Monte Carlo Workshop for Radiotherapy, Imaging and Radiation Protection

from Friday, 6 December 2019 (08:00) to Sunday, 8 December 2019 (14:00)


        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
6 Dec 2019
7 Dec 2019
8 Dec 2019
AM
08:00 Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong   ()
08:50 Introduction - Susanna Guatelli   ()
09:00 Welcome speech by the Dean of UOW Engineering and Information Sciences - Prof. Valerie Linton (University of Wollongong)   ()
09:15 The Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong University - Anatoly Rozenfeld (University of Wollongong)   ()
09:45
Session I - Jeremy Brown David Bolst (until 10:45) ()
09:45 Geant4-DNA: recent developments - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)   ()
10:15 Geant4-DNA: Development of low energy cross sections for water and gold - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)   ()
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session I (until 12:30) ()
11:00 Evaluation of ionizing radiation induced early DNA damage on a cell nucleus by integrated track structure Monte Carlo simulations using Geant4-DNA - Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)   ()
11:30 Mechanistic modelling of biological responses to radiation-induced damage - Stephen McMahon (Queen's University Belfast)   ()
12:00 Microdosimetry with Geant4 for Quality Factor Estimates - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)   ()
09:30
Session IV - Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS) Susanna Guatelli (until 10:30) ()
09:30 Low-energy Auger and conversion electron spectroscopy of medical isotopes - Bryan Tee (Australian National University)   ()
10:00 X-ray fluorescence with ANSTO libraries - Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
10:50
Session IV (until 11:50) ()
10:50 NS_Radlist – a new atomic radiation data base for basic science and applications - Tibor Kibedi (Australian National University)   ()
11:20 Improved total reaction cross section models for Geant4 - Edward Simpson (Australian National University)   ()
11:50
Session V - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) Dousatsu Sakata (until 12:35) ()
11:50 G4-Med: a benchmarking system for Geant4 in medical physics - Susanna Guatelli   ()
12:05 Validation of the Geant4 radioactive decay and emission of Auger electrons - Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)   ()
09:00
Session VIII - Stephen McMahon Alessandra Malaroda (until 10:30) ()
09:00 In-Silico Optimisation of Tileable SiPM Based Monolithic Scintillator Detectors for SPECT Applications - Jeremy Brown   ()
09:30 Risk of radiation-induced breast cancer in phase-contrast mammography - Vincent Beaudox (Bordeaux University)   ()
10:00 Towards Actively Collimated Multi-tracer Imaging (ACMI): A MR compatible active collimation element for high performance simultaneous PET/SPECT imaging at the human scale - Jeremy Brown   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00
Session VIII (until 12:40) ()
11:00 NEMA-NU 2-2012 Validation of a Geant4 Model of a Whole-Body Prototype PET Scanner with Four-Layer Depth-of-Interaction Detectors - Abdella Ahmed (ANSTO)   ()
11:30 Monte Carlo simulations for in-vivo PET in Heavy Ion Therapy - Andrew Chacon (University of Wollongong)   ()
12:00 Geant4 study for dose reconstruction in hadron therapy using in-vivo PET - Harley Rutherford (Wollongong University)   ()
12:30 Final remarks - Susanna Guatelli   ()
PM
12:30 --- Lunch break ---
13:30
Session II - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University) Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) (until 14:40) ()
13:30 Quantitative estimation of biological effects after irradiation by MPEXS-DNA - Shogo Okada   ()
14:10 GPU acceleration of Monte Carlo dose calculation for proton therapy - Ye Chen (KEK, Japan)   ()
14:40
Session III - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University) Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3) (until 15:40) ()
14:40 Validation of Geant4 for microdosimetry applications - David Bolst (Wollongong University)   ()
15:10 Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in BNCT - James Vohradsky (University of Wollongong)   ()
15:40 --- Coffee break ---
16:00
Session III (until 17:30) ()
16:00 Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in Fast Neutron Therapy - James Vorahdsky (Wollongong University)   ()
16:30 Evaluation of novel organic materials for microdosimetry - Matthew Large (Wollongong University)   ()
17:00 Geant4-based microdosimetry for astronauts' radiation protection - Stefania Peracchi (Wollongong University)   ()
19:00 --- Social Dinner, Harbour Front, Wollongong ---
12:35 --- Lunch break ---
13:25
Session VI - Dean Cutajar Brad Oborn (until 15:15) ()
13:25 Geant4 studies for brachytherapy Quality Assurance - Dean Cutajar (Wollongong University)   ()
13:55 Geant4 studies for protontherapy Quality Assurance - Brad Oborn (Wollongong University)   ()
14:25 Monte-Carlo calculations of kQ at the Australian Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory - Max Hanlon (ARPANSA)   ()
14:55 Adaptation of ICRP 110 Geant4 Human Phantom for Molecular Radiation Therapy Dosimetry - Muhammad Salman   ()
15:15 --- Coffee break ---
15:35
Session VII - Edward Simpson (ANU) Jeremy Brown (until 17:35) ()
15:35 Geant4 Development and Applications in Nuclear Well Logging - Qiong Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology)   ()
16:05 A Geant4 simulation of cosmogenic radionuclide production in sodium iodide for the SABRE dark matter experiment - Yi Yi Zhong (Australian National University)   ()
16:35 Evaluating the lineal energy and secondary particle yields in a FinFET structure - Rick Chiang   ()
17:05 Simulating Betavoltaic Cells for Cubesat Space Applications - Raymond Zhou (University of New South Wales)   ()
19:00 --- Pub: The Illawarra Brewery, Eastern Terrace, Win Entertainment Centre, Crown St & Harbour St ---
12:40 --- Light lunch provided ---