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

Sep 5, 2022, 7:00 AM → Sep 7, 2022, 5:00 PM Europe/Zurich

James Cook (Portorož)

VII. Mediterranean Thematic Workshop in Advanced Molecular Imaging, Portorož, Slovenia, 5-7 September, 2022

Following the series of previously conducted symposia on dedicated medical imaging instrumentation and applications, we are presently organizing the 7th issue of this event in Portorož, Slovenia.  Unfortunately due to the Covid-19 pandemics,  the workshop  has been postponed twice. We hope to meet you in-person this year.

The MEDAMI workshops are unique in that they address a medical imaging topic from the medical, clinical, and instrumentation perspective. They foster synergistic interactions between cutting edge applications and latest technical developments. Stakeholders from academia, medical institutions and organizations, regulatory agencies, and industry have an opportunity to jointly discuss strategic directions of the medical imaging field.

Some of the key topics this year’s forum shall address are:

• Brain Imaging in research and clinics − status and next frontiers
• Multimodality imaging advances in the context of understanding brain function in health and disease: neurodegeneration / dementia / brain trauma / psychiatry / addiction / brain cancer  
• Role of animal models in the investigation of brain illness
• Brain-body connection: Role of  high sensitivity / whole body scanners in brain imaging
• Data harmonization
• Technical Advances in brain imaging: 
  • TOF-PET: What timing resolution is needed? What is the impact?
  • Photon counting/spectral/low dose CT: revolutionizing trauma imaging
  • Is there a role for brain only scanners?
  • AI / ML / Deep learning: what does it bring to imaging?
• Imaging accessibility to a wider community.

The program of the MEDAMI 2022 will include invited talks by key international opinion leaders and experts. However, a limited number of abstracts for oral or poster presentations will be accepted as well. If you have to report on a topic that you think fits into the scope of the program we will be happy to receive your abstract.

 

Conference venue

MEDAMI2022_FirstAnnouncement.pdf

MEDAMI2022_Poster.pdf

MEDAMI2022_Venue.pdf

Monday, September 5

Introduction / degeneration / addiction / trauma

1 Introduction

Speaker: Vesna Sossi (University of British Columbia)

2 What we really need in the clinic

Speaker: John Olivier Prior

3 Multimodality in the context of understanding of brain function in psychiatry/addiction

Speaker: Prof. Ilan Rabiner ( King's College London)

4 Multimodality in the context of understanding of brain function in health and dementia/neurodegeneration/brain trauma

10:00 AM Coffee break

Tracers and other modalities

5 Current status of brain tracers in the context of (i) other modalities and (ii) neurodegeneration/brain trauma/psychiatry/addiction; new imaging biomarkers and drug targets including proteinpathy

Speaker: Prof. Gunn Roger (Imperial College London)

6 Tradeoffs between Full Kinetic Modeling and Simplified Approaches in Neuropsychiatric PET

Speaker: Prof. Richard Carson (Yale University)

7 Bridging scales with neuroimaging: challenges and opportunities (MRI talk)

8 EEG/MEG talk

12:30 PM Lunch

PET and SPECT technologies

9 Design considerations for (clinical) brain dedicated PET/MR and PET/CT systems”

Speaker: Craig Levin (Stanford University)

10 TOF in brain imaging: advanced and impact

Speaker: Paul Rene Michel Lecoq

11 Development of photodetectors for the next generation of TOF PET scanners

Speaker: Giacomo Borghi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

12 Revival of BGO with Cherenkov light

Speaker: Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

13 Front-end readout, Data Acquisition and ASICs for the next generation TOF PET scanners

Speaker: Stefaan Tavernier (Vrije Universiteit Brussel (BE))

4:30 PM Coffee break

Preclinical

14 Role of animal models in neurodegeneration and drug development

15 Round Table

Posters and reception

Tuesday, September 6

Oncology

16 Neurobiology of cancer - imaging as a priority in cancer mamagement

17 Multimodality as realted to brain cancer

18 Current status of brain tracers in the context of (i) other modalities and (ii) oncology

19 Role of imaging in radiation therapy / theranostics

10:00 AM Coffee break

Other techniques/ analysis

20 Spectral/photon counting/dual energy CT in neuro application

Speaker: Prof. Thorsten Fleitner (University of Maryland)

21 Role of imaging in neurosurgery

22 Introduction into the topic of spectral/photon counting CT in clinical (neuro)application

23 Radiomics and multi-modal analysis

12:30 PM Lunch

Dedicated preclinical/ brain imagig systems /algorithms

24 CareMiBrain (PET) and MindView (PET/MR) – the i3M story

Speakers: Antonio J. Gonzalez Martinez, Jose Maria Benlloch Rodriguez (Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC) (ES))

25 Trimage

Speaker: alberto Del Guerra (University of Pisa)

26 Mobile PET developments – brain imaging in motion

Speaker: Stanislaw Majewski (University of California, Davis)

27 Technical advances in preclinicial imaging

28 Advanced image reconstruction/how much can AI ‘compensate' for lower dose

29 Developments of the Helmet PET: past and future

4:35 PM Social event

7:30 PM Conference dinner

Wednesday, September 7

Whole body imaging in the context of brain

30 Whole-body kinetic modeling

Speaker: Prof. Richard Carson (Yale University)

31 Brain to organs connnection

32 The Explorer

33 UPenn Explorer

Speaker: Prof. Joel Karp (University of Pennsylvania)

10:00 AM Coffee break

Accessibilty and data sharing

34 Vision of an efficient/low cost imaging and tracer/imaging distribution model ( includes access to cyclotrons/distribution of cyclotrons/ small ones vs larger one) – description of the major challenges encountered by developing countries

35 Data harmonization

36 Regulatory hurdles on data sharing

37 AI analysis of large data sets

Speaker: Dimitris Visvikis (National Institute of Health and Medical Sciences, INSERM, Brest, France)

12:30 PM Lunch

Vision

38 Vision for the next 10 years

39 Summary and discussion

3:00 PM Farewell coffee