Monte Carlo Workshop for Radiotherapy, Imaging and Radiation Protection

6 Dec 2019, 08:00 → 8 Dec 2019, 14:00 Australia/Sydney

Susanna Guatelli

Friday, 6 December

08:00 → 08:50 Registration - Building 32.G01, UOW Main Campus, Wollongong

08:50 → 09:00 Introduction

Speaker: Susanna Guatelli

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome speech by the Dean of UOW Engineering and Information Sciences

Speech by Prof. Valerie Linton

Speaker: Prof. Valerie Linton (University of Wollongong)

09:15 → 09:45 The Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong University

Speaker: Anatoly Rozenfeld (University of Wollongong)

09:45 → 10:45 Session I: Radiobiology

Conveners: David Bolst, Jeremy Brown

09:45 Geant4-DNA: recent developments

Speaker: Sebastien Incerti (CNRS/IN2P3)

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

Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)

10:45 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:30 Session I: Radiobiology

11:00 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 Mechanistic modelling of biological responses to radiation-induced damage

Speaker: Stephen McMahon (Queen's University Belfast)

12:00 Microdosimetry with Geant4 for Quality Factor Estimates

Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Ioannina University)

12:30 → 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 → 14:40 Session II: GPU applications

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

13:30 Quantitative estimation of biological effects after irradiation by MPEXS-DNA

Speaker: Shogo Okada

14:10 GPU acceleration of Monte Carlo dose calculation for proton therapy

Speaker: Ye Chen (KEK, Japan)

14:40 → 15:40 Session III: Microdosimetry

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

14:40 Validation of Geant4 for microdosimetry applications

Speaker: David Bolst (Wollongong University)

15:10 Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in BNCT

Speaker: James Vohradsky (University of Wollongong)

15:40 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:30 Session III: Microdosimetry

16:00 Geant4 simulations for microdosimetry in Fast Neutron Therapy

Speaker: James Vorahdsky (Wollongong University)

16:30 Evaluation of novel organic materials for microdosimetry

Speaker: Matthew Large (Wollongong University)

17:00 Geant4-based microdosimetry for astronauts' radiation protection

Speaker: Stefania Peracchi (Wollongong University)

19:00 → 22:00 Social Dinner, Harbour Front, Wollongong

Saturday, 7 December

09:30 → 10:30 Session IV: Physics developments

Conveners: Dousatsu Sakata (NIRS), Susanna Guatelli

09:30 Low-energy Auger and conversion electron spectroscopy of medical isotopes

Speaker: Bryan Tee (Australian National University)

10:00 X-ray fluorescence with ANSTO libraries

Speaker: Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee break

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

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

Speaker: Tibor Kibedi (Australian National University)

11:20 Improved total reaction cross section models for Geant4

Speaker: Edward Simpson (Australian National University)

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

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

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

Speaker: Susanna Guatelli

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

Speaker: Samer Bakr (Wollongong University)

12:35 → 13:25 Lunch break

13:25 → 15:15 Session VI: Monte Carlo for dosimetry

Monte Carlo for dosimetry

Conveners: Brad Oborn, Dean Cutajar

13:25 Geant4 studies for brachytherapy Quality Assurance

Speaker: Dean Cutajar (Wollongong University)

13:55 Geant4 studies for protontherapy Quality Assurance

Speaker: Brad Oborn (Wollongong University)

14:25 Monte-Carlo calculations of kQ at the Australian Primary Standards Dosimetry Laboratory

Speaker: Max Hanlon (ARPANSA)

14:55 Adaptation of ICRP 110 Geant4 Human Phantom for Molecular Radiation Therapy Dosimetry

Speaker: Muhammad Salman

15:15 → 15:35 Coffee break

15:35 → 17:35 Session VII: Nuclear applications, space science, astronomy

Conveners: Edward Simpson (ANU), Jeremy Brown

15:35 Geant4 Development and Applications in Nuclear Well Logging

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Yi Yi Zhong (Australian National University)

16:35 Evaluating the lineal energy and secondary particle yields in a FinFET structure

Speaker: Rick Chiang

17:05 Simulating Betavoltaic Cells for Cubesat Space Applications

Speaker: Raymond Zhou (University of New South Wales)

19:00 → 22:00 Pub: The Illawarra Brewery, Eastern Terrace, Win Entertainment Centre, Crown St & Harbour St

Sunday, 8 December

09:00 → 10:30 Session VIII: Imaging

Conveners: Alessandra Malaroda, Stephen McMahon

09:00 In-Silico Optimisation of Tileable SiPM Based Monolithic Scintillator Detectors for SPECT Applications

Speaker: Jeremy Brown

09:30 Risk of radiation-induced breast cancer in phase-contrast mammography

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Jeremy Brown

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:40 Session VIII: Imaging

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

Speaker: Abdella Ahmed (ANSTO)

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

Speaker: Andrew Chacon (University of Wollongong)

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

Speaker: Harley Rutherford (Wollongong University)

12:30 Final remarks

Speaker: Susanna Guatelli

12:40 → 13:40 Light lunch provided