FATA2019: FAst Timing Applications for nuclear physics and medical imaging

3 Sept 2019, 09:00 → 5 Sept 2019, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Accademia degli Zelanti e dei Dafnici, Acireale (Catania)

We are glad to announce the first workshop on “FAst Timing Applications for nuclear physics and medical imaging” to be held in Acireale (Catania) on September 3-5, 2019. The Workshop is aimed at gathering together scientists working either in fundamental physics or medical applications with common background in the Fast Timing technology.

The Workshop is organized by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN)- Sezione di Catania, Laboratori Nazionali del Sud (LNS), by the Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia “Ettore Majorana” di Catania di Catania and by the Accademia degli Zelanti e dei Dafnici di Acireale.

General Information and scientific program

The workshop will focus on the most recent developments of Fast Timing techniques for applications of radiation detectors in the fields of nuclear physics and medical applications.

The scientific program will have dedicated sessions to outline recent progress on both experimental and theoretical aspects of the following topics:

Scintillators and Photodetectors for fast timing

Readout electronics for ultrafast detectors

Solid state detector technology for fast timing

Processing of time stamped data

Precise event time tagging in high luminosity accelerators

Towards picoseconds Time of Flight (TOF) resolution

Time of flight positron emission tomography (TOF-PET) for Medical Imaging and Monitoring of Hadron therapy

 

Participation to the workshop by students, postdocs, technical staff and engineers is strongly encouraged. Participants wishing to present a contribution may submit an abstract directly on this website in the registration subpage. Abstracts will be selected by the advisory committee. The deadline for submission is June 20th, 2019. Anyone wishing to attend the workshop is invited to register on the registration subpage.

The meeting will be held in the historical siege of the the Accademia degli Zelanti e dei Dafnici, in the picturesque town of Acireale, near the Etna volcano and on the shoreline close to Catania.

More details are available in the section circulars of this website.

copertina FATA.pdf

FATA-Program 28-08-Final.pdf

FATA2019-first circular.pdf

FATA_ABSasof27082019.pdf

Poster FATA2019_11_ver18.pdf

Tuesday, 3 September

10:00 → 11:10 Technologies

Convener: Giacomo Cuttone (LNS)

10:00 Ultrafast Meta-scintillators for a new generation of HEP detectors and Time-of-Flight PET

Speaker: Paul Lecoq (CERN-FR)

PLecoq-FATA2019.pptx

10:45 Electronics for fast timing in Medical imaging

Speaker: Stefaan Tavernier (PETsys electronics)

2019_FATA_V3--TAVERNIER.pptx

11:10 → 11:40 Break

11:40 → 13:20 Readout

Convener: Francesca Rizzo (LNS)

11:40 Using time-of-flight information for PET reconstruction in PET, PET/CT and PET/MRI

Speaker: Johan Nuyts (KU Leuven)

FATA2019_jn-NUYTS.pptx

12:05 Photodetectors for fast timing

Speaker: Giacomo Borghi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento)

G_Borghi_FATA19.pptx

12:30 Recent developments in fast timing ASICs for particle physics and medical imaging

Speaker: Salleh Ahmad (Weeroc SAS)

FATA19 - ASIC_for_fast_timing.pdf

12:55 MEDAMI 2019

Speaker: Antonio J. Gonzalez (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging- Valencia)

Gonzalez_FATA_about MEDAMI2019.pptx

13:20 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:30 Nuclear Physics and Medical Imaging and software

Convener: Emanuel Pollacco (IRFU/DPhN CEA Saclay)

15:30 A Time of flight application for nuclear reactions at Coulomb energy

Speaker: Maria Grazia Pellegriti (CT)

fata2019_pellegriti_1.pptx

15:55 Fast electronics for TOF in Nuclear Physics

Speaker: Dominique Breton (CNRS LAL ORSAY)

FATA_2019 breton.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Break

17:00 → 18:15 Applications: geraci

Convener: Elena Irene Geraci (INFN-Catania)

17:00 Fast timing with scintillation detectors

Speaker: Paul Schotanus (Scionix-Holland, Bunnik)

fast timing with scintillators - FATA 2019 - P. Schotanus.pptx

17:25 New approaches to detector readout in particle physics and medical applications with efficient timing

Speaker: Yuri Venturini (CAEN SpA, Viareggio)

FERS_FATA2019_YuriVenturini.pptx

17:50 Siemens Biograph Vision and the future of TOF-PET (Skype)

Speaker: Maurizio Conti (Siemens Healthcare Molecular Imaging, Knoxville, TN)

CONTI-senza_titolo.pdf

18:15 → 18:35 Welcome Cocktail

Wednesday, 4 September

09:00 → 09:50 Imaging

Convener: Franco Garibaldi (ISS)

09:00 Imaging is Believing – The Future of Human Total BodyMolecular Imaging Starts Now

Speaker: Stan Majewski (University of California Davis)

Stan_Majewski_FATA_Explorer.pptx

09:25 The Path to the Ideal Brain PET Imager. The Race Started. The Role for TOF PET

Speaker: Stan Majewski (University of California Davis)

Stan_Majewski_FATA_Brain.pptx

09:50 → 10:35 The time measurement by an ancient Meridian in ACIREALE (visit to Cathedral)

10:35 → 11:05 Break

11:05 → 13:10 Nuclear physics from: foundamental and medical

Convener: Paolo Russotto (LNS)

11:05 A TOF PET MRI US probe project for prostate cancer diagnosis and follow up

Speaker: Franco Garibaldi (INFN-Sezione di Roma1)

garibaldi-aci-reale-04-09-2019.ppt

11:30 Charged p art i c le i dent i fi cati on using t ime o f f li ghtwi th FAZIA

Speaker: Simone Valdrè (INFN-Sezione di Firenze)

FATA2019-Valdre.pdf

11:55 Fast timing for nuclear reaction studies at R3B

Speaker: Matthias Holl (Institut für Kernphysik, Technische Universität Darmstadt)

r3b_fata_mholl--.pdf

12:20 Recent result obtained at CCB’

Speaker: Piotr Pawłowski (Inst. of Nucl. Physics, PAN- Kraków)

pawlowski_for_fata.pdf

12:45 UTOFPET: design of a highly scalable TOF-PET detector concept

Speaker: Belcari Nicola (University and INFN Sezione di Pisa)

FATApreparation [Auto-saved] home.pptx

13:10 → 15:30 Break

15:30 → 16:20 Nuclear physics from: foundamental and medical

15:30 The 10-ps TOF PET: Clinical applications (Skype)

Speaker: John Prior (Lausanne University Hospital)

PRIOR-SKYPEsenza_titolo.pdf

15:55 Large Area Picosecond Photodetector (LAPPD) Offers Fast Timing for HEP, NP and Medical Imaging (Skype)

Speaker: Michael Minot (Incom Inc. Charlton United States)

2019-08-30 FATA2019 -FINAL - MINOT.pdf

Thursday, 5 September

09:00 → 10:40 Nuclear physics and application

Convener: Raffaele De Leo (BA)

09:00 Comissioning of the EndoTOFPET-US detector an Asymmetric Time of Flight Positron Emission Tomograph

Speaker: Ole Brandt (DESY)

FATA2019_Brandt.pdf

09:25 Narcos project for nuclear physics and applications

Speaker: Emanuele V. Pagano (INFN-LNS, Italy)

Presentazione_NARCOS_EVP_FATA2019_pdf.pdf

09:50 Precise timing with the PICOSEC-Microme gas Detector

Speaker: Dimos Sampsonidis

FATA_Sampsonidis.pdf

10:15 TOF in Heavy Ion Reactions: CHIMERA detector & ISODEC experiment

Speaker: Sara Pirrone (CT)

fata-pirrone.pdf

10:40 → 11:10 Break

11:10 → 12:50 Nuclear Physics and Radiotheraphy aplications

Convener: Aurora Tumino (LNS)

11:10 Positron emission tomography in radiation therapy planning, delivery, and monitoring

Speaker: Marco Pinto (LMU Munich)

11:35 Direct time-of-flight for quantitative, real-time in-beam PET

Speaker: Pinto Marco (LMU Munich)

12:00 Generation, control and application of “flash” radiation beams from laser-matter interaction: the ELIMED beam line

Speaker: Pablo Cirrone (INFN-LNS, Italy)

Cirrone_FATA_Acireale_September2019.pptx

12:25 Ten years of operation of the MRPC TOF detector of ALICE: results and perspectives

Speaker: Nicolo' Jacazio (BO)

jacazioFATA19.pdf

12:50 → 15:00 Break

15:00 → 16:15 Nuclear Physics and applications

Convener: Giuseppe Cardella (CT)

15:00 Performance of the Time of Flight detectors in the FOOT experiment

Speaker: Traini Giacomo (INFN-Roma1)

fata_foot_gtraini.pdf

15:25 TOPS Project: Development of New Fast Timing Plastic Scintillators

Speaker: Mirabelli Riccardo (Sapienza, Università di Roma)

Presentazione_Mirabelli.pdf

15:50 Using Cherenkov light in TOF-PET

Speaker: Rok Pestotnik (Jozef Stefan Institute (SI))

fata-septl2019-pestotnik-v0.pptx

16:15 → 16:45 Closing Section

Convener: Enrico De Filippo (CT)

16:15 Summary and Conclusions

Speaker: Stan Majewski (University of California Davis)

Summary_Conclusions_3.pptx