"Medical Physics is Beautiful" Symposium

Friday Oct 31, 2014, 8:00 AM → 7:00 PM Europe/Rome

Aula Magna (Pisa)

The Department of Physics “E. Fermi” and INFN-Pisa announce the Symposium “Medical “Physics in Beautiful in honour of Alberto Del Guerra on the occasion of his retirement. The Symposium will take place on October, 31st, in the Aula Magna of the Centro Congressi of Polo Fibonacci.

1 Welcome and Introduction

Speakers: Francesco Fidecaro (PI), Giovanni Batignani (PI)

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Speaker: Arnaldo Stefanini (PI)

Slides talk-Stefanini.ppsx

3 Mutants Mammalian Cells and the Discovery of the Higgs Boson

Speaker: Guido Emilio Tonelli (PI)

Slides Tonelli_AdG_2014.pdf

10:30 AM coffee break

4 Translational Research in Particle Therapy

Speaker: Marco Durante (GSI)

Slides talk-Durante.pdf

5 Ultra High Field MR Imaging in Neurodegenerative Diseases: the Imago7 Experience

Speaker: Mirco Cosottini

Slides talk-Cosottini.pdf

6 Monochromatic X-Ray for Diagnostic Radiology

Speaker: Mauro Gambaccini (FE)

12:35 PM lunch

7 Medical Physics in the Shadow of the Vesuvius

Speaker: Paolo Russo (NA)

Slides talk-Russo.ppt

8 The Making of Radiation Protection Report 174: European Guidelines on Medical Physics Expert

Speaker: Stelios Christofides (Nicosia General Hospital, Cyprus)

Slides talk-Stelios.pptx

9 Small Animal PET/SPECT with YAP:Ce Scintillator and Beyond

Speaker: Guido Zavattini (FE)

Slides talk_Zavattini.pdf

10 Biologically Optimized Dose Response Imaging by PET

Speaker: Prof. Anders Brahme (KI, Stockholm)

3:50 PM coffee break

11 Progress of Silicon Photomultipliers for Nuclear Medicine Applications

Speaker: Dr Claudio Piemonte (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

12 Two Views Combined: PET/MR

Speaker: Prof. Sibylle Ziegler (Klinikum r. d. Isar / TUM / Dep. of Nuclear Medicine)

Slides talk_sibylle.pptx

13 Scintillation Science and Nuclear Medical Imaging (remote video conference)

Speaker: Bill Moses

Slides talk-Moses.pps

14 Greetings

Slides talk-THANKyouNOTE.ppsx