MEDAMI 2024 - Inflammation and Infection Imaging

from Friday 24 May 2024 (14:00) to Sunday 26 May 2024 (19:30)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
24 May 2024
25 May 2024
26 May 2024
AM
08:30
Advances in multimodality imaging to increase our understanding of the inflammation’s role in healthy and diseased tissue - Nicola Belcari (University of Pisa, Department of Physics) (until 10:10)
08:30 Advances in preclinical MR molecular imaging of inflammation - Prof. Enzo Terreno (Department of Molecular Biotechnology and Health Sciences - University of Torino)  
08:50 Advances in Inflammation Imaging: Optical Techniques in Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Regimes - Prof. Matija Milanic (Faculty of mathematics and physics, University of Ljubljana)  
09:10 Exploring Inflammatory Pathways: Optical Nanoscopy Reveals Cytokine-Induced β-Cell Stress Signatures - Luca Pesce (University of Pisa, Department of Physics)  
09:30 TSPO (18F-VC701) PET imaging in neuroinflammation for Parkinson disease - Sara Belloli  
09:50 Euro-BioImaging ERIC: Open access imaging services enable cutting-edge research - an ISIDORe project evaluating COVID-19 effects with mouse brain imaging - Susanne Vainio (Euro-BioImaging ERIC)  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40
Clinical Role of advanced imaging equipment in infection and inflammation imaging - Eric Guedj (Service Central de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire CHU Timone APHM) (until 12:30)
10:40 Challenges and solutions for imaging inflammation and infections with whole body and brain-dedicated PET - JOSE MARIA Benlloch Baviera (I3M-CSIC)  
11:00 Advantages of Total Body PET imaging - Prof. Charalampos Tsoumpas (UMCG)  
11:20 Applications of TB PET in infection/inflammation - Dr Federico Caobelli  
11:40 Advantages and applications of TB SPECT CZT in infection/inflammation - Ora Israel  
12:00 Round Table for Sessions 3  
08:30
Relevant tracers for inflammation and infection - Olivier Gheysens Clemens Decristoforo (until 10:10)
08:30 Today's available radiotracers - Elena Lazzeri  
08:50 Specific/upcoming tracers for bacterial infection - Milos Petrik  
09:10 Specific/upcoming tracers for viral infection - John Olivier Prior  
09:30 Specific/upcoming tracers for fungal infection - Clemens Decristoforo  
09:50 FAPI - Olivier Gheysens  
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40
Technical challenges for imaging inflammation and infection - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) (until 13:00)
10:40 Next generation PET/CT - Ilaria Crippa (United Imaging)  
11:00 Progress on the Development of the Emission Tomography Standardization Initiative (ETSI) Standard Format for List-Mode PET Raw Data (PETSIRD) - Prof. Charalampos Tsoumpas (UMCG)  
11:20 Round table - Prof. Charalampos Tsoumpas (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL)) Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) Pawel Moskal (Jagiellonian University) Pawel Moskal maurizio conti Jose Benlloch  
PM
15:00
Molecular imaging of Inflammation and Infection in Research and clinical practice − status and Next Frontiers - Olivier Gheysens John Olivier Prior (until 19:00)
15:00 Introduction to the Symposium - Olivier Gheysens John Olivier Prior  
15:10 Introduction: from an infectiologist's point of view - Marco Falcone (Division of Infectious Disease, University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)  
15:40 Introduction: from an internal medicine (inflammation) point of view - Antonio Tavoni  
16:10 SPECT imaging for infection/inflammation: State-of-Art, Challenges and Next Frontiers - Alberto Signore  
16:40 --- Coffee break ---
17:10 FDG-PET/CT in inflammatory disorders : State-of-the-Art, Challenges and Next Frontiers - François Jamar (Cliniques universitaires St-Luc and UCLouvain, Brussels, Belgium)  
17:40 FDG PET/CT in infectious disorders : State-of-Art, Challenges and Next Frontiers - Giorgio Treglia  
18:10 Neuro inflammation - long Covid etc. - Eric Guedj (Service Central de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire CHU Timone APHM)  
18:40 Nuclear Imaging (eg. immune cell imaging) - Alberto Signore  
19:00 --- Welcome Reception ---
12:30
Contributed talks - Elena Lazzeri (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy) (until 13:20)
12:30 Inflammation Imaging with High Sensitivity Panel TOF PET Detectors - Gasper Razdevsek (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
12:35 [18F]FDG-PET/CT and 99mTc-HMPAO-labeled leukocytes SPECT/CT imaging in a case series patients with possible infective endocarditis: which and when to use them - Dr Alice Ambrogio (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy) Dr Marina Scarpuzza (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)  
12:40 The XEMIS2 camera installation progress at the Nantes University Hospital - Nicolas Beaupere (Subatech)  
12:45 Opening New Possibilities for Inflammation and Infection Research using Dual-Tracer PET Imaging - Zekai Li (University Medical Center Groningen)  
12:50 Comparison between three-phase bone scan and 99mTc-HMPAO-labelled white blood cell scintigraphy in patients with suspicious of hip or knee prosthetic infected loosening - Dr Marina Scarpuzza (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Translational Research and New Technology in Medicine, University of Pisa and AOUP, Pisa Italy) Dr Andrea Marciano (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Translational Research and New Technology in Medicine, University of Pisa and AOUP, Pisa Italy) Dr Alice Ambrogio (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Translational Research and New Technology in Medicine, University of Pisa and AOUP, Pisa Italy)  
12:55 Comparison between [18F]FDG-PET/CT and 99mTc-HMPAO-labeled leukocyte SPECT/CT imaging in a case series patients with suspicious of vascular prosthesis infection: to trust is good but to check it out is better - Ms Marina Scarpuzza (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy) Ms Alice Ambrogio (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy) Mr Andrea Leo (Regional Center of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pisa Medical School and University Hospital of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)  
13:20 --- Lunch Break (Buffet) ---
14:40
Can AI/ML/Deep Learning contribute to Molecular Imaging of Inflammation and Infection? - Kuangyu Shi (until 16:50)
14:40 Role of multi-phase scintigraphy - Olivier Gheysens  
15:00 Advancements in Parametric Imaging: Applications, Challenges, and Opportunities - Dr Alessia Artesani (Humanitas University)  
15:20 Overview of AI/ML/Deep Learning: Physicist's view - Kuangyu Shi  
15:40 Overview of AI/ML/Deep Learning: Physician's view - Guido Rovera  
16:00 Challenges in AI applied to medical image analysis in COVID-19 infection - Camilla Scapicchio (INFN sezione di Pisa)  
16:20 Round table  
17:00 Networking event & dinner  
13:00 Closing & summary  
13:30 --- Lunch break (buffet) ---