WORKSHOP “PHYSICS FOR HEALTH IN EUROPE”

from Tuesday, 2 February 2010 (13:00) to Thursday, 4 February 2010 (13:20)
CERN (500/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
2 Feb 2010
3 Feb 2010
4 Feb 2010
AM
08:30
Session 2: Radioisotopes in diagnostics and therapy (until 12:00) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
08:30 Keynote:'Radioisotopes in diagnostics and therapy, (pre-)clinical view - W.J.G Oyen (Radbout University Nijmegen Medical Centre) Otto Boerman   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:00 Production of innovative radionuclides at ARRONAX and 211At RIT - Dr F. HADDAD (GIP ARRONAX and SUBATECH, Nantes)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:10 Tb-149 radio-immunotherapy - advances of short-range alpha radiation and 4.1 h half-life demonstrated in vitro and in vivo - Dr Matthias Miederer (Universitätsmedizin Mainz, Germany)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:20 Radiation Protection Aspects Related to Lutetium-177 Use in Hospitals - Dr Richard Henkelmann (Isotope Technologies Garching)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:30 Preclinical studies with non-standard and carrier-free radioisotopes from ISOLDE-CERN - Gerd Beyer (Department of Radiology)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:40 Discussion on therapy including possible use of ISOLDE isotopes   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:00 --- Coffee break and Poster Walk ---
10:30 Keynote: ' Production of radioisotopes for medical applications' - N. Ramamoorthy (IAEA Vienna)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:55 Panel discussion on 99mTc supply crisis and alternatives with short contributions followed by interactive discussion   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
10:55 The Future for 99mTc and 99Mo in nuclear medicine - Prof. Dewi M. Lewis (General Electric Healthcare)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
11:15 Feasibility study of an accelerator-driven production of Mo-99 for Tc-99m generators using a high-power LINAC - Mr luca maciocco (advanced accelerator applications)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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11:35 Gallium-68 – a candidate for use in clinical routine - Dr Mark Harfensteller (ITG Isotope Technologies Garching, Germany)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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08:30 Summary Talk Session 1: B.Jones (Oxford) - B. Jones (Oxford)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:00 Summary Talk Session 2: U. Koester (Grenoble) - U. Koester (ILL)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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09:30 Summary Talk Session 3: W. Enghardt (Dresden) - W. Enghardt (TU Dresden)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:00 Summary Talk Session 4: P. Tejedor Del-Real (Brussels) - J.E Faure (European Commission, Brussels)   ()
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10:30 Winning Poster talk   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 Final general discussion   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
PM
13:00 Welcome - Rolf Heuer (CERN Director General)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
13:30
Session 1: Radiobiology in therapy and space science (until 19:15) (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
13:30 Keynote: 'Radiation Oncology: physics meets biology' - Gillies McKenna (Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology & Biology, Oxford)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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14:00 Keynote: ‘Radiobiology in heavy ion therapy’ - Oliver Jaekel (DKFZ, Heidelberg)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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14:30 Early events in the formation of genetic damage by heavy ions - Dr Gisela Taucher-Scholz (GSI Biophysics, Darmstadt, Germany)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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14:45 The Space Radiation Environment - Constituents, Characteristics, and Models - Dr Petteri Nieminen (ESA)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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15:00 A proposal for an experimental facility at CERN for research in hadron-therapy - Dr Marco Silari (CERN)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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15:15 --- Coffee Break and Poster Walk ---
15:45 The Monte Carlo Code FLUKA in Ion Therapy: Status and Outlook - Dr Giuseppe Battistoni (INFN MILANO)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
16:00 Treatment plans in particle therapy - Dr Michael KRAEMER (GSI)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:15 The INFN Treatment Planning System Project - Dr Andrea Attili (on behalf of the INFN-TPS collaboration)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:30 Syncrotron Radiation Therapy: a promising alternative to treat brain tumors - Dr Yolanda Prezado (European synchrotron Radiation Facility)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
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16:45 Discussion   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:00 Introduction to poster session by chairmen   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
17:30 Poster session   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
19:30 --- Workshop Dinner in the Globe ---
12:00 --- Lunch break ---
13:00
Session 3: Prospects in medical imaging (until 15:45) ()
13:00 Keynote:' Radiology meets Physics: the future of MRI' - D. Le Bihan (IFR Institute d' Imagerie Neurofonctionelle)   ()
13:30 Keynote: ' Challenges towards simultaneous PET-MRI' - S. Vandenberghe (Gent University)   ()
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14:00 Multimodality approach in the study of Tumor Angiogenesis: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Synchrotron Radiation based micro-CT (SRμCT), Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and Histological Examination to follow the vessel formation - Marco Dominietto (Institute for Biomedical Engineering - ETH and University Zurich)   ()
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14:15 ClearPEM-Sonic: the combined positron emission mammograph and ultrasound elastography scanner - Mr Benjamin Frisch (CERN and Technische Universität Wien)   ()
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14:30 LaBr3 and LYSO monolithic crystals coupled to photosensor arrays for TOF-PET - Dr Peter Dendooven (KVI, University of Groningen)   ()
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14:45 Optimization of a table-top synchrotron light source for radiological applications - Prof. Mauro Gambaccini (University of Ferrara)   ()
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15:00 Clinical and Pre-clinical applications spectral x-ray detectors - Dr Anthony Butler (Univ. Canterbury, Dept. Phys. Astro)   ()
15:15 The MAGIC-5 lung CAD systems - Prof. Roberto Bellotti (Università di Bari and INFN)   ()
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15:30 Discussion   ()
15:45 --- Coffee Break and Poster Walk ---
16:15
Session 4: Novel technologies in radiation therapy (until 19:20) ()
16:15 Keynote: ‘Novel technologies in radiation therapy' K. Peach (John Adams Inst.for Acc. Sci. and PTCRI, Oxford) - K. Peach (John Adams Inst. for Acc. Sci and PTCRI, Oxford)   ()
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16:45 Keynote: ‘Innovative Technology is the Best Way to Iimprove Radiotherapy for Cancer Patients’ J.P. Gerard (Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice) - J.P. Gerard (Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice)   ()
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17:15 A study on repainting strategies for treating moving targets with proton pencil beam scanning for the new Gantry 2 at PSI - Mr Silvan Zenklusen (Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich)   ()
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17:30 Mitigation of target motion in scanned ion beam therapy - Dr Christoph Bert (GSI)   ()
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17:45 The TOM'5 System for Multibeam Tomotherapy - Dr Nils Achterberg (Strahlenklinik-Universitätsklinikum Erlangen)   ()
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18:00 Electron cooling application for cancer therapy accelerator facility - Mr Vladimir Vostrikov (BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)   ()
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18:15 A cyclotron-linac complex for carbon ion therapy - Mr Alberto Degiovanni (TERA Foundation)   ()
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18:30 A proposal for a low-cost size superconducting multi-use accelerating facility for protons or light ions (LOCMAF) - Evangelos Gazis (CERN-NTUA)   ()
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18:45 General Discussion   ()
19:30 --- Workshop Dinner ---
12:15 Keynote closing speakers: D. Townsend (Singapore Bioimaging Consortium), J.Bourhis (Institute Gustave Roussy, ESTRO)   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)
13:15 Closing remarks: R. Heuer, CERN Director General   (500/1-001 - Main Auditorium)