Name: PSMR2024 10th Conference on PET, SPECT, and MR Multimodal Technologies, Total Body and Fast Timing in Medical Imaging
Start: 2024-05-19T08:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-05-23T20:00:00+02:00
Location: La Biodola, Isola d'Elba

PSMR2024 10th Conference on PET, SPECT, and MR Multimodal Technologies, Total Body and Fast Timing in Medical Imaging

from Sunday 19 May 2024 (08:00) to Thursday 23 May 2024 (20:00)

Monday 13 May 2024
Tuesday 14 May 2024
Wednesday 15 May 2024
Thursday 16 May 2024
Friday 17 May 2024
Saturday 18 May 2024
Sunday 19 May 2024

08:30

08:30 - 10:30

10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00

11:00

11:00 - 12:40

12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 15:30

15:30

15:30 - 17:10

17:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:10 - 17:40

17:40

17:40 - 19:00

19:30 Welcome cocktail
Welcome cocktail
19:30 - 20:30

Monday 20 May 2024

08:50

08:50 - 09:10
09:10
09:10 - 10:30
Contributions

09:10 Clinical PET/MR of the brain: visions from the past and for the future - Ian Law (Univ. of Copenhagen, Dept. of Clinical Medicine)

09:50 Integrated PET/MR Scanner as Reference Imaging Tool in the Study of Dementia: Results from the PM-D project - Marco Aiello (IRCCS SYNLAB SDN, Naples, IT)

10:10 Validation of MotionFree Brain algorithm in an 11C-Methionine PET/MRI study of pediatric patients with brain tumors - Paola Vittoria Scifo (IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 The promise of a new generation of affordable hybrid technologies exploiting low-field MRI - Joseba Alonso (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging, i3M-CSIC)

11:40 Estimation of T2* values in hyperpolarized 13C MRI of healthy and ischemic kidneys in a porcine model. - Malene Aastrup (The MR Research Centre, Aarhus University, Denmark)

12:00 Elucidating the effect of respiratory motion on in vivo 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging in the human liver at 7 Tesla - Woutjan Branderhorst (University Medical Center Utrecht)

12:20 Musculoskeletal MR Fingerprinting at 7T using spectral-spatial RF pulses - Matteo Cencini (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare) Michela Tosetti (IRCCS Stella Maris)
12:40
12:40 - 13:10
Contributions

12:40 QuantaBrain

12:55 GE HealtCare
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:10
Contributions

15:30 Metabolite-Corrected Plasma Input Function Estimation in Dynamic PET Imaging Using Physically Informed Deep Neural Networks - Marianna Inglese (Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

15:50 Dopaminergic PET to SPECT Domain Adaptation: A Cycle GAN translation approach - Leonor Lopes (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland | Graduate School for Cellular and Biomedical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

16:10 Deep Learning Image Denoising for a cost-effective WT-PET design with sparse detector coverage - Maya Abi Akl (Ghent University)

16:30 PETAL-3D: Progressive Elimination of Noise Towards Accurate Ultra Low-Dose PET Images Using 3D U-Net - Ezzat Elmoujarkach (Institute of Medical Engineering, Universität zu Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany)

16:50 Sinogram Denoising Using Transformer-based Learned Sinusoidal Patterns - Hamidreza Rashidy Kanan (KTH University)
17:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:10 - 17:40
17:40
17:40 - 19:20
Contributions

17:55 Performance Evaluation of a Fast Tomographic Reconstruction Software for PET - Somayeh Saghamanesh (ETH Zurich)

18:00 Positron-Range Correction for an On-Chip PET Scanner using Deep Learning - Christoph Clement (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

18:10 Profiles of Short Chain Fatty Acid Metabolism as Genetic Biomarkers for Primary Brain Gliomas - Marianna Inglese (Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata)

18:15 Performance analysis of in-beam PET range verification system for carbon ion beams - Sahar Ranjbar (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare,University of Turin, Department of Physics, Torino, Italy)

18:20 Preliminary results of metabolic MRI technology and PET in patient with liver metastases - Dennis Klomp (University Medical Center Utrecht)

18:25 Hardware acceleration for fast MRF map reconstruction: FPGA porting of a deep learning algorithm - Mattia Ricchi (Department of Computer Sciences, University of Pisa, IT & Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Bologna Division, IT)

18:30 Cardiac protocol including anatomic proton MRI at 3T and 31P metabolic imaging at 7T - Jabrane Karkouri (University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom)

18:40 Glioma Segmentation in PET/MRI studies: a preliminary comparative study between Swin Transformer and state-off-the-art CNN - Nicolo' Pecco (Neuroradiology Unit and CERMAC, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele and Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, Milan, Italy)

18:45 Validation of CT-free Template-Based Attenuation Correction in Brain PET Imaging - Markus Jehl (Positrigo AG, Zurich, 8005 Switzerland)

18:50 Actual trajectory measurement for multi-echo GRE at 7T using a field camera system - Paolo Cecchi (IMAGO7 Foundation)

18:55 Estimating skeletal muscle metabolism from 31P MRSI at 7 Tesla using a dual-tuned volume coil preliminary in-vivo results - Laura Biagi (IRCCS Stella Maris)

19:00 Rigid Motion Detection for Abrupt Motion in FDG Brain PET Imaging - Viet Dao (University of Leeds)

19:05 Panel Detectors in PET Imaging: Leveraging TOF-DOI for High-Quality Performance - Gasper Razdevsek (Jožef Stefan Institute, Department F9)
Tuesday 21 May 2024
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Time of flight: the last frontier in PET - Georgios Konstantinou (EPFL)

09:10 NUV-sensitive Deep-junction (NUV-DJ) SiPMs, a new technology optimized for fast timing applications - Oscar Ariel Marti Villarreal (Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK))

09:30 The new PETsys TOFPET3 ASIC - Joao Varela (PETsys Electronics)

09:50 Second Generation Readout Electronics Design for a PET Detector That Achieves ~100 ps CTR and <2 mm DOI Resolution - Zhixiang Zhao (Stanford Universtiy)

10:10 Fast Detectors Viewed from a Different Angle: Scintillators and SiPMs for Photon-Counting CT - Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Harnessing the Purcell Effect for Faster Metascintillators - Paul Lecoq (Universitat Politècnica de València, Metacrystal, CERN)

11:20 Comparative Experimental and Simulation DOI Analysis on Semi-Monolithic Metascintillators - Riccardo Latella (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)

11:40 TlCl:Be,I: a high sensitivity scintillation and Cherenkov emitter for TOF-PET - Nicolaus Kratochwil (UC Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering)

12:00 High loading nanocomposites of cesium lead halide nanocrystals for fast timing - Jan Král (Czech Technical University in Prague, Institute of Physics CAS)

12:20 Comparative Analysis of Novel Time-Walk Correction Methods for Metascintillators - Riccardo Latella (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia)
12:40
12:40 - 13:10
Contributions

12:40 MILabs

12:55 PETsys Electronics
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:10
Contributions

15:30 Refining Position Estimates of PET Detector Blocks with Stochastic Gradient Descent - Julian Thull (Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University)

15:50 On-Chip Analog Neural Networks for In-Sensor Image Reconstruction Towards PET Scanners with Large Fields of View - Susanna Di Giacomo (Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Politecnico di Milano and INFN Milano)

16:10 Characterisation of an AI-enhanced TOF-PET detector module with monolithic BGO crystals - Pietro Carra (Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Fisica E. Fermi)

16:30 Improving Timing Resolution of BGO with and without Deep Learning - Francis Loignon-Houle (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M), CSIC - UPV)

16:50 3D In-System Calibration of PET Detectors - Yannick Kuhl (Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems, Institute for Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany)
17:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:10 - 17:40
17:40
17:40 - 19:20
Contributions

17:40 Multi-Spatial Resolution MRI Guided PET Image Reconstruction with Adaptive Prior Strength - Jorge Cabello (Siemens Medical Solutions)

18:00 Anatomically Guided PET Reconstruction using MR Information for Low Dose Imaging - Matthew Spangler-Bickell (GE HealthCare, Waukesha, WI, USA)

18:20 Hybrid Reconstruction of PET data for Spinal Cord Imaging in PET/MRI. - Eve Lennie

18:40 Structurally Guided PET Image Reconstruction for Improved Localisation of Pituitary Adenomas - Pawel Markiewicz (London South Bank University and University College London)

19:00 Improving Small Renal Mass Delineation and Quantification in PET by Contrast-Enhanced MR-Guided Reconstruction: A Pilot Study Using Hybrid PET/MR Data - Jaewon Yang (University of Texas Southwestern)
Wednesday 22 May 2024
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 Clinical Potential of Total-body PET - Axel Rominger (Department of Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

09:10 IMAS: a total body PET with TOF and DOI capabilities - Antonio Gonzalez (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging, i3M-CSIC)

09:30 Development of Total Body J-PET from plastic scintillators - Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili (Jagiellonian university)

09:50 Investigating the Influence of TOF and DOI on Spatial Resolution in Flat-Panel and Cylindrical Total-Body PET - Boris Vervenne (MEDISIP, Department of Electronics and Information Systems, Ghent University)

10:10 Utility of total-body PET in monitoring carbon ion therapy: Demonstration in rat - Chie Toramatsu (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST))
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Fast Timing Detectors for Prompt Gamma Time Imaging - Sara Marcatili (LPSC-IN2P3)

11:20 Demonstration of LGADs and Cherenkov gamma detectors for prompt gamma timing range verification of proton therapy - Ryan Heller (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

11:40 First Radionuclide Imaging Tests with MACACOIII+ Compton camera - Gabriela Llosa (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC/CSIC-UVEG))

12:00 Time-of-Flight Requirements to Mitigate Blurring Induced by Annihilation Photon Acollinearity - Maxime Toussaint (Université de Sherbrooke)

12:20 Dual-panel geometry for PET-guided therapy to be enabled by super-fast detector: simulation study - Taiga Yamaya (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST))
12:40
12:40 - 13:10
Contributions

12:40 Bruker
13:10 Lunch
Lunch
13:10 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:10
Contributions

15:45 Determination of lutetium density in LYSO crystals: methodology and PET detector applications - Cong Thien Tran (National Central University, Taiwan)

16:00 Performance characteristics of multi-mouse imaging on monolithic large flat panel PET - Meysam Dadgar

16:05 Comparison of automatic segmentation methods for total body PET/CT imaging - Anting Li (Turku PET Centre, University of Turku) Jarmo Teuho (Turku PET Centre, University of Turku)

16:10 Quality control of plastic scintillators for the total-body J-PET scanner - Łukasz Kapłon (Jagiellonian University)

16:15 Energy based scatter correction for the Walk-Through PET system - Jens Maebe (Ghent University)

16:20 Development and Evaluation of a Portable MVT-based All-Digital Helmet PET Scanner - Emanuele Antonecchia (School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan 430074, China)

16:25 Timing performance of FBK SiPM NUV-HD-MT technology - Oscar Ariel Marti Villarreal (Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK))

16:30 Advancements in DOI-capable TOF-PET modules based on High-Frequency Readout - Joshua W. Cates (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA, USA)

16:35 A Deep Learning Approach for Semantic, Multi-Organ Segmentation of PET Images - Josh Schaefferkoetter (Siemens Medical Solutions, USA)

16:40 The reSPECT project for a flexible and fast total body nuclear imaging diagnoses with high-Z organic scintillators - Michela Marafini (CREF Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy)

16:45 Fast-Timing Detector through Redshifted Cherenkov Radiation - Samuel España (CSIC)

16:50 Compositional engineering of timing properties in Ce-doped multicomponent garnet-type scintillators - Saulius Nargelas (Vilnius University)

16:55 Synergistic Effects of Intrinsic Defects and Material Composition on the Scintillation Properties of Bismuth-Based Scintillators - Othmane Bouhali (Texas A&M University at Qatar)

17:00 18F-SMBT-1: First Study Shows Pharmacokinetics and Metabolism in Healthy Human Subjects. - Kim Doan
17:10 Coffee break
Coffee break
17:10 - 17:40
17:40
17:40 - 18:55
Contributions

17:40 Fast and memory-efficient reconstruction of sparse Poisson data in listmode with non-smooth priors with application to time-of-flight PET - Georg Schramm (KU Leuven)

17:55 Stochastic Optimisation Framework using the Core Imaging Library and Synergistic Image Reconstruction Framework for PET Reconstruction - Evangelos Papoutsellis (Science and Technology Facilities Council) Margaret Duff (Science and Technology Facilities Council – Rutherford Appleton Laboratories)

18:10 Comparison of Synergistic and Single Modality Anatomically-Informed Structural Priors for Yttrium-90 PET and SPECT Reconstruction - Sam Porter (National Physical Laboratory & Institute of Nuclear Medicince, UCL)

18:25 Primal-Dual Hybrid Gradient Algorithm for emission tomography: A Comparative Study of Convergence under Poisson Likelihood with ML-EM - Luca Presotto (University of Milano Bicocca)

18:40 Announcement of the forthcoming SyneRBI PET Rapid Image Reconstruction Challenge - Kris Thielemans (University College London)
20:00 Social dinner
Social dinner
20:00 - 22:00
Thursday 23 May 2024
08:30
08:30 - 10:30
Contributions

08:30 ISOLPHARM project: Development of two preclinical imaging devices for Ag-111 β and γ radiation - Alberto Andrighetto (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)

08:50 Characterize the Effective Half Life for Instant Single Time Point Dosimetry using Machine Learning - Carlos Vinícius Gomes Ferreira (Inselspital)

09:10 SAFIR-II: Design and performance of a high-rate preclinical PET-MR System - Jan Debus (ETH Zürich)

09:30 Reaching new horizons in pre-clinical imaging: trimodal PET-FUS-MR technology - Andrea Gonzalez-Montoro (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging, i3M-CSIC)

09:50 The HYPMED Breast PET/MRI Insert: MRI Compatibility and Comparison to Whole Body PET/MRI - Bjoern Weissler (RWTH Aachen, Hyperion HIS)

10:10 PET Imaging of the Human Brain at 2 µL Resolution with a Next-Generation Ultra-High-Resolution (UHR) Scanner - Francis Loignon-Houle (Université de Sherbrooke; Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M CSIC-UPV))
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:40
Contributions

11:00 Different Deep Learning Training Strategies for Attenuation and Scatter Correction in PET - Florence Muller (Ghent University & University of Pennsylvania)

11:20 Multi-Organ Segmentation on CT-free Total-Body Dynamic PET Scans - Christoph Clement

11:40 Recovery coefficient corrected image derived input function from a long axial field of view PET/CT-scanner - Thomas Lund Andersen

12:00 Motion analysis of Subjects standing in walk-through total body PET using infrared based localization - Rabia Aziz (Ghent University)

12:20 Estimation of the sensitivity for quantum entanglement imaging with total-body J-PET - Pawel Moskal
12:40 Lunch
Lunch
12:40 - 15:30
15:30
15:30 - 17:30
Contributions

15:30 Investigation on Timing Performance of Cherenkov TOF PET Detector with Bismuth Germanate Scintillators and Segmented SiPMs - Minseok Yi

15:50 Cryogenic CsI as a potential PET material - Stefano Roberto Soleti (Donostia International Physics Center)

16:10 How to improve timing performance in TOF-PET with segmented SiPMs coupled to BGO and LYSO - Katrin Herweg (Department of Physics of Molecular Imaging Systems, Institute of Experimental Molecular Imaging, RWTH-Aachen University)

16:30 Wedge-Based Side Readout for Minimizing Uncertainty in the Optical Path of Cherenkov Photons - Minseok Yi

16:50 Low-Dose Total-Body Time-of-Flight PET Using High-Resolution Gamma Ray Multiplier Tubes (HGMTs) - Cameron Poe (University of Chicago)

17:10 Amorphous Silicon Microchannel Plates: A new photon detector with 10 ps timing and 15 μm spatial resolution - Georgios Konstantinou (EPFL)
17:30

17:30 - 17:50

18:30 Farewell cocktail
Farewell cocktail
18:30 - 19:30

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