2nd Symposium on new trends in nuclear and medical physics

24 Sep 2025, 08:00 → 26 Sep 2025, 18:00 Europe/Warsaw

Faculty of Physics, Astronomy and Applied Computer Science, Jagiellonian University

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

book_of_abstract_2.0.pdf

book of abstracts.pdf

Timetable_2SONT_2025_final.pdf

Timetable_2SONT_preliminary2.pdf

Timetable_2SONT_preliminary_chairs.pdf

Timetable_2SONT_preliminary.pdf

Timetable_2SONT_prelim.pdf

Wednesday, 24 September

08:00 → 09:00 Registration & Coffee

09:00 → 09:15 Opening

09:15 → 10:55 Positronium research

09:15 Direct three gamma positronium imaging and cascade gamma chemical imaging

Speaker: Kenji Shimazoe (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

09:40 Development of a high-quality, energy-tunable positronium beam via photodetachment of positronium negative ions

Speaker: Koji Michishio (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology - AIST, Japan)

SNNMP_michishio_v2.pdf

10:05 Application of Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy in Polymer Composites

Speaker: Ewa Dryzek (Institute of Nuclear Physics Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland)

3_Dryzek.pdf

10:20 Prospects for Positronium and Quantum Entanglement Imaging with J-PET

Speaker: Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

10:45 First experimental demonstration of positronium lifetime imaging with the novel radionuclide 52Mn using J-PET scanner

Speaker: Manish Das (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

Manish_Das_JS2025.pdf

10:55 → 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 → 13:05 Detection Technologies

11:30 Miniature Scintillating Detectors and SiPMs: a brief Summary and a few Applications

Speaker: Paolo Finocchiaro (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali del Sud, Italy)

1_2025-09-24_Finocchiaro_SONT-2025.pdf

11:55 Cd(Zn)Te in Medical Imaging: Academic Innovation and Market Transformation

Speaker: Tuba Conka Yildiz (Fraunhofer IIS, Germany)

12:20 Radiation Damage Monitoring in the Upgraded VELO Detector at LHCb

Speaker: Saliha Bashir (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

3_Saliha_bashir_sym.pdf

12:35 Simulated Signal Database for Improved Resolution in Position Sensitive Planar Germanium Detector

Speaker: Priyanka Priyanka (University of Delhi, India)

12:50 Development of high-Z organic scintillators for modern SPECT imaging and theranostic dosimetry

Speaker: Flaminia Quattrini (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)

5_slide_Jagiellonian_Quattrini.pdf

13:05 → 14:15 Lunch break

14:15 → 15:35 Nuclear/particle studies

14:15 Search for eta'-mesic nuclei with (p,dp) reaction at GSI/FAIR

Speaker: Yoshiki Tanaka (RIKEN, Japan)

14:40 High Precision X-ray Spectroscopy: from Kaonic Atoms to Societal Applications

Speaker: Simone Manti (INFN - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy)

2_Krakow_2025_09_24_26.pdf

15:05 µPPET, a J-PET application: investigating the Muon Puzzle

Speaker: Alessio Porcelli (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

15:20 Decay Law of Selected Fluorescent Substances

Speaker: Francesco Giacosa (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)

4_GiacosaSymp2025.pdf

15:35 → 16:05 Coffee break

16:05 → 17:10 Radiotherapy monitoring

16:05 Proton-induced nuclear reactions in the hadrontherapy energy range

Speaker: Tomasz Matulewicz (University of Warsaw, Poland)

1_MatulewiczSNMP2025.pdf

16:30 Fragmentation measurements for particle therapy with the FOOT experiment

Speaker: Aafke Kraan (INFN - Sezione di Pisa, Italy)

16:55 Plan-Guided Super-Resolution of Dose Distribution

Speaker: Kamila Kalecińska (AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland)

17:10 → 17:25 Coffee break

17:25 → 18:10 Radiotherapy monitoring

17:25 Silicon as beam-activated tumour tracer for online proton therapy monitoring – experimental study

Speaker: Magdalena Kołodziej (University of Lübeck, Germany)

17:40 In-beam PET monitoring during radioactive ion beams irradiation for real-time dose discrepacies and anatomical change detection

Speaker: Martina Moglioni (GSI, Germany)

17:55 Treatment and online PET imaging of a mouse tumor with radioactive ion beams

Speaker: Daria Boscolo (GSI, Germany)

Thursday, 25 September

09:00 → 10:35 EV/preclinical imaging

09:00 Extracellular vesicle flow cytometry: what’s possible and what’s next?

Speaker: Edvin van der Pol (Amsterdam University Medical Center, The Netherlands)

09:25 EVs as a non-invasive approach to diagnose and monitor metabolic diseases

Speaker: Ewa Stępień (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

09:50 Lipid Remodelling in Extracellular Vesicles from β-Cells under Hyperglycemic Stress - Multimodal Mass Spectrometry Approach

Speaker: Magdalena Skalska (Jagiellonian Univeristy, Poland)

03_Presentation_Skalska_vol_1.pdf

10:05 Development of a millifluidic platform for slow positron beam studies of biological samples

Speaker: Raffael Ferragut (Polytechnic of Milan, Italy)

10:20 Perspectives on Preclinical Molecular Imaging Research at the Radiopharmacy Centre, Medical University of Bialystok

Speaker: Anna Gromotowicz-Popławska (Medical University of Bialystok, Poland)

05.Radiopharmacy Centre.pdf

10:35 → 11:05 Conference photo & Coffee break

11:05 → 12:40 Radiopharmaceuticals

11:05 Nanobrachytherapy of Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Glioblastoma Multiforme Using Auger Emitters

Speaker: Agnieszka Majkowska-Pilip (Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Poland)

06_Agnieszka Majkowska-Pilip-Kraków 24-26 wrzesień 2025.pdf

11:30 Preclinical Ac-225 Imaging for Targeted Alpha Therapy: Accelerating Cancer Therapeutics

Speaker: Biswajit Das (University of California & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)

11:55 30th anniversary of the Heavy Ion Laboratory of the University of Warsaw and its contribution to the production of medical radioisotopes

Speaker: Jarosław Choiński (Heavy Ion Laboratory, University of Warsaw, Poland)

08.30th anniversary of HIL J_Choiński.pdf

12:10 Impact of the Midkine expression on the uptake of [18F]FDG and [18F]FET in chicken chorioallantoic membrane glioblastoma models

Speaker: Daniel Guendel (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany)

12:25 The 103Pd and 109Pd Bisphosphonate Complexes for Auger Electron Therapy of Bone Metastatic Tumor Cells

Speaker: Monika Łyczko (Institute of Nuclear Chemistry and Technology, Poland)

12:40 → 13:45 Lunch break

13:30 → 15:00 Poster session & coffee

13:45 Fluorescence-Guided Analysis of EV Behavior in 3D Breast Cancer Spheroids: Toward PET-Compatible Theranostics

Speaker: Kriti Awasthi (Jagiellonian University)

Research_Poster_Kriti_Awasthi_Symposium_2025.pdf

13:47 Developing efficiency maps for double isotope studies with J-PET

Speaker: Ermias Beyene (Jagiellonian University)

13:49 Graph-based event reconstruction for segmented detectors: SiFi-CM case study

Speaker: Philippe Clement (Jagiellonian University)

13:53 Study of Total-Body J-PET sensitivity as a function of the Ring Number

Speaker: Sharareh Jalali (Jagiellonian University)

Sharareh.pdf

13:55 Automated Simulation Workflow for 3D-Printed Scintillator Phantoms in Radiotherapy Planning

Speaker: Jakub Hajduga (AGH University of Science and Technology)

Jakub_Hajduga_Poster.pdf

13:57 First Laboratory Tests of the SABAT Project Sensor with a D-T Neutron Generator

Speaker: Mateusz Kaczmarek (Jagiellonian University)

13:59 Design and construction of Cross-Staged Gantry System of Total-Body J-PET/CT Scanner for Motion Artifact Free anatomic and metabolic imaging

Speaker: Tevfik Kaplanoglu (Jagiellonian University)

14:01 Optical properties and time-of-flight resolution of plastic scintillators for total-body J-PET scanner

Speaker: Łukasz Kapłon (Jagiellonian University)

SONT poster_KaplonLukasz.pdf

14:03 Studies of the absorption parameter 3γ/2γ in positronium decays

Speaker: Kamila Kasperska (Jagiellonian University)

Poster_KKasperska_2SONT2025.pdf

14:05 Normalisation Strategies in ToF-SIMS Analysis of Liver Tissue - Critical Impact on Comparative Molecular Profiling in a Diabetic Rat Model

Speaker: Michalina Kazimierczak (Jagiellonian University)

MKazimierczak.pdf

14:07 Can decay gammas from radioactive ion beams enhance prompt gamma imaging?

Speaker: Monika Kercz (Jagiellonian University)

Kercz_Ostrzolek_JagiellonianSymposiumPoster.pdf

14:09 Titanium–Scandium Radionuclide Generator: A New Approach for Sustainable Isotope Production

Speaker: Aleksander Khreptak (Jagiellonian University)

poster_Ti_Sc_generator_JS2025.pdf

14:11 MERMAID – prototype PET scanner for small aquatic animals

Speaker: Magdalena Kołodziej (University of Lübeck)

14:13 Usage of DL-based portal dose images for treatment error detection with transit dosimetry in radiotherapy

Speaker: Aafke Kraan (INFN Pisa)

14:15 Ex-Vivo Positronium Lifetime Imaging with 44Sc Using J-PET Scanner

Speaker: Karol Kubat (Jagiellonian University)

Poster_Kubat_2SNMP.pdf

14:17 Mirror matter: towards precise measurement of ortho-positronium lifetime

Speaker: Justyna Mędrala - Sowa (Jagiellonian University)

Poster_2ndSymposium_JustynaMS.pdf

14:19 Quantification of Nanoscale Free Volumes in Human Plasma Clots Using Positron Annihilation Lifetime Spectroscopy

Speaker: Simbarashe Moyo (Jagiellonian University)

simbarashe Moyo Final 2025.pdf

14:21 Towards feasibility study of Positronium yield in proton beam therapy

Speaker: Wiktor Mryka (Jagiellonian University)

2SNT_poster_WMryka_v1.pdf

14:23 Enhancement of Biological PET Imaging via Quantum Entanglement using GAGG-SiPM pixel ring detectors

Speaker: Koki Nakamura (University of Tokyo)

14:25 Feasibility study of Antihydrogen vertex imaging using the modular J-PET

Speaker: Piyush Pandey (Jagiellonian University)

Determination of annihilation vertex of antihydrogen.pdf

14:29 Extracellular Vesicles and How to Find Them

Speaker: Maciej Słotwiński (Jagiellonian University)

14:31 Towards Charge conjugation symmetry test in Electromagnetic Interaction using J-PET

Speaker: Pooja Tanty (Jagiellonian University)

TU_PTanty_EC_DT_Poster_Template.pdf

14:33 SiPM Performance Characterization for Total-Body J-PET: Hamamatsu vs. Onsemi

Speaker: Keyvan Tayefi Ardebili (Jagiellonian University)

poster_2nd.pdf

14:35 A Feasibility Study of Using Detector-Scattered Photons for Attenuation Map Generation in J-PET Scanner

Speaker: Satyam Tiwari (Jagiellonian University)

Satyam - Poster - Feasibility Studies.pdf

14:37 Developing analysis criteria for studies of CP symmetry with photons From o-Ps decay and Compton scattering with the Modular J-PET Detector

Speaker: Kavya Valsan Eliyan (Jagiellonian University)

LatestJ-PET_2025_coference_poster_kavya_MS2 2.pdf

14:39 Time-Based Separation of Scattering and Capture Processes in NAA Based on Monte Carlo Simulations in Geant4 toolkit

Speaker: Wiktor Zantowicz (Jagiellonian University)

15:00 → 18:00 (HPDA) Training

19:30 → 22:00 Conference dinner in Galicyjska Restaurant

Friday, 26 September

09:00 → 10:20 PET

09:00 Development of Advanced PET Technology for Scientific and Clinical Applications

Speaker: Qiyu Peng (Shenzhen Bay Laboratory, China)

09:25 Modern Data Correction Approaches in Positron Emission Tomography

Speaker: Reimund Bayerlein (UC Davis, USA)

09:50 Direct imaging of the three-photon annihilation process beyond PET

Speaker: Macoto Fujimoto (The University of Tokyo, Japan)

10:05 Optimizing the event selection of the total-body J-PET scanner with a brain PET insert: a simulation study

Speaker: Martin Readler (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

10:20 → 10:50 Coffee break

10:50 → 12:40 Positronium research

10:50 Tomasz Sowiński: Theoretical untangling of photon entanglement detection in positronium annihilation processes

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

11:15 Preliminary tests of positronium gathering in microcavities connected to nanochannels

Speaker: Sebastiano Mariazzi (University of Trento, Italy)

11:40 Para-positronium and beyond: probing two-photon annihilation in bound states

Speaker: Milena Piotrowska (Jan Kochanowski University, Poland)

12:05 Constraining CP Violation in Ortho-Positronium Decays at 7 Tesla with NeuroSphere PET Modules

Speaker: Magdelena Allen (MIT, MGH Martinos Center, USA)

12:20 New precision limits on CPT symmetry test in positronium with J-PET

Speaker: Neha Chug (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

12:30 Measuring the degree of entanglement in matter using a plastic-scintillator PET scanner

Speaker: Deepak Kumar (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

12:40 → 13:50 Lunch break

13:50 → 15:20 Radiotherapy monitoring

13:50 Personalization of radioligand therapy through dosimetry: Clinical opportunities and challenges

Speaker: Marta Opalińska (University Hospital in Krakow, Poland)

14:15 In vivo radiation sensing using phase-change ultrasound contrast agents

Speaker: Bram Carlier (KU Lueven, Belgium)

14:40 High-Resolution Intravital Imaging: Novel On-Chip PET and iQID Camera for Personalized Radiopharmaceutical Therapy and Microdosimetry

Speaker: Narendra Radhod (University of Bern, Switzerland)

15:05 Range Monitoring in Proton Therapy Using the J-PET Scanner: First Experimental Insights

Speaker: Szymon Niedzwiecki (Jagiellonian University, Poland)

15:20 → 15:50 Coffee break

15:50 → 17:05 Nuclear/particle studies

15:50 Probing nuclear structure using lifetime measurements

Speaker: Rudrajyoti Palit (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India)

16:15 Cold Neutron Interferometry for Fundamental Physics Experiments

Speaker: Luca Povolo (LHEP - University of Bern, Switzerland)

16:40 Scientific Computing: Remote Access, CNN Segmentation, and SARS-CoV-2 Dynamics

Speaker: Udai Singh (DESY, Germany)

17:05 → 17:25 Closing