Conveners
V.b Health & Bio: Session 1
- Long Wei (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
V.b Health & Bio: Session 2
- Jan Jacobs (Philips Healthcare)
V.b Health & Bio: Session 3
- Long Wei (Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
Description
Session 1
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T. Takeshita (Shinshu Univ.)03/06/2014, 16:10Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralAn idea of Compton-PET is not new, however, current trend to be equipped heavy and smaller scintillators makes this idea feasible and easy. Two layers which composed of 3x3 scintillator matrix read out by 9 MPPC are fabricated and tested. The results of the experiment and comparison to the simulation will be presented. Furthermore, much smaller scintillator makes to improve the SPECT...Go to contribution page
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Erika Garutti (DESY)03/06/2014, 16:30Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralThe EndoTOFPET-US project aims to jointly exploit Time-Of-Flight Positron Emission Tomography (TOFPET) and ultrasound endoscopy with a multi-modal instrument for diagnostic and therapeutic oncology. The development of two novel detectors is required, a PET head extension for a commercial US endoscope placed close to the region of interest (ROI) and a PET plate over the patient’s abdomen in...Go to contribution page
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Toru Tanimori (Department of Physics, Kyoto University, Japan)03/06/2014, 16:50Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralWe have developed an Electron-Tracking Compton Camera (ETCC) for medical imaging due to its wide energy dynamic range (200 - 1500keV) and abilities of background rejection and clear imaging using the tracking information of the recoil electron. Thus this camera has a potential of developing the new reagents for molecular imaging. Until now we have carried out several imaging reagent studies...Go to contribution page
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Dr Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)03/06/2014, 17:10Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralThe silicon photomultiplier (SiPM) is a photosensor that can be fabricated in cost-effective CMOS technology while offering high internal gain, fast response, and insensitivity to magnetic fields. The first prototype devices were developed in the late 1990s. Commercial products, including arrays of SiPMs with a total sensitive area of several square cm, became available in the mid-2000’s. The...Go to contribution page
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Mrs Maria Michela Del Viva (University of Florence, Italy)03/06/2014, 17:30Technology transfer: 5c) Biology&Material ScienceOralThere are significant analogies between the issues related to real-time event selection in HEP, and the issues faced by the human visual system. In fact, the visual system needs to extract rapidly the most important elements of the external world from a large flux of information, for survival purposes. A rapid and reliable detection of visual stimuli is essential for triggering autonomic...Go to contribution page
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Gabriella Carini (SLAC)04/06/2014, 11:00Technology transfer: 5c) Biology&Material ScienceOralThe high coherence, high peak power and short pulses duration of modern light sources (e.g. X-ray Free-Electron Lasers - XFELs) are particularly well suited for time-resolved pump-probe and coherent diffraction studies. In many pump-probe experiments small differences in signal produced by ground and excited states have to be detected and resolved. Poisson statistics dictates that ~ 1 million...Go to contribution page
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Ryan Frank Page (University of Bristol (GB))04/06/2014, 11:20Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralIntensity Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT) is a treatment for cancerous tumours. These treatments are complex, with the radiation shaped using dynamic Multileaf Collimators (MLC). This increases dose to the tumour, whilst sparing healthy issue and sensitive organs. Due to the complex nature of these treatments safety is critical. Currently monitoring is from the linac itself and verification is...Go to contribution page
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Prof. Md Naimuddin (Delhi University)04/06/2014, 11:40Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralProton computed tomography (pCT) offers an alternative to x-ray imaging with potential for three dimensional imaging, reduced radiation exposure, and in-situ imaging. The second generation pCT system being developed at Northern Illinois University in collaboration with Fermilab and Delhi University is comprised of a tracking system, a calorimeter or the range detector, data acquisition system,...Go to contribution page
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Mr hiroshi ITO (Chiba University)04/06/2014, 12:00Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralRadioisotope have been emitted around Japan by a nuclear accident at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant in March 2011. A problem is the contaminated water including the atomic nucleus which relatively has a long half-life time such as 90Sr, 137Cs generated from 235U used for nuclear fuel in particular. Particular, since 90Sr has a long...Go to contribution page
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Mr Angus Comrie (University of Cape Town)04/06/2014, 12:20Technology transfer: 5c) Biology&Material ScienceOralA compact scintillation detector, comprising of plastic scintillators capable of pulse shape discrimination, coupled to silicon photomultipliers and digital readout electronics, has been constructed and characterised using a range of neutron and gamma radiation fields with energies between 0.5 and 14 MeV. Experimental measurements will be presented and compared with simulations built using...Go to contribution page
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Enrico Junior Schioppa (NIKHEF (NL))05/06/2014, 11:00Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralIn the development of X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) in medical imaging, one is working to implement spectral information. While keeping the dose level the same, or even lower, than in conventional systems, spectral CT offers the possibility to measure energy dependent features of different tissues that will allow the extraction of additional information about the patient, eventually leading...Go to contribution page
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Peter Goettlicher (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DE))05/06/2014, 11:20Technology transfer: 5c) Biology&Material ScienceOralThe AGIPD (Adaptive Gain Integrated Pixel Detector) X-ray imaging camera will operate at the X-ray Free Electron Laser, Eu-XFEL, under construction in Hamburg, Germany. Key parameters are 1Mega 200µm square pixels, single 12.4 keV photon detection and a dynamic range to 10000/pixel/image. The developed sensors, ASICs, PCB-electronics and FPGA-firmware acquire individual images per bunch at...Go to contribution page
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Dr Bjoern Seitz (University of Glasgow)05/06/2014, 11:40Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralMolecular imaging modalities require sensor systems capable of detecting and identifying gamma rays emitted by radio-tracers as well as providing the complete position information. The combination of dense, new scintillator materials with compact photon detector solutions insensitive to magnetic fields provides a promising prospect to meet the requirements in modern combined molecular imaging...Go to contribution page
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Dr Salleh Ahmad (Weeroc SAS)05/06/2014, 12:00Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralTriroc is the latest addition to SiPM readout ASICs family developed at Weeroc, a start-up company from the Omega microelectronics group of IN2P3/CNRS. This chip developed under the framework TRIMAGE European project which is aimed for building a cost effective tri-modal PET/MR/EEG brain scan. To ensure the flexibility and compatibility with any SiPM in the market, the ASIC is designed to be...Go to contribution page
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David Gascon (University of Barcelona (ES)), Juan Trenado Garcia (University of Barcelona (ES))05/06/2014, 12:20Technology transfer: 5b) Health and healthcareOralThis work discusses the capability of a time based readout ASIC, the so-called FlexToT ASIC, to perform Depth of Interaction (DOI) measurements. In particular we will analyse the performance of the ASIC with a Phoswich PET module. FlexToT ASIC is optimized for readout of common cathode Silicon Photo- Multipliers arrays with direct coupling and individual anode voltage control. FlexToT presents...Go to contribution page