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 2 February 2010 (13:00) to Thursday 4 February 2010 (13:20)

Monday 1 February 2010
Tuesday 2 February 2010
13:00 Welcome - Rolf Heuer (CERN Director General)
Welcome
- Rolf Heuer (CERN Director General)
13:00 - 13:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
13:30
13:30 - 19:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

13:30 Keynote: 'Radiation Oncology: physics meets biology' - Gillies McKenna (Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology, Oxford)

14:00 Keynote: ‘Radiobiology in heavy ion therapy’ - Oliver Jaekel (DKFZ, Heidelberg)

14:30 Early events in the formation of genetic damage by heavy ions - Gisela Taucher-Scholz (GSI Biophysics, Darmstadt, Germany)

14:45 The Space Radiation Environment - Constituents, Characteristics, and Models - Petteri Nieminen (ESA)

15:00 A proposal for an experimental facility at CERN for research in hadron-therapy - Marco Silari (CERN)

15:45 The Monte Carlo Code FLUKA in Ion Therapy: Status and Outlook - Giuseppe Battistoni (INFN MILANO)

16:00 Treatment plans in particle therapy - Michael KRAEMER (GSI)

16:15 The INFN Treatment Planning System Project - Andrea Attili (on behalf of the INFN-TPS collaboration)

16:30 Syncrotron Radiation Therapy: a promising alternative to treat brain tumors - Yolanda Prezado (European synchrotron Radiation Facility)

16:45 Discussion

17:00 Introduction to poster session by chairmen

17:30 Poster session
19:30 Workshop Dinner in the Globe
Workshop Dinner in the Globe
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Globe 1st floor
Wednesday 3 February 2010
08:30
08:30 - 12:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
Contributions

08:30 Keynote:'Radioisotopes in diagnostics and therapy, (pre-)clinical view - Otto Boerman W.J.G Oyen (Radbout University Nijmegen Medical Centre)

09:00 Production of innovative radionuclides at ARRONAX and 211At RIT - F. HADDAD (GIP ARRONAX and SUBATECH, Nantes)

09:10 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)

09:20 Radiation Protection Aspects Related to Lutetium-177 Use in Hospitals - Richard Henkelmann (Isotope Technologies Garching)

09:30 Preclinical studies with non-standard and carrier-free radioisotopes from ISOLDE-CERN - Gerd Beyer (Department of Radiology)

09:40 Discussion on therapy including possible use of ISOLDE isotopes

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

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

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

11:15 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 Gallium-68 – a candidate for use in clinical routine - Mark Harfensteller (ITG Isotope Technologies Garching, Germany)
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 13:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
13:00
13:00 - 15:45
Contributions

13:00 Keynote:' Radiology meets Physics: the future of MRI' - D. Le Bihan (IFR Institute d' Imagerie Neurofonctionelle)

13:30 Keynote: ' Challenges towards simultaneous PET-MRI' - S. Vandenberghe (Gent University)

14:00 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)

14:15 ClearPEM-Sonic: the combined positron emission mammograph and ultrasound elastography scanner - Benjamin Frisch (CERN and Technische Universität Wien)

14:30 LaBr3 and LYSO monolithic crystals coupled to photosensor arrays for TOF-PET - Peter Dendooven (KVI, University of Groningen)

14:45 Optimization of a table-top synchrotron light source for radiological applications - Mauro Gambaccini (University of Ferrara)

15:00 Clinical and Pre-clinical applications spectral x-ray detectors - Anthony Butler (Univ. Canterbury, Dept. Phys. Astro)

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

15:30 Discussion
15:45 Coffee Break and Poster Walk
Coffee Break and Poster Walk
15:45 - 16:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
16:15
16:15 - 19:20
Contributions

16:15 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)

16:45 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)

17:15 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)

17:30 Mitigation of target motion in scanned ion beam therapy - Christoph Bert (GSI)

17:45 The TOM'5 System for Multibeam Tomotherapy - Nils Achterberg (Strahlenklinik-Universitätsklinikum Erlangen)

18:00 Electron cooling application for cancer therapy accelerator facility - Vladimir Vostrikov (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)

18:15 A cyclotron-linac complex for carbon ion therapy - Alberto Degiovanni (TERA Foundation)

18:30 A proposal for a low-cost size superconducting multi-use accelerating facility for protons or light ions (LOCMAF) - Evangelos Gazis (CERN-NTUA)

18:45 General Discussion
19:30 Workshop Dinner
Workshop Dinner
19:30 - 22:00
Room: Globe 1st Floor
Thursday 4 February 2010
08:30 Summary Talk Session 1: B.Jones (Oxford) - B. Jones (Oxford)
Summary Talk Session 1: B.Jones (Oxford)
- B. Jones (Oxford)
08:30 - 09:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:00 Summary Talk Session 2: U. Koester (Grenoble) - U. Koester (ILL)
Summary Talk Session 2: U. Koester (Grenoble)
- U. Koester (ILL)
09:00 - 09:30
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
09:30 Summary Talk Session 3: W. Enghardt (Dresden) - W. Enghardt (TU Dresden)
Summary Talk Session 3: W. Enghardt (Dresden)
- W. Enghardt (TU Dresden)
09:30 - 10:00
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium
10:00 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 - 10:30
10:30 Winning Poster talk
Winning Poster talk
10:30 - 10:45
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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

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

12:15 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 - 13:15
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

13:15 Closing remarks: R. Heuer, CERN Director General
Closing remarks: R. Heuer, CERN Director General
13:15 - 13:20
Room: 500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

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