Dr. Zsolt Lengyel PhD
Senior Consultant, Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Dr. Lengyel graduated from the University Medical School of Debrecen, Hungary in 1996. He got his Specialization Diploma in 2001 in Nuclear Medicine.
He worked for 10 years in the PET Center of Debrecen University where he was involved in clinical PET diagnostics and research, as well as in teaching. His clinical activity included PET reporting in Oncology, Neurology and Cardiology. His research activities included participation in tracer development, small animal imaging, brain activation studies, myocardial viability imaging, image fusion software tools, brain atlas techniques, development of imaging protocols and quantification tools.
He successfully obtained his PhD degree as the Assistant Professor of Debrecen University in 2004 after researching the various changes by PET in the radiation induced sequalae of the spinal cord. Since 2005, he worked as the medical director of Pozitron-Diagnosztika a privately-owned imaging center in Budapest, Hungary. Under his leadership more than 6000 clinical PET studies were performed per year using mainly FDG, 18F-DOPA, 11C-Acetate, 18F-Choline tracers. The Center was involved in the work of Tumor Boards in the Oncology Centre of Semmelweis University and the National Institute of Oncology, Budapest. He conducted activities as Consultant in Bethesda Children's Hospital, Budapest for childhood epilepsy cases.
He was a member of the steering committee of the "Hevesy György" Hungarian Society of Nuclear Medicine and the Hungarian Professional College of Nuclear Medicine. He published more than 30 papers in peer reviewed journals and wrote 4 book chapters. He recently obtained the degree of Doctor Habilitatus at Pecs University, Hungary in 2017.
