Speaker: Prof. Magdalena Rafecas
April 13th, 2026 | 10:00 am
DEIB, Alpha Room (Bld. 24)
Contact: Prof. Giacomo Borghi
Abstract
On
April 13th, 2026, at 10:00 am the seminar on "
Devices, models and algorithms for nuclear imaging (and beyond)" will take place in DEIB Alpha Room (Building 24).
Improvements in radiation detection have open up new avenues in nuclear imaging, including unconventional geometries for organ-specific positron emission tomography (PET), and applications beyond diagnostics. In this talk, I will briefly revise the basics of nuclear imaging techniques, including an introduction to the inverse problem of obtaining volumetric images from measurement data. Next, I will present selected examples of the research activities in nuclear imaging at the Universität zu Lübeck.
Short Bio
Magdalena Rafecas, PhD, is a physicist and Full Professor of Instrumentation in Medical Imaging at the Institute of Medical Engineering, Universität zu Lübeck (Germany), and former Professor at the Faculty of Physics, Universitat de València (Spain). With over 25 years of research experience in nuclear imaging, she specializes in innovative emission tomography — spanning from small-animal and clinical PET to treatment verification in particle therapy — and integrates expertise in mathematical modeling, inverse problems, Monte Carlo simulations, and instrumentation for a variety of modalities (e.g., PET, Compton cameras, coded-mask gamma imaging, and prompt-gamma timing). Her international career includes early research at CERN (Geneva), doctoral and postdoctoral work at the Technische Universität München (Germany), and a senior research position at the Universität Tübingen. She continues to advance medical imaging through active collaborative research projects across Europe and is deeply committed to teaching and mentoring students in medical physics and biomedical engineering.
