martin, S. V. Smith. Clay Particles for Drug Delivery - Potential of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy (PALS) for Studying Interlayer Spacing. 12th International Workshop on Slow Positron Beam Techniques. 1-6 August 2010, Magnetic Island, Australia.

2009

Lehnert W, Gregoire MC, Meikle SR. (2009). Effect of Positron Range on Partial Volume Effect and Accuracy of Partial Volume Correction in Small Animal Brain Positron Emission Tomography: A simulation study. World Molecular Imaging Congress, September 23-26, 2009, Montreal, Canada.  

Arlicot N, Roussel S, Petit E, Katsifis A, Toutain J, Guilloteau D, Bernaudin M, Chalon S. (2009).  Autoradiographic detection of neuroinflammation associated with diaschisis after focal cerebral ischemia in rats. World Molecular Imaging Congress, September 23-26, 2009, Montreal, Canada. 

Callaghan P, Dedeurwaerdere S, Pham T, Loch C, Katsifis A, Gregoire MC. (2009) Mapping neuro-inflammation in early stages of epileptogenesis with PET and [¹⁸F]PBR111 in the rat brain. World Molecular Imaging Congress, September 23-26, 2009, Montreal, Canada. 

Bertinshaw J, Zahra D, Gregoire MC. (2009). Implementation of PET-SORTEO adapted to the Inveon PET Scanner for Dual Mouse Imaging. World Molecular Imaging Congress, September 23-26, 2009, Montreal, Canada. 

Wimberley CJ, Xiao D, Zahra D, Shepherd R, Berghofer P, Millard E, Salvado O, Gregoire MC. (2009). Predicting tumour location when imaging early growth phase with PET/CT. World Molecular Imaging Congress, September 23-26, 2009, Montreal, Canada.  

Pham T, Bourdier T, Henderson D, Fookes C, Greguric I, Jackson T, Lam P, Katsifis A. (2009). Automated radiosynthesis of [¹⁸F]PBR111 AND [¹⁸F]PBR102 – selective radioligands for imaging the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor with PET. 18^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, July 12-17, 2009, Edmonton, Canada.

Damont A, Van Camp N, Kuhnast B, Hinnen F, Boisgard R, Chauveau F, Boutin H, Probst K, Clark J, Katsifis A, Kassiou M, Tavitian B, Dolle F. (2009). [¹⁸F]DPA-714, [¹⁸F]PBR111 and [¹⁸F]FEDAAL106 as potent PBR PET-imaging candidates: Radiosynthesis and comparative studies. 18^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, July 12-17, 2009, Edmonton, Canada.

Bourdier T, HendersonD, Lam P, Fookes C, MattnerF,GreguricI, PhamT, EberlS, WenL, Katsifis A. (2009)Labelling and in-vivo evaluation in baboons of a novel [¹¹C]-carbon labelled imidazopyridine, for the study of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptors using PET. 18^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, July 12-17, 2009, Edmonton, Canada. 

Arlicot N, Petit E, Katsifis A, Divoux D, Guilloteau D, Bernaudin M, Chalon S. (2009). The 18kDa Translocator protein radioligand CLINDE is an efficient tracer for the in vivo characterisation of thalamic microglial activation in cerebral ischemia. 4^th European Molecular Imaging Meeting, May 27-30, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.  

Denoyer D, Greguric I, Katsifis A, Roselt P, Neels OC, Dorow D, Hicks RJ. (2009). Development of a New Selective Agent Designed for PET Imaging of Melanoma. Annual Congress of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, October 10-14, 2009, Barcelona, Spain.  

Zavitsanou K, Dalton VS, Nguyen V. (2009). Cannabinoid effects on cannabinoid, serotonin and dopamine receptor density and functionality in the rat brain. International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, March 28-April 1, 2009, San Diego, California, USA. Schizophrenia Bulletin 35: 142. 

Mo L, Bignell LJ, Steele T, Alexiev D. (2009). Acivity Measurements of ³H Using the TDCR Method and Observation of Source Stability. Proceedings of International Committee on Radionuclide Metrology (ICRM) 2009 conference, September 7-11, 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

Steele T, Mo L, Bignell L, Smith M, Alexiev D. (2009). FPGA based software coincidence analysis for a 4πβ(LS)-γ TDCR detector. Proceedings of International Committee on Radionuclide Metrology (ICRM) 2009 conference, September 7-11, 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia.  

Bignell LJ, Mo L, Alexiev D, Hashemi-Nezhad SR. (2009) Sensitvity and uncertainty analysis of the simulation of ¹²³I ⁵⁴ Mn decay in liquid scintillation vials. Proceedings of International Committee on Radionuclide Metrology (ICRM) 2009 conference, September 7-11, 2009, Bratislava, Slovakia. 

Gregoire M,Dedeurwaerdere S, Callaghan P, Loch C, Pham T, Katsifis A. (2009). Characterisation of Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptors changes in early phase of epileptogenesis in the rat with PET and [18F]PBR111. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 144P.  

Eberl S, Katsifis A, Wen L, Greguric I, Henderson D, Loc’h C, Mohamed A, Pham T, Thomson S, Fulham M. (2009). Quantitative comparison of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligands [18F]PBR102 and [18F]PBR111 in baboons with PET. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 162P. 

Van Camp N, Chauveau F, Boisgard R, Jego B, Siquier K, Kuhnast B, Gregoire M, Katsifis A, Dolle F, Tavitian B. (2009). Evaluation of [18F]PBR111 in a rat model of neuroinflammation: a new radiotracer for the TSPO 18 kDa (Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 228P. 

Zubal G, Jennings D, Tamagnan G, Koren A, Katsifis A, Marek K, Russell D, Seibyl J. (2009). Initial Parkinsons and Healthy Control Studies of 123-I CLINDE, a SPECT Marker of the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor and Neuroinflammation. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 230P. 

Verschuer J, Towson J, Katsifis A, Henderson D, Wen L, Loc’h C, Eberl S, Thomson S, Mohamed A, Fulham M. (2009). Radiation Dosimetry of [18F]PBR111. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 386P.  

Katsifis A, Loc’h C, Greguric I, Henderson D, Pham T, Lam P, Eberl S, Mohamed A, Thomson S, Fulham M. (2009). Comparative metabolite analysis of the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligands [18F]PBR102 and [18F]PBR111 primates. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 401P. 

Katsifis A, Eberl S, Mattner F, Loc’h C, Gregoire M, Greguric I, Henderson D, Pham T, Verschuer J, Fulham MJ. (2009). Competition of PK11195 with the peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligands [18F]PBR102 and [18F]PBR111 in rats and baboons. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 401P.  

Damont A, Van Camp N, Kuhnast B, Boisgard R, Chauveau F, Probst K, Jego B, Katsifis A, Kassiou M, Tavitian B, Dolle F. (2009). Radiolabeling and comparative studies of [18F]DPA-714, [18F]PBR111 and [18F]FEDAA1106, potent TSPO 18kDa PET-imaging candidates. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 417P. 

Xiao D, Zahra D, Bourgeat P, Costa Tamayo O, Berghofer P, Fripp J, Gregoire M, Salvado O. (2009). Hybrid non-rigid registration method for registering rat skeletons from micro-CT images. 56^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 13-17, 2009, Toronto, Canada. J. Nuc. Med. 50: 282P.

Le VS. (2009).Theoretical assessment of specific radioactivity: The effect of target burn-up, isotope dilution and target purity and the application for ¹⁷⁷Lu production. Asia-Pacific Symposium on Radiochemistry 2009, November 29-December 4, 2009, Napa, California, USA.

2008

Dedeurwaerdere S, Myers D, Vivash L, Bouilleret V, Sari Rusli AP, Retat L, Binns D, Roselt P, Hicks RJ, Katsifis A, O'Brien T, Gregoire MC. (2008).In Vivo 18F-Flumazenil PET and MRI Imaging in the Kainic Acid Model of Temporal Lobe Epilepsy. World Molecular Imaging Conference, September 10-13, 2008, Nice, France.

RetatL, BouilleretV, MyersD, KatsifisA, Gregoire MC. (2008). How Does Partial Volume Correction Improve Bmax and Kdvr Estimates in the Rat Brain Imaging with 18F-Flumazenil?. World Molecular Imaging Conference, September 10-13, 2008, Nice, France.

Zavitsanou K, Nguyen V, Wang HQ, Dalton VS. (2008). Cannabinoid effects on 5HT1A receptor density and D2 related functionality in the adult rat brain. 10^th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, October 23-24, 2008, Lorne, Victoria. Abstracts 42(2): 44.

Dalton VS, Wang HQ, Zavitsanou K. (2008). Age-related effects of the synthetic cannabinoid, HU210, on body weight and cannabinoid receptor density in the rat brain. 10^th Biennial Australasian Schizophrenia Conference, October 23-24, 2008, Lorne, Victoria. Abstracts 42(2): 62

Alexiev D. (2008). Report to the TC (IR) and the General Assembly of the APMP, November 2- 8, 2008, Jakarta, Indonesia. 

Mo L. (2008). Standardisation of I123 using TDCR method. ICRM – Liquid Scintillation and Life Science meeting, National Physics Laboratory, November, 10-16, 2008, Teddington, UK. 

Bignell LJ, Mo L, Smith ML , Alexiev D. (2008). Quantitative Uncertainty Evaluation for Monte Carlo Simulations of ¹²³I decay in a Liquid Scintillation Vial. Uncertainties and Activity Intercomparisons Workshop, at the Bureau International de Ponds et Measures, October, 2008, Paris, France. 

Alexiev D, Mo L, Smith M, Bignell L, Steele T. (2008). Lonising Radiation Physics at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation. Metrology, Testing and Accreditation – Breaking the Trading Barriers. International Symposium RMO2008, November, 2008, Cavat, Croatia. 

Arlicot N, Petit E, Katsifis A, Mattner F, Divoux D, Guilloteau D, Bernaudin M, Chalon S. (2008). Detection and quantification of TSPO overexpression after permanent focal cerebral ischemia in the mouse using [¹²⁵I]-CLINDE: an ex vivo autoradiographic study. 2008 World Molecular Imaging Congress, September 10-13, 2008, Nice, France

Mattner F, Linares D, Staykova M, Gregoire M-C, Pham T, Bourdier T, Quinlivan M, Callaghan P, Willenborg D, Katsifis A. (2008) Evaluation of the PBR ligand [¹²³I]CLINDE in an animal model of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. 55^th Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear Medicine, June 14-18, 2008, New Orleans, USA. J Nucl Med 49: 81P.

Zaw M, Morcos N, Pellegrini P, Greguric I, Nevissi A, Le VS. (2008) Evaluation of HPLC parameters to optimise the yiels and purification of no-carrier added ¹⁷⁷Lu and ¹⁷⁶Yb targets. 6^th International Conference of Isotopes, May 12-16 2008, Seoul, South Korea.

Le VS, Howse J, Zaw M, Pellegrini P, Katsifis A, Greguric I. (2008) Alternative method for Cu-64 radioisotope production. 6^th International Conference of Isotopes, May 12-16 2008, Seoul, South Korea.

Mattner F, Berghofer P, Shepherd R, Howell N, Pham T, Bourdier T, Ballantyne P, Katsifis A. (2008) Ex Vivo pharmacological evaluation of the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor radioligand [¹²³I]CLINDE in animal tumour model. 38^th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, May 1-6 2008, Gold Coast, Australia.

Mattner F, Linares D, Staykova M, Ballantyne P, Berghofer P, Pham T, Willenborg D, Katsifis A. (2008) Synthesis and evaluation of [¹²³I]CLINDE a novel ligand for imaging of neurodegeneration and inflammation using SPECT. 38^th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, May 1-6 2008, Gold Coast, Australia.

Fookes C, Homes T, Pham T, Mattner F, Greguric I, Liu X, Keller P, Katsifis A. (2008) Synthesis and evaluation of novel [¹²³I] and [¹⁸F] labelled pyrazolopyrimidines, for the study of Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor using PET and SPECT. 38^th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, May 1-6 2008, Gold Coast, Australia.

Fookes C. Pham T, Mattner F, Greguric I, Liu X, Berghofer P, Shepherd R, Katsifis A. (2008). Synthesis and evaluation of [¹⁸F]PBR102 and [¹⁸F]PBR111. Novel ligands for imaging neurodegeneration and inflammation using PET. 38th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, May 1-6 2008, Gold Coast, Australia.

Kench P, Gregoire M-C, Quinlivan M, Lin J, Mattner F, Katsifis A, Meikle S. (2008) The use of multiple pinhole SPECT to measure the heterogeneity of small animal tumour models. 38^th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, May 1-6 2008, Gold Coast, Australia.

Quinlivan M, Gregoire M-C, Mattner F, Katsifis A. (2008) The Peripheral Benzodiazepine Receptor ligand ClINME can delineate microglial activation similarly well with either SPECT or PET. 38th Annual Meeting of the Australia and New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine, May 1-6 2008, Gold Coast, Australia.

Zavitsanou K., Wang HQ, Dalton V, Newson P Chahl L Receptor changes in rats treated as neonates with capsaicin- testing a potential animal model of aspects of schizophrenia, Proceedings of the 28th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society (Hobart 27-30th January 2008), ISSN No 1034-3237, Vol 18, pg 118.

2007

Huang, XF, South, T. Zavitsanou, K and Chao, D. A negative association between the CB1 mRNA expression and high fat intake during the course of diet-induced obesity in mice, Annual Meeting for the Society for Neuroscience, November 2007, USA.

Zaw M. (2007) Oxidation Profile of Arsenic, Iron, manganese and Uranium in Tailings Dam Samples using X-ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure Spectroscopy. 15^th Australian Conference on Nuclear and Complementary Techniques of Analysis (NCTA) and 9^th Vacuum Society of Australia Congress (AINSE). November 21-23 2007 (ISBN 0 9758434 2 7), 353-357. The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.

Huang XF, du Bois TM, Newell KA, Zavitsanou K, Deng C. (2007) A rodent model of NMDA receptor hypofunction for study of schizophrenia. The 7th Biennial Meeting of the Chinese Society for Neuroscience, Hanhzhou, China, October 2007. Neuroscience Bulletin 23 (Supplement 1): 81.

Le VS, Nguyen CD, Bui VC, Vo CH. Preparation of zirconium- and titanium based inorganic polymer sorbents and their application in ⁹⁹Mo/^99mTc & ¹⁸⁸W/¹⁸⁸Re radionuclide generator technology. Third Research Co-ordination Meeting on "Development of Generator Technologies for Therapeutic radionuclides", October 8-12 2007, Daejeon, Korea.

Pham T, Mattner F, Fookes C, Greguric I, Berghofer P, Ballantyne P, Liu X, Shepherd R, Jackson T, Katsifis A. (2007) Synthesis and Evaluation of [¹⁸F] Labelled Imidazopyridines, for the Study of Peripheral Benzodiazepine Binding Sites Using PET. International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences. XVII^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, April 30 - May 4 2007, Aachen, Germany.

Mattner F, Pham T, Fookes C, Greguric I, Berghofer P, Ballantyne P, Liu X, Jackson T, Dikic B, Shepherd R, Katsifis A. (2007) In Vivo Evaluation of a [18F] Labelled Imidazopyridazine, for the Study of the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Binding Sites Using PET. XVII^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, April 30 - May 4 2007, Aachen, Germany.

Mattner F, Pham T, Greguric I, Berghofer P, Ballantyne P, Liu X, Dikic B, Jackson T, Dolle F, Katsifis A. (2007) Labelling and in Vivo Evaluation of the [123I] Labelled Imidazopyridine-3-Acetamide, CLINME for the Study of the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Binding Sites. XVII^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, April 30 - May 4 2007, Aachen, Germany.

Pham T, Fookes C, Liu X, Greguric I, Bourdier T, Katsifis A. (2007) Synthesis of [¹⁸F]Fluorine Labelled Imidazo[1,2b] Pyridazine as Potential Probes for the Study of Peripheral Benzodiazepine Binding Sites Using PET. XVII^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, April 30 May- 4 2007, Aachen, Germany.

Homes TP, Mattner F, Keller PA, Katsifis A. (2007) Synthesis and in Vivo Evaluation of a Novel [¹²³I] Indolglyoxylamide for the Peripheral Benzodiazepine Binding Sites. XVII^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, April 30 - May 4 2007, Aachen, Germany.

Bourdier T, Pham T, Fookes C, Greguric I, Katsifis A. (2007) Synthesis of S-(2-[¹⁸F]-fluoroethyl)-L-methionine for tumour imaging. XVII^th International Symposium on Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, April 30 - May 4 2007, Aachen, Germany.

Quinlivan M, Chalon S, Guilloteau D, Kassiou M, Katsifis A, Henderson J. (2007) 'Diminished Nicotinic Receptor Density and an Impairment in Attention but not Memory in the 192 Igg-Saporin Model of AD' 8th International Conference; Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Diseases: Progress and New Perspectives; March 14-18 2007, Salzburg, Austria.

Deng C, Eftimovska J, Zavitsanou K, Huang XF (2007) Phencyclidine induces apoptosis in the brain of neonatal but not adolescent and adult rats, submitted, IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Melbourne, 12-17 of July, 2007

Han M, Deng C, Zavitsanou K, Tan YY, Huang XF (2007) Effects of antipsychotics on muscarinic M1 receptor mRNA expression in the rat brain, submitted, IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Melbourne, 12-17 of July, 2007

Huang XF, Du Bois TM, Newell KA, Zavitsanou K, Hsu CW, Eftimovska J, Tan YY, Deng C (2007) Long-tern consequences of early brain development disruption on neurochemical balance and behavior, submitted, IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Melbourne, 12-17 of July, 2007

Newell KA, Dawson A, du Bois T, Zavitsanou K, Huang XF (2007) Region-specific CB1 receptor changes in the rodent brain following NMDA receptor antagonism, submitted, IBRO World Congress of Neuroscience, Melbourne, 12-17 of July, 2007

Newell KA, Zavitsanou K, Huang X-F (2007) The posterior cingulate cortex: a site of altered neural circuitry in schizophrenia and NMDA hypofunction, submitted, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado 28^th of March-1^st of April, 2007

Huang XF, du Bois TM, Hsu C-W, Eftimovska J, Tan YY, Zavitsanou K, Newell KA, Deng C (2007) NMDA receptor hypofunction during early brain development: relevance to schizophrenia, submitted, International Congress on Schizophrenia Research, Colorado 28^th of March-1^st of April

2006

Mo L, Alexiev D, Baldock C. (2006). Uncertainty evaluation of thermal neutron flux determination over the energy range 0 – 0.625 eV. Proceedings of the International Metrology Conference, April 3-7, 2006, Casablanca, Morocco.

Zavitsanou, K, Nguyen VH, Han, M, Katsifis, A, and Huang, XF (2006) 'Effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs on rat brain muscarinic receptors', Australian Science Society, 26^th Annual Meeting (January 31-February 3, 2006), Sydney, NSW, Australia.

KenchP.L., Quinlivan M.O., Gregoire MC., Berghofer P., Katsifis A., Meikle S.R. 'Performance characteristics of a dual detector small animal SPECT-CT camera' ANZSNM 2006.

Dedeurwaerdere S., Gregoire MC., Roselt P., Binns D., Katsifis A., Hicks R., O'Brien T. and Myers D. 'Evaluation of [18F]fluoroflumazenil for in vivo PET imaging of GABAA/cBZR density in small animal models of epilepsy' American Epilepsy Society Annual Meeting, 2006

Gallezot JD., Delforge J., Carson R.E., Gregoire MC. 'Modeling of ligand-receptor interactions for a nicotinic agonist: Is it possible to discriminate multiple affinity states in vivo with PET' Neuro-Receptor Mapping Meeting (Neuroimage), 2006.

F. Mattner, A. Katsifis, P. Mana, D. Linares, P. Ballantyne, P. Berghofer, T. Pham and D. Willenborg. (2006) 'Evaluation of CLINDE, a radiolabelled peripheral benzodiazepine receptor ligand in a murine model of neuro-inflammation: potential probe for assessing neurodegeneration' Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society 31 Jan- 3 Feb 2006, Sydney, Australia.

Lin, H. Q.; Nguyen, V. N.; Ballantyne, P.; Berghofer, P.; Chapman, J.; Katsifis, K.; Barb?, C.; Larkin, M.; Burch, W. M. Application of a Tumour Calculation Method to Biodistribution Studies with the Mouse B16F10 Lung Metastasis Model. 15th World Congress of Pharmacology. Beijing, China; July 2-7, 2006.

Le Van So , Standard Procedure for the preparation of PZC based chromatographic Tc-99m generator to be available for clinical application. Proceedings of the 2003 Workshop on the utilization of Research Reactors, January 12-16 , 2004 , Serpong ,Jakarta , Indonesia, JAEA Conf 2006-001 , Japan Atomic Energy Agency, March 2006 .

Zavitsanou K, Nguyen VH, Han M, Katsifis A, Huang XF (2006) Effects of typical and atypical antipsychotic drugs on rat brain muscarinic receptors, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, ISSN No 1034-3237, Vol 17, pg 104.

Zavitsanou K, Nguyen VH, Newell K, Ballantyne P, Huang XF (2006) Increased [³H]MK801 binding in the cingulated cortex of the rat after a single injection of phencyclidine, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, ISSN No 1034-3237, Vol 17, pg 10.

Newell KA, Zavitsanou K, Huang XF (2006) NMDA and muscarinic M1/4 receptor binding density is decreased 2 weeks after, but not immediately after chronic PCP treatment, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, ISSN No 1034-3237, Vol 17, pg 105.

Huang XF, Deng C, Zavitsanou K (2006) Differential regulation of brain NPY mRNA in rats treated with olanzapine, clozapine and haloperidol, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, ISSN No 1034-3237, Vol 17, pg 105.

Huang X, Chao D, Han M, Zavitsanou K, Huang XF (2006) Central 5-HT2 receptor mRNA expression pattern following chronic olanzapine treatment in rats, Proceedings of the 26^th Annual Meeting of the Australian Neuroscience Society, ISSN No 1034-3237, Vol 17, pg 139.