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, May 31, 2017 (6:00 AM) to Sunday, June 4, 2017 (8:00 PM)

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

8:30 AM

8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:10 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM 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

9:35 AM 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 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:10 AM - 10:40 AM
10:40 AM
10:40 AM - 12:00 PM
Contributions

10:40 AM 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 AM Marco Paganoni (Univ. of Milano) - ERAMIT

11:30 AM 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 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:00 PM - 2:30 PM

12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:15 PM
Contributions

2:30 PM David Townsend (National University of Singapore) - PET/CT, PET/MR and Precision Medicine: some alternative facts

3:05 PM Bernd Pichler (Dept. of Pre-clinical imaging and Radiopharmacy University of Tuebingen) - Combining multiparametric imaging data with –omics information for precision medicine

3:40 PM Constantin Lapa (Nuclear Medicine, University of Wurzburg) - Theranostics and multimodality imaging
4:15 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:15 PM - 4:45 PM
4:45 PM
4:45 PM - 6:25 PM
Contributions

4:45 PM Jonathan A. Disselhorst (University Tuebingen) - Imaging Tumor Heterogeneity

5:20 PM P. Pevsner - How cost-effectiveness of a diagnostic medical imaging procedure is determined

5:50 PM Roderic Pettigrew (Director of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB)) - Multimodality/Multiparametric Imaging and Precision Medicine
6:25 PM

6:25 PM - 7:30 PM
Thursday, June 1, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Charles R.G. Guttman (Center for Neurological Imaging, Harvard Medical School) - Neurodegenerative diseases - an overview

9:00 AM Valentina Garibotto (Univ.of Geneva) - Multimodal/multiparamenter imaging – main modalities and applications: link to biomarkers and personalized medicine

9:30 AM Martin Walter (University of Tuebingen, Germany) -Multimodal imaging in psychiatry

10:00 AM Vesna Sossi (University of British Columbia) - PET/MRI imaging in neurodegeneration: novel metrics for early disease detection and effect of therapy assessment
10:30 AM Lunch break
Lunch break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

12:30 PM Simone Sarasso (Dept. of Biomedical Sciences, University of Milano) - Major brain initiatives
1:00 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 4:50 PM
Contributions

4:00 PM Stan Majewski (University of Virginia) - Dedicated PET brain imaging devices

4:25 PM Bernd Pichler (Director, Dept. of Pre-clinical imaging and Radiopharmacy, University of Tuebingen) - Developments in MRI, MEG and EEG
4:50 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:50 PM - 5:20 PM
5:20 PM
5:20 PM - 6:35 PM
Contributions

5:20 PM Jose Maria Benlloch (Institute of Molecular Imaging, University of Valencia) - Mindview: multimodal imaging of neurological disorders

5:45 PM Alberto del Guerra (Department of Physics, University of Pisa) - A trimodality (EEG/MR/PET) scanner for brain imaging

6:10 PM Contributions
6:35 PM

6:35 PM - 7:35 PM
Friday, June 2, 2017
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:25 AM
Contributions

8:30 AM Paul Lecoq (CERN, Geneva) - The 10 ps TOF-PET challenge

8:55 AM Dennis Schaart (Department of Rad. Science & Technology, TU Delft) - Fundamentals of Ultrafast Timing

9:20 AM Terry Jones (UCL, London) - The Explorer project: a new paradigm in nuclear medicine?

9:55 AM Piotr Maniawski (Philips Healthcare, Cleveland) - Digital Photon Counting PET: technology powering precision molecular imaging
10:25 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
10:25 AM - 10:55 AM
10:55 AM
10:55 AM - 12:40 PM
Contributions

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

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

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

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

12:25 PM Ilaria Mattei (INFN Milano) - Characterisation of the secondary fast and ultrafast neutrons emitted in Particle Therapy with the MONDO experiment
12:40 PM Lunch break
Lunch break
12:40 PM - 3:40 PM

12:40 PM - 3:40 PM
3:40 PM
3:40 PM - 4:30 PM
Contributions

3:40 PM Orazio Schillaci (TOV Policlinico Tor Vergata, Roma) - The role of Nuclear Medicine in breast cancer management

4:05 PM Michael O’ Connor (Mayo Clinic Rochester) - Breast cancer screening with single gamma and positron emitters
4:30 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM
5:30 PM
5:30 PM - 6:45 PM
Contributions

5:30 PM Evaristo Cisbani (ISS and INFN, Roma) - A novel SPECT-Thomosynthesis detector for the diagnosis and follow up of breast cancer

5:55 PM 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

6:20 PM Volkmar Schulz (University of Aachen, DE) - PET-MR dedicated detector for breast cancer diagnosis and follow – up
6:45 PM

6:45 PM - 7:45 PM
Saturday, June 3, 2017
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 9:40 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM H. Van der Pohel (Amsterdam, Ne) - Multimodality imaging in surgery

8:25 AM Tobias Maurer (Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich) - Shifting gears in Imaging - how PSMA-PET is about to change prostate cancer diagnosis

8:50 AM Valeria Panebianco (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) - The role of multiparametric MR in the diagnosis and follow up of prostate cancer

9:15 AM Paul Lecoq (CERN, Geneva) - ENDO-TOF-PET-US in the diagnosis and follow up of prostate cancer
9:40 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:40 AM - 10:10 AM
10:10 AM
10:10 AM - 10:55 AM
Contributions

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

10:35 AM 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 AM

11:30 AM - 7:00 PM

7:00 PM

7:00 PM - 10:30 PM
Sunday, June 4, 2017
8:00 AM
8:00 AM - 9:25 AM
Contributions

8:00 AM Fijs van Leuven (LUMC, Leiden) - Multimodality imaging techniques in surgery

8:25 AM Tobias Maurer (Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich) - PSMA radioguided surgery – a novel technique for intraoperative detection of prostate cancer metastases

8:45 AM Elena Solfaroli (Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza) - Radioguided surgery with beta-radiation: test on ex-vivo specimen

9:05 AM Image guided robotic surgery in lung cancer. (... to be decided)
9:25 AM Coffee break
Coffee break
9:25 AM - 9:55 AM
9:55 AM
9:55 AM - 11:05 AM
Contributions

9:55 AM P. Cerello (INFN Torino) - Imaging in hadron therapy

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

10:45 AM 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 AM

11:05 AM - 11:30 AM

12:00 PM

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM