Adriana Tavares (BSc (Hons.), MSc, PhD)
Research Fellow in PET Imaging

- Centre for Cardiovascular Science
- Edinburgh Imaging
Contact details
- Tel: 0131 242 7975
- Email: adriana.tavares@ed.ac.uk
Address
- Street
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The Queen's Medical Research Institute,
Edinburgh BioQuarter,
47 Little France Crescent - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4TJ
Research activities
- Organizer PoP (Planning of PET) Meetings
- External PiW (PET is Wonderful) Meetings
- External PiW (PET is Wonderful) Meetings
- Parkinson's UK (External organisation)
- Consultant preclinical radionuclide research
- Managing Difficult Conversations Course
- Managing People Course
- European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) 2016
- European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) 2016 to
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (Journal) to
- Parkinson's UK (External organisation) to
- Centre for Cardiovascular Science - Baker Science Retreat to
- Internal PiW (PET is Wonderful) Meetings
- Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism (Journal) to
- Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters (Journal) to
- UoE/BHF Centre for Cardiovascular Sciences Symposium Day
- Edinburgh Preclinical Imaging Symposium
- Unconscious Bias Online Course
- Principal Investigator Briefing Course
- University of Edinburgh (External organisation)
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Assessing the impact of different penalty factors of the Bayesian reconstruction algorithm Q.Clear on in vivo low count kinetic analysis of [11C]PHNO brain PET-MR studies
In:
EJNMMI research
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
18F-GP1 Positron Emission Tomography and Bioprosthetic Aortic Valve Thrombus
In:
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcmg.2021.11.015
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
18F-GP1 positron emission tomography and bioprosthetic aortic valve thrombus
In:
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
Bypass Grafting and Native Coronary Artery Disease Activity
In:
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Accepted/In press) -
A systems-level analysis of total-body PET data reveals complex skeletal metabolism networks in vivo
In:
Frontiers in Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2021.740615
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Review article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Positron Emission Tomography Techniques to Measure Active Inflammation, Fibrosis and Angiogenesis in Hypertensive Heart Failure
In:
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcvm.2021.719031
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
In vivo thrombosis imaging in patients recovering from COVID-19 and pulmonary embolism
In:
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202011-4182IM
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Modelling [18F]LW223 PET data using simplified imaging protocols for quantification of TSPO expression in the rat heart and brain
In:
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-021-05482-1
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Adaptive Manufacturing for Healthcare During the COVID-19 Emergency and Beyond
(1 page)
In:
Frontiers in Medical Technology, vol. 3, pp. 39
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmedt.2021.702526
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Can dynamic imaging, using 18F-1 FDG PET/CT and CT perfusion differentiate between benign and malignant pulmonary nodules?
In:
Radiology and Oncology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/raon-2021-0024
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Performance evaluation of the Q.Clear reconstruction framework versus conventional reconstruction algorithms for quantitative brain PET-MR studies
In:
EJNMMI physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40658-021-00386-3
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Automated Radiosynthesis of cis- and trans-4-[18F]Fluoro-L-proline using [18F]Fluoride
In:
Journal of Organic Chemistry
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.joc.1c00755
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Effects of administration route on uptake kinetics of 18F-sodium fluoride Positron Emission Tomography in mice
In:
Scientific Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-85073-0
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Ex vivo 18F-fluoride uptake and hydroxyapatite deposition in human coronary atherosclerosis
In:
Scientific Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-77391-6
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Characterisation of an atherosclerotic micro-calcification model using ApoE-/- mice and PET/CT
In:
IJC Heart & Vasculature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcha.2020.100672
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Rapidly (and successfully) translating novel brain radiotracers from animal research into clinical use
In:
Frontiers in Neuroscience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00871
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Preclinical dosimetry models and the prediction of clinical doses of novel Positron Emission Tomography radiotracers
In:
Scientific Reports
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72830-w
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Editorial: Status Go for Preclinical Imaging
In:
Frontiers in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fphy.2020.00344
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Editorial (E-pub ahead of print) -
Tri-modal imaging of gold-dotted magnetic nanoparticles (Au*MNPs) for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computerised tomography (CT) and intravascular ultrasound (IVUS): an in vitro study
In:
Nanomedicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2217/nnm-2020-0236
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
Quantification of macrophage-driven inflammation during myocardial infarction with 18F-LW223, a novel TSPO radiotracer with binding independent of the rs6971 human polymorphism
In:
Journal of Nuclear Medicine
DOI: https://doi.org/10.2967/jnumed.120.243600
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print)