Monday, October 21, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:00 - 09:30 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.
 
09:30 - 10:00 Invited talk: Portal imaging with mixed beams: Status and future potential (TUtheSky) - L. Volz (GSI)
 
10:00 - 10:40 Radiography & Mixed Beams 1 (TUtheSky) - F. Ulrich-Pur (+)  
10:00 - 10:20 › Experimental Proton and Helium Scanning Beam Radiography with Clinical Scanner Prototype - Alexander Pryanichnikov, German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg]  
10:20 - 10:40 › Single Plane Position Tracking Proton and Helium Radiography: Feasibility Study - Lukas Martin, German Cancer Research Center - Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum [Heidelberg]  
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break (TUtheSky)  
11:10 - 12:10 Ion Imaging Systems & Detector Technology 1 (TUtheSky) - F. Ulrich-Pur (+)  
11:10 - 11:30 › Performance and prototype studies for the Bergen pCT tracking calorimeter - Matthias Richter, University of Bergen, Department of Physics and Technology  
11:30 - 11:50 › Development of a single-event Proton Radiography apparatus - Carlo Civinini, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze  
11:50 - 12:10 › Towards a clinical prototype scintillator-based proton radiography system - Saad Shaikh, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London  
12:10 - 13:30 Lunch + Group photo (TUtheSky)  
13:30 - 14:00 Invited talk: MedAustron - Medicine and Research (TUtheSky) - L. Jägerhofer (MedAustron)  
14:00 - 14:40 Facilities (TUtheSky) - T. Bergauer (+)  
14:00 - 14:20 › First experimental demonstration of generating mixed carbon and helium ion beams using a sequential injection scheme - Matthias Kausel, MedAustron, Technische Universität Wien  
14:20 - 14:40 › Mixed Carbon and Helium Ion Beams at MedAustron: Acceleration and Extraction - Elisabeth Renner, Technische Universität Wien  
14:40 - 15:10 Coffee break (TUtheSky)  
15:10 - 16:10 Time-of-flight Ion Imaging (TUtheSky) - N. Krah (+)  
15:10 - 15:30 › Plastic-scintillator based proton radiograhpy relying on time of flight measurement: the tofprad project - Giacomo Traini, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare [Sezione di Roma 1]  
15:30 - 15:50 › Reconstruction approaches for TOF-based proton radiography - Pavel Kavrigin, Laboratoire de Physique Subatomique et de Cosmologie  
15:50 - 16:10 › Ion imaging with 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, GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung  
16:10 - 16:40 Upright Proton Therapy: A New Opportunity for Proton Imaging (TUtheSky) - M. Jones (Mevion)
 
19:00 - 22:00 Workshop dinner (Restaurant)  

Tuesday, October 22, 2024

Time Event (+)
09:30 - 10:30 Radiography & Mixed Beams 2 (TUtheSky) - S. Rit (+)  
09:30 - 09:50 › Water-equivalent thickness accuracy of a helium-beam radiograph showing an anthropomorphic head phantom and comparison to projections of a reference data set and X-ray CT modalities - Margareta Metzner, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO) and National Center for Research in Radiation Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University  
09:50 - 10:10 › 2.5D Imaging: Extracting depth information from helium-beam radiographs for range verification in ion-beam therapy - Tim Gehrke, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Division of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO) and National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO), Heidelberg  
10:10 - 10:30 › Simulation of online treatment monitoring in carbon therapy using mixed carbon helium beams - Jennifer Hardt, Department of Medical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg Institute for Radiation Oncology (HIRO) and National Center for Radiation Research in Oncology (NCRO)  
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break (TUtheSky)  
11:00 - 11:40 Ion Imaging Systems & Detector Technology 2 (TUtheSky) (+)  
11:00 - 11:20 › A high flux beam-telescope for ion radiography and imaging applications - Maximilian Babeluk, Austrian Academy of Sciences  
11:20 - 11:40 › Silicon Carbide for Beam Monitoring and Ion FLASH Beams - Andreas Gsponer, Institute of High Energy Physics, Austrian Academy of Sciences  
11:40 - 12:20 Reconstruction Methods & Simulation 1 (TUtheSky) - M. Simard (+)  
11:40 - 12:00 › An experimental imaging dose estimation method for the Phase II proton CT scanner - Lei Chen, Department of Radiation Oncology, LMU University Hospital, LMU Munich, Munich, Germany  
12:00 - 12:20 › Direct measurements of prosthesis stopping power maps using proton computed thomography - mara bruzzi, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Firenze, Università degli Studi di Firenze = University of Florence  
12:20 - 13:40 Lunch (TUtheSky)  
13:40 - 14:40 Reconstruction Methods & Simulation 2 (TUtheSky) (+)  
13:40 - 14:00 › Super-resolution integrated mode proton imaging from paired proton-carbon data - Mikael Simard, Department of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, University College London  
14:00 - 14:20 › Differentiable Most-Likely Path Estimation for Model-Based and Data-Driven Optimization of the RSP Calibration Using Sparse Ion Projection Data - Ines Butz, Department of Physics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München  
14:20 - 14:40 › How to simulate ion CT with the new python-based Geant4 Monte Carlo software GATE 10 - Nils Krah, CREATIS, CNRS, Centre Léon Bérard, INSA Lyon, France  
14:40 - 15:30 Closing with coffee (TUtheSky)