PROGRAM OF THE MEETING


Sunday 
(21.09.2014)
17:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
18:00 - 19:00 Guided tour through Collegium Maius
Monday
(22.09.2014)
9:00 - 12:30 Scientific meeting
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:30 Scientific meeting
17:30 - 19:00 Visit to the National Hadron Therapy Center
Tuesday
(23.09.2014)
9:00 - 12:30 Scientific meeting
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Scientific meeting
17:00 - 18:00 Guided tour through Collegium Maius
20:00 - 23:00 Conference Dinner
Wednesday
(24.09.2014)
9:15 - 12:20 Scientific meeting
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch
14:00 - 17:00 Scientific meeting
18:00 - 19:00 Public lecture: Prof. Ryugo Hayano (The University of Tokyo)
"Fukushima Accident"
19:00 - 19:45 Reception
20:00 - 21:00 Baroque Concert in the Assembly Hall of Collegium Maius

DETAILED PROGRAM OF THE MEETING

Sunday 21.09.2014
Session
Registration and Welcome

(Collegium Maius)
17:00 - 20:00 Welcome Reception
18:00 - 19:00 Guided tour through Collegium Maius
Monday 22.09.2014
Session I

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Jerzy Jastrzębski (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland )
9:00 - 9:25 Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
)
"Recent Developments in SiPM-Based Detectors for Time-of-Flight PET Imaging"
9:25 - 9:50 Paul Vaska (Stony Brook University, USA)
"Novel Technologies for PET and PET/MR Imaging"
9:50 - 10:15 Peter Thirlof (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Münich, Germany)
"Perspectives for highly sensitive PET-based medical imaging
 using beta^+ - gamma coincidences"
10:15 - 10:40 Denis Dauvergne (Institut de Physique Nucléaire de Lyon 4 rue Enrico Fermi, France )
"Prompt gamma monitoring of the ion range with Time of Flight: 
 comparative development of a Compton camera and a multi-collimated camera"
10:40 – 11:15 COFFEE BREAK
Session II

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Michael Waligórski (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences and Oncology Centre Krakow, Poland)
11:15 - 11:40 Josep F. Oliver (The Institute of Corpuscular Physics, Valencia, Spain)
"Estimation of accidental coincidences in PET"
11:40 - 12:05 Miguel Couceiro (Laboratory of Instrumentation and Experimental Particle Physics, Portugal)
"RPC TOF-PET: An Unlikely but Promising Approach"
12:05 - 12:30 Stefan Enrico Brunner (Stefan-Meyer-Institute for Subatomic Physics, Austria)
"Studies on the Cherenkov Effect for Improved Time Resolution of TOF-PET"
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch in Collegium Novum
Session III

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Paul Vaska (Stony Brook University, USA)
14:00 - 14:25 Paola Solevi (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC - CSIC/UV), Spain)
"AX-PET:  from demonstrator towards a full-ring brain scanner"
14:25 - 14:50 Chiara Casella (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
"Usage of long axially oriented crystals in PET developments: timing and axial resolutions"
14:50 - 15:15 Bartosz Głowacz (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Hyperpolarized 3He contrasted MRI and new concept for simultaneous PET-MRI imaging"
15:15 - 15:45 COFFEE BREAK
Session IV

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Dennis Schaart (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
)
15:45 - 16:10 Michela Marafini ( Centro Fermi, Italy )
"The INSIDE project"
16:10 - 16:35 Francesco Pennazio (Università degli Studi di Torino, Italy
)
"A study of monitoring performances with the INSIDE system"
16:35 - 17:00 Nicola Belcari (University of Pisa, Italy)
"Development of SiPM based detectors for dedicated PET applications"
17:00 - 17:30 Pawel Olko (National Centre of Hadron Radiotherapy, Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)
"National Centre of Hadron Radiotherapy in Poland - why do we need PET research?
"
17:30 - 20:00 Visit to the National Hadron Therapy Center
Tuesday 23.09.2014
Session I

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: (TBA) ()
9:00 - 9:25 Jerzy Jastrzębski (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland )
"Medical radioisotopes produced using the alpha-particle beam from the Warsaw Heavy Ion Cyclotron"
9:25 - 9:50 Krzysztof Kilian (University of Warsaw, Poland)
"Beyond FDG: Manufacturing of 11C and 18F Radiopharmaceuticals"
9:50 - 10:10 Renata Mikołajczak (Radioisotope Centre POLATOM, National Centre for Nuclear Research, Poland
)
"Radiometals in PET diagnostics"
10:10 - 10:30 Adam Dąbkowski (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
"Optimisation of Cyclotron Production Yield for the Radiometal of Zirconium 89"
10:30 – 11:00 COFFEE BREAK
Session II

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: (TBA) ()
11:00 - 11:20 Gabriela Llosa (IFIC (CSIC-UVEG), Valencia, Spain )
"Development of a high resolution animal PET with monolithic crystals and silicon photomultipliers"
11:20 - 11:40 Marta Oteo Vives (Center for Energy, Technology and Environmental Research in Madrid, Spain
)
"Small animal PET as non-invasive tool for preclinical imaging
"
11:40 - 13:15 Lunch in Collegium Novum
Session III
J-PET session I

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Zbigniew Rudy (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
13:15 - Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Overview of the Jagiellonian-PET project"
Szymon Niedźwiecki (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Performance of double-strip prototype of the J-PET detector"
Anna Wieczorek / Łukasz Kapłon (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Synthesis of new scintillators for J-PET"
Paweł Strzempek (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Multi-threshold sampling based solely on FPGA units"
Grzegorz Korcyl (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Trigger-less and reconfigurable data acquisition system for J-PET"
- 14:45 Wojciech Krzemień (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Overview of the software architecture for the J-PET tomography device"
14:45 - 15:15 COFFEE BREAK
Session IV
J-PET session II

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Zbigniew Rudy (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
15:15 - Lech Raczyński (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Świerk Computing Centre, Poland )
"Hit position reconstruction based on Compress Sensing theory"
Natalia Zoń / Neha Sharma (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Line-of-response and time-of-flightreconstruction
 based on library of synchronized model signals"
Tomasz Bednarski (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Reconstruction of gamma quata interaction in scintillator based on energy deposition"
Piotr Białas (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"3D list mode reconstruction in J-PET"
Adam Strzelecki / Jakub Kowal (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"GPU accelerated reconstruction of 2D J-PET"
- 16:45 Paweł Kowalski (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Świerk Computing Centre, Poland )
"Simulations of the J-PET detector response with the GATE package"
16:45 - 17:00 COFFEE BREAK
17:00 - Jerzy Smyrski (Jagiellonian University
, Poland)
"Application of WLS fibers for position determination in PET based on plastic scintillators"
- 17:30 Oleksandr Rundel (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
"Simulations studies of time resolution with multi-SIPM readout of the J-PET"
17:30 - 18:30 Guided tour through Collegium Maius
20:00 CONFERENCE DINNER IN SUKIENNICE (ul. Rynek 1)
Wednesday 24.09.2014
Session I

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Dieter Grzonka (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
9:15 - 9:40 Manjit Dosanjh (CERN Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire, Switzerland)
"Biomedical research perspectives at CERN"
9:40 - 10:05 Josep F. Oliver (The Institute of Corpuscular Physics, Valencia, Spain)
"European ENVISION project for improving timing resolution in PET systems"
10:05 - 10:30 Zygmunt Szefliński (Warsaw University, Poland)
"Research in the Field of Medical Physics in Heavy Ion Laboratory"
10:30 - 10:55 Jarosław Choiński (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland)
"Radiopharmaceuticals production for PET imaging in Poland"
10:55 – 11:30 COFFEE BREAK
Session II

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Dieter Grzonka (Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany)
11:30 - 11:55 Małgorzata Trofimiuk-Muldner (Collegium Medicum, Jagiellonian University,Poland)
"Clinical PET in neurology"
11:55 - 12:20 Mariusz Pietrzyk (Brain and Mind Research Institute, The University of Sydney, Australia)
"Medical Image Perception"
12:20 - 14:00 Lunch in Collegium Novum
Session
FOUNDATION FOR POLISH SCIENCE - MPD

(Michal Bobrzynski Hall)

Chairperson: Marcin Zieliński (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
14:00 - 16:00 SPECIAL SESSION WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF 
FOUNDATION FOR POLISH SCIENCE
Session
EVENING SESSIONS

18:00 - 19:00 Public Lecture by Prof. Ryugo Hayano (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
"Fukushima Accident"
(Main Hall of Collegium Novum)
19:00 - 19:45 Reception
20:00 - 21:00 Baroque Concert in the Assembly Hall of Collegium Maius