INSIGHTS - Pisa

18 Oct 2023, 09:00 → 20 Oct 2023, 19:00 Europe/Rome

Second floor (Department of Informatics)

Martina Moglioni (Università di Pisa)

INSIGHTS workshop, INnovative Systems In radiation therapy: breakthrouGHs novel detectors, Treatments and AI techniqueS.

 

The presentations given by each speaker during the conference are accessible in the author's slot within the Timetable section, located in the menu bar on your left.

 

The first edition of the INSIGHTS workshop will take place at the Department of Physics of our institute in Pisa, Italy, from 18th to 20th October 2023. Our workshop aims to attract and connect high-level international experts and young researchers from prestigious institutes and universities in the fields of medical physics, radiobiology and biomedical engineering.

The three-day event will bring together the scientific community to discuss the fields of hadron therapy boron neutron capture therapy and FLASH therapy. The main topics will focus both on the clinical, hardware and software aspects of these therapies: technological tools for dosimetry and beam diagnostic, innovative solutions for adaptive clinical trials and artificial intelligence algorithms will be deeply discussed.

 

Young researchers are heartily invited to apply for a contribution. No FEE payment is required. 

For more information contact the chairperson, Martina Moglioni at martina.moglioni@phd.unipi.it.

 

 

Image credits: Cellular Landscape, Evan Ingersoll & Gael McGill - Digizyme Inc, Brookline Ma. A cross-section through a dilute cytoplasm inspired by the art of David Goodsell: https://www.digizyme.com/cst_landscapes.html 

 

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Wednesday, 18 October

09:30 Welcome speech

1 Hadrontherapy at CNAO

Speaker: Mario Ciocca (Fondazione CNAO)

2 Positron emitting Radioactive ion beams for simultaneous treatment and imaging.

Speaker: Daria Boscolo (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

INSIGHTS_Boscolo_BARB.pdf

3 Preclinical studies with radioactive ion beams: the BARB project

Speaker: Tamara Vitacchio (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

Vitacchio Tamara.pptx

11:10 Coffee break

4 Towards a combination of heavy ion and immunotherapy: putative mechanisms behind the immunogenicity of carbon ions

Speaker: Mrs Cristina Totis (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

Totis_INSIGHTS_Pisa.pptx

5 Complement system: a new role in combination with radiotherapy in tumour treatment.

Speaker: Mrs Gaia Volpi (CNAO (PV), IUSS Pavia (School for Advanced Studies))

Gaia Volpi.pptx

6 Real-time RBE-weighted 4D-dose calculation for carbon ion therapy.

Speaker: Mr Cosimo Galeone (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

Slide_Cosimo_Galeone.pptx

13:05 Lunch Break

7 4D dosimetric study in particle therapy lung cancer

Speaker: Mrs Maria Chiara Martire (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung)

Martire_INSIGHTS_2023.pptx

8 New image reconstruction approach for in-vivo range verification of multiple field carbon ion treatments by means of in-beam PET system

Speaker: Davide Bersani (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

INSIGHTS_workshop2_Bersani.pptx

9 Precision of the positron emission activity range during irradiation with radioactive carbon and oxygen beams

Speaker: Prof. Peter Dendooven (PARTREC, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen)

Dendooven INSIGHTS 18Oct2023.pptx

15:55 Coffee Break

10 Real-time in vivo range verification using N-12 imaging based on the new Monte Carlo framework for proton therapy

Speaker: Zahra Ahmadiganjeh

Pisa_2023_ZahraAhmadiGanjeh_Wednesday 18th October 2023_1630-1655.pptx

11 Estimating the proton stopping power from prompt gamma timing data: algorithms, models, and first experiments

Speaker: Julius Werner (Institute of Medical Engineering, Universität zu Lübeck)

INSIGHTS2023_Werner_MERLINO-PROSIT_v2.pptx

12 The role of Monte Carlo simulations in the characterization of diamond integrated devices for hadrontherapy

Speaker: Lucrezia Bianchi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

BIANCHI_INSIGHT_presentation.pdf

17:45 Aperitif -- Offered by Frontier Detectors for Frontier Physics

Thursday, 19 October

13 Introduction to BNCT research

Speaker: Saverio Altieri (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

14 BNCT at CNAO

Speaker: Mario Ciocca (Fondazione CNAO)

15 Theranostic Nanoparticles in BNCT

Speaker: Dr Simonetta Geninatti (University of Turin)

16 NECTAR project: the study of Capture Enhanced Neutron Irradiation as a possible treatment for Alzheimer's disease

Speaker: Valeria Pascali (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

17 Computational dosimetry in BNCT: the ANTHEM project

Speaker: Ian Postuma (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

INSIGHTS_Postuma.pdf

18 The ANTHEM BNCT clinical facility in Caserta

Speaker: Setareh Fatemi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

INSIGHTS-Fatemi.pdf

10:50 Coffee Break

19 Uncertainty quantification in tumor segmentation using Bayesian Neural Networks

Speaker: Elisa Scalco (Institute for Biomedical Technologies, National Research Council)

SCALCO_INSIGHTS workshop - Pisa 2023.pptx

20 AI applications in image-guided radiotherapy: current research at the LMU University Hospital Munich

Speaker: Christopher Kurz (LMU University Hospital)

2023_10_19_INSIGHTS_CK_LMU (1).pptx

21 MR-only radiotherapy: closing the loop by predicting synthetic CT and its accuracy.

Speaker: Paolo Zaffino (Magna Graecia University of Catanzaro, Italy)

22 SYNCT: PET driven SYNthetic control CT generation for treatment monitoring in proton therapy.

Speaker: Pietro Carra (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

CARRA_presentazione-synct.pptx

13:10 Lunch Break

23 Introduction to FLASH therapy.

Speaker: Maria Giuseppina Bisogni (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

24 IN VITRO SPARING EFFECT OF ULTRA HIGH DOSE RATE RADIOTHERAPY ON HPV-NEGATIVE HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CARCINOMA

Speaker: Noemi Giannini (University of Pisa)

GIANNINI_presentation FLASH congresso INSIGHT 17.10.pptx

25 Across the radiation biophysical stages: a multiscale radiobiological model (MS-GSM2) for unravelling the FLASH effect

Speaker: Marco Battestini (University of Trento)

INSIGHT Workshop Marco Battestini.pptx

26 Faster and accurate: probing the biochemical stage of radiation damage with the new TRAX-CHEMxt code

Speaker: Gianmarco Camazzola (GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH)

PISA_Camazzola.pptx

16:05 Coffee Break

27 UHDP electron LINAC for research in FLASH therapy

Speaker: Damiano Del Sarto (Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital "Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana")

1_slide_delsarto_INSIGHT.pptx

28 Optimisation and setup for quantitative in vitro/vivo experiments with low energy UHDP electron in FLASH RT

Speaker: Luigi Masturzo (University of Pisa)

slidesLM.pdf

29 UHDP mini-beam beams with electrons, implementation and dosimetric characterization in FLASH therapy

Speaker: Jake Pensavalle (Unit of Medical Physics, Pisa University Hospital "Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Pisana")

PENSAVALLE_INSIGHTS_V2.pptx

20:30 Social Dinner

Friday, 20 October

30 The challenges of beam monitoring from particle therapy to FLASH therapy.

Speaker: Anna Vignati (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

Beam_Monitors_Vignati_20102023.pptx

31 Monitoring Ultra High Dose Rate electron beams with silicon sensors: preliminary results

Speaker: Elisabetta Medina (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

INSIGHTS_BeamMonitorUHDR_MEDINA.pdf

32 Scintillator-based dosimeters for FLASH radiotherapy

Speaker: Esther Ciarrocchi (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

INSIGHTS_23 Plastic dosimeters_EC.pptx

33 Technological challenges for dosimetry in FLASH radiotherapy

Speaker: Giuliana Giuseppina Milluzzo (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

11:40 Coffee Break

16:30 Tour of Pisa