Fast Timing in Medical Imaging

from Friday, 3 June 2022 (07:00) to Sunday, 5 June 2022 (20:00)
Parador El Saler, Valencia, Spain

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
3 Jun 2022
4 Jun 2022
5 Jun 2022
AM
09:00
Welcome (until 09:20) ()
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
Clinical motivation for pushing TOFPET CTR resolution ≤100ps - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (until 10:50) ()
09:20 Reflections on Time-of-Flight for PET imaging - Dr 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 - Prof. 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 - Prof. Jae Sung Lee (Seoul National University)   ()
10:50 --- Coffee Break ---
11:20
Clinical motivation for pushing TOFPET CTR resolution ≤100ps - John Prior (until 13:05) ()
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   ()
08:30
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Scintillators - Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN) (until 10:15) ()
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 - Mr 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 - Prof. 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 ---
10:45
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Scintillators - Rosana Martinez Turtos (Aarhus University (DK)) (until 12:00) ()
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))   ()
08:30
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Photodetectors - Georgios Konstantinou (I3M (Spain) and Multiwave Metacrystal S.A. (Switzerland)) (until 10:15) ()
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 - Dr 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 - Prof. giuseppe iacobucci (University of Geneva)   ()
10:00 Hamamatsu technology for TOF PET - David Castrillo   ()
10:15
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Electronics - Jose Maria Benlloch (upv) (until 11:00) ()
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 - Prof. Sergio Gomez Fernandez (Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Institute of Cosmos Sciences (ICCUB))   ()
11:00 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Electronics - Joao Varela (LIP - Laboratorio de Instrumentação e Física Experimental de Partículas (PT)) (until 13:15) ()
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 - Mr David Arutinov (Forschungszentrum Jülich)   ()
13:00 Advances in electronics for a Compton camera - Dr Gabriela Llosá (IFIC (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC) (ES))   ()
PM
13:05
Fast X-Ray imaging - John Prior (until 13:20) ()
13:05 Toward a First Prototype Time-of-flight CT Scanner - Julien Rossignol (Université de Sherbrooke)   ()
13:30 --- Lunch Break ---
15:30
System considerations for TOFPET CTR resolution ≤100ps - Antonio Gonzalez (I3M) (until 16:15) ()
15:30 GATE simulation of a brain-dedicated PET system using metacrystals for optimized ToF capability - Dr 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 - Dr Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro (I3M-CSIC-UPV) Dr 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 ---
16:45
System considerations for TOFPET CTR resolution ≤100ps - Antonio Gonzalez (I3M) (until 17:45) ()
16:45 Image quality of a pure Cherenkov TOF PET scanner: a simulation study - Mr 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 - Mr 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
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Scintillators - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (until 18:00) ()
17:45 Nanophotonic particle detectors: how quantum optics can contribute to scintillators and Cherenkov detectors - Ido Kaminer (Technion Univrsity)   ()
18:00
Round Table discussion - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (until 19:00) ()
18:00 Introduction to the Round table - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq   ()
20:30 --- Welcome dinner ---
12:00
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: Scintillators - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (until 13:45) ()
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 - Dr 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 - Prof. Iwan Moreels (Ghent University) Ms Alina Myslovska (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 ---
15:00
Free time (until 18:30) ()
18:30
Excursion (until 20:30) ()
20:30
Social Dinner (until 22:30) ()
13:30 --- Lunch Break ---
15:00
Technologies for ≤100ps TOFPET resolution: AI, Image reconstruction - 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.) (until 17:00) ()
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 - Prof. 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
Workshop Conclusions - Pawel Moskal (until 17:40) ()
17:00 Scientific conclusions of the workshop - Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University)   ()
17:20 Workshop conclusions - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq   ()
17:40
Farewell drink and adjourn (until 18:40) ()