Name: IV Geant4 International User Conference at the physics-medicine-biology frontier
Start: 2022-10-24T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-10-26T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Napoli, Italy

IV Geant4 International User Conference at the physics-medicine-biology frontier

from Monday, October 24, 2022 (8:00 AM) to Wednesday, October 26, 2022 (7:00 PM)

Monday, October 24, 2022

8:00 AM

8:00 AM - 8:30 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

8:45 AM Geant4 Medical Physycs Application in Naples (A. Sarno) - Antonio Sarno (Dipartimento di Fisica E. Pancini UNINA and INFN Napoli)

9:02 AM Keynote Lecture: Recent Geant4 developments - Marc Vederi (CNRS (Laboratoire Leprince-Ringuet: LLR))

9:25 AM Development of interaction models in Geant4- DNA to simulate cosmic rays’ effects on ionmolecules reaction in the atmosphere - Francesca Nicolanti (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

9:37 AM Nanodosimetric Study of Radiation in the Brain and Eyes of Astronauts on the Lunar Surface - Jay Archer (Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

9:49 AM Calculation of organ-specific radiation quality factors for the radioprotection of astronauts on the Moon: a microdosimetric approach - Matthew Large (University of Wollongong)

10:01 AM GEANT4-Gamma Diffraction Code Based on Laue lens Modelling: Design Foundation and Implementation of the First Set of Models in GEANT4 - Alaa Barhoum (UNSW)

10:13 AM Geant4 simulations of two types of CdZnTe-based γ-ray spectrometers for the monitoring of the radioactivity in the marine environment - VARVARA LAGAKI (National Kapodistrian University of Athens)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

11:00 AM Keynote: Update on the G4-Med project and on the Geant4 Advanced Examples for medical applications - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

11:23 AM Keynote: Geant4 applications in MRI-guided x-ray and proton beam therapy - B. M. Oborn (Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong Hospital, NSW 2500 Australia)

11:46 AM Performance evaluation of Siemens Somatom go.Open Pro CT scanner using GATE: dosimetry and image quality for treatment planning in radiotherapy - Gaëtan Raymond (in2p3 France)

11:59 AM Recent developments of Geant4 Advanced Examples for medical applications - Francesco Romano (INFN - Catania Section)

12:11 PM Noise in accelerated in-silico x-ray breast images: impact on the breast anatomy and the detector - Antonio Sarno (University of Naples, Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, & INFN, Naples, Italy)

12:23 PM Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations for size specific organ dose estimates in CT based on patient silhouette and voxelilzed phantoms. - Francesca Saveria Maddaloni (Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini” Università di Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli, Napoli (Italy))

12:35 PM Generation and tracking of inverse Compton scattering photons in Geant4 - Gianfranco Paternò (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

12:47 PM A Geant4 tool for the simulation of contrast enhanced dual-energy mammography – Study of polychromatic versus quasi-monochromatic X- ray spectra and different contrast agents - Gianfranco Paternò (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:11 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

2:00 PM Keynote: Artificial Intelligence for Monte Carlo Simulation in Medical Physics - David Sarrut (CNRS and at CREATIS / Léon Bérard cancer center)

2:23 PM CNN for multi-proton events at the ASTRA range telescope for pCT - Marc Granado-Gonzalez (School of physics and astrophysics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)

2:35 PM FAST EMULATION OF DEPOSITED DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS BY MEANS OF DEEP LEARNING - Lorenzo Arsini (Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza” and INFN)

2:47 PM Towards the emulation of BLOB, a nuclear interaction model, with Deep Learning - Lorenzo Arsini (Sapienza and INFN Sec. of Rome)

2:59 PM Toward a generic approach for dose distribution recovery by using Deep Learning and GPU-based Geant4 simulations - Asma TOUIL (Laboratory of Medical Information Processing (LaTIM), INSERM-UMR 1101, Brest, (France))
3:11 PM
3:11 PM - 4:18 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

3:12 PM Keynote: Hadronic aspects in Geant4 - José Manuel Quesada (University of Sevilla)

3:35 PM 4He dose- and track-averaged Linear Energy Transfer: Monte Carlo algorithms and experimental verification - Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

3:47 PM Monte Carlo-based benchmark of a method for proton energy spectra reconstruction using radiochromic films - Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

3:59 PM On the need of using MC Simulations to optimize the design of a clonogenic assay to measure RBE as a function of LET and minimize the measurement uncertainty. - Natalia Chamorro Claver (CIEMAT)
4:18 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
4:18 PM - 4:43 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
4:43 PM
4:43 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

4:43 PM Keynote Lecture: Geant4 for Hadron therapy: status and challenges - Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:06 PM Benchmarking GATE/Geant4 and RayStation MC for pencil beam scanning light ion beams in combination with a passive beam collimation for small fields - Andreas Resch (Medical University of Vienna)

5:18 PM Benchmarking dose-averaged LET calculation of a commercial treatment planning system and GATE/Geant4 for carbon ion beams - Andreas Resch (Medical University of Vienna)

5:30 PM IDEAL/GATE-RTion for independent dose calculation in carbon ion beam therapy - Andreas Resch (MedAustron Ion Therapy Centre)

5:42 PM Development of a Geant4 simulation platform of the HollandPTC R&D proton beamline for radiobiological studies - Celebrity Groenendijk (Radiation Science & Technology, Technical University Delft, Delft, the Netherlands)

5:54 PM A review of Monte Carlo calculated fQ factors for ionization chambers in clinical proton beams - Kilian-Simon Baumann (Department of Radiotherapy and Radiooncology, University Medical Center, Marburg, Germany)

6:06 PM Using an iterative shielding approach for the first carbon ion therapy facility in the US by means of Geant4 - David Bolst (University of Wollongong)

6:18 PM Validation of Geant4 fragmentation models in 4He ion therapy - David Bolst (University of Wollongong)

6:30 PM Biological dose estimation for proton and carbon ion treatment plans using the GATE platform - Lydia Maigne (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aubière, France)

6:42 PM The new “RPWBA” implemented model for proton ionization and excitation of liquid water above 100 MeV - Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo (Universidad de Sevilla)
Tuesday, October 25, 2022
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:30 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

8:30 AM Keynote Lecture: Status and Outlook of the TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation - Joseph Perl (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)

8:53 AM Keynote: Recent developments in the TOPAS-nBio radiobiology toolkit - Aimee McNamara (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital)

9:16 AM Keynote Lecture: GATE Advances - Lydia Maigne (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aubière, France)

9:39 AM Keynote: Latest developments in GAMOS - Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)

10:02 AM Keynote: Overview of the Geant4-DNA project - SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)
10:30 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:30 AM - 11:00 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
11:00 AM
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

11:00 AM Keynote: Monte Carlo for Nuclear Medicine: vision and future requirements - Ernesto Amato (BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy and INFN Section of Catania, Catania, Italy)

11:23 AM Investigating Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for Geant4/Gate simulations in medical physics - Theo Kaprelian (Université de Lyon, CNRS, CREATIS, France)

11:35 AM Cherenkov Luminescence Imaging of 90Y and nanoparticles loaded glass microspheres - Asra Sadat Talebi (Department of medical physics, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran)

11:47 AM The MC simulation of WIDMApp: an innovative approach for individual dose monitoring in Molecular Radiotherapy - Francesca Nicolanti (Sapienza and INFN Sec. of Rome)

11:59 AM Monte Carlo simulations for the in-beam PETITION PET scanner - Shubhangi Makkar (1. Center for Proton Therapy, PSI, Switzerland 2. Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

12:11 PM Quantum entanglement effects in Geant4 for PET applications - Julien Bordes (Department of Physics, University of York, York, UK)

12:23 PM Calculation of Absorbed Dose Coefficients for Internal Ex Vivo Irradiation of Lymphocytes Using GATE and Geant4-DNA - Maikol Salas Ramirez (Department of Nuclear medicine, University of Wuerzburg)

12:35 PM Optimizing the design of a Timepix4 based compact gamma camera with validated Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations - Laura Antonia Cerbone (Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University of Naples Federico II & INFN Naples, Naples (Italy).)
1:00 PM Lunch
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

2:00 PM A GATE in silico evaluation of the γ-eye preclinical system, for imaging alpha and beta radiopharmaceuticals - Panagiotis Papadimitroulas (BIOEMTECH)

2:12 PM Internal dosimetry of salivary glands in PSMA-targeted PET/CT: a Monte Carlo based study - Daniele Pistone (Università degli Studi di Messina, Dipartimento BIOMORF; INFN Sezione di Catania)

2:25 PM Monte Carlo simulation for personalized dosimetry in radionuclide therapy - Giovanni Di Domenico (University of Ferrara and INFN)

2:37 PM Internal bremsstrahlung: the missing process in beta decay Monte Carlo simulation for Dose-Point-Kernel estimation - Daniele Pistone (BIOMORF Department)

2:49 PM Translating N-12 imaging to the clinic using Monte Carlo simulations - Zahra Ahmadi Ganjeh (Particle Therapy Research Center (PARTREC), Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands)

3:01 PM Planar Coded Aperture Reconstruction for Gamma-Imaging via Machine Learning and the TOPAS Simulation toolkit - T Meißner (Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in Medicine (MIISM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany)

3:13 PM New Geant4 model of channeling in crystals and its potential applications in medical physics - Alexei Sytov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
3:30 PM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
4:00 PM Geant for Photons and Electrons
Geant for Photons and Electrons
4:00 PM - 6:34 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

4:00 PM Keynote Lecture: Geant4 for Flash radiotherapy: status and challenges - Laurent Desorgher (Lausanne University Hospital, Institute of radiation physics)

4:23 PM Keynote: EM aspects in Geant4 - Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Princeton University, USA)

4:46 PM Extension of the discrete electron transport capabilities of the Geant4-DNA toolkit to the radiotherapeutic regime - Ioanna Kyriakou (Medical Physics Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece)

4:58 PM Calculation of chemical species yields in liquid water after high energy electron irradiation up to 10 MeV using Geant4-DNA - Sara Zein (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I Bordeaux)

5:10 PM Validation of Monte Carlo GATE for IORT - Giovanni Di Domenico (University of Ferrara and INFN)

5:22 PM Evaluation of the effect of oxygen in Flash irradiation through Geant4-DNA - Fateme Farokhi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:34 PM VALIDATED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF TRIODE- ELECTRON GUN EQUIPPED ELECTRONFLASH LINAC - Jake Harold Pensavalle (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

5:46 PM Monte Carlo optimization of the target configuration for bremsstrahlung x-ray production in flash radiotherapy - Paolo Russo (Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University of Naples Federico II & INFN Naples, Naples (Italy).)

5:58 PM Dose enhancement applied to synchrotron X-ray microbeams: computational modelling and experimental validation. - Jon Duffy (University of Warwick)

6:10 PM Development of Geant4 DICOM based dose calculation for Synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy - Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)

6:22 PM A Monte Carlo based investigation of the FLASH effect by examining inter-track interactions in radiobiological simulations performed with TOPAS-nBio - Larissa Derksen (Institute of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection, University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany)
8:30 PM

8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
8:30 AM
8:30 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

8:30 AM Keynote: DNA damage simulation and prediction of biological endpoints using Geant4-DNA - Development of molecularDNA - Dousatsu Sakata (Research Associate at National Institute of Radiological Sciences)

8:53 AM MINAS TIRITH: a Geant4-DNA-based tool for modeling damage at the cell population scale - Yann Thibaut (IRSN/PSE-SANTE/SDOS/LDRI)

9:05 AM Simulation of radio-induced DNA damages and their repair by means of Geant4-DNA Monte Carlo Track Structure code - Yann Perrot (IRSN)

9:17 AM Simulation and validation of plasmid DNA irradiation by electrons using Geant4-DNA - Sara Zein (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I Bordeaux)

9:29 AM Evaluation of dose rates and DNA damage on microorganisms living in naturally radioactive mineral springs using GATE and Geant4-DNA - Sofia Kolovi (Laboratory of Physics of Clermont, University of Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, Aubiere, France)

9:41 AM In-silico calculations of DNA damage induced by DaRT for a better understanding of the radiobiological effectiveness of this treatment - Laura Ballisat (School of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)

9:53 AM Monte Carlo simulations of microdosimetry and radiolytic species production for preclinical proton beam using GATE and Geant4-DNA as part of the FLASHMOD project - Lydia Maigne (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aubière, France)

10:05 AM A Geant4-DNA simulation of human cancer cells irradiated with helium ion beams - Milos Dordevic (Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade)
10:20 AM Coffee Break
Coffee Break
10:20 AM - 10:45 AM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
10:45 AM
10:45 AM - 12:09 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

10:45 AM Estimation of energy imparted from ionization-based measurements at the nanometer scale - Anna Selva (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

10:57 AM Impact of intracellular radionuclide distribution in Targeted Alpha Therapy : a Monte-Carlo biophysical study in 3D multicellular model - Victor Levrague (LPSC)

11:09 AM Implementation of nitrogen cross-sections in Geant4-DNA - Carmen Villagrasa (Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Fontenay-Aux-Roses, France )

11:21 AM Systematic uncertainty budget for a novel diamond microdosimeter - Jacopo Magini (University of Surrey)

11:33 AM First microdosimetric characterization of nuclear interaction events, and assessment of their effect on the dose-mean lineal energy uncertainty. - Gabriele Parisi (University of Surrey)

11:45 AM Microdosimetry for proton treatment planning - Jacopo Magini (University of Surrey)

11:57 AM A new genome geometrical model with atomic resolution based on HiC-maps. - Mario A Bernal (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
12:10 PM
12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,
Contributions

12:10 PM Neutron shielding strategies for dose quantification in Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle Therapy - Marissa Kielly (Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia)

12:22 PM High LET spectral and microdosimetric characterization of secondaries in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with Neutron Capture Therapy - Marine HERVE (1Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory (LDRI) Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)

12:34 PM Development of a validated Monte Carlo model of the ACNS Dingo Beamline - Klaudiusz Jakubowski (University of Wollongong and Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)

12:46 PM Matter RADiation interactions SIMulator for Space Applications (MRADSIM-Space) - Giovanni Bartolini (BEAMIDE srl, Perugia, Italy)
1:00 PM End of Workshop and V Geant4 International User Meeting announcement
End of Workshop and V Geant4 International User Meeting announcement
1:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Room: Centro Congressi “Federico II”,

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