Name: Monte Carlo Workshop for Radiotherapy, Imaging and Radiation Protection
Start: 2019-12-06T08:00:00+11:00
End: 2019-12-08T14:00:00+11:00
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Monte Carlo Workshop for Radiotherapy, Imaging and Radiation Protection

from Friday, December 6, 2019 (8:00 AM) to Sunday, December 8, 2019 (2:00 PM)

Monday, December 2, 2019
Tuesday, December 3, 2019
Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Thursday, December 5, 2019
Friday, December 6, 2019

8:00 AM Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong
Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong
8:00 AM - 8:50 AM
8:50 AM Introduction - Susanna Guatelli
Introduction
- Susanna Guatelli
8:50 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM Welcome speech by the Dean of UOW Engineering and Information Sciences - Valerie Linton (University of Wollongong)
Welcome speech by the Dean of UOW Engineering and Information Sciences
- Valerie Linton (University of Wollongong)
9:00 AM - 9:15 AM
Speech by Prof. Valerie Linton
9:15 AM The Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong University - Anatoly Rozenfeld (University of Wollongong)
The Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong University
- Anatoly Rozenfeld (University of Wollongong)
9:15 AM - 9:45 AM
9:45 AM Radiobiology
Radiobiology
9:45 AM - 10:45 AM
Contributions

9:45 AM Geant4-DNA: recent developments - Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

10:15 AM Geant4-DNA: Development of low energy cross sections for water and gold - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)
10:45 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:45 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Radiobiology
Radiobiology
11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
Contributions

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 - Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS, Japan)

11:30 AM Mechanistic modelling of biological responses to radiation-induced damage - Stephen McMahon (Queen's University Belfast)

12:00 PM Microdosimetry with Geant4 for Quality Factor Estimates - Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)
12:30 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
1:30 PM GPU applications
GPU applications
1:30 PM - 2:40 PM
Contributions

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

2:10 PM GPU acceleration of Monte Carlo dose calculation for proton therapy - Ye Chen (KEK, Japan)
2:40 PM Microdosimetry
Microdosimetry
2:40 PM - 3:40 PM
Contributions

2:40 PM Validation of Geant4 for microdosimetry applications - David Bolst (Wollongong University)

3:10 PM Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in BNCT - James Vohradsky (University of Wollongong)
3:40 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM Microdosimetry
Microdosimetry
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in Fast Neutron Therapy - James Vorahdsky (Wollongong University)

4:30 PM Evaluation of novel organic materials for microdosimetry - Matthew Large (Wollongong University)

5:00 PM Geant4-based microdosimetry for astronauts' radiation protection - Stefania Peracchi (Wollongong University)
7:00 PM Social Dinner, Harbour Front, Wollongong
Social Dinner, Harbour Front, Wollongong
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Saturday, December 7, 2019
9:30 AM Physics developments
Physics developments
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:30 AM Low-energy Auger and conversion electron spectroscopy of medical isotopes - Bryan Tee (Australian National University)

10:00 AM X-ray fluorescence with ANSTO libraries - Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 10:50 AM
10:50 AM Physics developments
Physics developments
10:50 AM - 11:50 AM
Contributions

10:50 AM NS_Radlist – a new atomic radiation data base for basic science and applications - Tibor Kibedi (Australian National University)

11:20 AM Improved total reaction cross section models for Geant4 - Edward Simpson (Australian National University)
11:50 AM Benchmarking of Monte Carlo codes
Benchmarking of Monte Carlo codes
11:50 AM - 12:35 PM
Contributions

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

12:05 PM Validation of the Geant4 radioactive decay and emission of Auger electrons - Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)
12:35 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:35 PM - 1:25 PM
1:25 PM Monte Carlo for dosimetry
Monte Carlo for dosimetry
1:25 PM - 3:15 PM
Contributions

1:25 PM Geant4 studies for brachytherapy Quality Assurance - Dean Cutajar (Wollongong University)

1:55 PM Geant4 studies for protontherapy Quality Assurance - Brad Oborn (Wollongong University)

2:25 PM Monte-Carlo calculations of kQ at the Australian Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory - Max Hanlon (ARPANSA)

2:55 PM Adaptation of ICRP 110 Geant4 Human Phantom for Molecular Radiation Therapy Dosimetry - Muhammad Salman
3:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
3:15 PM - 3:35 PM
3:35 PM Nuclear applications, space science, astronomy
Nuclear applications, space science, astronomy
3:35 PM - 5:35 PM
Contributions

3:35 PM Geant4 Development and Applications in Nuclear Well Logging - 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 - Yi Yi Zhong (Australian National University)

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

5:05 PM Simulating Betavoltaic Cells for Cubesat Space Applications - Raymond Zhou (University of New South Wales)
7:00 PM Pub: The Illawarra Brewery, Eastern Terrace, Win Entertainment Centre, Crown St & Harbour St
Pub: The Illawarra Brewery, Eastern Terrace, Win Entertainment Centre, Crown St & Harbour St
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Sunday, December 8, 2019
9:00 AM Imaging
Imaging
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

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

9:30 AM Risk of radiation-induced breast cancer in phase-contrast mammography - 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 - Jeremy Brown
10:30 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM Imaging
Imaging
11:00 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

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 - Abdella Ahmed (ANSTO)

11:30 AM Monte Carlo simulations for in-vivo PET in Heavy Ion Therapy - Andrew Chacon (University of Wollongong)

12:00 PM Geant4 study for dose reconstruction in hadron therapy using in-vivo PET - Harley Rutherford (Wollongong University)

12:30 PM Final remarks - Susanna Guatelli
12:40 PM Light lunch provided
Light lunch provided
12:40 PM - 1:40 PM

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