Monte Carlo Workshop for Radiotherapy, Imaging and Radiation Protection

Dec 6, 2019, 8:00 AM → Dec 8, 2019, 2:00 PM Australia/Sydney

Susanna Guatelli

Fri, December 6

8:00 AM → 8:50 AM Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong

8:50 AM → 9:00 AM Introduction

Speaker: Susanna Guatelli

9:00 AM → 9:15 AM Welcome speech by the Dean of UOW Engineering and Information Sciences

Speech by Prof. Valerie Linton

Speaker: Prof. Valerie Linton (University of Wollongong)

9:15 AM → 9:45 AM The Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong University

Speaker: Anatoly Rozenfeld (University of Wollongong)

9:45 AM → 10:45 AM Session I: Radiobiology

Conveners: David Bolst, Jeremy Brown

9:45 AM Geant4-DNA: recent developments

Speaker: Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

10:15 AM Geant4-DNA: Development of low energy cross sections for water and gold

Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)

10:45 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:30 PM Session I: Radiobiology

11:00 AM Evaluation of ionizing radiation induced early DNA damage on a cell nucleus by integrated track structure Monte Carlo simulations using Geant4-DNA

Speaker: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)

11:30 AM Mechanistic modelling of biological responses to radiation-induced damage

Speaker: Stephen McMahon (Queen's University Belfast)

12:00 PM Microdosimetry with Geant4 for Quality Factor Estimates

Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)

12:30 PM → 1:30 PM Lunch break

1:30 PM → 2:40 PM Session II: GPU applications

Conveners: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University), Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

1:30 PM Quantitative estimation of biological effects after irradiation by MPEXS-DNA

Speaker: Shogo Okada

2:10 PM GPU acceleration of Monte Carlo dose calculation for proton therapy

Speaker: Ye Chen (KEK, Japan)

2:40 PM → 3:40 PM Session III: Microdosimetry

Conveners: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University), Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

2:40 PM Validation of Geant4 for microdosimetry applications

Speaker: David Bolst (Wollongong University)

3:10 PM Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in BNCT

Speaker: James Vohradsky (University of Wollongong)

3:40 PM → 4:00 PM Coffee break

4:00 PM → 5:30 PM Session III: Microdosimetry

4:00 PM Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in Fast Neutron Therapy

Speaker: James Vorahdsky (Wollongong University)

4:30 PM Evaluation of novel organic materials for microdosimetry

Speaker: Matthew Large (Wollongong University)

5:00 PM Geant4-based microdosimetry for astronauts' radiation protection

Speaker: Stefania Peracchi (Wollongong University)

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Social Dinner, Harbour Front, Wollongong

Sat, December 7

9:30 AM → 10:30 AM Session IV: Physics developments

Conveners: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS), Susanna Guatelli

9:30 AM Low-energy Auger and conversion electron spectroscopy of medical isotopes

Speaker: Bryan Tee (Australian National University)

10:00 AM X-ray fluorescence with ANSTO libraries

Speaker: Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)

10:30 AM → 10:50 AM Coffee break

10:50 AM → 11:50 AM Session IV: Physics developments

10:50 AM NS_Radlist – a new atomic radiation data base for basic science and applications

Speaker: Tibor Kibedi (Australian National University)

11:20 AM Improved total reaction cross section models for Geant4

Speaker: Edward Simpson (Australian National University)

11:50 AM → 12:35 PM Session V: Benchmarking of Monte Carlo codes

Conveners: Dousatsu Sakata, Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

11:50 AM G4-Med: a benchmarking system for Geant4 in medical physics

Speaker: Susanna Guatelli

12:05 PM Validation of the Geant4 radioactive decay and emission of Auger electrons

Speaker: Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)

12:35 PM → 1:25 PM Lunch break

1:25 PM → 3:15 PM Session VI: Monte Carlo for dosimetry

Monte Carlo for dosimetry

Conveners: Brad Oborn, Dean Cutajar

1:25 PM Geant4 studies for brachytherapy Quality Assurance

Speaker: Dean Cutajar (Wollongong University)

1:55 PM Geant4 studies for protontherapy Quality Assurance

Speaker: Brad Oborn (Wollongong University)

2:25 PM Monte-Carlo calculations of kQ at the Australian Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory

Speaker: Max Hanlon (ARPANSA)

2:55 PM Adaptation of ICRP 110 Geant4 Human Phantom for Molecular Radiation Therapy Dosimetry

Speaker: Muhammad Salman

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Coffee break

3:35 PM → 5:35 PM Session VII: Nuclear applications, space science, astronomy

Conveners: Edward Simpson (ANU), Jeremy Brown

3:35 PM Geant4 Development and Applications in Nuclear Well Logging

Speaker: Qiong Zhang (University of Electronic Science and Technology)

4:05 PM A Geant4 simulation of cosmogenic radionuclide production in sodium iodide for the SABRE dark matter experiment

Speaker: Yi Yi Zhong (Australian National University)

4:35 PM Evaluating the lineal energy and secondary particle yields in a FinFET structure

Speaker: Rick Chiang

5:05 PM Simulating Betavoltaic Cells for Cubesat Space Applications

Speaker: Raymond Zhou (University of New South Wales)

7:00 PM → 10:00 PM Pub: The Illawarra Brewery, Eastern Terrace, Win Entertainment Centre, Crown St & Harbour St

Sun, December 8

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Session VIII: Imaging

Conveners: Alessandra Malaroda, Stephen McMahon

9:00 AM In-Silico Optimisation of Tileable SiPM Based Monolithic Scintillator Detectors for SPECT Applications

Speaker: Jeremy Brown

9:30 AM Risk of radiation-induced breast cancer in phase-contrast mammography

Speaker: Vincent Beaudox (Bordeaux University)

10:00 AM Towards Actively Collimated Multi-tracer Imaging (ACMI): A MR compatible active collimation element for high performance simultaneous PET/SPECT imaging at the human scale

Speaker: Jeremy Brown

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee break

11:00 AM → 12:40 PM Session VIII: Imaging

11:00 AM NEMA-NU 2-2012 Validation of a Geant4 Model of a Whole-Body Prototype PET Scanner with Four-Layer Depth-of-Interaction Detectors

Speaker: Abdella Ahmed (ANSTO)

11:30 AM Monte Carlo simulations for in-vivo PET in Heavy Ion Therapy

Speaker: Andrew Chacon (University of Wollongong)

12:00 PM Geant4 study for dose reconstruction in hadron therapy using in-vivo PET

Speaker: Harley Rutherford (Wollongong University)

12:30 PM Final remarks

Speaker: Susanna Guatelli

12:40 PM → 1:40 PM Light lunch provided