Magnetic resonance spectroscopy and beyond for pediatric brain tumors

CNS Oncol. 2014 May;3(3):195-7. doi: 10.2217/cns.14.12.

Abstract

Andrew Peet is an NIHR Research Professor at the University of Birmingham and a Consultant in Paediatric Oncology at Birmingham Children's Hospital. He is the Research Director of the NIHR 3T MRI Research Centre at Birmingham Children's Hospital. Professor Peet's research group specializes in the development and evaluation of new imaging techniques for the assessment of childhood disease and is underpinned by a laboratory program of research in the metabolism of tumors. He has more than 100 publications in the field including an invited article in Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology. He also chairs the Children's Cancer and Leukaemia Group's Functional Imaging Group and Cancer Imaging Programme as well as being the co-chair of the International Society for Pediatric Oncology Europe Brain Imaging Group.

Publication types

  • Interview
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Brain Neoplasms / diagnosis*
  • Brain Neoplasms / metabolism
  • Brain Neoplasms / therapy*
  • Child
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • Humans
  • Magnetic Resonance Imaging
  • Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy / methods*