Name: WORKSHOP “PHYSICS FOR HEALTH IN EUROPE”
Start: 2010-02-02T13:00:00+01:00
End: 2010-02-04T13:20:00+01:00
Location: CERN

WORKSHOP “PHYSICS FOR HEALTH IN EUROPE”

from Tuesday, February 2, 2010 (1:00 PM) to Thursday, February 4, 2010 (1:20 PM)

Monday, February 1, 2010
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
1:00 PM Welcome - Rolf Heuer (CERN Director General)
Welcome
- Rolf Heuer (CERN Director General)
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
1:30 PM
1:30 PM - 7:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

1:30 PM Keynote: 'Radiation Oncology: physics meets biology' - Gillies McKenna (Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology, Oxford)

2:00 PM Keynote: ‘Radiobiology in heavy ion therapy’ - Oliver Jaekel (DKFZ, Heidelberg)

2:30 PM Early events in the formation of genetic damage by heavy ions - Gisela Taucher-Scholz (GSI Biophysics, Darmstadt, Germany)

2:45 PM The Space Radiation Environment - Constituents, Characteristics, and Models - Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

3:00 PM A proposal for an experimental facility at CERN for research in hadron-therapy - Marco Silari (CERN)

3:45 PM The Monte Carlo Code FLUKA in Ion Therapy: Status and Outlook - Giuseppe Battistoni (INFN MILANO)

4:00 PM Treatment plans in particle therapy - Michael KRAEMER (GSI)

4:15 PM The INFN Treatment Planning System Project - Andrea Attili (on behalf of the INFN-TPS collaboration)

4:30 PM Syncrotron Radiation Therapy: a promising alternative to treat brain tumors - Yolanda Prezado (European synchrotron Radiation Facility)

4:45 PM Discussion

5:00 PM Introduction to poster session by chairmen

5:30 PM Poster session
7:30 PM Workshop Dinner in the Globe
Workshop Dinner in the Globe
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Globe 1st floor
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

8:30 AM Keynote:'Radioisotopes in diagnostics and therapy, (pre-)clinical view - Otto Boerman W.J.G Oyen (Radbout University Nijmegen Medical Centre)

9:00 AM Production of innovative radionuclides at ARRONAX and 211At RIT - F. HADDAD (GIP ARRONAX and SUBATECH, Nantes)

9:10 AM Tb-149 radio-immunotherapy - advances of short-range alpha radiation and 4.1 h half-life demonstrated in vitro and in vivo - Matthias Miederer (Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany)

9:20 AM Radiation Protection Aspects Related to Lutetium-177 Use in Hospitals - Richard Henkelmann (Isotope Technologies Garching)

9:30 AM Preclinical studies with non-standard and carrier-free radioisotopes from ISOLDE-CERN - Gerd Beyer (Department of Radiology)

9:40 AM Discussion on therapy including possible use of ISOLDE isotopes

10:30 AM Keynote: ' Production of radioisotopes for medical applications' - N. Ramamoorthy (IAEA Vienna)

10:55 AM Panel discussion on 99mTc supply crisis and alternatives with short contributions followed by interactive discussion

10:55 AM The Future for 99mTc and 99Mo in nuclear medicine - Dewi M. Lewis (General Electric Healthcare)

11:15 AM Feasibility study of an accelerator-driven production of Mo-99 for Tc-99m generators using a high-power LINAC - luca maciocco (advanced accelerator applications)

11:35 AM Gallium-68 – a candidate for use in clinical routine - Mark Harfensteller (ITG Isotope Technologies Garching, Germany)
12:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 3:45 PM
Contributions

1:00 PM Keynote:' Radiology meets Physics: the future of MRI' - D. Le Bihan (IFR Institute d' Imagerie Neurofonctionelle)

1:30 PM Keynote: ' Challenges towards simultaneous PET-MRI' - S. Vandenberghe (Gent University)

2:00 PM Multimodality approach in the study of Tumor Angiogenesis: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Synchrotron Radiation based micro-CT (SRμCT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Histological Examination to follow the vessel formation - Marco Dominietto (Institute for Biomedical Engineering - ETH and University Zurich)

2:15 PM ClearPEM-Sonic: the combined positron emission mammograph and ultrasound elastography scanner - Benjamin Frisch (CERN and Technische Universität Wien)

2:30 PM LaBr3 and LYSO monolithic crystals coupled to photosensor arrays for TOF-PET - Peter Dendooven (KVI, University of Groningen)

2:45 PM Optimization of a table-top synchrotron light source for radiological applications - Mauro Gambaccini (University of Ferrara)

3:00 PM Clinical and Pre-clinical applications spectral x-ray detectors - Anthony Butler (Univ. Canterbury, Dept. Phys. Astro)

3:15 PM The MAGIC-5 lung CAD systems - Roberto Bellotti (Università di Bari and INFN)

3:30 PM Discussion
3:45 PM Coffee Break and Poster Walk
Coffee Break and Poster Walk
3:45 PM - 4:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
4:15 PM
4:15 PM - 7:20 PM
Contributions

4:15 PM Keynote: ‘Novel technologies in radiation therapy' K. Peach (John Adams Inst.for Acc. Sci. and PTCRI, Oxford) - K. Peach (John Adams Inst. for Acc. Sci and PTCRI, Oxford)

4:45 PM Keynote: ‘Innovative Technology is the Best Way to Iimprove Radiotherapy for Cancer Patients’ J.P. Gerard (Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice) - J.P. Gerard (Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice)

5:15 PM A study on repainting strategies for treating moving targets with proton pencil beam scanning for the new Gantry 2 at PSI - Silvan Zenklusen (Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich)

5:30 PM Mitigation of target motion in scanned ion beam therapy - Christoph Bert (GSI)

5:45 PM The TOM'5 System for Multibeam Tomotherapy - Nils Achterberg (Strahlenklinik-Universitätsklinikum Erlangen)

6:00 PM Electron cooling application for cancer therapy accelerator facility - Vladimir Vostrikov (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)

6:15 PM A cyclotron-linac complex for carbon ion therapy - Alberto Degiovanni (TERA Foundation)

6:30 PM A proposal for a low-cost size superconducting multi-use accelerating facility for protons or light ions (LOCMAF) - Evangelos Gazis (CERN-NTUA)

6:45 PM General Discussion
7:30 PM Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Room: Globe 1st Floor
Thursday, February 4, 2010
8:30 AM Summary Talk Session 1: B.Jones (Oxford) - B. Jones (Oxford)
Summary Talk Session 1: B.Jones (Oxford)
- B. Jones (Oxford)
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
9:00 AM Summary Talk Session 2: U. Koester (Grenoble) - U. Koester (ILL)
Summary Talk Session 2: U. Koester (Grenoble)
- U. Koester (ILL)
9:00 AM - 9:30 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
9:30 AM Summary Talk Session 3: W. Enghardt (Dresden) - W. Enghardt (TU Dresden)
Summary Talk Session 3: W. Enghardt (Dresden)
- W. Enghardt (TU Dresden)
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:00 AM Summary Talk Session 4: P. Tejedor Del-Real (Brussels) - J.E Faure (European Commission, Brussels)
Summary Talk Session 4: P. Tejedor Del-Real (Brussels)
- J.E Faure (European Commission, Brussels)
10:00 AM - 10:30 AM
10:30 AM Winning Poster talk
Winning Poster talk
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

11:15 AM Final general discussion
Final general discussion
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

12:15 PM Keynote closing speakers: D. Townsend (Singapore Bioimaging Consortium), J.Bourhis (Institute Gustave Roussy, ESTRO)
Keynote closing speakers: D. Townsend (Singapore Bioimaging Consortium), J.Bourhis (Institute Gustave Roussy, ESTRO)
12:15 PM - 1:15 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

1:15 PM Closing remarks: R. Heuer, CERN Director General
Closing remarks: R. Heuer, CERN Director General
1:15 PM - 1:20 PM
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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