1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON

TOTAL BODY PET FROM MICE TO MEN

June 30 – July 2 2018, Ghent (Belgium)

Preliminary program Saturday, June 30 Time Activity Speaker Tentative title Location 12.00-15.00 Exhibition setup Thagaste

hallway 16.00-17.00 Start registration Thagaste

entrance 17.00-17.10 Welcome Stefaan Vandenberghe 1st conference on Total Body

PET Augustinus Meeting room

17.10-18.10 Opening session Simon Cherry Realizing the full potential of PET: Total-body scanners and beyond

Terry Jones New opportunities for clinical research and patient care with total-body PET

18.10-20.00 Opening reception

Thagaste hallway

1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON

TOTAL BODY PET FROM MICE TO MEN

June 30 – July 2 2018, Ghent (Belgium)

Sunday, July 1 Time Activity Speaker Tentative title Location 8.00-9.00 Registration Thagaste front 9.00-10.00 Session 1 Joel Karp The PennPET Explorer with Scalable

Axial Field-of-View: Design and Initial Measurements

Augustinus Meeting room

Roel Van Holen Mice imaging using a monolithic total-body PET

10.00-10.30

Coffee break Thagaste hallway

10.30-11.30 Session 2 Simon Cherry Progress on the UCDavis explorer Augustinus Meeting room

David Mankoff Oncologic Applications of total-body PET

11.30-14.00 Lunch break Optional visit to Infinity Lab

Thagaste hallway

14.30-15.30

Session 3 Alexander Hammers

Brain and beyond: a neurologist’s vision for total-body PET

Augustinus Meeting room

Christine Parker (GSK)

Total Body PET – Perspectives for Use from the Drug Industry

15.30-16.30

Session 4 (selected 15 min talks from submissions)

Stephen Moore Feasibility of simultaneous dual-radionuclide time-of-flight PET imaging with PennPET Explorer

Augustinus Meeting room

Bijoy K. Kundu Total body dynamic FDG PET imaging of spontaneously hypertensive rats

Varsha Viswanath Dynamic Imaging on the 70-cm PennPET Explorer using GATE Simulations

1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON

TOTAL BODY PET FROM MICE TO MEN

June 30 – July 2 2018, Ghent (Belgium)

York Haemisch Complementing Total Body PET by low dose Computed x-ray Tomography (CT) using photon counting, energy dispersive x-ray detectors

16.30-17.00

Coffee break Thagaste hallway

17.00-18.15 Industry sponsored session

Sponsor presentations Augustinus Meeting room

19.00-… Walking dinner Cocteau

Monday, July 2 Time Activity Speaker Tentative title Location 8.30-9.00 Registration Thagaste

entrance 9.00-10.00 Session 4 Dimitris Visvikis Dynamic imaging options in

total-body PET Augustinus Meeting room

Stefaan Vandenberghe Monolithic high-resolution total-body PET

10.00-10.30

Coffee break Thagaste hallway

10.30-11.30 Session 5 Pawel Moskal Towards total-body modular PET from plastic scintillators

Augustinus Meeting room

Volkmar Schulz A scalable digital readout platform for total body PET-MRI

11.30-12.30 Poster session Thagaste hallway

12.30-14.30 Lunch break Boat trip

Korenlei

1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON

TOTAL BODY PET FROM MICE TO MEN

June 30 – July 2 2018, Ghent (Belgium)

14.30-16.30 Session 6 (Selected 15 min talks from submissions)

Tahereh Niknejad DevelopmentofadetectormodulewithimprovedtimingresolutionforTime-of-FlightPETwithsingle-sidedreadoutandDOIcapability

Augustinus Meeting room

Chin-Tu Chen PreliminaryinvestigationofATCAelectronicsfortotalbodyPETdataprocessing

Mariele Stockhoff

OpticalsimulationstudyforhighresolutionmonolithicdetectordesignforTB-PET

A.J.Gonzalez

PilotevaluationoftheMINDViewbrainPETinsert,basedonmonolithicLYSOblocks,ina3TMRI

YangLv

Mini-EXPLORERII:aprototypehigh-sensitivityPET/CTscannerforcompanionanimalwholebodyandhumanbrainscanning

VarshaViswanath

Quantifyingimprovedlesiondetectabilityofthe70-cmPennPETExplorerusingGATEsimulations

MayaAbiAkl

MonteCarlostudyofacompacttotalbodyPETwithmonolithicscintillators

WeijieTao

Total-bodyTOF-PET:2metersor1.4meters?

16.30-17.00 Closing session

1ST MULTIDISCIPLINARY CONFERENCE ON

TOTAL BODY PET FROM MICE TO MEN

June 30 – July 2 2018, Ghent (Belgium)