Thursday, October 13, 2022

Time Event (+)
08:30 - 09:00 Arrival and opening remarks - We will provide you with last minute info about the event and everyone can meet each other to plunge right into the first session afterwards. Please note that coffee will be first served at the 10h50 coffee break.  
09:00 - 10:50 Ion imaging systems 1 (Room F 107) - Charles-Antoine Collins Fekete (+)  
09:00 - 09:30 › Proton CT - quasi-online dose plan verification and online dose delivery monitoring - Dieter Röhrich, University of Bergen  
09:30 - 10:00 › Updates and future plans for ion imaging at MedAustron - Albert Hirtl, University of Vienna  
10:00 - 10:20 › pCT calorimeter energy calibration and verification - Carlo Civinini, INFN Firenze  
10:20 - 10:50 › The OPTima proton CT system: an update - Michela Esposito, University of Lincoln  
10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break (Room F 107)  
11:20 - 12:10 Small animal systems (Room F 107) - Chiara Gianoli (+)  
11:20 - 11:50 › Proton imaging for small animals: status and perspectives - Katia Parodi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
11:50 - 12:10 › Evaluation of rigid and non-rigid changes in a small animal irradiation system based on proton radiographies: influence of detector performance - Prasannakumar Palaniappan, Department of Medical Physics – Experimental Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch (Room F 107)  
13:30 - 14:50 Reconstruction methods (Room F 107) - Nils Krah (+)  
13:30 - 13:50 › Projection deconvolution for proton CT using the spatially variant path uncertainty - Simon Rit, CREATIS  
13:50 - 14:10 › An analytical reconstruction method for integrated mode proton radiography using 2D lateral projections - Mikael Simard, UCL  
14:10 - 14:30 › Focus stacking particle radiography - Lennart Volz, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung  
14:30 - 14:50 › Evaluation of the impact of a scanner prototype on proton CT and helium CT image quality and dose efficiency with Monte Carlo simulation - Stefanie Götz, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
14:50 - 15:30 Coffee break (Room F 107)  
15:30 - 17:00 Combined and novel modalities (Room F 107) - Simon Rit (+)  
15:30 - 16:00 › Hybrid ion and X-ray imaging in ion beam therapy, from model-based to data-driven approaches - Chiara Gianoli, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
16:00 - 16:30 › Prompt Gamma-Xray Spectroscopy (PGXS) for in-vivo dosimetric assessment of proton FLASH radiation - Joao Seco, University of Heidelberg  
16:30 - 17:00 › A pCT approach to CT calibration in proton therapy treatment planning - mara bruzzi, University of Florence and INFN Firenze  
19:00 - 21:00 Workshop Dinner (Restaurant Friulana, Zenettistraße 42 (U6 metro Goetheplatz))  

Friday, October 14, 2022

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 10:10 Performance of ion imaging systems and clinical application (Room F 107) - Joao Seco (+)  
09:00 - 09:30 › Proton radiography applications in an adaptive proton therapy workflow - Antje Knopf, Paul Scherrer Institute  
09:30 - 09:50 › Characterizing the performance of a proton tomography system for x-ray CT cross-calibration - Elena Fogazzi, University of Trento and INFN TIFPA, Trento  
09:50 - 10:10 › Proton radiography as a quality control tool for 3D and 4D thorax synthetic CTs - Carmen Seller Oria, Department of Radiation Oncology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen  
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break (Room F 107)  
10:40 - 12:20 Ion imaging systems 2 (Room F 107) - Katia Parodi (+)  
10:40 - 11:10 › Meeting the Detector Challenges for Pre-Clinical Proton and Ion Computed Tomography pCT scanner design - Robert Johnson, University of California, Santa Cruz  
11:10 - 11:40 › From 3D Dosimetry to CT and Radiography imaging using Scintillator Detectors - Sam Beddar, MD Anderson Cancer Center  
11:40 - 12:00 › Development of a time-of-flight ion computed tomography system based on ultra-fast silicon sensors - Felix Ulrich-Pur, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of High Energy Physics(HEPHY), Nikolsdorfer Gasse 18, 1050 Wien, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung  
12:00 - 12:20 › Latest pCT Results from ProtonVDA - Ethan DeJongh, ProtonVDA Inc  
12:20 - 13:40 Lunch (Room F 107)  
13:40 - 15:00 Radiography (Room F 107) - George Dedes (+)  
13:40 - 14:00 › Combining flash particle radiography with 12C6+ and 4He2+ mixed-ion species treatment - Martin Schanz, Los Alamos National Laboratory  
14:00 - 14:20 › Patient alignment based on Helium-beam radiography (αRAD) - Yanting Xu, German Cancer Research Center DKFZ, Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology NCRO, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology HIRO, Heidelberg, University of Heidelberg, Department of Physics and Astronomy,Heidelberg  
14:20 - 14:40 › Quantitative helium-beam radiograph of an anthropomorphic head phantom acquired with thin silicon pixel detectors: comparison to digitally reconstructed radiographs based on X-ray CT modalities - Margareta Metzner, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology NCRO, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology HIRO  
14:40 - 15:00 › Design and first results of a scintillator-based, integrated mode proton imaging detector using 2D lateral projections - Ryan Fullarton, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering  
15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break (Room F 107)  
15:30 - 16:30 Theoretical investigations and modelling (Room F 107) - Mikael Simard (+)  
15:30 - 15:50 › Studies of different ion imaging modalities at MedAustron - Stefanie Kaser - Austrian Academy of Sciences  
15:50 - 16:10 › A comparative study of two proton CT systems in terms of spatial resolution and RSP accuracy - George Dedes - Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich  
16:10 - 16:30 › RSP resolution in time-of-flight proton CT - Nils Krah, University of Lyon, CNRS, CREATIS  
16:30 - 17:10 Closing Session (Room F 107) - George Dedes