Symposium on new trends in nuclear and medical physics

18 Oct 2023, 08:00 → 20 Oct 2023, 18:00 Europe/Warsaw

Theranostics Center

Magdalena Skurzok (Jagiellonian University) , Sushil Sharma (Jagiellonian University)

Wednesday, 18 October

08:00 → 09:00 Registration

09:00 → 09:30 Opening

Conveners: Ewa Stępień, Piotr Salabura

09:30 → 10:10 Principles and Recent Developments in BNCT

Speaker: Wolfgang Sauerwien

10:10 → 10:35 Cutting edge positronium research with J-PET

Speaker: Paweł Moskal

10:35 → 11:05 Coffee break

11:05 → 11:30 Measuring Positronium Lifetimes using 22Na, 68Ga and 82Rb Sources in a Long-Axial FOV PET Scanner

Speaker: William Steinberger

11:30 → 11:55 PET scatter estimation based on measured energy signals

Speaker: Jim Hamil

11:55 → 12:10 Positronium imaging in J-PET with an iterative activity reconstruction and a multi-stage fitting algorithm

Speaker: Roman Shopa

12:10 → 12:25 Optimization of positronium imaging performance of simulated Modular J-PET scanner using GATE software

Speaker: Szymon Parzych

12:25 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 Towards the Spin-, Angle-, Energy-Resolved Surface Positronium Spectroscopy - Anticipation for J-PET technology omnidirectional measurement

Speaker: Atsuo Kawasuso

14:25 → 14:50 A Monte Carlo strategy to simulate positrons and positronium in biological materials

Speaker: Jan Franz

14:50 → 15:05 Development of the test targets for J-PET experiments

Speaker: Marek Gorgol

15:05 → 15:20 Two-photon decay: from the pion to the positronium

Speaker: Milena Piotrowska

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 17:05 Introductory talks for selected posters

15:50 Normalization and scatter corrections for the Jagiellonian PET scanner

Speaker: Aurélien Coussat (UJ)

15:55 Application of ultra-high-dose-rate proton beam for the 3D cancer cell model – proof of concept

Speaker: Martyna Durak-Kozica (Jagiellonian University)

16:00 Evaluation of Positron Emission Mammography using plastic scintillator and wavelength shifters

Speaker: . Shivani

16:05 Evaluating performance characteristics of Modular J-PET

Speaker: Faranak Tayefi Ardebili

16:10 Studies of simultaneous dual-isotope imaging with multi-strip modular J-PET detector

Speaker: Ermias Bayene

16:15 A cross staged gantry sliding system for total body PET scanning and motion artifact free CT imaging

Speaker: Muhammed Tevfik Kaplanoglu

16:20 Exploring Variations in Positronium Lifetime Among Different Blood Clots through Positron Annihilation Measurement

Speaker: Simbarashe Moyo (Centre of Theranostics, Jagiellonian University)

16:25 Overview and Performance of the SIDDHARTA-2 Apparatus

Speaker: Aleksander Khreptak

16:30 Estimating the efficiency and purity for detecting annihilation and prompt photons with J-PET using toy Monte Carlo simulation

Speaker: Manish Das

16:35 J-PET detector approach for testing CP symmetry in the ortho-Positronium annihilation

Speaker: Kavya Valsan Eliyan

16:40 Towards studies of rare decays of positronium

Speaker: 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

Speaker: Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili

16:50 Study of Polarization Correlation in positron annihilation with J-PET

Speaker: Deepak Kumar

16:55 Feasibility studies of Dark Photon searches with the J-PET detector

Speaker: Justyna Mędrala-Sowa

poster_presentation.pdf

17:00 Estimating influence of positron range in proton therapy beam monitoring with PET

Speaker: Wiktor Mryka

17:05 → 18:05 Poster Session & Caffe

Thursday, 19 October

08:45 → 09:10 Extracellular vesicles – their role beyond intracellular communication

Speaker: Ewa Stepien (Uniwersytet Jagiellonski)

09:10 → 09:35 New trends in clinical and retrospective dosimetry

Speaker: Aleksandra Jung (AGH)

09:35 → 10:00 Internalization, biodistribution, fate and toxicity of nano- and microparticles at in vitro and in vivo conditions studied with FTIR and Raman microspectroscopy

Speaker: Joanna Chwiej (AGH University of Science and Technology)

10:00 → 10:15 Improvement of prostate cancer contrast in MRI using core/shell NaDyF4/NaGdF4 nanoparticles and 9.4T MRI system

Speaker: Barbara Blasiak

10:15 → 10:30 Studying the methods and impact of normalization and analysis of data from ToF-SIMS measurements of membranous structures

Speaker: Magdalena Skalska (Jagiellonian University)

10:30 → 10:45 Combination therapy of Augur electrons with platinum nanoparticles against hepatocellular carcinoma

Speaker: Kamil Wawrowicz (Center for Theranostics, Jagiellonian University)

10:45 → 11:15 Coffee break

11:15 → 11:40 Fundamental studies of positronium and positronium negative ions

Speaker: Yauyuki Nagashima

11:40 → 12:05 A Quantum Information Theoretic View on PET-Imaging via Multiphoton Scatter Events

Speaker: Beatrix Hiesmayr (University of Vienna)

12:05 → 12:30 Measurement of polarization correlations of annihilation quanta in PET and fundamental physics research

Speaker: Mihael Makek (Department of Physics, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb)

Makek_Krakow2023_wide.pptx

12:30 → 12:45 Application of Quantum Entanglement Induced Polarization for Dual- Positron and Prompt Gamma Imaging

Speaker: Gregory Romanchek (UIUC)

12:45 → 13:00 Dark Matter and rare decay searches of the ortho-Positronium with the J-PET detector

Speaker: Elena Perez del Rio (INFN-LNF)

13:00 → 13:10 Conference Photo

13:10 → 14:20 Lunch

14:20 → 14:45 Testing Quantum Mechanics Underground in the Cosmic Silence Quantum Collapse models and Pauli Exclusion Principle Violation

Speaker: Catalina Curceanu

14:45 → 15:10 A bound dineutron: indirect and possible direct observations

Speaker: Ihor Kadenko (International Nuclear Safety Center of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv)

15:10 → 15:35 Direct tests of T, CP, CPT symmetries in transitions of neutral K mesons with the KLOE experiment

Speaker: Eryk Czerwiński (Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian Unversity)

czerwinski_KLOE-2_4-3.pdf

15:35 → 16:00 Kaonic atoms at the DAFNE Collider in Italy: a strangeness Odyssey

Speaker: Francesco Sgaramella (INFN-LNF)

Sgaramella_SNNMP2023.pdf

16:00 → 16:30 Coffee break

19:30 → 22:50 Conference Dinner

Friday, 20 October

09:00 → 09:25 Dose-3D project status

Speaker: Tomasz Szumlak (AGH-UST)

09:25 → 09:50 Computational and experimental methods applied for treatment planning, quality assurance, and research at the CCB Krakow proton therapy center

Speaker: Antoni Rucinski (Instytut Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)

Rucinski.pdf

09:50 → 10:15 On the role of low-energy secondary electrons in radiation damage

Speaker: Juraj Fedor (J. Heyrovsky Institute of Physical Chemistry ASCR)

10:15 → 10:30 2D-3D image registration based on ion radiographies for adaptive radiation therapy: current status and perspectives

Speaker: Martin Rädler (Department of Experimental Particle Physics and Applications, Jagiellonian University)

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 11:25 Nuclear quadrupole resonance in odd-A antiprotonic atoms

Speaker: Tomasz Sowiński (Institute of Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences)

11:25 → 11:40 In vivo boron monitoring in BNCT: A nuclear physicist point of view

Speaker: Michał Silarski (Jagiellonian University)

11:40 → 12:05 Geant4 simulation of detecting low, medium and high atomic number illicit objects inside cargo using cosmic ray tomography

Speaker: Anzori Georgadze (Kiev Institute for Nuclear Research)

12:05 → 12:20 Status of CPT symmetry test with the J-PET detector

Speaker: Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University)

12:20 → 14:00 Lunch

14:00 → 14:25 Total-Body PET performance evaluation methods with results from the uEXPLORER

Speaker: Benjamin Spencer (UC Davis)

14:25 → 14:50 Evolution of the data acquisition and processing system in JPET

Speaker: Grzegorz Korcyl (Jagiellonian University)

PET_DAQ_2023.pdf

PET_DAQ_2023.pptx

14:50 → 15:05 Introduction of modified MLEM algorithm for multi-photon PET image reconstruction

Speaker: Lech Raczyński

15:05 → 15:20 Application of machine learning for noise reduction and efficient event selection in PET medical imaging

Speaker: Wojciech Krzemien (NCBJ)

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 16:15 The Total-Body PET Scatter Correction Challenge – A Monte Carlo-Approach

Speaker: Reimund Bayerlein

16:15 → 16:30 Walk-Through PET: An Innovative, Fast and Affordable Total-Body PET

Speaker: Meysam Dadgar (Ghent University)

16:30 → 16:45 Convolutional Neural Networks in classification of multi-photon coincidences in J-PET scanner

Speaker: Paweł Konieczka (NCBJ)

16:45 → 17:15 Coffee break

17:15 → 17:40 FAIR activities in the direction of medical physics with or without radioactive ions

Speaker: Nasser Kalantar-Nayestanaki

17:40 → 18:00 Close