ITBS09 PROGRAM

 

George Eliopoulos Conference Centre

Milos Island, Greece

13-16 September, 2009

 

 

Sun

13-SEP

Mon

14-SEP

Tue

15-SEP

Wed

16-SEP

09:00

-

11:00

 

 

Session IIa

 

Session IIIa

 

Session IVa

 

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

Coffee Break

11:30

-

13:30

Session IIb

 

Session IIIb

 

Session IVb

 

Registration

 

 

 

 

 

16:30

-

19:30

Session I

 

OPENING Session

&

Introductory Talks

 

Session IIc

 

E

X

C

U

R

S

I

O

N

 

POSTER Session

 

 

 

Session IVc

 

CLOSING Talks

 

Welcome

Reception

 

BANQUET

 

 

 

 

 

Registration

Sunday, 13 September 2009 (afternoon)

15:00-16:30 George Eliopoulos Conference Center, Milos Island

 

Session I: OPENING Session

Sunday, 13 September 2009 (afternoon)

Chair: D. Maintas

 

Time

Speaker

Title

16:30-17:00

D. Maintas

(President of the Organizing Committee)

Chr. Kittas

(Rector of the University of Athens)

 

WELCOME

17:00-17:45

Roland Itti and Danielle Mestas

Lecture In Memory of Jean Maublant

 

Co-Chairmen of the ITBS09 Scientific Committee Lectures

17:45-18:30

M. Goris (Stanford)

Clinical Validating of Diagnostic Procedures

18:30-19:15

A. Todd-Pokropek (UCL)

Research and Development in Medical Imaging:

Darwin's Theory about Product Development

 

Welcome Reception

Sunday, 13 September 2009 (afternoon)

19:30-21:00 George Eliopoulos Conference Center, Milos Island

 

Back

 

Session IIa

Monday, 14 September 2009 (morning)

Chair: J.N. Talbot, N. Giokaris

 

Time

Speaker

Title

09:00-09:45

Ch. Halldin (Karolinska)

PET in Drug Development (Invited Lecture)

09:45-10:00

R. Fulton

Imaging the awake rat brain with microPET, head tracking and motion correction

10:00-10:15

M. Tornai

Overview and preliminary results of a 3D Multi-Modality dedicated Molecular SPECT/CT breast imaging system

10:15-10:30

S. Beer

High-resolution PET in plants

10:30-10:45

F. Boisson (El Bitar)

1D gamma counting approach to study radiopharmaceutical kinetics

10:45-11:00

M. Salouti

A new method to estimate Tumor/non-Tumor uptake based on Scintigraphic imaging to avoid killing the animal models

 

Back

 

Session IIb

Monday, 14 September 2009 (morning)

Chair: A. Todd-Pokropek, A. Karabarbounis

 

Time

Speaker

Title

11:30-12:15

J.N. Talbot (Paris)

The New PET Radiopharmaceuticals (Invited Lecture)

12:15-12:30

S. Balogova

Fluoromethylcholine (18F) (FCH) PET/CT for the detection of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in patients with a chronic liver disease and liver nodules and for staging hepatocellular carcinoma: prospective comparison with FDG (18F) PET/CT

12:30-12:45

C. Houzard

Hybrid Imaging in 2009: the nuclear medicine physician’s point of view

12:45-13:00

M. Panagiotidis

Clinical experience with 18FDG-PET/CT in the public sector: Two thousand and one hundred patients’ findings in a large Greek tertiary hospital

 

Back

 

Session IIc

Monday, 14 September 2009 (afternoon)

Chair: M. Goris, B. Knoop

 

Time

Speaker

Title

16:30-16:45

L. Strauss (DKFZ)

Modeling in PET Studies (Invited Lecture)

16:45-17:00

C. Chauvet

 

Simultaneous analysis of myocardial perfusion SPECT and coronary CT angiography with a new integrated software: Feasibility study

17:00-17:15

B. Frish

 

ClearPEM-Sonic, a combined positron emission mammograph and ultrasound scanner

17:15-17:30

J. Dang

 

Development of anthropomorphic phantoms for combined PET-Ultrasound elastography breast imaging

17:30-17:45

M. Hoffman

Information transfer from Molecular Imaging to non-nuclear medical therapy

(Part I)

17:45-18:00

C. Giannopoulou

(M. Panagiotidis)

Utility of additional neck 18FDG-PET/CT images in patients with known or suspected neck malignancy

18:00-18:30

A. Todd-Pokropek (UCL)

Some Issues in Medical Imaging: State of the Art and Future Prospects

 

Back

 

Session IIIa

Tuesday, 15 September 2009 (morning)

Chair: A. Olivo, E. Stiliaris

 

Time

Speaker

Title

09:00-09:45

N. Giokaris (UoA & IASA)

The Search for the Higgs Particle: Status and Prospects (Invited Lecture)

09:45-10:00

M. Bataglia

 

Low-flux imaging of biomedical samples with direct detection CMOS pixel sensors in low energy transmission electron microscopy

10:00-10:15

G. Llosa

Silicon photomultipliers, SiPM matrices and small animal PET

10:15-10:30

M. Dell Orso

A fast FPGA-based clustering algorithm for real time image processing

10:30-10:45

M. Hoffman

Information transfer from Molecular Imaging to non-nuclear medical therapy

(Part II)

 

Back

 

Session IIIb

Tuesday, 15 September 2009 (morning)

Chair: R. Itti, P. Guiderdoni

 

Time

Speaker

Title

11:30-12:15

B. Knoop (Hannover)

Multi-Centre Trials with PET: Physical Prerequisites (Invited Lecture)

12:15-12:30

K. Kacperski

Scatter correction in 201Tl cardiac SPECT based on multiple energy windows data

12:30-12:45

K. Baum

Calibration and evaluation of a dual layer high dynamic range display for pathology detection tasks

12:45-13:00

S. Kolokytha

“Intelligent” CT: Optimizing image quality and reducing dose

 

Back

 

Session IVa

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 (morning)

Chair: A. Todd-Pokropek, R. Fulton

 

Time

Speaker

Title

09:00-09:45

A. Olivo (UCL)

Advances in Phase Contrast Imaging (Invited Lecture)

09:45-10:00

S. Michopoulou

Intensity inhomogeneity correction in MRI of lumbar spine at 3T

10:00-10:15

D. Thanasas

Reconstruction optimization for Gamma-Camera planar images from resistive chain readouts

10:15-10:30

A. Bonissent

Accelerated image reconstruction on a cluster of two AMD GPUs in CBCT with non-uniform detector geometry

10:30-10:45

B. Chen

(S. Michopoulou)

Measuring trabecular bone orientation by diffusion tensor imaging

 

Back

 

Session IVb

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 (morning)

Chair: M. Hoffman, M. Tornai

 

Time

Speaker

Title

11:30-12:15

P. Guiderdoni and R. Itti (Lyon)

Art is me, Science is us : Are nucmed physicians the heirs of Claude Bernard's milieu interieur? (Invited Lecture)

12:15-12:30

M. Pop

Characterization of cardiac electrophysiology in pathologic hearts using optical imaging, MRI and computer modelling

12:30-12:45

Z. El Bitar

Accelerated three dimensional Monte Carlo image reconstruction technique

in small animal SPECT

12:45-13:00

C. Maintas

(D. Maintas)

Attenuation- or non-attenuation correction: Clinical Data

 

Back

 

POSTER Session

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 (afternoon)

Time

Speaker

Title

16:30-18:00

 

POSTER Session

 

Back

 

Session IVc: Closing Talks

Wednesday, 16 September 2009 (afternoon)

Chair: D. Maintas

 

Time

Speaker

Title

18:00-18:45

R. Itti (Lyon)

Conference Summary

18:45-19:30

A. Todd-Pokropek (UCL)

Closing Talk

 

Back

 

 

 

Final Version (updated on 16-SEP-2009, 20:00 EEST)