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is the homepage of the Liver PET Group at the PET Centre and Department of Medicine V, Aarhus University Hospital and University of Aarhus, Denmark, and Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.

The vision of our work is to develop, test and implement methods in the clinic to provide measures and knowledge of liver haemodynamics and metabolism in healthy subjects and patients with liver disease.

The homepage presents the scientists in the Liver PET Group, our research projects and scientific publications.
Susanne Keiding, Michael Sørensen, Ole Lajord Munk, Ludvik Bass, liver PET group, Aarhus, Denmark, hepatology, liver haemodynamics and metabolism, dynamic FDG-PET, brain metabolism.

Current major grants
  • Liver Disease Research Branch, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA
  • Danish Medical Research Council, Denmark
  • Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Aarhus, Denmark
  • The Lundbeck Foundation, Denmark
  • Danish Cancer Society, Denmark
  • Novo Nordisk Foundation, Denmark
  • Foundation for the Advancement of Medical Science, Denmark
  • Aase and Ejnar Danielsens Foundation, Denmark

Recent publications


Metab Brain Dis. 2010; 25: 49—56.



Gastroenterology 2009; 136: 863—871.



Metab Brain Dis 2009; 24: 237—242.



Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 2008; 295: G27—G36.




Keiding S, Sørensen M, Munk OL, Bender D. Human (13)N-ammonia PET studies: the importance of measuring (13)N-ammonia metabolites in blood, Metab Brain Dis. 2010.