FTMI-TBPET-PSMR 2026 Valencia

from Monday, 11 May 2026 (09:00) to Thursday, 14 May 2026 (19:30)
Valencia Hotel Las Arenas

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
11 May 2026
12 May 2026
13 May 2026
14 May 2026
AM
09:00
Welcome session (until 09:20)
09:20
Session 1: FTMI-Overview & Scintillators (until 10:10)
09:20 Overview of Fast Timing developments for PET - Georgios Konstantinou  
09:50 Recent developments in the field of scintillators for radiation detectors - Etiennette Auffray Hillemanns (CERN)  
10:10
Coffee Break (until 10:40)
10:40
Session 2: FTMI-Scintillators (until 12:20)
10:40 Ultrafast exciton-based scintillation in specifically engineered perovskites - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq  
11:00 Timing investigation of Tl2LaCl5: a high sensitivity fast scintillator for medical imaging detectors - Nicolaus Kratochwil (University of California, Davis)  
11:20 Integration of a BGO Window Faceplate and high quantum efficiency photocathode in Multi-Anode Microchannel Plate Photomultiplier Tubes - Dr Ryosuke Ota (UC Davis)  
11:40 Cherenkov Timing in BGO and Rise Time Classification with FastIC+ ASIC - Francis Loignon-Houle (Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (I3M), CSIC—UPV)  
12:00 Sponsor Keynote: Epic Crystal:Scintillation Crystal, Custom Array & Detector Solutions - Tess xue (Epic Crystal)  
09:00
Session 5: FTMI-Detectors/Methods (until 10:40)
09:00 Improving TOF and DOI capabilities of pixelated PET modules using High-Frequency Readout - Dr Giulia Terragni (CERN)  
09:20 Maximum Likelihood Timing Estimation in Monolithic Scintillators using the PETsys TOFPET2 ASIC - Ms Helena Segarra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC))  
09:40 Improving Coincidence Time Resolution using Maximum Likelihood Estimation in Dual-Side Readout Scintillators - CLAUDIA FERNANDEZ BORREGUERO  
10:00 Benchtop Characterization of a 64-Channel Scintillation Photon Counting TOF-PET Monolithic Detector - Seungeun Lee  
10:20 Cherenkov Photon Counting, Labeling, and Multi-Photon Timing Estimation for sub-100 ps CTR BGO TOF-PET Detectors - Joshua Cates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
10:40
Coffee Break (until 11:10)
11:10
Session 6: FTMI-Systems (until 12:30)
11:10 A metascintillator-based, ultra-ToF enabled, brain PET scanner simulation - Georgios Konstantinou (EPFL)  
11:30 Detector-Wise Learning for Scalable In-System PET Timing Calibration - Julian Thull (Chair of Imaging & Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University)  
11:50 Comparison of digital and analog PET systems: performance and image quality - Ms Andrea González Rodríguez (Hospital Universitario de Cuenca)  
12:10 High Sensitivity Multimodal DOI-TOF PET and SPECT for Proton Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging - Karol Lang (University of Texas at Austin)  
08:30
Session 9: PSMR-Overview & Detectors (until 10:20)
08:30 PET & PET/MR in 2026: Toward Fully Integrated, Quantitative, and Dynamic Multimodal Imaging - Nicola Belcari  
09:00 Analytical modeling of inter-crystal scattering in PET with energy information - Dr Jorge Roser (Institute of Medical Engineering, Universität zu Lübeck)  
09:20 Accurate 3D Positioning in Semi-Monolithic PET Detectors including ICS recovery - Dr Fiammetta Pagano (Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (i3M) – CSIC)  
09:40 Multiple Emission Tomography: A High-Sensitivity Simultaneous PET and Compton-Camera scanner - Marco Pizzichemi (Universita Milano-Bicocca (IT) and CERN)  
10:00 Investigation of SiPM Channel Compression Schemes - Thore Meyer (Chair of Imaging & Computer Vision, RWTH Aachen University)  
10:20
Coffee Break (until 10:50)
10:50
Session 10: PSMR-Systems (until 12:30)
10:50 Hybrid PET-MRI-FUS: Performance Validation, Trimodal Imaging, and 9.4T Positron Range Confinement - Fernando Lopez Berenguer (Instituto de Instrumentación para Imagen Molecular (I3M), CSIC-UPV)  
11:10 First Results from the SAVANT Ultra-High-Resolution Phoswich-Based DOI Brain PET Scanner - Prof. Roger Lecomte (Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center of CRCHUS, IR&T Inc.)  
11:30 Simulation-Based Performance Evaluation of the NeuroSphere PET Insert for 7T-MRI - PABLO GALVE LAHOZ (Institute for Physical and Information Technologies “Leonardo Torres Quevedo”, ITEFI, Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)  
11:50 Experimental Results of a Brain PET Insert inside a 3T Siemens Prisma MRI - Marta Freire Lopez-Fando (Instituto de Instrumentacion para Imagen Molecular (i3M))  
12:10 Characterization of an Intravital Theranostic Imaging Camera - Narendra Rathod (Inselspital and University of Bern)  
08:30
Session 13: TBPET-Overview & Detectors (until 10:00)
08:30 Overview of recent developments in Total Body PET - Stefaan Vandenberghe  
09:00 PET detector based on BGO pseudo-slabs: a comparison study - Neus Cucarella Melo  
09:20 Selection of plastic scintillators for the total-body J-PET scanner - Dr Lukasz Kaplon (Jagiellonian University)  
09:40 Sponsor Keynote: United Imaging: Harnessing Ultra-Fast TOF and Total-Body with AI: The Intelligent PET/CT Pipeline - Ahmadreza Rezai  
10:00
Coffee Break (until 10:30)
10:30
Session 14: TBPET-Simulations (until 12:10)
10:30 CRYSP: towards an accessible TBPET - Laura Navarro-Cozcolluela (DIPC)  
10:50 Definitive Design for Developing a Cost-Effective Total-Body J-PET from Plastic Scintillators - Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili (Jagiellonian University)  
11:10 Toward Total-Body Modular Flat-Panel TOF-PET Enabled by Sub-100 ps Timing - Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))  
11:30 Towards Autonomous Position Calibration of PET Scanners using Physics-Based Neural Networks - Mojahed Abushawish (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
11:50 Investigation of the Sensitivity of a Brain PET Insert in a Total-Body J-PET System: A Simulation Study - sharareh jalali  
PM
12:20
Lunch Break (until 15:00)
15:00
Session 3: FTMI-Photodetectors (until 16:40)
15:00 Sponsor Keynote: Broadcom’s Silicon Photomultiplier: Technology, Performance, Status and Roadmap - John Murphy  
15:20 Sponsor Keynote: Hamamatsu - Luigi Ghezzi  
15:40 TSV-enabled segmentation of FBK fast-timing SiPMs for 2.5D and 3D integrated ToF-PET modules - Carina Trippl  
16:00 Developments in fabrication and design flexibility of amorphous silicon microchannel plates - Georgios Konstantinou (EPFL)  
16:20 Experimental Evaluation of a Low-Noise Ultra-Fast SiPM Time-of Flight Analog Readout Chip (LUSTAR) - Joshua Cates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
16:40
Coffee Break (until 17:10)
17:10
Session 4: FTMI-Electronics (until 18:30)
17:10 Approaching Sub-100 ps CTR in TOF-PET Scanners with FastIC+ - David Mazzanti Tarancon (Institute of Cosmos Science, University of Barcelona)  
17:30 Initial development of a modular FPGA-based DAQ for the PeTVISION ultrafast PET system - Dr Noriel Pavon Hernandez (Institute for Molecular Imaging Instrumentation (I3M))  
17:50 Channel-Level Validation of a Calibrated FPGA TDC for Fast-Timing PET - Giancarlo Sportelli  
18:10 TEMPOROC: A 64-channel SiPM read-out chip for time-of-flight measurement - Julien Fleury (Weeroc)  
12:30
Lunch Break (until 15:30)
15:30
Session 7: FTMI-Sytems (until 16:30)
15:30 Design and Prototyping of a Sub-250 ps Cardiac TOF-PET System - Qiyu Peng  
15:50 Initial Human Static and Dynamic FDG Imaging with the SmartBrain Wearable PET - Qiyu Peng (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)  
16:10 Development and Evaluation of a High-Performance DOI-Enabled Dedicated Brain PET/CT System - Mr Xin Yu  
16:30
Coffee Break (until 17:00)
17:00
Session 8: FTMI-Systems (until 18:20)
17:00 Time-of-Flight Artefact Reduction in Limited-Angle PET: How Effective is it in Practice? - Dr Dennis Schaart  
17:20 Improvements in Compton camera prototypes for targeted radionuclide therapy - Prof. Gabriela Llosá (IFIC, CSIC-UV)  
17:40 Prototype Development of an On-Chip PET System with Dual-Sided Crystal Readout for Enhanced Gamma-Ray Interaction Point Localization - Narendra Rathod (Inselspital and University of Bern)  
18:00 The ADMIRAL experiment: Ag-111 for imaging and therapy - Marcello Lunardon (University of Padova) EMILIO MARIOTTI (Università di Siena) alberto andrighetto (INFN-LNL) Davide Serafini (INFN-LNL) Giulia Saveria Valli (University of Siena) Aurora Leso (University of Ferrara) Stefano Corradetti Alberto Arzenton (University of Padua)  
12:30
Lunch Break (until 14:30)
14:30
Session 11: PSMR-Methods (until 16:10)
14:30 Breast PET Insert in a Whole-Body PET/MRI: Attenuation Effects and Resolution Recovery - Hong Phuc Vo (Institute of Medical Engineering, Universität zu Lübeck)  
14:50 A long axial field-of-view PET insert design based on dual-ended side-readout for simultaneous PET and metabolic MRI in the META-scan system - Woutjan Branderhorst (University Medical Centre Utrecht)  
15:10 3D-printed multimodality phantoms for quality control procedures in TBPET, PSMR and FTMI systems. - Montserrat Carles Fariña  
15:30 Multiple Emission Tomography: GPU-Accelerated LM-OSEM Reconstruction for Compton Events - Matteo Neel Colombo (Universita & INFN, Milano-Bicocca (IT))  
15:50 The MERMAID Project: Current Developments and Future Directions - Ms Rebecca Kantorek (Universität zu Lübeck)  
16:10
Coffee Break (until 16:40)
16:40
Session 12: PSMR-Applications (until 18:20)
16:40 Sponsor Keynote: TERAPET:Translating Advanced Detection Technologies into Clinical Practice: The Terapet Portfolio - Christina Valgreen  
17:00 SPECT image reconstruction using PET priors via 3D Diffusion with Posterior Sampling for ultra-low count projections for alpha therapy dosimetry - Alejandro López Montes (Inselspital Bern, University of Bern)  
17:20 Cross-Modal Transfer of MRI Foundation Model Embeddings Enables Multimodal FPIA PET–MRI Prediction of IDH Mutation in Glioma - Marianna Inglese (Department of Biomedicine and Prevention - University of Rome Tor Vergata)  
17:40 Spatiotemporal FPIA PET–MRI Phenotyping Reveals Oligoclonal Metabolic Niches and Vascular Remodeling in Brain Metastases - Marianna Inglese (Department of Biomedicine and Prevention - University of Rome Tor Vergata)  
18:00 Quantifying Baseline Relative Permeability between PET and DCE-MRI using a DCE Flow Phantom with Total-Body PET - Robbie Haynes (School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom)  
12:10
Lunch Break (until 14:00)
14:00
Session 15: TBPET-Methods (until 15:40)
14:00 A multi-axes gantry system for total-body J-PET/CT scanner - Tevfik Kaplanoglu  
14:20 Studies of attenuation and detector geometry effects in two- and three-gamma positronium decays towards 3γ/2γ imaging using the Total-Body J-PET tomograph. - Kamila Kasperska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland)  
14:40 From image to video in Total-Body PET: Maximum-Likelihood Motion and Activity (MLMA) reconstruction - Rodrigo José Santo (UMC Utrecht)  
15:00 DSAC: A Novel CT-less Attenuation Correction Approach for Cost-Effective Plastic Scintillator based Total-body PET - Satyam Tiwari  
15:20 High throughput imaging with Walk-Through-PET - Stefaan Vandenberghe  
15:40
Coffee Break (until 16:10)
16:10
Session 16: TBPET-Systems (until 17:30)
16:10 NEMA NU-2 performance tests of a prototype PET scanner using novel detectors with measured depth-of-interaction correction - Mr August Blomgren (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, Bern)  
16:30 IMAS: Long-Axial FOV PET with Simultaneous TOF and DOI Capabilities - Álvaro Anreus Valero  
16:50 High-Resolution and Dynamic Imaging Capabilities of a 200-cm DOI-Enabled Total-Body PET System - Dr Qiyu Peng  
17:10 Evaluation of Quality Control Approaches for Monitoring DOI Correction Stability in a Long Axial FOV PET System - Sophia Amelie Dietrich Carla Gonzalez Avilés  
17:30
Session 17: Round Table discussion and conclusion (until 18:30)