Co-PI: dr. Bart de Keizer, nuclear medicine physician.
After graduating as M.D. with a special interest in pediatric oncology imaging, I started my PhD trajectory at the Princess Máxima Center in 2020. My PhD projects are focused on nuclear medicine imaging of patients with neuroblastoma. Neuroblastoma is a tumour that often disseminates to bone and lymph nodes. It is important to accurately visualize disease localisations in the body. Repeated scans are required for staging, response assessment, and follow-up of neuroblastoma. Our work will be a combination of I) studying current imaging techniques and II) introducing a new scan method. Our aim is to learn from what we see on current imaging (for instance, evaluate tumor recurrence after image-guided radiotherapy). The most important study is the MFBG PET-CT study on a new scan technique that has many advantages over current MIBG scanning. See the video for more information.