Euromedim 2006 :1st European Conference on Molecular Imaging Technology

from Tuesday 9 May 2006 (08:00) to Friday 12 May 2006 (18:00)
Palais du Pharo, Marseille

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
9 May 2006
10 May 2006
11 May 2006
12 May 2006
AM
08:30
Conference Registration (until 09:30)
09:30
Official ceremony (until 10:30)
11:00
Opening session (until 12:30)
11:00 Impact of fundamental Science on Society - Dr Robert Aymar (CERN Director General)  
Slides
11:30 Impact of Imaging on life Science - Dr Andre Syrota (CEA/DSV)  
12:00 A Brief History of LSO: From Conception to Commercial Implementation - Prof. Chuck Melcher (The University of Tennessee)  
08:30
Small animal imaging (until 12:50)
08:30 Progress in Small Animal Imaging - Prof. Roger LECOMTE (Université de Sherbrooke)  
09:00 Initial Studies Using the RatCAP Conscious Small Animal PET Tomograph - Dr Craig Woody (Brookhaven National Lab)  
09:15 Evaluation of the performance of the YAP-(S)PET scanner and its application in neuroscience - Dr Nicola Belcari (Department of Physics, University of Pisa)  
09:30 Status of the optimized ClearPET(tm) Neuro scanner - Dr Karl Ziemons (Forschungszentrum Juelich)  
09:45 SiliPET: An ultra high resolution Design of a Small Animal PET scanner based on Stacks of Double Sided Silicon Strip Detector - Dr Giovanni Di Domenico (Universita' di Ferrara & INFN-Sezione di Ferrara - Italy)  
10:00 Scanner Calibration of a Small Animal PET Camera Based on Continuous LSO crystals and a Flat Panel PSPMTs. - Dr José Benlloch (IFIC, Valencia)  
10:15 Expected performances of the AMISSA PET component. - Dr David Guez (IPHC)  
10:30 --- Coffe break ---
11:00 FDG-PET scan shows increased cerebral blood flow in rat after sublingual glycine application - Dr Oleg Blagosklonov (University of Franche-Comte and Jean Minjoz University Hospital, Besançon, France)  
11:15 Monte Carlo simulation of small rodents imaging applications using the microPET FOCUS - Dr Sébastien jan (CEA/DSV/DRM/SHFJ - Orsay France)  
11:30 New trends in Gamma-Ray Imaging with CdZnTe/CdTe - Dr LOICK VERGER (CEA-LETI)  
11:45 MediSPECT: Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography System for Small Field of View Small Animal Imaging Based on a CdTe Hybrid Pixel Detector - Dr Maria Cristina Montesi (Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II and INFN sez. Napoli, Napoli, Italy)  
12:00 The First Four-Headed NanoSPECT: A High-Sensitivity Multi-Pinhole SPECT System for Imaging Small-Animals with Submillimeter (Nanoliter) Spatial Resolution - Dr Christian Lackas (Research Center Juelich)  
12:15 Performance evaluation of a mouse-sized camera for dynamic-studies in small animals - Dr George Loudos (Biomedical Simulation and Imaging Application Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens)  
08:30
Clinical Imaging (until 12:40)
08:30 Advanced molecular imaging techniques in the detection, diagnosis, therapy, and follow-up of prostate cancer - Garibaldi Franco (Italian Institute of Health and INFN - Roma1, gr. Sanita')  
09:00 Molecular Breast Imaging: first results from Italian National Health Institute clinical trials - Dr Francesco Cusanno (Istituto Nazionale Fisica Nucleare)  
09:15 ClearPEM: a PET imaging system dedicated to breast cancer diagnostics - Prof. Joao Varela (LIP)  
09:30 Image reconstruction techniques evaluation and validation for high resolution human brain PET imaging - Dr Claude Comtat (Frédéric Joliot Hospital Facility, CEA/DSV/DRM, Orsay, France)  
09:45 Voxel-by-voxel analysis of brain SPECT perfusion in fibromyalgia - Dr Eric Guedj (Service Central de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire CHU Timone APHM)  
10:00 Influence of tumor density on CT attenuation corrected PET:Phantom studies - Prof. Dimitris Maintas (Institute of Isotopic Studies, Athens)  
10:30 --- Coffea break ---
11:00 Internal targeted radiotherapy : hopes and perspectives for therapeutic applications of nuclear medicine - Prof. Jean-Philippe VUILLEZ (CHU GRENOBLE)  
11:30 Impact of 18FDG-PET/CT on biological target volume (BTV) definition for treatment planning for non-small cell lung cancer patients - Dr Slobodan Devic (McGill Univeristy)  
11:45 Very high resolution PET techniques for small animal and human imaging - Neal Clinthorne (University of Michigan)  
12:00 Scintigraphic Calf perfusion symmetry after exercise : a new non-invasive index for prediction of cardiovascular events ? - Dr Philippe Tellier (CMNA Clinique Sainte Catherine)  
12:15 Radioisotope guided surgery with imaging probe, an hand-held High resolution gamma camera - Prof. Francesco Scopinaro (University "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy)  
08:30
Molecular Imaging (until 13:15)
08:30 Combining Morphology and Molecular Imaging - Prof. David Townsend (University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine)  
Slides
09:00 Reevaluation of MR Spectroscopy for the Coming Molecular Imaging - Dr Keiko Imamura (Department of Radiology, St. Marianna University School of Medicine)  
09:15 An easy to use imaging tool and radiopharmaceutical agent derived from CCK4 for internal radiotherapy : synthesis and assessment of an original biovector - Dr Hafid BELHADJ-TAHAR (Groupe Santé Recherche)  
09:30 In vivo PET evaluation in tumour bearing rats of [18F]-2-fluoromethyl-L-phenylalanine as a new potential tracer for molecular imaging of brain and extra-cranial tumours in humans with PET.In vivo PET evaluation in tumour bearing rats of [18F]-2-fluoromethyl-L-phenylalanine as a new potential tracer for molecular imaging of brain and extra-cranial tumours in humans with PET. - Prof. John Mertens (BEFY, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
09:45 Monitoring of Tumor Growth and Metastasis Potential in MDA-MB-435s-tk/luc Human Breast Cancer Xenografts - Ms Ya-Fang Chang (Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan)  
10:00 Preclinical evaluation of new radioligands of cholecystokinin/gastrin receptors in endocrine tumours xenograft nude mice. - Dr SEVERINE BRILLOUET (INSTITUT CLAUDIUS REGAUD)  
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10:30 --- Coffea break ---
11:00 Luminescent probes for optical in vivo imaging - Dr Philippe Rizo  
11:15 Molecular imaging with radionuclides: a powerful means for studying biological processes "in vivo" process - Dr Evaristo Cisbani (Istituto Superiore di Sanita' - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)  
11:30 Accuracy of partial volume effect correction in clinical molecular imaging of dopamine transporter using SPECT - Dr Marine Soret (U678 Inserm UPMC, HIA Val de Grace)  
11:45 New radiopharmaceuticals based on peptides and antibodies: Planar and SPECT small animal imaging with high resolution gamma cameras. - Prof. Francesco Scopinaro (Univ. Roma "La Sapienza" - Italy)  
12:00 Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering (CARS) Microscopy - Mrs NADIA DJAKER (INSTITUT FRESNEL)  
PM
14:00
Poster Session :Simulation, Modeling, Reconstruction (until 15:00)
14:00 3-D Reconstruction from Compton Scattered Data Using Two Different Approaches to Implementing Projector-Backprojector Pair - Ms Soo Mee Kim (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine)  
14:00 A NEW APPROACH TO CALCULATION OF PLANAR DETECTOR EFFICIENCY FACTORS FROM COINCIDENCE DATA FOR THE NON-ROTATING QUAD-HIDAC PET SCANNER - Ms Leticia Ortega Maynez (School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science at the University of Manchester)  
14:00 A New Reconstruction Method for 3-D PET named pair of near-missing LORs ( PNMLOR) method - Dr Shoji Kawatsu (Kyoritu General Hospital, National Center for Geriatrics and Gerontology)  
14:00 Analytical Reconstruction of Dynamic Cardiac SPECT with Noise-Reduction and Attenuation Compensation - Prof. Hongbing Lu (Department of Computer Application, Fourth Military Medical University, Shaanxi, China)  
14:00 Assessment of input function distortions on kinetic model parameters in simulated dynamic 82Rb PET perfusion studies - Mr Andreas Thon (Philips Research Laboratories)  
14:00 AUTOMATIC CALCULATION OF SUV ON FDG PET-CT LUNG LESIONS - Mr Ismael KARIDIOULA ((1) Centre Jean Perrin, Division of Nuclear Medicine, F-63011 Clermont-Ferrand, France, (2)University of Auvergne, Faculty of Medicine, F-63000 Clermont-Ferrand, France, (3)INSERM, U484, F-63000Clermont-Ferrand, France)  
14:00 Comparison of simulated and experimental performances of the Concorde MicroPET Focus 220 system using the SORTEO Monte Carlo simulation software - Dr Carole Lartizien (Creatis laboratory, UMR CNRS 5515 et INSERM U630, Villeurbanne, France)  
14:00 CONTRAST NOISE BEHAVIOUR FOR A ROTATING SLAT COLLIMATED GAMMA CAMERA - Mr Roel Van Holen (Ghent University ELIS-MEDISIP)  
14:00 Detector normalization and scatter correction for the jPET-D4: a 4-layer depth-of-interaction PET scanner - Dr Keishi Kitamura (Shimadzu Corporation)  
14:00 Effect of Detector Parameters on the Image Quality of Compton Camera for 99mTc - Ms So Hyun AN (Hanyang University)  
14:00 Estimating accidental coincidences for pixelated PET detectors and singles list-mode acquisition - Dr Magdalena Rafecas (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (IFIC), Universidad de Valencia/CSIC)  
14:00 Evaluation of the conical scanning scheme for SPECT applications - Mr Vyacheslav Pedash (Institute for scintillation materials NAS of Ukraine)  
14:00 EVENT MODEL SIMULATING IN OBJECT ANALYSIS SYSTEM - Dr Vyacheslav Vinogradov (Institute for Nuclear Reserarch RAS)  
14:00 Full 3D cluster based iterative image reconstruction tool for small animal PET camera - Mr Ivan Valastyan (Institute of Nuclear Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Debrecen, Hungary Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)  
14:00 Gamma-ray Tracking Method Using a Digital Pulse Shape Analysis for Improving the Imaging Sensitivity of a Compton Camera - Mr Nam Young Kim (Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Republic of Korea)  
14:00 Geometric Sensitivity of ClearPET(TM) Neuro - Dr Brigitte Gundlich (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH)  
14:00 Image optimization and dose evaluation in coronary stenosis using multi slices computed tomography - Mr Yung-Hui Huang (National Yang-Ming University)  
14:00 Inter-crystal scatter identification for a depth-sensitive detector using support vector machine for small animal PET - Dr Eiji Yoshida (National Institute of Radiological Sciences)  
14:00 Investigation of a Whole-Body DOI-PET System - Mr junichi ohi (shimadzu)  
14:00 Investigation of the effect of the scintillator material on the overall X-ray detection system performance by application of analytical models - Mr Nikolaos Efthimiou (Department of medical instrumentation-Technological educational insitution)  
14:00 Investigations of the tomographic reconstruction issue in particular acquisition geometry in the framework of a bimodal microPET/CT - Mrs Solene Valton (CREATIS)  
14:00 Measured and Simulated Specifications of the Lausanne ClearPET Scanner Demonstrator - Martin Rey (LPHE, EPFL)  
14:00 Monte Carlo simulation of the deposited dose in a patient during a therapy with carbon ions - Ms Nathalie DUFOUR (PhD Student - Centre Léon Bérard)  
14:00 Monte Carlo validation in the diagnostic radiology conditions. - Dr Dimitrios Nikolopoulos (Department of medical instrumentation-Tchnological educational insitution)  
14:00 MR Image Reconstruction from Partial k-Space Using Singularity Function Representation - Dr Yuemin ZHU (CREATIS, CNRS UMR5515 & INSERM U630, Lyon)  
14:00 New reconstruction algorithm for directional-derivative projections of the high-resolution DEI-CT - Dr Zhi-Feng Huang (Dept. of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua Univ., China)  
14:00 Non Contact Fluorescence Optical Tomography by means of Numerical and Analytical Approaches - Dr Lionel Hervé (LETI - CEA Recherche Technologique)  
14:00 PENELOPET, A monte carlo-based application for tomography based on PENELOPE - Mr Samuel España Palomares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Mr Joaquín López Herraiz (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Ms Esther Vicente Torrico (Hopital General Universitario Gregorio Marañón)  
14:00 Performance characteristics of a cluster based data acquisition system dedicated to PET scanners - Dr Miklos Emri (PET Center, University of Debrecen)  
14:00 Performance evaluation of a Small Animal PET Scanner. Spatial resolution characterization using 18-F and 11-C - Dr Antonello Spinelli (Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy)  
14:00 Performance of a Small Animal PET Scanner Based on Monolithic Scintillation Detectors - Dr Dennis R. Schaart (Delft University of Technology)  
14:00 PET Image Reconstruction: A Stopping Criterion Based on the Updating Coefficients of the ML-EM Algorithm - Dr Pedro Guerra  
14:00 Simulation studies of an inline PET prototype - Ms Marie-Charlotte RICOL (Institut de physique nucléaire de Lyon (IPNL) - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (UCBL))  
14:00 Study of randoms-induced artefacts in several small animal PET scanners - Mr JOAQUIN LOPEZ HERRAIZ (UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID)  
14:00 The Influence of Noise in Full Monte Carlo ML-EM and Dual Matrix Reconstructions in Positron Emission Tomography - Mr Niklas Rehfeld (Section for Biomedical Physics, Radiooncology, University of Tuebingen)  
14:00 Validation of a GATE model for the simulation of the Siemens PET/CT biograph™ 6 scanner - Mr Panagiotis Gonias (Department of Medical Physics, School of Medicine, university of Patras,Patra,Greece)  
14:00 Validation on an Anthropomorphic Phantom of FORE Optimization in 3D PET - Dr Elisabetta De Bernardi (Bioengineering Department, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy)  
15:00
Tutorial (until 18:30)
15:00 New Trends on Photodetectors - Dr Dieter Renker (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
15:30 The Road to Time-of-Flight PET - Dr William Moses (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)  
Slides
16:00 Development of new radiotracers - Dr Michael Hofmann (Insel hospital, Bern, Switzerland)  
16:30 --- coffe break ---
17:00 Imaging with micropattern gas detectors - Fabio Sauli (INFN Trieste and CERN)  
Slides
17:30 MICROELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEW DETECTORS IN MEDICAL IMAGING - Erik Heijne (CERN)  
18:00 Quantification in emission tomography: challenges, solutions, performance and impact - Mrs Irène Buvat (U678 Inserm UPMC)  
Slides
19:00
Welcome Reception (until 20:00)
13:00 Technical Presentation Siemens Medical Solutions : MI on MR/PET Solutions - Dr Olivier De Dreuille (Siemens Medical System)  
14:00 Presentation pole Photonique  
14:00
Poster session : detection modules and electronics (until 15:00)
14:00 A Front-End Readout Mixed Chip for High Efficiency Small Animal PET imaging. - Mr Nicolas OLLIVIER-HENRY (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert-Curien, UMR 7178 CNRS/ULP)  
14:00 A functionally reconfigurable detector head for molecular imaging with radionuclides - Prof. Francesco Corsi (DEE - Politecnico di Bari) Prof. Giorgio Pignatel (Univerità di Perugia)  
14:00 A systematic study of the performance of the CsI:Tl single-crystal scintillator under x-ray excitation - Prof. Ioannis Kandarakis (Department of medical instrumentation-Technological Educational Institution of Athens, 12210 Egaleo, Greece)  
14:00 A Waveform Sampling Front-End (WSFE) ASIC for Readout of GSO/APD with DOI Information - Mr Jung Yeol Yeom (University of Tokyo)  
14:00 Characterisation of Geiger mode avalanche photodiodes for medical imaging applications. - Mr Ilia Britvitch (ETH, Zurich, Switzerland)  
14:00 Characteristics of Optical Imaging Capillary Plate Gas Detector with Fibre Optics Plate - Dr Fuyuki Tokanai (Yamagata University)  
14:00 Crystal growth and potential utilisation of single crystal fibers in medical imaging devices - Mr benoit hautefeuille (Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie des Matériaux Luminescents (LPCML) UMR 5620, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Domaine scientifique de la Doua, 69 622 Villeurbanne, France)  
14:00 Design of a fast, efficient single photon ring for cardiac studies based on LaBr3:Ce module - Prof. Roberto Pani (INFN)  
14:00 Development Of a New Photodetector Readout Technique - Francois Powolny (CERN - 1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland)  
14:00 Development of an instrument for time activity curve measurements during Positron Emission Tomography imaging of rodents - Mr Jean-Marc Reymond (CEA/DSM/DAPNIA)  
14:00 Development of scintillation detectors based on avalanche microchannel photodiodes - Dr Alexey Stoykov (Paul Scherrer Institut)  
14:00 Digital Signal Processing Applied to Crystal Identification in Positron Emission Tomography Dedicated to Small Animals - Mr Rejean Fontaine (Université de Sherbrooke)  
14:00 Digital signal processing for X-ray spectroscopy with semiconductor detectors at high count rate - Prof. Gaetano Gerardi (Università di Palemo Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative) Dr Angelo La Manna (Università di Palermo Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative)  
14:00 Efficiency of Lu2SiO5:Ce (LSO) powder phosphor as X-ray to light converter under mammographic imaging conditions. - Mr Stratos David (Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras, Patra, Greece)  
14:00 Growth and characterization of fast scintillator ZnO single crystal - Dr weidong Xiang (College of Applied Technology, Wenzhou University)  
14:00 High speed readout fot H8500 PSPMT - Dr Valentino Orsolini Cencelli (NFN - Sezione di Roma III)  
14:00 Image quality of a pixellated GaAs X-ray detector - Dr Jacques Bourgoin (GESEC R&D)  
14:00 Investigation of an In-situ Position Calibration Method for Continuous Crystal Based PET Detectors - Mr Cedric Lemaître (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
14:00 LHCb calorimeters HV system - Anatoli Konoplyannikov (CERN, Geneva, Switserland)  
14:00 Multipixel Geiger-mode photon detectors for ultra-weak light sources. - A. Campisi (INFN-Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Via Santa Sofia 64, 95125 Catania Italy)  
14:00 New developments in photomultiplier for nuclear medicine - Ms Carole MARMONIER (Photonis)  
14:00 Optical and scintillation properties of LuAP:Ce with intentional impurities - Dr Ashot Petrosyan (Institute for Physical Research, 378410 Ashtarak-2, Armenia)  
14:00 Optical current spectroscopy of GaAs based detectors - Prof. Igor Sokolov (Deputy head of laboratory)  
14:00 Optical filter on the base of planar and fiber heterostructures of LiF and NaF compounds - Dr Boris Shulgin (Professor)  
14:00 Overview of Solid State Photodetectors for both CT and PET applications - Dr Danielle Moraes (CERN)  
14:00 Performance of a Prototype 32-channel Preamplifier Module of the Double-Sided Silicon Strip Detector Used as the Scatterer for a Compton Camera - Mr Nam Young Kim (Chung-Ang University)  
14:00 SiAPD Readout for LaBr3:Ce Scintillators - Dr Raffaele Scafè (Casaccia Research Center, ENEA, Rome, Italy and INFN, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy)  
14:00 SiAPD Specifications for Multi-face Scintillation Readout - Dr Raffaele Scafè (Casaccia Research Center, ENEA, Rome, Italy)  
14:00 Silicon Photomultiplier: Novel Photodetector for Medical Imaging Systems - Prof. Valeri Saveliev (Obninsk State University)  
14:00 Small Animal PET slow control system - Mr Julien lollierou (IPNL (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon))  
14:00 Study of multipixel Geiger-mode avalanche photodiodes as a readout for PET. - Yuri Musienko (Northeastern University)  
14:00 The electronics readout and the DAQ system of the DRAGO Anger Camera - Alberto Gola (Politecnico di Milano and INFN Italy)  
14:00 The novel high-gain PET detector for simultaneous PET/MR imaging - Dr Alla Reznik (Sunnybrook&Women’s College Health Sciences Centre)  
14:00 X-ray spectroscopy and dosimetry with a portable CdTe device - Mr Angelo La Manna (DIFTER University of Palermo)  
14:00 XPAD3: A new photon counting chip for X-ray CT-Scanner - Mr Patrick Pangaud (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM), France)  
15:00
Other Modalities (until 18:00)
15:00 Ultrasound Mammography - Dr Serge Mensah (CNRS - LMA)  
15:15 Whole body small animal examination with a diffuse optical tomography instrument. - Dr Anne Koenig (LETI - CEA Recherche Technologique)  
15:30 Fluorescence Tomography Enhanced by Taking into Account the Medium Heterogeneity - Dr Lionel Hervé (LETI - CEA Recherche Technologique)  
15:45 Feasibility of performing whole body micro-CT mouse imaging in less than a minute - Mr David Brasse (Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien, UMR 7178, Strasbourg, France)  
16:00 The X-Ray CT Component of the NanoSPECT/CT Small-Animal Imaging System - Dr Christian Lackas (Research Center Juelich)  
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16:30 --- Coffea break ---
17:00 3D-imaging using micro-PIXE - Prof. KEIZO ISHII (TOHOKU UNIVERSITY, SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING)  
17:15 Phase contrast enhanced high resolution X–ray imaging and tomography of soft tissue - Mr Carlos Granja (researcher)  
17:30 MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION USING ANALYTIC IMAGE REPRESENTATION - Ms Josiane YANKAM NJIWA (CREATIS)  
17:45 TomXgam: development of a combined TEP/CT scanner for small animals - Christian Morel (Centre de Physique des Particules de Marseille (CPPM))  
18:00
Round Table Cerimed (until 19:00)
13:00 PHILIPS Technical presentation :Implémentation du temps de vol dans un TEP CT recherche et clinique - Dr York HAEMISCH (Philips)  
14:00
Poster session : Imaging systems, Molecular Imaging (until 15:00)
14:00 188 RHENIUM-INDUCED CELL DEATH AND APOPTOSIS IN A PANEL OF TUMOR CELL LINES - Dr Andrea Perrotta (INFN,Dipartimento di Fisica, Bologna)  
14:00 A Detector for Radionuclide Bronchial Scanning - Dr Raffaele Scafè (Casaccia Research Center, ENEA, Rome, Italy)  
14:00 A LSO Beta Microprobe for Measuring Input Functions for Quantitative Small Animal PET - Dr Craig Woody (Brookhaven National Lab)  
14:00 A new multimodal and quantitative approach for in vivo small animal brain studies : combination of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and the radiosensitive Beta-MicroProbe - Ms Aurélie Desbrée (Laboratoire Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie)  
14:00 A simple method to estimate coordinate resolution of pixelized detectors - Dr Varlen Grabski (Instituto de Fisica UNAM)  
14:00 A YAP-CAMERA FOR MONITORING THE BIODISTRIBUTION OF RADIOTRACERS CONJUGATED WITH HYALURONIC ACID IN “IN VIVO “SYSTEMS - Prof. Francesco Navarria (Dip. Fisica e INFN, Bologna) Dr Andrea Perrotta (Dip. Fisica e INFN, Bologna)  
14:00 ADVANCED HIGH-SPEED MODULAR SYSTEMS WITH NEW INTERCONNECTS - Dr Vyacheslav Vinogradov (Institute for Nuclear Reserarch RAS)  
14:00 An Intra-operative Compact Gamma Imager for Radio-guided Cancer Surgery : Evaluation for Sentinel Node Localization - Dr Stephanie PITRE (IMNC, Orsay, France)  
14:00 An Intraoperative beta probe for brain tumor surgery - Dr Laurent MENARD (Laboratoire Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et cancérologie (UMR 8165) - Université Paris 7)  
14:00 ANALYSIS OF DIFFERENT DETECTOR AND ELECTRONICS DEFECTS ON F18-FDG IMAGES - Dr Felicia Zito (Nuclear Medicine Department, Fondazione Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Mangiagalli e Regina Elena, Milan, Italy)  
14:00 Assessment of the impact of x-ray tube voltage on quantitative analysis of neurological PET when using CT-based attenuation correction - Dr mohammad reza Ay (Department of Medical Physics, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran and Division of Nuclear Medicine, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland)  
14:00 Beam hodoscope for online PET in hadrontherapy - Mr Anthony BUTHOD (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon ( Groupe Imagerie bio-médicale ))  
14:00 CdZnTe Detectors for the Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of Small Animals - Dr LOICK VERGER (CEA-LETI)  
14:00 Characterisation of a high spatial resolution SPECT dedicated to small animal imaging - Mr Virgile Bekaert (IPHC/CNRS - ULP)  
14:00 ClearPET, a high performance small animal PET scanner - Dr Pablo Sempere Roldan (Raytest France)  
14:00 Clinical evaluation of pixelated NaI:Tl and continuous LaBr3:Ce compact scintillation cameras for breast tumors imaging - Prof. Roberto Pani (INFN Dept Experimental Medicine and Pathology - University of Rome "La Sapienza"-Italy)  
14:00 Comparing assessments of myocardial viability between PET and MRI - Ms Ching-Ching Yang (Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University)  
14:00 Comparison of Monte Carlo simulated and measured performance parameters of miniPET scanner - Mr Sandor Attila Kis (PET Center, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary)  
14:00 COMPUTIS : a new european project. - Dr Serge HAAN (CEA)  
14:00 Dual SPECT/MR imaging in small animal - Ms Elodie Breton (Service de Biophysique et Médecine Nucléaire, CHU Hautepierre, 1 av. Molière, 67098 Strasbourg, France)  
14:00 Early Detection of Tumor Masses in Mice by In Vivo Hematoporphyrin mediated Fluorescence Imaging - Dr Maddalena Autiero (Università degli studi di Napoli "Federico II")  
14:00 Experimental evaluation of the ClearPEM Detector Modules - Ms Catarina Ortigão (LIP)  
14:00 Implementation of a methodology for the analysis of small animal PET images - Dr Antonello Spinelli (Policlinico S. Orsola-Malpighi, Bologna, Italy)  
14:00 Initial experence in small animal imaging with clinical PET/CT scanner - Ms Chia-Lin Chen (National Yang-Ming University)  
14:00 Method for subject recognition (identification) - Prof. Alexander Tcherepanov (senior lecturer)  
14:00 Method to localize a fluorescent inclusion in a turbid medium using time-resolved systems - Dr Anabela da Silva (Cea-Leti Recherche Technologique)  
14:00 Miniaturized Fibered Confocal Microscopy with the Cell~vizio now enables in vivo in situ imaging - Ms Anne Osdoit (MKT)  
14:00 Molecular imaging through 1H MRS and MRSI in everyday routine: improvements in various clinical applications and parameter optimization of spectroscopic imaging sequences. - Mr Anastasios Karatopis (Department of medical instrumentation,Technological educational institution/2nd Department of Radiology, Medical School, University of Athens)  
14:00 Molecular Switch of Cre/loxP for Radiation Modulated Gene Therapy on Hepatoma - Ms Ya-ju Hsieh (Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan)  
14:00 Multi-Energy Densitometry of Bone Tissues Using ZnSe-based Scintielectronic Detectors - Prof. Vladimir Ryzhikov (Institute for Scintillation Materials of STC "Institute for Single Crystals")  
14:00 PIXSCAN: Pixel Detector CT-Scanner for Small Animal Imaging - Dr Pierre Delpierre (Centre de Pysique des Particules de Marseille) Prof. Franck Debardieux (Institut de Biologie du Developpement de Marseille, France)  
14:00 Polysialylation increases lateral mobility of Neural Cell Adhesion molecule (NCAM) in the cell membrane. - Dr Valéry Matarazzo (IBDML, CNRS-UMR6216, Université de la mediterannée)  
14:00 Preliminary evaluation of the tomographic performance of the MediSPECT small animal imaging system - Dr Maria Cristina Montesi (Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, and INFN, Sezione di Napoli, I-80126 Napoli, Italy)  
14:00 Preliminary Report on LabPET, a High-Performance APD-Based Digital PET Scanner for Small Animal Imaging - Prof. Roger LECOMTE (Université de Sherbrooke, Nuclear Medicine & Radiobiology)  
14:00 RECENT TECHNOLOGIC DEVELOPMENTS ON HIGH RESOLUTION BETA IMAGING SYSTEMS FOR MOLECULAR IMAGING WITH MULTI-ISOTOPES LABELING APPLICATIONS - Dr Nicole BARTHE (INSERM U577, Université Victor Segalen Bordeaux 2)  
14:00 Results obtained with the ClearPET(TM) Rodent small animal PET scanner - Dr Olivier Devroede (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
14:00 Scintillator studies for the HPD-PET - Raffaele DE LEO (PHYSICS Department Bari University)  
14:00 Sensitivity of limited angle TOF PET systems - Dr stefaan Vandenberghe (Ugent)  
14:00 Shrunken detection volumes in fluorescence 4Pi-microscopy - Dr Nicolas Sandeau (Institut Fresnel)  
Paper
14:00 Small Animal and online hadrontherapy PET detector characterisation - Mrs Marina TAVERNE (IPNL groupe imagerie médicale)  
14:00 Temporal Monitoring and Quantitative Assessment of Tumor Burden Growth Using In Vivo Bioluminescence Imaging - Ms Chia-Chi Chen (Cancer Research Division, National Health Research Institute, Zhunan, Taiwan) Ms Ya Fang Chang (Institute of Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University)  
14:00 The SPECT Program at IASA - Dr Efstathios Stiliaris (University of Athens & IASA)  
15:00
Multi modality (until 16:30)
15:00 Performance analysis of a low-cost small animal PET/SPECT scanner - Mr Pedro Guerra (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)  
15:15 Preliminary Studies of a Simultaneous PET/MRI Scanner Based on the RatCAP Small Animal Tomograph - Dr Craig Woody (Brookhaven National Lab)  
15:30 Evaluation of Silicon Photomultipliers: A Promising New Detector for MR Compatible PET - Dr David P McElroy (Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Science Centre, University of Toronto)  
15:45 CT WITH A CMOS FLAT PANEL DETECTOR INTEGRATED ON THE YAP-(S)PET SCANNER FOR IN VIVO SMALL ANIMALS IMAGING - Dr Giovanni Di Domenico (Universita' di Ferrara & INFN-Sezione di Ferrara - Italy)  
16:00 Investigation of the LabPET Detector and Electronics for Photon-Counting CT Imaging - Mr Philippe BÉRARD (Université de Sherbrooke, Nuclear Medicine & Radiobiology)  
16:15 Design of a Small Animal Multimodality Tomographer for X-Ray and Optical Coupling: Theory and experiments - Dr anabela da silva (CEA-LETI)  
16:30 --- Coffea break ---
17:00
Advances in imaging Technology (until 18:30)
17:00 FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF SCINTILLATION MATERIALS FOR PET SCANNERS - Prof. Mikhail Korjik (Institute of Nuclear Problems, Minsk, Belarus)  
17:15 Silicon Drift Photodetectors for scintillation readout in medical imaging - Carlo Fiorini (Politecnico di Milano and INFN Italy)  
17:30 Silicon Photomultipliers and their bio-medical applications - Eugene Grigoriev (Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics (ITEP))  
17:45 Development of a novel geometrical concept of a high - Peter Weilhammer (INFN Perugia)  
18:00 Nuclear medical imaging using beta+ gamma coincidences from 44Sc radio-nuclide with liquid xenon as detection medium - Mr Cyril Grignon (Subatech, EMN-IN2P3/CNRS-Universite)  
19:00
Conference Dinner (until 23:00)
14:00
Perspectives (until 15:30)
14:00 Contribution of HEP Electronics Techniques to the Medical Imaging Field - Mr Pierre Etienne Vert (LPC Clermont and DAPNIA)  
14:15 Towards a Continuous Crystal APD-based PET Detector Design - Dr Peter bruyndonckx (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)  
14:30 High spatial and energy resolution lanthanum bromide SPET scanner for molecular imaging - Prof. Roberto Pani (INFN Dept Experimental Medicine and Pathology - University of Rome "La Sapienza"-Italy)  
14:45 New Developments in Compton SPECT and Compton PET Imaging - Prof. Harris Kagan (Dept. of Physics, Ohio State University)  
15:00 Dedicated R&D for online PET imaging in hadrontherapy - Prof. Madjid Boutemeur (Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1)  
15:15 ENLIGHT – "The European Network for Light Ion Therapy" - Prof. Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)  
15:30
Conclusion (until 16:00)
15:30 Conclusion - Dr William Moses