Name: MEDAMI 2022 - Multimodality molecular neuro-imaging: clinical and technical state-of-the-art
Start: 2022-09-04T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-07T17:00:00+02:00
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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)

Monday 29 August 2022
Tuesday 30 August 2022
Wednesday 31 August 2022
Thursday 1 September 2022
Friday 2 September 2022
Saturday 3 September 2022
Sunday 4 September 2022

19:00 Registration
Registration
19:00 - 21:00

Monday 5 September 2022
08:30
08:30 - 10:10
Contributions

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
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 12:40
Contributions

10:40 Molecular imaging in dementia - Gilles Allali

11:10 What we really need in the clinic - John Olivier Prior John 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)
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 14:10
14:10
14:10 - 16:10
Contributions

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
Coffee break
16:10 - 16:40
16:40
16:40 - 18:15
Contributions

16:40 Neuroinflammation - Jenn Coughlin

17:10 Preclinical imaging to understand brain function - Kristina Herfert

17:40 Round Table
18:15
18:15 - 20:15
Contributions

18:15 Spatial resolution of a flat panel limited angle TOF-PET scanner - Matic Orehar (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of mathematics and physics)

18:15 PET scanners based on pure Cherenkov detectors: a Monte Carlo Study - Gasper Razdevsek

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)

19:55 Characteristic metabolic brain networks associated with Parkinson’s disease, multiple system atrophy and progressive supranuclear palsy - Petra Tomše (University Medical Centre Ljubljana)
Tuesday 6 September 2022
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

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
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:50
Contributions

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)
12:50 Lunch
Lunch
12:50 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

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
Vilenica Carst Cave & Conference Dinner in Lipica
16:00 - 22:00
Wednesday 7 September 2022
08:30
08:30 - 10:00
Contributions

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
Coffee break
10:00 - 10:30
10:30
10:30 - 12:30
Contributions

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 - Eva Rebec (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana) Petra Tomše (University Medical Centre 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
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:40
Contributions

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
Farewell coffee
15:30 - 16:30

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