Special Focus Workshops
Third Workshop on the
Nuclear Radiology of Breast Cancer (NRBC)
November 4-5, 2006
Organizing Committee:
Raymond Raylman, |
Craig Levin |
Martin Tornai |
The goal of this 1-1/2 workshop is to present an update on the technology and applications of dedicated nuclear radiology breast imaging systems. Specifically, the program will cover topics such as breast cancer biology, clinical state-of-the-art in radiology, potential diagnostic and treatment roles of nuclear medicine, existing and promising breast cancer radiotracers, clinical trial results with commercial nuclear emission cameras dedicated to breast imaging, international research groups working on improving nuclear breast cancer imaging, long term industrial outlook of dedicated breast imaging modalities, and research funding opportunities. The format of the workshop consists of a mix of invited speakers and presentations (oral and poster) selected from submitted abstracts.
Overview of the Workshop Schedule.
- The workshop will begin on the afternoon of November 4 after most of the MIC sessions have concluded and continue on November 5 for the whole day until approximately 5:00pm.
- There will be several oral presentations, as well as a poster session.
- A group dinner is to be held on the evening of November 4.
Submission requirement: an abstract and a 2 page summary in PDF
format send to Ray Raylman (rraylman@wvu.edu).
Submission deadline: August 15.
Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors: High Energy Physics and Beyond
Sunday, October 29, 2006
Organizers:
Maxim Titov,
Archana Sharma,
Paul Colas, Topics will include: Submission requirement: an abstract and a 2 page summary in PDF
format. Organizers:
Gary Royle,
Tumay Tumer, This half day workshop aims to present the latest
developments in Compton scatter imaging for applications in medicine,
astronomy and industry. The workshop is relevant to NSS, MIC and RTSD.
The format will include invited overview talks and submitted presentations
selected from submitted abstracts. The session will conclude with a question
and answer session with a panel of experts. Submission requirement: an abstract and a 2 page summary in PDF
format. Organizers:
Patrick Le Dû,
Anatoly Rozenfeld,
Steve Peggs, The treatment of non-operable and radio-resistant cancer
tumors using particle beam like proton and light ion is becoming a medical
reality. The number of clinical facilities is growing very rapidly around
the world. After the first successful workshop organized during the 2003
IEEE NSS-MIC conference in Portland, we propose this year to review the
evolution of technological ideas and instrumentation around this emerging
topic. This is a perfect illustration of a merging Nuclear and detectors
experts with the Medical Imaging community. The goal of the workshop is to provide a forum for
interested participants to discuss in a convivial way the progress in the
field and to exchange recent experiences. The format of the workshop will
consist of invited speakers, oral and posters presentations selected from
submitted abstracts before August 31st, 2006.
The preliminary agenda of contributions fields is the
following:
Submission requirement: an abstract.
Thursday, November 2, 2006 Organizer: Imaging the same subject with both PET and MRI has potentially significant
advantages over other multi-modal approaches which merge in vivo functional
and anatomical information. The benefits range from unparalleled soft-tissue
contrast with MRI to the possibility of acquiring 2 complementary functional
data sets (PET and fMRI) from a subject under identical conditions. Interest
in truly simultaneous PET and MRI imaging has increased particularly as the
technology of solid state detectors and photodetectors for PET has matured.
This workshop will include invited speakers detailing the potential
benefits of PET-MR imaging for medicine (covering both sequential and
simultaneous approaches), as well as the particular challenges posed by the
MRI environment for simultaneous imaging. The workshop is not intended to
present the status of the various efforts underway (which will be covered in
the regular conference sessions), but will be more issue-focused.
Thus there will be no formal abstract submission.
However, those interested in suggesting specific topics and/or being
represented in a brief overview of the technology should contact the
organizer. Saturday, November 4th, 5:30 pm Organizing committee:
The OpenGATE collaboration (https://www.opengatecollaboration.org)
Monte Carlo simulations play an increasing role in emission tomography, for
the optimization of imaging system design, for tuning acquisition and
processing protocols and assessing their performance, and even as part of
the image formation process when involved in the reconstruction step or in
corrections. The goal of this workshop is to gather current and future users
and developers of GATE, the public-domain Monte Carlo simulation tool
dedicated to emission tomography, and to allow them to meet the members of
the OpenGATE collaboration in charge of the development and the distribution
of the code. The agenda of the workshop will include: Those interested in presenting original developments or use of GATE are
invited to submit an abstract and a 2 page summary in PDF format before
September 22nd. Selected abstracts will be presented orally only (no
poster). Submission requirement: an abstract and a 2 page summary in PDF
format.
Freiburg University,
Germany
CERN
SACLAY
Submission deadline: May 26, 2006.Compton Scatter Imaging for
Medicine, Astronomy and Industry
Thursday, November 2, 2006
University College London
Nova R&D
Submission deadline: May 19, 2006.
Innovative Techniques for
Hadron Therapy
Thursday, November 2, 2006
DAPNIA CEA Saclay,
France
University of Wollongong,
Australia
Brookhaven National Lab.,
USA
Submission deadline: August, 31 2006.
Bi-modality PET and MRI Workshop
Paul Vaska,
631-344-6228,
Brookhaven National Laboratory,
USA
Irene Buvat
(buvat@imed.jussieu.fr)
Sébastien Jan
(jan@shfj.cea.fr)
Submission deadline: September 22, 2006.