MEDAMI 2022 - Multimodality molecular neuro-imaging: clinical and technical state-of-the-art

from Sunday 4 September 2022 (19:00) to Wednesday 7 September 2022 (17:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Sept 2022
5 Sept 2022
6 Sept 2022
7 Sept 2022
AM
08:30
Introduction / degeneration / addiction / trauma - Peter Krizan (until 10:10) ()
08:30 Introduction - Vesna Sossi (University of British Columbia)   ()
08:40 Multimodality in the context of understanding of brain function in psychiatry/addiction - Ilan Rabiner (King's College London)   ()
09:10 X-Ray Darkfield Imaging - Basic Physics & First Clinical Results for COVID-19 - Franz Pfeiffer (Technical University of Munich)   ()
09:40 Biomarkers for Neurodegeneration with a focus on Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease - Gunn Roger (Imperial College London)   ()
10:10 --- Coffee break ---
10:40
Tracers and other modalities - Vesna Sossi (until 12:40) ()
10:40 Molecular imaging in dementia - Gilles Allali   ()
11:10 What we really need in the clinic - John Prior John Olivier Prior   ()
11:40 Data harmonization - Gitte Moos Knudsen   ()
12:10 Tradeoffs between Full Kinetic Modeling and Simplified Approaches in Neuropsychiatric PET - Richard Carson (Yale University)   ()
08:30
Oncology and other applications - Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI)) (until 10:00) ()
08:30 Neurobiology of cancer - imaging as a priority in cancer management - Andres Hottinger   ()
09:00 Use of intraoperative imaging in cranial and spinal surgery: a quick voyage in the future and back to the present - Duccio Boscherini   ()
09:30 Role of imaging in radiation therapy / theranostics - Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Munich, Germany)   ()
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Other techniques/ analysis - Roger Lecomte (Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC J1H 5N4, Canada) (until 12:50) ()
10:30 Spectral/ Photon Counting CT - Introduction & Clinical (Neuro-)Applications - Daniela Pfeiffer   ()
11:00 Challenges and Opportunities of trimodal MR-PET-EEG imaging. - Christoph Lerche (Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH (DE))   ()
11:30 Dedicated imaging systems and high resolution brain scanner, including PET/MR - Georges El Fakhri (MGH Harvard Medical School)   ()
12:00 Technical advances from pre-clinical to neuro-PET imaging - Roger LECOMTE (Université de Sherbrooke)   ()
12:25 Availability and affordability of PET in Brazil: challenges and opportunities - Ana Maria Marques (PUCRS)   ()
08:30
AI and large data sets - Dimitris Visvikis (National Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, INSERM, Brest, France) (until 10:00) ()
08:30 Opportunities,challenges and limitations of AI in imaging - Dimitris Visvikis (National Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, INSERM, Brest, France)   ()
09:00 Radiomics in brain imaging - Irene Buvat   ()
09:30 Advanced reconstruction and AI for PET imaging - Andrew Reader   ()
10:00 --- Coffee break ---
10:30
Clinical/Accessibilty and data sharing -Dr Haemisch York (Varex Imaging) (until 12:30) ()
10:30 The PETITION project – Image reconstruction software using only emission data for full and open ring PET scanners - Marina Béguin   ()
10:45 Metabolic brain networks in neurodegenerative dementias - Matej Perovnik (University Medical Centre Ljubljana)   ()
11:00 The effect of image resolution and identification group size on the diagnostic performance of Alzheimer’s disease related metabolic pattern - Dr Petra Tomše (University Medical Centre Ljubljana) Eva Rebec (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana)   ()
11:15 Insight into multivariate metabolic brain network structure: connectivity of Creutzfeldt-Jakob’s disease and frontotemporal dementia-related pattern - Tomaž Rus   ()
11:30 Availability and affordability of PET tracers, the challenges and opportunities in developing countries - Ibrahim ElSayed   ()
12:00 Round Table - The impact of AI methodology on research and clinical application   ()
PM
19:00 --- Registration ---
12:40 --- Lunch ---
14:10
PET and SPECT technologies - Benlloch José (IFIC, Valencia) (until 16:10) ()
14:10 TOF in brain imaging: advanced and impact - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq   ()
14:30 Large-format SPAD image sensors for neuro imaging - Claudio Bruschini   ()
14:50 Development of photodetectors for the next generation of TOF PET scanners - Alberto Gola   ()
15:10 Towards scalable sub-100 ps ToF-PET systems with the FastIC ASIC - Daniel Guberman   ()
15:30 Leave no photon behind: Photon classification, modeling and reconstruction for ultra-fast time resolution detectors - Nicolaus Kratochwil (CERN)   ()
15:50 Panel TOF PET imager - Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))   ()
16:10 --- Coffee break ---
16:40
Neuroinflammation and Preclinical -Prof. Ilan Rabiner ( King's College London) (until 18:15) ()
16:40 Neuroinflammation - Jenn Coughlin   ()
17:10 Preclinical imaging to understand brain function - Kristina Herfert   ()
17:40 Round Table   ()
18:15
Posters and reception (until 20:15) ()
18:15 Cherenkov TOF-PET module performance using HRFlexToT electronics - Dania Consuegra Rodríguez (J. Stefan Institute)   ()
18:15 First images from the next-generation UHR human brain PET scanner - Roger LECOMTE (Université de Sherbrooke)   ()
18:15 PET scanners based on pure Cherenkov detectors: a Monte Carlo Study - Gasper Razdevsek   ()
18:15 Spatial resolution of a flat panel limited angle TOF-PET scanner - Matic Orehar (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of mathematics and physics)   ()
19:55 Characteristic metabolic brain networks associated with Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy - Petra Tomše (University Medical Centre Ljubljana)   ()
12:50 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Dedicated imaging systems and high resolution brain scanners - Alberto Del Guerra (INFN & DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF PISA) (until 16:00) ()
14:05 CareMiBrain (PET) and MindView (PET/MR) – the i3M story - Jose Maria Benlloch Rodriguez (Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) (ES))   ()
14:25 Revival of Dedicated Brain PET Systems - Ahnen Max (Positrigo)   ()
14:45 The need for mobile imaging systems - Caroline Paquette (McGill University)   ()
15:05 Development of a time-of-flight PET for wearable and mobile brain imaging - Qiyu Peng (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory)   ()
15:25 NeuroEXPLORER, a next-generation ultra-high performance human brain PET imager - Richard Carson (Yale University)   ()
16:00 --- Vilenica Carst Cave & Conference Dinner in Lipica ---
12:30 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Vision - Paul Rene Michel Lecoq (until 15:40) ()
14:00 The history of the first 70 years of PET and a vision for the next 10 years? - Alberto Del Guerra (INFN & DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF PISA)   ()
14:30 Vision for the next 10 years - Vesna Sossi   ()
15:00 Panel discussion and wrap up   ()
15:30 Closing remarks - Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))   ()
15:30 --- Farewell coffee ---