Total-Body PET/CT:  The EXPLORER Story

Please join us for the Virtual Pub on Friday, November 6, 2026, at 13:00 CEST. We are delighted to welcome Simon Cherry, University of California - Davis, for a talk on "Total-Body PET/CT:  The EXPLORER Story." 

Abstract
Over 100 PET/CT scanners that cover most or all of the human body are now installed worldwide.  Why were these systems developed?  Why didn’t it happen sooner?  How is their high cost justified?  What can they do that conventional PET/CT scanners cannot do?  Are they making a difference in medicine?  These are some of the questions that will be addressed as the 15-year long quest to develop total-body PET is described.

Biography 
Simon Cherry is Distinguished Research Professor in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology at the University of California, Davis and also Professor of Total-Body Imaging in the School if Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences at King’s College London.  Trained in physics, his interests span technology, methods and applications of positron emission tomography (PET).