Professor Henryk Barthel, MD, is Chairman of the Department of Nuclear Medicine of the Municipal Hospital Dessau (Germany) and Visiting Scientist of the Leipzig University Medical Centre Department of Nuclear Medicine (Germany). He underwent training in Nuclear Medicine in Heidelberg (Germany) and Leipzig. From 2000 to 2003 he was as a Research Fellow at the Imperial College Hammersmith Hospital in London (UK). Dr. Barthel’s current research activities focus on new PET imaging techniques to improve diagnosis and treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, as well as on hybrid brain PET/MR imaging. To support the general progress of nuclear brain imaging, he serves as Associate Editor of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine.