Name: Fast Timing in Medical Imaging
Start: 2022-06-03T07:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-06-05T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Parador El Saler, Valencia, Spain

Fast Timing in Medical Imaging

from Friday 3 June 2022 (07:00) to Sunday 5 June 2022 (20:00)

Monday 30 May 2022
Tuesday 31 May 2022
Wednesday 1 June 2022
Thursday 2 June 2022
Friday 3 June 2022
09:00
09:00 - 09:20
Contributions

09:00 Welcome - Antonio J. Gonzalez Martinez

09:10 Motivations for the workshop on Fast Timing in Medical Imaging - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq
09:20
09:20 - 10:50
Contributions

09:20 Reflections on Time-of-Flight for PET imaging - David W. Townsend

09:40 Clinical experience on the merit of TOF in PET imaging - John Prior

10:00 Reconstruction-free total-body PET: Realizing the full potential of the tracer kinetic method - Simon Cherry (UC Davis)

10:20 Clinical and Technical Impact of Fast TOF PET - Georges El Fakhri (Gordon Center for Medical Imaging and Harvard Medical School)

10:35 Introduction to a High-Resolution Fast-Timing PET Project - Jae Sung Lee (Seoul National University)
10:50 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20
11:20
11:20 - 13:05
Contributions

11:20 Concepts and systems to advance coincidence time resolution for time-of-flight positron emission tomography - Craig Levin (Stanford University)

11:45 Design and initial results of a total-body PET with TOF and DOI capabilities - Antonio J. Gonzalez Martinez

12:00 Development of a fast Cherenkov detector dedicated to Prompt Gamma Time Imaging - Maxime Jacquet

12:15 On a way to clinical positronium imaging with the high time resolution total-body J-PET system - Pawel Moskal

12:30 Novel biomarker and drug delivery systems for theranostics – extracellular vesicles - Ewa Stępień

12:45 The importance of fast-timing gradients in 3T MRI for diffusion and perfusion analysis in Prostate Cancer - Ana Jimenez Pastor
13:05
13:05 - 13:20
Contributions

13:05 Toward a First Prototype Time-of-flight CT Scanner - Julien Rossignol (Université de Sherbrooke)
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 16:15
Contributions

15:30 GATE simulation of a brain-dedicated PET system using metacrystals for optimized ToF capability - Daniel Alexandre Baptista Bonifacio (IPEN/CNEN and I3M/UPV/CSIC)

15:45 Towards precise temporal resolution using highly multiplexed readout schemes for gamma-ray detectors - Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro (I3M-CSIC-UPV) David Sanchez (I3M-UPV)

16:00 Evaluation of a PET detector with ultra-high spatial and timing resolution suitable for preclinical systems - Celia Valladares (Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular - i3m (CSIC-UPV))
16:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
16:15 - 16:45
16:45
16:45 - 17:45
Contributions

16:45 Image quality of a pure Cherenkov TOF PET scanner: a simulation study - Gasper Razdevsek (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)

17:00 Exploration of the physical limits for Cherenkov PET using tiny crystals and a large cube - Sofiia Forostenko (ETH Zurich (CH))

17:15 Timing with (semi-)prompt photons: a review and perspective on the full detector chain - Nicolaus Kratochwil (CERN)

17:30 Power efficient high-frequency readout of timing optimized SiPMs for Cherenkov radiation - Stefan Gundacker (Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems (PMI))
17:45
17:45 - 18:00
Contributions

17:45 Nanophotonic particle detectors: how quantum optics can contribute to scintillators and Cherenkov detectors - Ido Kaminer (Technion Univrsity)
18:00 Total Body with TOFPET and AI/deep learning denoising/image enhancement: S. Cherry, J. Prior, S. Vandenberghe
Total Body with TOFPET and AI/deep learning denoising/image enhancement: S. Cherry, J. Prior, S. Vandenberghe
18:00 - 19:00
Contributions

18:00 Introduction to the Round table - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq
20:30 Welcome dinner
Welcome dinner
20:30 - 22:00
Saturday 4 June 2022
08:30
08:30 - 10:15
Contributions

08:30 Recent developments in the field of scintillator for fast radiation detectors - Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN)

08:45 Timing limits and estimators in the presence of prompt photons in TOF-PET detectors - Francis Loignon-Houle (Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center of CRCHUS and Department of Nuclear Medicine and Radiobiology, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada)

09:00 Scintillator response time probed at femtosecond photoexcitation - Gintautas Tamulaitis (Vilnius University)

09:15 Optically stimulated luminescence in state-of-the-art LYSO:Ce scintillators - Rosana Martinez Turtos (Aarhus University (DK))

09:30 Characterization of a semi-monolithic detector with DOI and TOF capabilities for preclinical PET - John Barrio (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M))

09:45 A Comprehensive Study on the Timing Limits Using High Light Yield Crystals and High-frequency Front-end Circuit for TOF PET Detectors - Minseok Yi (Seoul National University)

10:00 Defect process in BGO: A precursor to band-edge engineering and design of stable scintillators - Othmane Bouhali (Texas A & M University (US))
10:15 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:15 - 10:45
10:45
10:45 - 12:00
Contributions

10:45 A proof-of-concept of cross-luminescent metascintillators - Georgios Konstantinou (I3M (Spain) and Multiwave Metacrystal S.A. (Switzerland))

11:00 A Study of Mass Production of Metacrystal Pixels and Arrays - Bruce Chai (CPI)

11:15 Exploiting Cherenkov radiation and cross-luminescence emission with BGO/BaF2 metacrystals - Riccardo Latella (Metacrystal SA)

11:30 GATE optical simulations of DOI enabled metascintillator based on semi-monolithic design - Lei Zhang

11:45 Toward a new generation of detectors for TOF-PET with heterostructured scintillators - Fiammetta Pagano (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))
12:00
12:00 - 13:45
Contributions

12:00 Fast timing with nanocrystalline lead halide perovskite thin films on scintillating wafers - Eva Mihóková (Institute of Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences)

12:15 Extreme γ-ray radiation hardness and high scintillation yield in perovskite nanocrystals - Matteo Zaffalon (University Milano-Bicocca)

12:30 Nanocrystals for fast timing applications embedded in a polystyrene matrix - Katerina Decka (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))

12:45 Perpendicular photonic devices for scintillation detectors - Lei Zhang

13:00 Scintillation mechanisms in II-VI semiconductor nanostructures - Benoit Mahler (CNRS - Institut Lumière Matière)

13:15 Toward Ultrafast Scintillators with Fluorescent Colloidal Nanocrystals - Alina Myslovska (Ghent University) Iwan Moreels (Ghent University)

13:30 GaN-InGaN multiple quantum well (MQW): superfast semiconductor scintillator for time tagging in composite pixels for TOF-PET - Martin Nikl (Czech Academy of Sciences (CZ))
13:45 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:45 - 14:59

15:00 Free time
Free time
15:00 - 18:30

18:30

18:30 - 20:30

20:30

20:30 - 22:30
Sunday 5 June 2022
08:30
08:30 - 10:15
Contributions

08:30 Small and Fast : Nanophotonics for Fast Timing - Stefan Sylvain Enoch

08:45 Monolithic integration of metalens array in multipixel photon counter for enhanced photodetection efficiency - Ryosuke Ota (Hamamatsu Photonics K.K.)

09:00 Progress in CMOS SPADs and digital SiPMs for fast timing applications - Claudio Bruschini (EPFL STI IEM AQUA)

09:15 FBK SiPM roadmap for ultimate timing performance - Alberto Gola

09:30 VUV-SiPMs applied to BaF2 cross-luminescence detection for high-rate ultrafast timing applications - S. Gundacker (Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems (PMI))

09:45 The 100μPET project: a small-animal PET scanner for ultra-high-resolution molecular imaging with monolithic silicon pixel sensors - giuseppe iacobucci (University of Geneva)

10:00 Hamamatsu technology for TOF PET - David Castrillo
10:15
10:15 - 11:00
Contributions

10:15 The timing performance of the TOFHIR2 ASIC - Joao Varela (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT))

10:30 Timing limits of the TOFPET2 ASIC - Vanessa Nadig (RWTH Aachen University)

10:45 Pushing time resolution for ToF-PET molecular imaging employing the FastIC ASIC - Sergio Gomez Fernandez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB))
11:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 13:15
Contributions

11:30 Low Power Implementations of High Performance Electronic Readout to Advance TOF-PET Detector Module Performance - Joshua Cates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:45 Minimizing power consumption for Time-of-Flight PET SiPM readout - Riccardo Latella (Metacrystal SA)

12:00 A Comparative Study on Various Capacitance Compensation Technique for SiPM based TOF-PET detector - Hyeong Seok Shim (Seoul National University)

12:15 Comparison of time-walk compensation methods for Leading Edge Discriminators - Sangjin Bae

12:30 Time based event positioning in monolithic detectors - Charlotte Thyssen

12:45 Conceptual design of high-speed and low-noise receiver electronic systems - David Arutinov (Forschungszentrum Jülich)

13:00 Advances in electronics for a Compton camera - Gabriela Llosá (IFIC (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC) (ES))
13:30 Lunch Break
Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:00
15:00
15:00 - 17:00
Contributions

15:00 Determining the equivalent Gaussian TOF-resolution of PET systems with multiple and non-Gaussian TOF-kernels - Johan Nuyts (KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Nuclear Medicine & Molecular imaging; Medical Imaging Research Center (MIRC), B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.)

15:15 The influence of the number of Cerenkov photons on the timing resolution of a BGO PET detector. - Johan Nuyts (KU Leuven, University of Leuven, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Nuclear Medicine & Molecular imaging; Medical Imaging Research Center (MIRC), B-3000, Leuven, Belgium.)

15:30 Improving Spatial Resolution with Ultrafast TOF in PET - Roger Lecomte (Université de Sherbrooke)

15:45 Cross-sectional image generation and post processing in reconstruction-free direct positron emission imaging (dPEI) - Sun Il Kwon (UC Davis)

16:00 The potential of AI-Deep learning for improving spatial and TOF resolution, acquisition time and scanner cost in PET - Stefaan Vandenberghe

16:15 Pushing the limits of high resolution detectors based on monolithic scintillators for fast timing in PET with an AI-boosted 4D positioning algorithm - Nicola Belcari

16:30 Convolutional networks for gamma time estimation from raw detector waveforms in monolithic PET detectors - Jens Maebe

16:45 Fast prototyping of medical imaging detectors using AI methods - Indranil Pan
17:00
17:00 - 17:40
Contributions

17:00 Scientific conclusions of the workshop - Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

17:20 Workshop conclusions - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq
17:40

17:40 - 18:40