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Welcome to join us in Turku for the VIII Finnish-Russian Symposium on Radiochemistry
in September 2009. The scientific program will consist of plenary lectures, free papers
and posters. The program contains all aspects of radiochemistry.

More information (pdf)
First announcement (pdf)

Two bugs were corrected in fitglob 1.1.4.

Integration duration can be determined automatically from the data by setting it to zero, also when integration start time is specified by the user.

In ecathead 2.7.1 option -sum was added to calculate sum of pixel values instead of average, which still is the default mode.
New version also works with ECAT images which do not contain frame times.

People who have received diagnostic medical exams sometimes express concern about the risks of the radiation exposure from these exams. Pat Zanzonico has compared the risks and benefits of several medical studies at the 2007 ASNC meeting. Results are currently available at a Web site of the Health Physics Society, http://hps.org/hpspublications/articles/Benefitsofmedradexposures.html.

Program for converting GEMS Xeleris time-activity curves to DFT format, xel2dft, was updated to version 0.2.2.

Nobuyuki Kudomi wrote manual to calculation of oxygen consumption in myocqardium (MMRO2).

Instructions for reconstructing PET images from immemorial CTI ECAT 931 raw data were updated, and can be read here: http://www.turkupetcentre.net/analysis/doc/reconstruction.html

imgslim slices off empty parts in dynamic ECAT 6.3 or 7 images to save disk space and to allow faster loading of images in image processing software. New version has option -keepframes, then time frames are never sliced off.