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

Europe/Rome
Centro Congressi “Federico II”, (Napoli, Italy)

Centro Congressi “Federico II”,

Napoli, Italy

Via Partenope 36, Napoli, Italy
Giovanni Mettivier
Description

Developers and users of Monte Carlo techniques applied to Medicine in the clinic, industry and academy, are invited to participate to the Fourth Geant4 International User Conference 2022 for presenting, discussing and exchanging information on the scientific and technical innovations in application areas including medical radiation sources, radiation therapy treatment planning in conventional and in particle therapy, brachytherapy, radiation dosimetry, radiation shielding, radiation imaging, nuclear medicine and radiobiology. Connections with technology of inverse optimization, deformable image registration, machine learning techniques, parallel and GPU computing, are also topics of interest.

 

Topics

  • Imaging
  • Radiotherapy treatments
  • Protontherapy
  • Hadrontherapy
  • Radiobiology, including Geant4-DNA
  • Radiation Protection
  • Detector development
  • Computing

 

Registration
Registration Form
Participants
  • Adil Bardane
  • Aimee McNamara
  • Alaa Barhoum
  • Aleksandra Ristic Fira
  • Alexei Sytov
  • Alexis Pereda
  • Andreas Resch
  • Angelo Taibi
  • Anh Le Tuan
  • Anna Selva
  • Antonio Sarno
  • Antonio Stefano Italiano
  • Asma TOUIL
  • Asra Sadat Talebi
  • Azam Zabihi
  • azam zabihi
  • Bastien DOIGNIES
  • Behcet Alpat
  • Bert Julien
  • Brad Oborn
  • Carmen Villagrasa
  • Ceferino Obcemea
  • Ceferino Obcemea
  • Celebrity Groenendijk
  • Christian Finck
  • Christina Zacharatou
  • Chundi Fan
  • Daniele Esposito
  • Daniele Pistone
  • David Bolst
  • David Sarrut
  • Dousatsu Sakata
  • El Ghalbzouri Tarik
  • Enas Moustafa
  • ernesto tan
  • Fateme Farokhi
  • Francesca Maddaloni
  • Francesca Nicolanti
  • Francesco Romano
  • Gabriele Parisi
  • Gaëtan Raymond
  • Giada Petringa
  • Gianfranco Paternò
  • Giovanna Tramontin Carneiro
  • Giovanni Di Domenico
  • Giovanni Mettivier
  • Giuliana Milluzzo
  • Giuseppe Cirrone
  • Ioanna Kyriakou
  • Ioannis Sechopoulos
  • Ivan Petrovic
  • Jacopo Magini
  • Jake Harold Pensavalle
  • Jawaher AL-TUWEITY
  • Jay Archer
  • Jenny Spiga
  • Jeremy Brown
  • José Manuel Quesada Molina
  • Julien Bordes
  • Kilian-Simon Baumann
  • Klaudiusz Jakubowski
  • Larissa Derksen
  • Laura Antonia Cerbone
  • Laura Ballisat
  • Lorenzo Arsini
  • Loïc Grevillot
  • Lydia Maigne
  • Mahmoud Alabsy
  • Maikol Salas Ramirez
  • Marc Granado-Gonzalez
  • Marie Vanstalle
  • Marine HERVE
  • Mario A. Bernal
  • Marissa Kielly
  • Martina Favaretto
  • Matthew Large
  • Maxim Lobok
  • Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo
  • Mikhail Rumiantcev
  • Milos Dordevic
  • MOHAMMED YJJOU
  • Morad El Kafhali
  • Natalia Chamorro Claver
  • Nicola Ferrara
  • Nikolay Dukov
  • Nina McWilliams
  • Olga Kochebina
  • Panagiotis Papadimitroulas
  • Paolo Cardarelli
  • Pedro Arce
  • SABRINA LORENA PORINI
  • Sara ZEIN
  • Sebastien Incerti
  • Shubhangi Makkar
  • Sofia KOLOVI
  • Susanna Guatelli
  • Théo KAPRELIAN
  • Tobias Meißner
  • Valentina Paneta
  • VARVARA LAGAKI
  • VERDERI Marc
  • Victor Levrague
  • Vladimir Ivantchenko
  • Xingyu Lu
  • Yacine Elattaoui
  • Yann PERROT
  • Yann Thibaut
  • Zahra Ahmadi Ganjeh
  • Zhivko Bliznakov
Prof. Giovanni Mettivier, PhD
    • 08:00 08:30
      Registration
    • 08:30 10:30
      Opening Session

      Chairs: Susanna Guatelli (AU), Sebastien Incerti (F), Jeremy Brown (AU) and Giovanni Mettivier (IT)

    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 13:00
      Geant4 for Medical Physics

      Chairs: Giada Petringa (I) and Laurent Desorgher (CH)

      • 11:00
        Keynote: Update on the G4-Med project and on the Geant4 Advanced Examples for medical applications 23m
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)
      • 11:23
        Keynote: Geant4 applications in MRI-guided x-ray and proton beam therapy 23m
        Speaker: B. M. Oborn (Illawarra Cancer Care Centre, Wollongong Hospital, NSW 2500 Australia)
      • 11:46
        Performance evaluation of Siemens Somatom go.Open Pro CT scanner using GATE: dosimetry and image quality for treatment planning in radiotherapy 12m
        Speaker: Gaëtan Raymond (in2p3 France)
      • 11:59
        Recent developments of Geant4 Advanced Examples for medical applications 12m
        Speaker: Francesco Romano (INFN - Catania Section)
      • 12:11
        Noise in accelerated in-silico x-ray breast images: impact on the breast anatomy and the detector 12m
        Speaker: Dr Antonio Sarno (University of Naples, Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, & INFN, Naples, Italy)
      • 12:23
        Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations for size specific organ dose estimates in CT based on patient silhouette and voxelilzed phantoms. 12m
        Speaker: Francesca Saveria Maddaloni (Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini” Università di Napoli Federico II & INFN Napoli, Napoli (Italy))
      • 12:35
        Generation and tracking of inverse Compton scattering photons in Geant4 12m
        Speaker: Gianfranco Paternò (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 12:47
        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 12m
        Speaker: Dr Gianfranco Paternò (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 15:11
      Geant4 and Artificial Intelligence

      Chairs: David Sarrut (F) and Gianfranco Paternò (IT)

      • 14:00
        Keynote: Artificial Intelligence for Monte Carlo Simulation in Medical Physics 23m
        Speaker: David Sarrut (CNRS and at CREATIS / Léon Bérard cancer center)
      • 14:23
        CNN for multi-proton events at the ASTRA range telescope for pCT 12m
        Speaker: Marc Granado-Gonzalez (School of physics and astrophysics, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom)
      • 14:35
        FAST EMULATION OF DEPOSITED DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS BY MEANS OF DEEP LEARNING 12m
        Speaker: Lorenzo Arsini (Department of Physics, University of Rome “La Sapienza” and INFN)
      • 14:47
        Towards the emulation of BLOB, a nuclear interaction model, with Deep Learning 12m
        Speaker: Lorenzo Arsini (Sapienza and INFN Sec. of Rome)
      • 14:59
        Toward a generic approach for dose distribution recovery by using Deep Learning and GPU-based Geant4 simulations 12m
        Speaker: Asma TOUIL (Laboratory of Medical Information Processing (LaTIM), INSERM-UMR 1101, Brest, (France))
    • 15:11 16:18
      Geant4 for Protrons and Hadrons Radiotherapy 1

      Chairs: Lydia Maigne (F) and Loic Grevillot (CH)

      • 15:12
        Keynote: Hadronic aspects in Geant4 23m
        Speaker: José Manuel Quesada (University of Sevilla)
      • 15:35
        4He dose- and track-averaged Linear Energy Transfer: Monte Carlo algorithms and experimental verification 12m
        Speaker: Giada Petringa (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 15:47
        Monte Carlo-based benchmark of a method for proton energy spectra reconstruction using radiochromic films 12m
        Speaker: Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 15:59
        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. 12m
        Speaker: Natalia Chamorro Claver (CIEMAT)
    • 16:18 16:43
      Coffee Break 25m
    • 16:43 19:00
      Geant4 for Protrons and Hadrons Radiotherapy 2

      Chairs: Cristina Zacharatou (IE) and Miguel Antonio Cortés-Giraldo (ES)

    • 08:30 10:30
      Tools based on Geant4

      Chairs: Sebastien Incerti (F) and Pedro Arce (ES)

      • 08:30
        Keynote Lecture: Status and Outlook of the TOPAS Tool for Particle Simulation 23m
        Speaker: Prof. Joseph Perl (SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory)
      • 08:53
        Keynote: Recent developments in the TOPAS-nBio radiobiology toolkit 23m
        Speaker: Aimee McNamara (Harvard Medical School & Massachusetts General Hospital)
      • 09:16
        Keynote Lecture: GATE Advances 23m
        Speaker: Prof. Lydia Maigne (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aubière, France)
      • 09:39
        Keynote: Latest developments in GAMOS 23m
        Speaker: Pedro Arce (CIEMAT)
      • 10:02
        Keynote: Overview of the Geant4-DNA project 23m
        Speaker: SEBASTIEN INCERTI (CNRS/IN2P3/CENBG)
    • 10:30 11:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 11:00 13:00
      Geant4 for Nuclear Medicine

      Chairs: Jeremy Brown (AU) and Alexy Sytov (IT)

      • 11:00
        Keynote: Monte Carlo for Nuclear Medicine: vision and future requirements 23m
        Speaker: Prof. Ernesto Amato (BIOMORF Department, University of Messina, Messina, Italy and INFN Section of Catania, Catania, Italy)
      • 11:23
        Investigating Quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) methods for Geant4/Gate simulations in medical physics 12m
        Speaker: Theo Kaprelian (Université de Lyon, CNRS, CREATIS, France)
      • 11:35
        Cherenkov Luminescence Imaging of 90Y and nanoparticles loaded glass microspheres 12m
        Speaker: Asra Sadat Talebi (Department of medical physics, University of Tarbiat Modares, Tehran, Iran)
      • 11:47
        The MC simulation of WIDMApp: an innovative approach for individual dose monitoring in Molecular Radiotherapy 12m
        Speaker: Francesca Nicolanti (Sapienza and INFN Sec. of Rome)
      • 11:59
        Monte Carlo simulations for the in-beam PETITION PET scanner 12m
        Speaker: Shubhangi Makkar (1. Center for Proton Therapy, PSI, Switzerland 2. Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
      • 12:11
        Quantum entanglement effects in Geant4 for PET applications 12m
        Speaker: Dr Julien Bordes (Department of Physics, University of York, York, UK)
      • 12:23
        Calculation of Absorbed Dose Coefficients for Internal Ex Vivo Irradiation of Lymphocytes Using GATE and Geant4-DNA 12m
        Speaker: Dr Maikol Salas Ramirez (Department of Nuclear medicine, University of Wuerzburg)
      • 12:35
        Optimizing the design of a Timepix4 based compact gamma camera with validated Geant4 Monte Carlo simulations 12m
        Speaker: Laura Antonia Cerbone (Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University of Naples Federico II & INFN Naples, Naples (Italy).)
    • 13:00 14:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 14:00 15:30
      Geant4 for Nuclear Medicine

      Chairs: Ernesto Amato (IT) and Jiulien Bordes (UK)

      • 14:00
        A GATE in silico evaluation of the γ-eye preclinical system, for imaging alpha and beta radiopharmaceuticals 12m
        Speaker: Dr Panagiotis Papadimitroulas (BIOEMTECH)
      • 14:12
        Internal dosimetry of salivary glands in PSMA-targeted PET/CT: a Monte Carlo based study 13m
        Speaker: Dr Daniele Pistone (Università degli Studi di Messina, Dipartimento BIOMORF; INFN Sezione di Catania)
      • 14:25
        Monte Carlo simulation for personalized dosimetry in radionuclide therapy 12m
        Speaker: Giovanni Di Domenico (University of Ferrara and INFN)
      • 14:37
        Internal bremsstrahlung: the missing process in beta decay Monte Carlo simulation for Dose-Point-Kernel estimation 12m
        Speaker: Dr Daniele Pistone (BIOMORF Department)
      • 14:49
        Translating N-12 imaging to the clinic using Monte Carlo simulations 12m
        Speaker: Zahra Ahmadi Ganjeh (Particle Therapy Research Center (PARTREC), Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands)
      • 15:01
        Planar Coded Aperture Reconstruction for Gamma-Imaging via Machine Learning and the TOPAS Simulation toolkit 12m
        Speaker: T Meißner (Mannheim Institute for Intelligent Systems in Medicine (MIISM), Medical Faculty Mannheim, Heidelberg University, Mannheim, Germany)
      • 15:13
        New Geant4 model of channeling in crystals and its potential applications in medical physics 12m
        Speaker: Alexei Sytov (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
    • 15:30 16:00
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:00 18:34
      Geant4 for Photons and Electrons Radiotheraphy: Geant for Photons and Electrons

      Chairs: Aimee McNamara (USA) and Ioanna Kyriakou (GR)

      • 16:00
        Keynote Lecture: Geant4 for Flash radiotherapy: status and challenges 23m
        Speaker: Prof. Laurent Desorgher (Lausanne University Hospital, Institute of radiation physics)
      • 16:23
        Keynote: EM aspects in Geant4 23m
        Speaker: Vladimir Ivanchenko (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland and Princeton University, USA)
      • 16:46
        Extension of the discrete electron transport capabilities of the Geant4-DNA toolkit to the radiotherapeutic regime 12m
        Speaker: Ioanna Kyriakou (Medical Physics Laboratory, Department of Medicine, University of Ioannina, Greece)
      • 16:58
        Calculation of chemical species yields in liquid water after high energy electron irradiation up to 10 MeV using Geant4-DNA 12m
        Speaker: Dr Sara Zein (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I Bordeaux)
      • 17:10
        Validation of Monte Carlo GATE for IORT 12m
        Speaker: Giovanni Di Domenico (University of Ferrara and INFN)
      • 17:22
        Evaluation of the effect of oxygen in Flash irradiation through Geant4-DNA 12m
        Speaker: Fateme Farokhi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 17:34
        VALIDATED MONTE CARLO SIMULATION OF TRIODE- ELECTRON GUN EQUIPPED ELECTRONFLASH LINAC 12m
        Speaker: Jake Harold Pensavalle (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
      • 17:46
        Monte Carlo optimization of the target configuration for bremsstrahlung x-ray production in flash radiotherapy 12m
        Speaker: Paolo Russo (Dept. of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University of Naples Federico II & INFN Naples, Naples (Italy).)
      • 17:58
        Dose enhancement applied to synchrotron X-ray microbeams: computational modelling and experimental validation. 12m
        Speaker: Dr Jon Duffy (University of Warwick)
      • 18:10
        Development of Geant4 DICOM based dose calculation for Synchrotron Microbeam Radiation Therapy 12m
        Speaker: Susanna Guatelli (Centre For Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong)
      • 18:22
        A Monte Carlo based investigation of the FLASH effect by examining inter-track interactions in radiobiological simulations performed with TOPAS-nBio 12m
        Speaker: Larissa Derksen (Institute of Medical Physics and Radiation Protection, University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany)
    • 20:30 21:30
      Social Dinner
    • 08:30 10:20
      Geant4 for DNA Demage evaluation

      Chairs: Susanna Guatelli (AU) and Mario Bernal (BR)

      • 08:30
        Keynote: DNA damage simulation and prediction of biological endpoints using Geant4-DNA - Development of molecularDNA 23m
        Speaker: Dousatsu Sakata (Research Associate at National Institute of Radiological Sciences)
      • 08:53
        MINAS TIRITH: a Geant4-DNA-based tool for modeling damage at the cell population scale 12m
        Speaker: Yann Thibaut (IRSN/PSE-SANTE/SDOS/LDRI)
      • 09:05
        Simulation of radio-induced DNA damages and their repair by means of Geant4-DNA Monte Carlo Track Structure code 12m
        Speaker: Dr Yann Perrot (IRSN)
      • 09:17
        Simulation and validation of plasmid DNA irradiation by electrons using Geant4-DNA 12m
        Speaker: Dr Sara Zein (Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LP2I Bordeaux)
      • 09:29
        Evaluation of dose rates and DNA damage on microorganisms living in naturally radioactive mineral springs using GATE and Geant4-DNA 12m
        Speaker: Sofia Kolovi (Laboratory of Physics of Clermont, University of Clermont-Auvergne, CNRS/IN2P3, Aubiere, France)
      • 09:41
        In-silico calculations of DNA damage induced by DaRT for a better understanding of the radiobiological effectiveness of this treatment 12m
        Speaker: Laura Ballisat (School of Physics, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)
      • 09:53
        Monte Carlo simulations of microdosimetry and radiolytic species production for preclinical proton beam using GATE and Geant4-DNA as part of the FLASHMOD project 12m
        Speaker: Lydia Maigne (Laboratoire de Physique de Clermont, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Clermont Auvergne, Aubière, France)
      • 10:05
        A Geant4-DNA simulation of human cancer cells irradiated with helium ion beams 12m
        Speaker: Milos Dordevic (Vinca Institute of Nuclear Sciences, National Institute of the Republic of Serbia, University of Belgrade)
    • 10:20 10:45
      Coffee Break 25m
    • 10:45 12:09
      Geant4 for microdosimetry

      Chairs: Francesco Romano (IT) and David Bolst (AU)

    • 12:10 13:00
      Geant4 for Neutrons and Space

      Chairs: Carmen Villagrasa (F) and Jeremy Brown (AU)

      • 12:10
        Neutron shielding strategies for dose quantification in Neutron Capture Enhanced Particle Therapy 12m
        Speaker: Marissa Kielly (Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, University of Wollongong, Australia)
      • 12:22
        High LET spectral and microdosimetric characterization of secondaries in the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease with Neutron Capture Therapy 12m
        Speaker: Marine HERVE (1Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire (IRSN), Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry Laboratory (LDRI) Fontenay-aux-Roses, France)
      • 12:34
        Development of a validated Monte Carlo model of the ACNS Dingo Beamline 12m
        Speaker: Klaudiusz Jakubowski (University of Wollongong and Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
      • 12:46
        Matter RADiation interactions SIMulator for Space Applications (MRADSIM-Space) 12m
        Speaker: Giovanni Bartolini (BEAMIDE srl, Perugia, Italy)
    • 13:00 13:30
      End of Workshop and V Geant4 International User Meeting announcement 30m