Symposium on new trends in nuclear and medical physics

from Wednesday, 18 October 2023 (08:00) to Friday, 20 October 2023 (18:00)
Theranostics Center

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023
AM
08:00 --- Registration ---
09:00
Opening - Ewa Stępień Piotr Salabura (until 09:30) ()
09:30 Principles and Recent Developments in BNCT - Wolfgang Sauerwien   ()
10:10 Cutting edge positronium research with J-PET - Paweł Moskal   ()
10:35 --- Coffee break ---
11:05 Measuring Positronium Lifetimes using 22Na, 68Ga and 82Rb Sources in a Long-Axial FOV PET Scanner - William Steinberger   ()
11:30 PET scatter estimation based on measured energy signals - Jim Hamil   ()
11:55 Positronium imaging in J-PET with an iterative activity reconstruction and a multi-stage fitting algorithm - Roman Shopa   ()
08:45 Extracellular vesicles – their role beyond intracellular communication - Ewa Stepien (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski)   ()
09:10 New trends in clinical and retrospective dosimetry - Aleksandra Jung (AGH)   ()
09:35 Internalization, biodistribution, fate and toxicity of nano- and microparticles at in vitro and in vivo conditions studied with FTIR and Raman microspectroscopy - Joanna Chwiej (AGH University of Science and Technology)   ()
10:00 Improvement of prostate cancer contrast in MRI using core/shell NaDyF4/NaGdF4 nanoparticles and 9.4T MRI system - Barbara Blasiak   ()
10:15 Studying the methods and impact of normalization and analysis of data from ToF-SIMS measurements of membranous structures - Magdalena Skalska (Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:30 Combination therapy of Augur electrons with platinum nanoparticles against hepatocellular carcinoma - Kamil Wawrowicz (Center for Theranostics, Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:45 --- Coffee break ---
11:15 Fundamental studies of positronium and positronium negative ions - Yauyuki Nagashima   ()
11:40 A Quantum Information Theoretic View on PET-Imaging via Multiphoton Scatter Events - Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)   ()
09:00 Dose-3D project status - Tomasz Szumlak (AGH-UST)   ()
09:25 Computational and experimental methods applied for treatment planning, quality assurance, and research at the CCB Krakow proton therapy center - Antoni Rucinski (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)   ()
09:50 On the role of low-energy secondary electrons in radiation damage - Juraj Fedor (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry ASCR)   ()
10:15 2D-3D image registration based on ion radiographies for adaptive radiation therapy: current status and perspectives - Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)   ()
10:30 --- Coffee break ---
11:00 Nuclear quadrupole resonance in odd-A antiprotonic atoms - Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)   ()
11:25 In vivo boron monitoring in BNCT: A nuclear physicist point of view - Michał Silarski (Jagiellonian University)   ()
11:40 Geant4 simulation of detecting low, medium and high atomic number illicit objects inside cargo using cosmic ray tomography - Anzori Georgadze (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research)   ()
PM
12:10 Optimization of positronium imaging performance of simulated Modular J-PET scanner using GATE software - Szymon Parzych   ()
12:25 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Towards the Spin-, Angle-, Energy-Resolved Surface Positronium Spectroscopy - Anticipation for J-PET technology omnidirectional measurement - Atsuo Kawasuso   ()
14:25 A Monte Carlo strategy to simulate positrons and positronium in biological materials - Jan Franz   ()
14:50 Development of the test targets for J-PET experiments - Marek Gorgol   ()
15:05 Two-photon decay: from the pion to the positronium - Milena Piotrowska   ()
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50
Introductory talks for selected posters (until 17:05) ()
15:50 Normalization and scatter corrections for the Jagiellonian PET scanner - Aurélien Coussat (UJ)   ()
15:55 Application of ultra-high-dose-rate proton beam for the 3D cancer cell model – proof of concept - Martyna Durak-Kozica (Jagiellonian University)   ()
16:00 Evaluation of Positron Emission Mammography using plastic scintillator and wavelength shifters - . Shivani   ()
16:05 Evaluating performance characteristics of Modular J-PET - Faranak Tayefi Ardebili   ()
16:10 Studies of simultaneous dual-isotope imaging with multi-strip modular J-PET detector - Ermias Bayene   ()
16:15 A cross staged gantry sliding system for total body PET scanning and motion artifact free CT imaging - Muhammed Tevfik Kaplanoglu   ()
16:20 Exploring Variations in Positronium Lifetime Among Different Blood Clots through Positron Annihilation Measurement - Simbarashe Moyo (Centre of Theranostics, Jagiellonian University)   ()
16:25 Overview and Performance of the SIDDHARTA-2 Apparatus - Aleksander Khreptak   ()
16:30 Estimating the efficiency and purity for detecting annihilation and prompt photons with J-PET using toy Monte Carlo simulation - Manish Das   ()
16:35 J-PET detector approach for testing CP symmetry in the ortho-Positronium annihilation - Kavya Valsan Eliyan   ()
16:40 Towards studies of rare decays of positronium - Pooja Tanty (Jagiellonian University)   ()
16:45 Simulating Performance Characteristics of a Single Ring of the Total-Body J-PET Scanner According to NEMA NU 2-2018 - Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili   ()
16:50 Study of Polarization Correlation in positron annihilation with J-PET - Deepak Kumar   ()
16:55 Feasibility studies of Dark Photon searches with the J-PET detector - Justyna Mędrala-Sowa   ()
17:00 Estimating influence of positron range in proton therapy beam monitoring with PET - Wiktor Mryka   ()
17:05
Poster Session & Caffe (until 18:05) ()
12:05 Measurement of polarization correlations of annihilation quanta in PET and fundamental physics research - Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)   ()
12:30 Application of Quantum Entanglement Induced Polarization for Dual- Positron and Prompt Gamma Imaging - Gregory Romanchek (UIUC)   ()
12:45 Dark Matter and rare decay searches of the ortho-Positronium with the J-PET detector - Elena Perez del Rio (INFN-LNF)   ()
13:00 --- Conference Photo ---
13:10 --- Lunch ---
14:20 Testing Quantum Mechanics Underground in the Cosmic Silence Quantum Collapse models and Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation - Catalina Curceanu   ()
14:45 A bound dineutron: indirect and possible direct observations - Ihor Kadenko (International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)   ()
15:10 Direct tests of T, CP, CPT symmetries in transitions of neutral K mesons with the KLOE experiment - Eryk Czerwiński (Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian Unversity)   ()
15:35 Kaonic atoms at the DAFNE Collider in Italy: a strangeness Odyssey - Francesco Sgaramella (INFN-LNF)   ()
16:00 --- Coffee break ---
19:30 --- Conference Dinner ---
12:05 Status of CPT symmetry test with the J-PET detector - Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)   ()
12:20 --- Lunch ---
14:00 Total-Body PET performance evaluation methods with results from the uEXPLORER - Benjamin Spencer (UC Davis)   ()
14:25 Evolution of the data acquisition and processing system in JPET - Grzegorz Korcyl (Jagiellonian University)   ()
14:50 Introduction of modified MLEM algorithm for multi-photon PET image reconstruction - Lech Raczyński   ()
15:05 Application of machine learning for noise reduction and efficient event selection in PET medical imaging - Wojciech Krzemien (NCBJ)   ()
15:20 --- Coffee break ---
15:50 The Total-Body PET Scatter Correction Challenge – A Monte Carlo-Approach - Reimund Bayerlein   ()
16:15 Walk-Through PET: An Innovative, Fast and Affordable Total-Body PET - Meysam Dadgar (Ghent University)   ()
16:30 Convolutional Neural Networks in classification of multi-photon coincidences in J-PET scanner - Paweł Konieczka (NCBJ)   ()
16:45 --- Coffee break ---
17:15 FAIR activities in the direction of medical physics with or without radioactive ions - Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki   ()
17:40
Close (until 18:00) ()