WORKSHOP “PHYSICS FOR HEALTH IN EUROPE”

from Tuesday, February 2, 2010 (1:00 PM) to Thursday, February 4, 2010 (1:20 PM)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Feb 2, 2010
Feb 3, 2010
Feb 4, 2010
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8:30 AM
Session 2: Radioisotopes in diagnostics and therapy (until 12:00 PM)
8:30 AM Keynote:'Radioisotopes in diagnostics and therapy, (pre-)clinical view - W.J.G Oyen (Radbout University Nijmegen Medical Centre) Otto Boerman  
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9:00 AM Production of innovative radionuclides at ARRONAX and 211At RIT - Dr F. HADDAD (GIP ARRONAX and SUBATECH, Nantes)  
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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 - Dr Matthias Miederer (Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany)  
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9:20 AM Radiation Protection Aspects Related to Lutetium-177 Use in Hospitals - Dr Richard Henkelmann (Isotope Technologies Garching)  
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9:30 AM Preclinical studies with non-standard and carrier-free radioisotopes from ISOLDE-CERN - Gerd Beyer (Department of Radiology)  
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9:40 AM Discussion on therapy including possible use of ISOLDE isotopes  
10:00 AM --- Coffee break and Poster Walk ---
10:30 AM Keynote: ' Production of radioisotopes for medical applications' - N. Ramamoorthy (IAEA Vienna)  
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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 - Prof. 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 - Mr luca maciocco (advanced accelerator applications)  
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11:35 AM Gallium-68 – a candidate for use in clinical routine - Dr Mark Harfensteller (ITG Isotope Technologies Garching, Germany)  
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8:30 AM Summary Talk Session 1: B.Jones (Oxford) - B. Jones (Oxford)  
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9:00 AM Summary Talk Session 2: U. Koester (Grenoble) - U. Koester (ILL)  
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9:30 AM Summary Talk Session 3: W. Enghardt (Dresden) - W. Enghardt (TU Dresden)  
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10:00 AM Summary Talk Session 4: P. Tejedor Del-Real (Brussels) - J.E Faure (European Commission, Brussels)  
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10:30 AM Winning Poster talk  
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10:45 AM --- Coffee break ---
11:15 AM Final general discussion  
PM
1:00 PM Welcome - Rolf Heuer (CERN Director General)  
1:30 PM
Session 1: Radiobiology in therapy and space science (until 7:15 PM)
1:30 PM Keynote: 'Radiation Oncology: physics meets biology' - Gillies McKenna (Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology, Oxford)  
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2:00 PM Keynote: ‘Radiobiology in heavy ion therapy’ - Oliver Jaekel (DKFZ, Heidelberg)  
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2:30 PM Early events in the formation of genetic damage by heavy ions - Dr Gisela Taucher-Scholz (GSI Biophysics, Darmstadt, Germany)  
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2:45 PM The Space Radiation Environment - Constituents, Characteristics, and Models - Dr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)  
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3:00 PM A proposal for an experimental facility at CERN for research in hadron-therapy - Dr Marco Silari (CERN)  
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3:15 PM --- Coffee Break and Poster Walk ---
3:45 PM The Monte Carlo Code FLUKA in Ion Therapy: Status and Outlook - Dr Giuseppe Battistoni (INFN MILANO)  
4:00 PM Treatment plans in particle therapy - Dr Michael KRAEMER (GSI)  
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4:15 PM The INFN Treatment Planning System Project - Dr Andrea Attili (on behalf of the INFN-TPS collaboration)  
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4:30 PM Syncrotron Radiation Therapy: a promising alternative to treat brain tumors - Dr Yolanda Prezado (European synchrotron Radiation Facility)  
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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 ---
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:00 PM
Session 3: Prospects in medical imaging (until 3:45 PM)
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)  
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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)  
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2:15 PM ClearPEM-Sonic: the combined positron emission mammograph and ultrasound elastography scanner - Mr Benjamin Frisch (CERN and Technische Universität Wien)  
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2:30 PM LaBr3 and LYSO monolithic crystals coupled to photosensor arrays for TOF-PET - Dr Peter Dendooven (KVI, University of Groningen)  
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2:45 PM Optimization of a table-top synchrotron light source for radiological applications - Prof. Mauro Gambaccini (University of Ferrara)  
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3:00 PM Clinical and Pre-clinical applications spectral x-ray detectors - Dr Anthony Butler (Univ. Canterbury, Dept. Phys. Astro)  
3:15 PM The MAGIC-5 lung CAD systems - Prof. Roberto Bellotti (Università di Bari and INFN)  
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3:30 PM Discussion  
3:45 PM --- Coffee Break and Poster Walk ---
4:15 PM
Session 4: Novel technologies in radiation therapy (until 7:20 PM)
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)  
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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)  
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5:15 PM A study on repainting strategies for treating moving targets with proton pencil beam scanning for the new Gantry 2 at PSI - Mr Silvan Zenklusen (Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich)  
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5:30 PM Mitigation of target motion in scanned ion beam therapy - Dr Christoph Bert (GSI)  
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5:45 PM The TOM'5 System for Multibeam Tomotherapy - Dr Nils Achterberg (Strahlenklinik-Universitätsklinikum Erlangen)  
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6:00 PM Electron cooling application for cancer therapy accelerator facility - Mr Vladimir Vostrikov (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)  
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6:15 PM A cyclotron-linac complex for carbon ion therapy - Mr Alberto Degiovanni (TERA Foundation)  
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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)  
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6:45 PM General Discussion  
7:30 PM --- Workshop Dinner ---
12:15 PM Keynote closing speakers: D. Townsend (Singapore Bioimaging Consortium), J.Bourhis (Institute Gustave Roussy, ESTRO)  
1:15 PM Closing remarks: R. Heuer, CERN Director General