Imaging Pain: Clinical Molecular Imaging of Pain Generators and Inflammation Using PET/MRI
Chronic pain is now the most prevalent disease in the world outnumbering those suffering from cancer, heart disease and diabetes combined. Current methods to diagnose pain generators, such as conventional MR imaging approaches and electrodiagnostics, lack sensitivity and specificity in accurately identifying the source of one's pain. The lack of an accurate method to localize pain generators invariably leads to inadequate treatments, poor outcomes and unnecessary surgeries. The goal of this session is to describe new clinical molecular imaging and emerging molecular/cellular imaging methods to more objectively localize chronic pain generators/drivers so that we may more intelligently act upon the cause in a pain sufferer.
Department: Radiology
Contact: Tricia Hatcliff | 650-498-7359 | thatcliff@stanford.edu
Presenter(s):
- Sandip Biswal, MD Associate Professor (Musculoskeletal Imaging)