IEEE 2018 NSS/MIC/RTSD Online Program

Saturday, 10 Nov, 2018

• Registration

  Saturday, 10 November, 2018

  7:30 AM – 10:00 AM Registration East

  Registration
• SC-1

  Short Course

  Saturday, 10 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.1

  Integrated Circuits for Detector Signal Processing

  O'Connor, Paul, (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, US)
• SC-2

  Short Course

  Saturday, 10 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.2

  Detection and Measurement in Radiation Medicine

  Wehe, David, K. (University of Michigan, US)
• SC-3

  Short Course

  Saturday, 10 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.3

  Biomedical Imaging Fundamentals

  Peterson, Todd, E. (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, US)

Sunday, 11 Nov, 2018

• SC-6

  Short Course

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.1

  Image Analysis and Statistics

  Kupinski, Matthew, (University of Arizona, College of Optical Sciences, Tucson, US)
• SC-5

  Short Course

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.2

  PET/MR: Principles and Applications

  El Fakhri, Georges, (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Radiology Department, Boston, US)
• SC-4

  Short Course

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.3

  Organic Electronics and Detectors

  Petasecca, Marco, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Australia)
• NSS-WS1 I

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  8:30 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.8

  Instrumentation and Measurement in Nuclear Media Workshop - IMNM

  Lyoussi, Abdallah, (CEA / French Atomic Energy Commission, DEN/DER/SPEX/LDCI, Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France); Le Du, Patrick, (Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lyon, France)
• NSS-WS2 I

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  9:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.9

  Workshop on DEtectores for Underground Searches of new physics - DEUS (

  Prokopovich, Dale, A. (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
• Break

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  9:50 AM – 10:20 AM Meeting Room C4.8, Meeting Room C4.9, Meeting Room C4.10

  Coffee Break
• NSS-WS1 II

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Instrumentation and Measurement in Nuclear Media Workshop - IMNM
• NSS-WS2 II

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 1:30 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  Workshop on DEtectores for Underground Searches of new physics - DEUS (

  Prokopovich, Dale, A. (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
• Break

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Lunch
• NSS-WS3 I

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  1:00 PM – 3:30 PM Meeting Room C4.10

  Workshop on Technology Commercialisation

  Tickner, James, (Chrysos Corporation, Australia); Stres, Spela, (Jožef Stefan Institute, Center for technology transfer and innovation, Ljubljana, Slovenia)
• NSS-WS1 III

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Instrumentation and Measurement in Nuclear Media Workshop - IMNM
• NSS-WS3 II

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.10

  Workshop on Technology Commercialisation

  Stres, Spela, (Jožef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia); Tickner, James, R. (Chrysos Corporation, Adelaide, Australia)
• NSS-WS1 IV

  Workshop

  Sunday, 11 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Instrumentation and Measurement in Nuclear Media Workshop - IMNM

Monday, 12 Nov, 2018

• N-01

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Darling Harbour Theatre

  NSS Plenary I

  Woody, Craig, (Brookhaven National Laboratorty, Physics Department, Upton, US); Taylor, Geoffrey, N. (University of Melbourne, School of Physics, Australia)
• SC-9

  Short Course

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.1

  Medical Image Reconstruction: Theory and Practice

  Tsoumpas, Charalampos, (University of Leeds, Division of Biomedical Imaging, Leeds, UK)
• SC-8

  Short Course

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.2

  GATE, a GEANT4 Based Simulation Toolkit

  Pietrzyk, Uwe, K. (University of Wuppertal, Mathematic and Natural Sciences, Wuppertal, Germany)
• SC-7

  Short Course

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C4.3

  Advanced Photodetectors

  Korpar, Samo, (University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia)
• Break

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, Park Side Ballroom

  Coffee Break
• N-02

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  10:30 AM – 12:08 PM Darling Harbour Theatre

  NSS Plenary II

  Woody, Craig, (Brookhaven National Laboratorty, Physics Department, Upton, US); Guazzoni, Chiara, (Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milano, Italy)
• Break

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, Park Side Ballroom

  Lunch
• N-03

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay I

  Photodetectors I

  Garutti, Erika, (University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany); Tsang, Thomas, (Brookhaven National Laboratory, US)
• N-04

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay II

  Synchrotron and FEL Instrumentation I

  Fahim, Farah, (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, US); Fiorini, Carlo, (Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milano, Italy)
• N-05

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Creative Computing

  Pia, Maria Grazia, (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Genova, Genova, Italy); Fabris, Lorenzo, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Isotope and Fuel Cycle Technology Division, Oak Ridge, US)
• N-06

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  DAQ, Trigger and FEE I

  Purschke, Martin, L. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Upton, US); Tétrault, Marc-André, (Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Charlestown, US)
• R-01

  RTSD Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD Opening

  Fiederle, Michael, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Freiburg, Germany); James, Ralph, B. (Savannah River National Laboratory, Science & Technology Directorate, Aiken, US)
• Break

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, Park Side Ballroom

  Coffee Break
• R-02

  RTSD Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD Pixel Detectors

  He, Zhong, (University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Science, Ann Arbor, US); Prokopovich, Dale, A. (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
• N-07

  NSS Session

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Park Side Ballroom

  NSS Poster I

  Charlebois, Serge, A. (Université de Sherbrooke, 3IT, Canada); Le Du, Patrick, (IPNL,IN2P3, France)
• Social Events

  Monday, 12 November, 2018

  7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II

  NSS Dinner

Tuesday, 13 Nov, 2018

• N-08

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Darling Harbour Theatre

  NSS Plenary III

  Woody, Craig, (Brookhaven National Laboratorty, Physics Department, Upton, US); Taylor, Geoffrey, N. (University of Melbourne, School of Physics, Australia)
• R-03

  RTSD Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD Detector Systems

  Iwanczyk, Jan, S. (DxRay, Inc., Northridge, US); Mc Laren, Robert,
• Break

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  9:50 AM – 10:20 AM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Meeting Room C4.5, Meeting Room C4.9

  Coffee Break
• N-09

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Cockle Bay I

  Nuclear Instrumentation and Measurements for Reactors

  Joyce, Malcolm, J. (Lancaster University, Department of Engineering, Lancaster, UK); Lyoussi, Abdallah, (CEA / French Atomic Energy Commission, DEN/DER/SPEX/LDCI, Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France)
• JS-01

  Joint Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Darling Harbour Theatre

  NSS-MIC-RTSD Joint Session

  Sellin, Paul, (University of Surrey, Department of Physics, Guildford, UK); Sossi, Vesna, (University of British Columbia, Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, Canada)
• N-10

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Nuclear Physics Instrumentation

  Mannel, Eric, J. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Dept, Upton, US); McKisson, Jack, E. (Jefferson Lab, Newport News, US)
• N-11

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation I

  Parsons, Ann, M. (NASA/ Goddard Space Flight Center, US); Nowicki, Suzanne, F. (Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, US)
• N-12

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  DAQ, Trigger and FEE II

  Purschke, Martin, L. (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Physics Department, Upton, US); Ritt, Stefan, (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), NUM, Villigen, Switzerland)
• MIC-WS1 I

  Workshop

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:35 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  New Technologies in Hadron Therapy Workshop

  Penfold, Scott, (Royal Adelaide Hospital, Medical Physics, Adelaide, Australia); Jackson, Michael, A. (Prince of Wales Hospital, Radiation Oncology, Randwick, Australia); Le Du, Patrick, (IPNL,IN2P3, France); Ahern, Verity, (Sydney West Radiation Oncology Network, Radiation Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Wentowrthville, Australia); Parodi, Katia, (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Department for Medical Physics, Garching, Germany); Paganetti, Harald, (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Radiation Oncology, Boston, US)
• Break

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Meeting Room C4.5

  Lunch
• Break

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  12:35 PM – 1:20 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  Lunch
• MIC-WS1 II

  Workshop

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  1:20 PM – 3:45 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  New Technologies in Hadron Therapy Workshop

  Schulte, Reinhard, W. (Loma Linda University, Department of Basic Sciences, Division of Radiation Research, Loma Linda, US); Welsh, James, (Hines VA Hospital and Loyola University, Radiation Oncology, Chicago, US); Yamaya, Taiga, (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Chiba, Japan); Guatelli, Susanna, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Australia); Rozenfeld, Anatoly, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics/ School of Physics, Wollongong, Australia); Prokopovich, Dale, A. (Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Australia)
• N-13

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay I

  Analog & Digital Circuits I

  Carminati, Marco, (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy); Nolet, Frederic, (Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada)
• JS-02

  Joint Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Darling Harbour Theatre

  NSS-MIC Joint Session

  Da Via, Cinzia, (University of Manchester, UK); Darambara, Dimitra, G. (The Institute of Cancer Research & The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, London, UK)
• N-14

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Trusting Software?

  Pfeiffer, Dorothea, (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland); Ronchieri, Elisabetta, (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, CNAF, Bologna, Italy)
• N-15

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Radiation Damage Effects and Rad Hard Devices

  Dalla Betta, Gian-Franco, (University of Trento and INFN, Department of Industrial Engineering, Trento, Italy); Gabrielli, Alessandro, (INFN Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna, Italy)
• Break

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Meeting Room C4.5

  Coffee Break
• Break

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  3:45 PM – 4:00 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  Coffee Break
• JS-03

  Joint Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Darling Harbour Theatre

  Hadron therapy and microdosimetry Joint Session

  Lerch, Michael, L. F. (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia); Parodi, Katia, (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Department for Medical Physics, Garching, Germany)
• N-16

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Experimental Computing

  Da Via, Cinzia, (University of Manchester, UK); Brubaker, Erik, (Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, US)
• N-17

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation II

  O'Connor, Paul, (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, US); Moiseev, Alexander, (CRESST/NASA/GSFC and University of Maryland, Astronomy, Greenbelt, US)
• N-18

  NSS Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 6:06 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  DAQ, Trigger and FEE III

  Tétrault, Marc-André, (Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Charlestown, US); Ritt, Stefan, (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), NUM, Villigen, Switzerland)
• R-04

  RTSD Session

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 6:30 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD RTSD Award + Crystal Growth

  James, Ralph, B. (Savannah River National Laboratory, Science & Technology Directorate, Aiken, US); Fiederle, Michael, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Freiburg, Germany)
• Social Events

  Tuesday, 13 November, 2018

  6:00 PM – 7:30 PM The Gallery

  Exhibitor Reception

Wednesday, 14 Nov, 2018

• N-19

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay I

  Instrumentation for Homeland and Nuclear Security I: Active Interrogation and Radiography

  Erickson, Anna, S. (Georgia Institute of Technology, Woodruff School of Mechanical Engineering, Nuclear and Radiological Engineering, Atlanta, US)
• N-20

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay II

  Scintillator Materials I

  Nikl, Martin, (CAS, Institute of Physics, Prague, Czech Republic); Martinez Turtos, Rosana, (CERN, EP-CMX-DA, Geneva 23, Switzerland)
• M-01

  MIC Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Darling Harbour Theatre

  MIC Plenary I: Opening, Keynote Address and Hoffman Award

  Meikle, Steven, R. (University of Sydney, Brain and Mind Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Camperdown, Australia); Yamaya, Taiga, (National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science and Technology (QST), National Institute of Radiological Sciences (NIRS), Chiba, Japan)
• N-21

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  High Energy Physics Instrumentation I

  Gregor, Ingrid-Maria, (DESY, ATLAS, Hamburg, Germany); Garutti, Erika, (University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany)
• Exhibition

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.8

  Exhibitor Presentation

  Cutajar, Dean, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia); Caucci, Luca, (University of Arizona, Department of Medical Imaging, Tucson, US)
• R-05

  RTSD Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Park Side Ballroom

  RTSD Poster Session
• Break

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  9:50 AM – 10:20 AM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, The Gallery, Meeting Room C4.5, Park Side Ballroom, Meeting Room C4.4, Meeting Room C4.8

  Coffee Break
• M-02

  MIC Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Darling Harbour Theatre

  MIC Plenary 2: Keynote Address and Hasegawa Young Investigator Award

  Lee, Jae Sung, (Seoul National University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Seoul, South Korea); Egan, Gary, (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia)
• R-06

  RTSD Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD Material Characterization

  Fornaro, Laura, (Universidad de la República, Uruguay); Rozenfeld, Anatoly, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics/ School of Physics, Wollongong, Australia)
• Exhibition

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Exhibitor Presentation

  Cutajar, Dean, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia); Caucci, Luca, (University of Arizona, Department of Medical Imaging, Tucson, US)
• N-22

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Park Side Ballroom

  NSS Poster II

  Moszyński, Marek, (National Centre for Nuclear Research (NCBJ), Radiation Detector's Division, Świerk (Otwock), Poland); Clarke, Shaun, D. (University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering & Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, US)
• MLT

  Workshop

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Cockle Bay II

  Machine Learning Tutorial

  Reader, Andrew, J. (King's College London, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, London, UK)
• Break

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Meeting Room C4.5, The Gallery, Park Side Ballroom, Meeting Room C4.4, Meeting Room C4.8

  Lunch
• N-23

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay I

  Instrumentation for Homeland and Nuclear Security II: Detectors

  Flaska, Marek, (Pennsylvania State University, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, University Park, US); Ziock, Klaus - Peter, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), NSITD, Oak Ridge, US)
• N-24

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay II

  Synchrotron and FEL Instrumentation II

  Porro, Matteo, (European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany); Carini, Gabriella, (Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, US)
• N-25

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Scintillation Detectors I

  Brubaker, Erik, (Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, US); Wright, Michael, C. (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, US)
• N-26

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  High Energy Physics Instrumentation II

  Gregor, Ingrid-Maria, (DESY, ATLAS, Hamburg, Germany); Ruchti, Randy, (National Science Foundation, Physics Division, Alexandria, US)
• R-07

  RTSD Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD CdZnTe Detectors

  Frojdh, Christer, (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
• Exhibition

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Exhibitor Presentation

  Cutajar, Dean, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia); Caucci, Luca, (University of Arizona, Department of Medical Imaging, Tucson, US)
• M-03

  MIC Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Park Side Ballroom

  Poster

  Metzler, Scott, D. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Rafecas, Magdalena, (University of Lübeck, Institute of Medical Engineering, Lübeck, Germany)
• Break

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Meeting Room C3.6, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, The Gallery, Park Side Ballroom, Meeting Room C4.4, Meeting Room C4.8

  Coffee Break
• N-27

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Cockle Bay I

  Neutron Detectors and Instrumentation I

  Engels, Ralf, (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany); Kouzes, Richard, T. (Pacific Northwest National Laboraotry (PNNL), Richland, US)
• M-04

  MIC Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Cockle Bay II

  New radiation detector technologies 1

  Surti, Suleman, (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Levin, Craig, S. (Stanford University, Radiology, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Bioengineering, Stanford, US)
• N-28

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Gaseous Detectors I - Developments

  Takahashi, Hiroyuki, (University of Tokyo, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Management, Bunkyo, Japan); Hall-Wilton, Richard, J. (European Spallation Source ERIC, Lund, Sweden)
• N-29

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Semiconductor Detectors I

  Castoldi, Andrea, (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy); Dalla Betta, Gian-Franco, (University of Trento and INFN, Department of Industrial Engineering, Trento, Italy)
• N-30

  NSS Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  Scintillator Materials II

  Derby, Jeffrey, J. (University of Minnesota, US); Gundacker, Stefan, (Switzerland)
• M-05

  MIC Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.4

  Simulation and modelling of imaging systems

  El Fakhri, Georges, (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Radiology Department, Boston, US); Hutton, Brian, F. (University College London, Institute of Nuclear Medicine, London, UK)
• R-08

  RTSD Session

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD - Perovskite Materials

  Sellin, Paul, (University of Surrey, Department of Physics, Guildford, UK)
• Exhibition

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.8

  Exhibitor Presentation

  Cutajar, Dean, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Wollongong, Australia); Caucci, Luca, (University of Arizona, Department of Medical Imaging, Tucson, US)
• Social Events

  Wednesday, 14 November, 2018

  7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Grand Ballroom

  Conference Reception

Thursday, 15 Nov, 2018

• N-31

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay I

  Photodetectors II

  Ziemons, Karl, (FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Medical Engineering a. Technomathematics, Juelich, Germany); Retiere, Fabrice, (TRIUMF, Vancouver, Canada)
• N-32

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay II

  Semiconductor Detectors II

  Bates, Richard, L. (University of Glasgow, Physics and Astronomy, UK); Andricek, Ladislav, (MPG Semiconductor Laboratory, München, Germany)
• M-06

  MIC Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Darling Harbour Theatre

  MIC Plenary 3: IEEE NPSS Christopher J Thompson Student Award Finalists

  Sossi, Vesna, (University of British Columbia, Physics and Astronomy, Vancouver, Canada); Cherry, Simon, R. (University of California, Davis, US)
• N-33

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C3.3

  Neutron and Gamma Imaging I: Gamma Imaging Techniques and Advancements

  Nishimura, Kurtis, (University of Hawaii, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Honolulu, US); Nowicki, Suzanne, F. (Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, US)
• R-09

  RTSD Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD TlBr Detectors

  Mandal, Krishna, C. (University of South Carolina, Department of Electrical Engineering, Columbia, US)
• Break

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  9:50 AM – 10:20 AM Park Side Ballroom, Meeting Room C4.5, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Darling Harbour Theatre

  Coffee Break
• N-34

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Cockle Bay I

  Neutron Detectors and Instrumentation II

  Schuster, Patricia, (University of Michigan, Nuclear Engineering, Ann Arbor, US); Flaska, Marek, (Pennsylvania State University, Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, University Park, US)
• N-35

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Cockle Bay II

  Analog & Digital Circuits II

  Fabris, Lorenzo, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Nuclear Security and Isotope Tecchnology Division, Oak Ridge, US); Pratte, Jean-Francois, (Université de Sherbrooke, Canada)
• N-36

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  High Energy Physics Instrumentation III

  Zhu, Ren-Yuan, (California Institute of Technology, 256-48, HEP, Pasadena, US); Gregor, Ingrid-Maria, (DESY, ATLAS, Hamburg, Germany)
• N-37

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Scintillator Materials III

  Kim, HongJoo, (Kyungpook National University, Department of Physics, Daegu, South Korea); Biswas, Koushik, (Arkansas State University, US)
• R-10

  RTSD Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD CdZnTe Detectors 2

  Fraboni, Beatrice, (University of Bologna, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Bologna, Italy)
• M-07

  MIC Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Park Side Ballroom

  Poster

  Peterson, Todd, E. (Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, US); Zhang, Jun, (Ohio State University, Radiology, Wright Center of Innovation in Biomedical Imaging, Columbus, US)
• Break

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Darling Harbour Theatre, Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, Meeting Room C4.4

  Lunch
• WIE

  Special Event

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  Women in Engineering

  Guatelli, Susanna, (University of Wollongong, Centre for Medical Radiation Physics, Australia); Da Via, Cinzia, (University of Manchester, UK)
• N-38

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay I

  Instrumentation for Homeland and Nuclear Security III: Algorithms and Techniques

  Abbaszadeh, Shiva, (University of Illinois, Nuclear, Plasma, and Radiological Engineering, Urbana, US); Labov, Simon, E. (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Nuclear and Chemical Sciences Division, Livermore, US)
• M-08

  MIC Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay II

  New radiation detector technologies 2

  Schaart, Dennis, R. (Delft University of Technology, Radiation Science and Technology, Delft, Netherlands); Krishnamoorthy, Srilalan, (University of Pennsylvania, Dept of Radiology, Philadelphia, US)
• N-39

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Gaseous Detectors II - Developments and Applications

  Tremsin, Anton, S. (University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, US)
• N-40

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Scintillation Detectors II

  Ziock, Klaus - Peter, (Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), NSITD, Oak Ridge, US)
• M-09

  MIC Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C4.4

  Tomographic image reconstruction 1

  Rahmim, Arman, (University of British Columbia, Department of Radiology, Vancouver, Canada); Rezaei, Ahmadreza, (KU Leuven, UZ, Medical Imaging Research Center, Leuven, Belgium)
• R-11

  RTSD Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD Detector Systems 2

  Boardman, David, (ANSTO, Lucas Heights, Australia)
• Break

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, Meeting Room C4.4

  Coffee Break
• N-41

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Cockle Bay I

  Neutron Detectors and Instrumentation III

  Brubaker, Erik, (Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Livermore, US); Pozzi, Sara, A. (University of Michigan, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, Ann Arbor, US)
• M-10

  MIC Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Cockle Bay II

  High resolution imaging systems

  Karp, Joel, S. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Roncali, Emilie, (University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Davis, US)
• N-42

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Analog & Digital Circuits III

  De Geronimo, Gianluigi, (Stony Brook University, ECE Department, Stony Brook, US); Fahim, Farah, (Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Batavia, US)
• N-43

  NSS Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Semiconductor Detectors III

  Sadrozinski, Hartmut, (University of California, Santa Cruz, SCIPP, Nat Sci 2, US); Steinbrueck, Georg, (University of Hamburg, Institut für Experimantalphysik, Germany)
• M-11

  MIC Session

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C4.4

  Clinical emission tomography instrumentation

  Dahlbom, Magnus, (David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Division of Nuclear Medicine, Los Angeles, US); Meng, Ling-Jian, (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Beckman Institute, Urbana, US)
• STIR-1

  Special Event

  Thursday, 15 November, 2018

  6:00 PM – 8:00 PM Meeting Room C4.9

  STIR

  Thielemans, Kris, (University College London, Institute for Nuclear Medicine, London, UK); Tsoumpas, Charalampos, (University of Leeds, Division of Biomedical Imaging, Leeds, UK)

Friday, 16 Nov, 2018

• M-12

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay I

  Multi-modality imaging

  Marsden, Paul, K. (King's College London, Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, London, UK); Dutta, Joyita, (Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Boston, US)
• M-13

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay II

  Tomographic image reconstruction 2

  Qi, Jinyi, (University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Davis, US); Angelis, Georgios, I. (The University of Sydney, Brain & Mind Centre, Faculty of Health Sciences, Sydney, Australia)
• N-44

  NSS Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C3.3

  Neutron and Gamma Imaging II: Neutron Imaging and Tomography

  Marleau, Peter, (Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Radiation and Nuclear Detection Systems Division, Livermore, US); Sopczak, Andre, (Czech Technical University in Prague (CTU), Institute of Experiemntal and Applied Physics, Prague, Czech Republic)
• N-45

  NSS Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5

  Gaseous Detectors III - Applications

  Gelmi, Andrea, (INFN & University of Bari, Bari, Italy); Brunbauer, Florian, M. (CERN, EP-DT-DD, Geneva, Switzerland)
• R-12

  RTSD Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD CdTe and GaAs Materials

  Greiffenberg, Dominic, (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), SLS Detector Group, Villigen, Switzerland)
• Break

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  9:50 AM – 10:20 AM The Gallery, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, Meeting Room C3.3

  Coffee Break
• N-46

  NSS Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Cockle Bay II

  Closing Session

  Woody, Craig, (Brookhaven National Laboratorty, Physics Department, Upton, US); Da Via, Cinzia, (University of Manchester, UK)
• R-13

  RTSD Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  RTSD Closing Session

  Procz, Simon, (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, FMF - Freiburg Materials Research Center, Freiburg, Germany)
• M-14

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Park Side Ballroom

  Poster

  Choi, Yong, (Sogang University, Molecular Imaging Research & Education (MiRe) Laboratory, Department of Electronic Engineering, Seoul, South Korea); Lois, Cristina, (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US)
• Break

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:40 PM Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, The Gallery

  Lunch
• M-15

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay I

  Deep learning for image and signal processing

  Visvikis, Dimitris, (LaTIM, INSERM UMR1101, Université de Bretagne Occidantal (UBO), Faculty of Medicine, IBRBS, Brest, France); Li, Quanzheng, (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Boston, US)
• M-16

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  1:40 PM – 3:28 PM Cockle Bay II

  CT imaging systems

  Cho, Seungryong, (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST), Daejeon, South Korea); Pan, Xiaochuan, (University of Chicago, Department of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, Chicago, US)
• Break

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Meeting Room C3.3, Meeting Room C3.4&C3.5, Cockle Bay I, Cockle Bay II, Meeting Room C4.5, The Gallery

  Coffee Break
• M-17

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Cockle Bay I

  Data corrections and quantitative techniques

  Daube-Witherspoon, Margaret, E. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Kyme, Andre, Z. (University of Sydney, School of AMME, Faculty of Engineering & IT, Sydney, Australia)
• M-18

  MIC Session

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Cockle Bay II

  Imaging in radiotherapy 1

  Ma, Tianyu, (Tsinghua University, Department of Engineering Physics, Beijing, China); Parodi, Katia, (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU), Department for Medical Physics, Garching b. Munich, Germany)
• SP

  Special Event

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  4:00 PM – 5:48 PM Meeting Room C3.3

  Radiation Instrumentation Educational session

  Bohm, Christian, (Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden); Le Dû, Patrick, (CEA retired, Paris, France)
• Social Events

  Friday, 16 November, 2018

  7:00 PM – 10:00 PM Luna Park

  MIC Dinner

Saturday, 17 Nov, 2018

• M-19

  MIC Session

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Cockle Bay I

  Signal and image processing

  Bousse, Alexandre, (Université de Bretagne Occidentale, LaTIM, INSERM, UMR 1101, Brest, France); Chan, Chung, (Canon Medical Research USA, US)
• M-20

  MIC Session

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  8:00 AM – 9:48 AM Meeting Room C4.5

  Imaging in radiotherapy 2

  Pratx, Guillem, (Stanford University, Medical Physics, Stanford, US); Shao, Yiping, (University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dallas, US)
• MIC-WS3

  Workshop

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  8:30 AM – 5:00 PM Meeting Room C3.5

  Image Guidance for Radiotherapy: From Today’s Best Practice in the Clinic to Future Applications using Synchrotron Radiation
• Break

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  9:50 AM – 10:20 AM Cockle Bay I, Meeting Room C3.6, Meeting Room C4.5

  Coffee Break
• M-21

  MIC Session

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Cockle Bay I

  Quantification and kinetic modelling

  Carson, Richard, E. (Yale University, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging / Yale PET Center, New Haven, US); Wang, Guobao, (University of California, Davis, Department of Radiology, Sacramento, US)
• M-22

  MIC Session

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  10:20 AM – 12:08 PM Meeting Room C4.5

  New and emerging techniques

  Reader, Andrew, J. (King's College London, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, London, UK); Van Holen, Roel, (Ghent University, MEDISIP, Ghent, Belgium)
• Break

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  12:10 PM – 1:20 PM Cockle Bay I, Meeting Room C3.6, Meeting Room C4.5

  Lunch
• M-23

  MIC Session

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  1:20 PM – 2:25 PM Cockle Bay I

  MIC Plenary 4: Conference Highlights and Invitation to 2019 MIC

  Bailey, Dale, L. (Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney, Sydney, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Australia)
• MIC-WS2 I

  Workshop

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  2:30 PM – 3:30 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  Total-Body PET Imaging Workshop - TBPI

  Badawi, Ramsey, D. (University of California, Davis, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Davis, US); Cherry, Simon, R. (University of California, Davis, US); Karp, Joel, S. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Vandenberghe, Stefaan, (Ghent University, Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Ghent, Belgium)
• MIC-WS2 II

  Workshop

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  3:30 PM – 4:30 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  Total-Body PET Imaging Workshop - TBPI

  Badawi, Ramsey, D. (University of California, Davis, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Davis, US); Cherry, Simon, R. (University of California, Davis, US); Karp, Joel, S. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Vandenberghe, Stefaan, (Ghent University, Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Ghent, Belgium)
• MIC-WS2 III

  Workshop

  Saturday, 17 November, 2018

  4:30 PM – 7:00 PM Meeting Room C3.6

  Total-Body PET Imaging Workshop - TBPI

  Badawi, Ramsey, D. (University of California, Davis, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Davis, US); Cherry, Simon, R. (University of California, Davis, US); Karp, Joel, S. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, US); Vandenberghe, Stefaan, (Ghent University, Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Ghent, Belgium)