Name: 8th thematic workshop: International Symposium On Advanced Intraoperative Imaging of Radioisotopes and Presymposium workshop TOF PET
Start: 2009-09-04T07:30:00+02:00
End: 2009-09-06T23:00:00+02:00
Location: Hotel Baia delle Zagare

8th thematic workshop: International Symposium On Advanced Intraoperative Imaging of Radioisotopes and Presymposium workshop TOF PET

from Friday 4 September 2009 (07:30) to Sunday 6 September 2009 (23:00)

Monday 31 August 2009
Tuesday 1 September 2009
Wednesday 2 September 2009
Thursday 3 September 2009
Friday 4 September 2009
08:20
08:20 - 08:30
Contributions

08:20 Welcome Pre Symposium TOF PET - Franco Garibaldi (Sezione Sanita(ISS))
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 TOF PET: Preliminary results and prospectives - S Surti (University of Pensilvania)

09:00 State of the art and challenges of TOF PET - M Conti (Siemens)

09:30 A proposal for a TOF PET and SPECT MRI probe for diagnosis and follow up of prostate cancer - Franco Garibaldi (Sezione Sanita(ISS))

10:00 TBD
10:30 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 The Role of Scintillators on TOF PET - William Moses (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:30 Scintillators for TOF-PET. What to do? - Paul Lecoq (CERN)

12:00 Recent developments on silicon photomultipliers - C Piemont (IRS, FBK, Trento)
12:30 Mid-day Break
Mid-day Break
12:30 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Recent results on silicon photomultipliers : Measurements and Comparisons - P Finocciaro (INFN-LNS)

16:00 TOF PET : Continous vs pixellated scintillators and PMTs vs SiPMs - T Szczesniak (Soltan Institute of Nuclear Studies)

16:30 Microelectronics for fast timing. The high energy physics prospective - A Rivetti (INFN Torino)
17:00 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 18:45
Contributions

17:30 System architecture for TOF PET readout - P Musico (Genova university & INFN Genoa)

17:55 ASIC for TOF PET with SiPMT 1 - F Corsi (Politecnico di Bari & INFN Bari)

18:20 ASIC for TOF PET with SiPMT 2 - A Rivetti (INFN Torino)
18:45
18:45 - 19:45
Contributions

19:00 Pre Symposium Summary/Conclusion/round table - Stan Majewski (Department of Radiology, University of West Virginia) William Moses (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Saturday 5 September 2009
08:15
08:15 - 09:00
Contributions

08:15 Welcome - Franco Garibaldi (istituto di sanita, dipertimento TESA &INFN-Roma1, Rome, Italy) Giacomo Cuttone (INFN-LNS) Marie Alix Duval (Laboratoire Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universités Paris VII and Paris XI) Paul Lecoq (CERN) Velio Macellari (TESA, ISS)

08:40 Biomedical imaging research in the EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7) - Philippe Jehenson (DG- Research Health Directorate, European Commission)
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 Anyone can find a "hot" node - John N. Aarsvold (Department of Radiology, Emory University & Nuclear Medicine Service, Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center)

09:30 SPECT/CT and a portable gamma camera to optimize sentinel node visualization in urological malignancies and head and neck cancer - Lenka Vermeeren (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Netherlands Cancer Institute - Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital)

10:00 Breast cancer (surgery) - Claudio Amanti (Operative Unit Chirurgia Senologica, University of Rome Sapienza II)
10:30 Morning Break
Morning Break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Molecular imaging in the operating room: Novel tools for guiding surgery - John Prior (Nuclear Medicine Department, CHUV University Hospital)

11:30 Freehand SPECT and the “tracked approach” for 3D intraoperative nuclear imaging - Thomas Wendler (Nuklearmedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar & Computer Aided Medical Procedures (CAMP) Faculty of Computer Science)

12:00 Technologies for intraoperative PET and SPECT imaging probes - Williams Moses (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
12:30 Mid-day Break
Mid-day Break
12:30 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:00
Contributions

15:30 Mobile gamma camera imaging in sentinel lymph node biopsy of melanoma patients - Mark B Williams (Department of Radiology, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Physics University of Virginia)

16:00 Counting probes and mini gamma cameras: From the bench to clinical trials - David Brasse (IPHC, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS/IN2P3)

16:30 Intra-operative Compact Gamma Imagers for Radio-guided Cancer Surgery - Marie Alix Duval (Laboratoire Imagerie et Modélisation en Neurobiologie et Cancérologie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Universités Paris VII and Paris XI)
17:00 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
17:00 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 20:00
Contributions

17:30 Corporate Presentations : SENSL Ltd, St Gobain Crystals, Metaltronica - Carl Jackson (SensL technologies Ltd) Frans Kniest (Saint-Gobain Crystals) Stefano Gioia (Metaltronica)

17:45 New tools for sentinel node localization and radioguided laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery - Pietro Muto (Department of Nuclear Medicine - A.O.Monaldi)

18:15 Colorectal Cancer: Surgical Challenges - V Ziparo

18:45 SiPMs: New photodetectors for intraoperative imagers? - Paolo Finocchiaro PhD (Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare – Laboratori Nazionali del Sud,)

19:09 Advanced electronics for intraoperative imagers - Jose Benlloch (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Nuevos edificios de Investigación Paterna)

19:30 Intra-operative near-infrared fluorescence imaging: From bench to bedside - Niels Harlaar (Institute for Medical and Biological Imaging, Technical University Munich and Helmholtz Center and Department of Surgery and BioOptical Imaging Center Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen)
20:00 Break
Break
20:00 - 20:30

20:30 Symposium Dinner
Symposium Dinner
20:30 - 23:30
Sunday 6 September 2009
08:30
08:30 - 11:00
Contributions

08:30 Radiopharmaceuticals for intraoperative nuclear medicine - Michael Hofmann (Institut für Nuklearmedizin und PET-Zentrum, Klinikum Hildesheim GmbH)

09:00 Parathyroid Surgeries - Pierluigi Marini

09:30 Intra-operative positron probe to address surgical challenges in brain surgery - Jose Leston (Service de Neurochirurgie, Hôpital Henri Mondor)

10:00 Urologic Cancers: Surgical Challenges - Giovanni Muto

10:30 High-resolution PET imaging probe for the prostate - Neals Clinthorne (Department of Radiology, University of Michigan)
11:00 Morning Break
Morning Break
11:00 - 11:30
11:30
11:30 - 12:30
Contributions

11:30 Lung Cancer, Mediastinal Nodes, Pulmonary Nodules: Imaging Challenges - Giuseppe Boni (Nuclear Medicìne Unit, Department of Oncology and Radiology, A.O.U. Pisa)

12:00 Radioguided lung cancer surgery - Chumy Nwogu (Roswell Park Cancer Institute)
12:30 Mid-day Break
Mid-day Break
12:30 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:30
Contributions

15:30 Corporate Presentation : Dilon Technologies - Benjamin Welch (Dilon Technologies)

15:40 LaBr3 as scintillator for intraoperative imagers - Roberto Pani (representing the INFN ECORAD collaboration, INFN Roma1, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Department of Experimental Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome)

16:00 High-resolution devices for sentinel-node detection in breast cancer - Francesco Scopinaro (University “Sapienza)

16:30 Performance characteristics of a newly developed intra-operative gamma camera: Evaluation of sentinel lymph node detection in an experimental animal model and preliminary clinical experience - Doron Kopelman (Department of Surgery BHaEmek Medical Center & Faculty of Medicine Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)

17:00 CZT in pre-clinical research, diagnostics, and image-guided therapeutics - Douglas J. Wagenaar (Director of Research, Gamma Medica-Ideas,)
17:30 Afternoon Break
Afternoon Break
17:30 - 18:00
18:00
18:00 - 18:45
Contributions

18:00 Need for novel intra-operative margin assessment in breast conserving surgery - Hannah W. Hazard (Department of Surgery, West Virginia University)

18:15 Dual-modality (digital mammography-breast scintigraphy) image-guided breast surgery using radiomarkers - Patricia Judy (Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia)

18:30 PET/CT and PEM based breast surgeries: The need for adequate evaluation of lesion and tissue margins - Steven Falen (Northern California PET Imaging Center)
18:45
18:45 - 19:30
Contributions

18:45 Symposium Round Table
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 22:00

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