Name: MEDAMI 2017 - V MEDITERRANEAN FORUM ON ADVANCED MOLECULAR IMAGING
Start: 2017-05-31T06:00:00+02:00
End: 2017-06-04T20:00:00+02:00
Location: Orosei

MEDAMI 2017 - V MEDITERRANEAN FORUM ON ADVANCED MOLECULAR IMAGING

from Wednesday, 31 May 2017 (06:00) to Sunday, 4 June 2017 (20:00)

Monday, 29 May 2017
Tuesday, 30 May 2017
Wednesday, 31 May 2017

08:30

08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:10
Contributions

09:00 Nicolas Petrick (Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), Food and Drug Administration (FDA)) - FDA perspective on the role of FDA in the emerging field of precision medicine medical imaging

09:35 Bernd Stowasser (Sanofi-Aventis, on behalf of the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA)) - Academic-Industry partnership: Can the IMI PPP model be extended/exported to medical imaging industry?
10:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 - 10:40
10:40
10:40 - 12:00
Contributions

10:40 Piotr Maniawski (Philips Healthcare, on behalf of the Association of Imaging Producers and Equipment Suppliers (AIPES)) - The AIPES organization and its role in supporting medical imaging development

11:05 Marco Paganoni (Univ. of Milano) - ERAMIT

11:30 Maurizio Conti (Siemens Healthineers, Knoxville) - Challenges and trends in molecular imaging, an industry research viewpoint. The role of radiotracers in modern diagnosis and expensive/advanced therapies
12:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 - 14:30

12:00 - 14:30
14:30
14:30 - 16:15
Contributions

14:30 David Townsend (National University of Singapore) - PET/CT, PET/MR and Precision Medicine: some alternative facts

15:05 Bernd Pichler (Dept. of Pre-clinical imaging and Radiopharmacy University of Tuebingen) - Combining multiparametric imaging data with –omics information for precision medicine

15:40 Constantin Lapa (Nuclear Medicine, University of Wurzburg) - Theranostics and multimodality imaging
16:15 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:15 - 16:45
16:45
16:45 - 18:25
Contributions

16:45 Jonathan A. Disselhorst (University Tuebingen) - Imaging Tumor Heterogeneity

17:20 P. Pevsner - How cost-effectiveness of a diagnostic medical imaging procedure is determined

17:50 Roderic Pettigrew (Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)) - Multimodality/Multiparametric Imaging and Precision Medicine
18:25

18:25 - 19:30
Thursday, 1 June 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Charles R.G. Guttman (Center for Neurological Imaging, Harvard Medical School) - Neurodegenerative diseases - an overview

09:00 Valentina Garibotto (Univ.of Geneva) - Multimodal/multiparamenter imaging – main modalities and applications: link to biomarkers and personalized medicine

09:30 Martin Walter (University of Tuebingen, Germany) -Multimodal imaging in psychiatry

10:00 Vesna Sossi (University of British Columbia) - PET/MRI imaging in neurodegeneration: novel metrics for early disease detection and effect of therapy assessment
10:30 Lunch break
Lunch break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Contributions

11:00 Christer Halldin (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm) - PET Radioligands for Neuroscience and Drug Development

11:30 Ilan Rabiner (Chief Medical Officer, Head of Imaging Applications, Imanova Ltd., UK) - Building the Three Pillars- Imaging in early phase drug development

12:00 Paul M. Matthews (Head of Brain Imaging Sciences, Imperial College, London) - Challenges and opportunities for brain imaging with large population datasets

12:30 Simone Sarasso (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Milano) - Major brain initiatives
13:00 Lunch break
Lunch break
13:00 - 16:00

13:00 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 16:50
Contributions

16:00 Stan Majewski (University of Virginia) - Dedicated PET brain imaging devices

16:25 Bernd Pichler (Director, Dept. of Pre-clinical imaging and Radiopharmacy, University of Tuebingen) - Developments in MRI, MEG and EEG
16:50 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:50 - 17:20
17:20
17:20 - 18:35
Contributions

17:20 Jose Maria Benlloch (Institute of Molecular Imaging, University of Valencia) - Mindview: multimodal imaging of neurological disorders

17:45 Alberto del Guerra (Department of Physics, University of Pisa) - A trimodality (EEG/MR/PET) scanner for brain imaging

18:10 Contributions
18:35

18:35 - 19:35
Friday, 2 June 2017
08:30
08:30 - 10:25
Contributions

08:30 Paul Lecoq (CERN, Geneva) - The 10 ps TOF-PET challenge

08:55 Dennis Schaart (Department of Rad. Science & Technology, TU Delft) - Fundamentals of Ultrafast Timing

09:20 Terry Jones (UCL, London) - The Explorer project: a new paradigm in nuclear medicine?

09:55 Piotr Maniawski (Philips Healthcare, Cleveland) - Digital Photon Counting PET: technology powering precision molecular imaging
10:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 - 10:55
10:55
10:55 - 12:40
Contributions

10:55 Bipin Singh (RMD Watertown, Ma) - Photonic Crystal Enhances Scintillation Light Extraction: Can It Improve Timing Resolution?

11:15 Claudio Piemonte (FBK Trento) - New high performance SiPM arrays with TSV technology for TOF and other applications

11:40 Stefaan Tavernier (PETsys Electronics SA, Lisbon) - TOFPET II: The next generation ASIC for TOF-applications

12:05 Gabriela Llosa (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, University of Valencia) - From MACACO to MACACO II: a Compton telescope for hadron therapy treatment monitoring

12:25 Ilaria Mattei (INFN Milano) - Characterisation of the secondary fast and ultrafast neutrons emitted in Particle Therapy with the MONDO experiment
12:40 Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 - 15:40

12:40 - 15:40
15:40
15:40 - 16:30
Contributions

15:40 Orazio Schillaci (TOV Policlinico Tor Vergata, Roma) - The role of Nuclear Medicine in breast cancer management

16:05 Michael O’ Connor (Mayo Clinic Rochester) - Breast cancer screening with single gamma and positron emitters
16:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:30 - 17:30

16:30 - 17:30
17:30
17:30 - 18:45
Contributions

17:30 Evaristo Cisbani (ISS and INFN, Roma) - A novel SPECT-Thomosynthesis detector for the diagnosis and follow up of breast cancer

17:55 Michel Herranz (Univ. of Santiago de Compostela) - Dedicated breast PET (dbPET) in diagnosis and follow up of breast cancer - comparison, synergies and divergences with MRI

18:20 Volkmar Schulz (University of Aachen, DE) - PET-MR dedicated detector for breast cancer diagnosis and follow – up
18:45

18:45 - 19:45
Saturday, 3 June 2017
08:00
08:00 - 09:40
Contributions

08:00 H. Van der Pohel (Amsterdam, Ne) - Multimodality imaging in surgery

08:25 Tobias Maurer (Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich) - Shifting gears in Imaging - how PSMA-PET is about to change prostate cancer diagnosis

08:50 Valeria Panebianco (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) - The role of multiparametric MR in the diagnosis and follow up of prostate cancer

09:15 Paul Lecoq (CERN, Geneva) - ENDO-TOF-PET-US in the diagnosis and follow up of prostate cancer
09:40 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:40 - 10:10
10:10
10:10 - 10:55
Contributions

10:10 Franco Garibaldi (AIB, Roma) - TOF-PET-MR in the diagnosis and follow up of the prostate cancer

10:35 Nicoletta Protti (INFN Pavia) - In vivo 10B imaging and dose rate measurement for Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) using Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (BNCT-SPECT)
11:30

11:30 - 19:00

19:00

19:00 - 22:30
Sunday, 4 June 2017
08:00
08:00 - 09:25
Contributions

08:00 Fijs van Leuven (LUMC, Leiden) - Multimodality imaging techniques in surgery

08:25 Tobias Maurer (Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich) - PSMA radioguided surgery – a novel technique for intraoperative detection of prostate cancer metastases

08:45 Elena Solfaroli (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) - Radioguided surgery with beta-radiation: test on ex-vivo specimen

09:05 Image guided robotic surgery in lung cancer. (... to be decided)
09:25 Coffee break
Coffee break
09:25 - 09:55
09:55
09:55 - 11:05
Contributions

09:55 P. Cerello (INFN Torino) - Imaging in hadron therapy

10:20 F. Pennazio, INFN Torino) - The INSIDE project: hadron therapy monitoring with in-beam PET

10:45 Ilaria Mattei (INFN Milano) - Study of the radiation produced by therapeutic He, C and O ion beams impinging on a PMMA target for beam range monitoring purpose in Particle Therapy
11:05

11:05 - 11:30

12:00

12:00 - 12:30