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IMAGING 2003
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IMAGING
TECHNIQUES IN SUBATOMIC PHYSICS, ASTROPHYSICS, MEDICINE, BIOLOGY AND INDUSTRY ORGANIZED BY THE ROYAL INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY SPONSORED BY THE ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
THROUGH ITS NOBEL INSTITUTE FOR PHYSICS
Stockholm,
Sweden 24 – 27 June 2003 Imaging 2003 is held at The
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Lilla Frescativägen 4A, S-104 05
Stockholm, Sweden |
Programme
Last update June 26, 2003
All speaker times
include up to 5 min of discussion
Poster
sessions are held Thursday June 26 and Friday June 27,
13:00 – 14:30
Chairman of the poster sessions is Mark Pearce
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Tuesday June 24 |
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17:00-20:00 Conference Reception: Registration and Refreshments |
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Wednesday June 25 |
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Session I, Beijer Hall |
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8:00-8:30 Registration 8:30-9:00 Opening session Chairman P. Carlson 8:30-8:35 A. Flodström, President of the Royal
Institute of Technology Welcome B. Cederwall (Royal Institute of
Technology),
Short Conference Information 9:00-11:00 Review talks from various fields Chairman B. Cederwall D. Ferenc (Univ. California, Davis, USA) Imaging in the next-generation
astroparticle physics experiments (30) R. Bellazzini (INFN, Pisa, Italy) Imaging with Micropattern
Gaseous Detectors (30) D.
Nygren (LBNL,
Berkeley, USA) New Challenges for the Time Projection Chamber (30) G. Fraser (Univ. Leicester, UK) Imaging X-Ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy (30) 11:00-11:30 Coffee and Registration 11:30-12:30 Review talks, ctd’ V. Schönfelder (Max-Planck-Institut fuer extraterrestrische Physik, Garching, Germany) Imaging Principles and Techniques in Space Borne Gamma-ray Astronomy (30) V. Peskov (Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
Photosensitive gaseous detectors and their applications
(30) |
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13:00-15:00 Lunch Reception at Stockholm City Hall (excursion by bus) |
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Session IIa, Beijer Hall |
Session IIb, Linné Hall |
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15:30-17:00 Algorithms and simulations Chairman R. Bellazzini J.S.
Lapington (Mullard Space Science Laboratory, London, UK) Comparisons of Interpolation
Techniques in Various Imaging Detector Read-out Schemes (30) R.T.
Lopes (Federal
Univ. of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) Volumetric tomography applied to digital
histomorphometry (20) F. Volpe (Univ. Bari, Italy) Clustering analysis for particle identification
with an imaging calorimeter (20) E.
Fumero (Savantic
AB, Sweden) Monte Carlo simulations on CAD geometries (20) 17:00-18:30 Medical imaging, mixed presentations Chairman R. Bellazzini B. Hasegawa (Univ. California, San Francisco, USA) Implementation and
Applications of Dual Modality Imaging (30) R.
Street (PARC,
Palo Alto, USA) Radiation Imaging with Flat Panel Detector Arrays (30) W. Moses (LBNL, Berkeley, USA) Instrumentation for Positron Emission
Mammography (30) |
15:30-18:50 Astrophysical Imaging Chairman
V. Schönfelder J.P. Vialle (LAPP/IN2P3, France) AMS: An imaging detector on the International Space Station (20) M. Pearce (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) Imaging High
Energy Light Isotopes in the Cosmic Radiation (20) F. Arneodo (INFN-LNGS, L'Aquila, Italy) The ICARUS T600 Liquid Argon Time
Projection Chamber (20) E. Miyata (Osaka Univ., Japan) Development of New X-ray Imaging Device
Sensitive to 0.1-100keV (20) B. Baret (LPSC Grenoble, France) In-beam tests of the AMS RICH prototype with
20A GeV/c secondary ions at CERN (20) I. De Mitri (Univ. Lecce, Italy) Multiscale image analysis applied to g/h discrimination
for Very High Energy gamma ray astronomy with ARGO-YBJ (20) M. Taiuti (INFN, Genova, Italy) A high efficiency direction-sensitive
photo-detector to be used in underwater neutrino telescopes (20) A. Mailov (Univ. Siegen, Germany) Measurements of the cosmic ray muon spectrum
and charge ratio with the ALEPH detector (20) A. Piccioli (INFN, Italy) HPD: Detector well suited for Astroparticle Ground
Based Experiment. First Rb2Te 5'' HPD test result (20) S. Larsson (Stockholm Observatory, Sweden) PoGo: The Phoswich COmpton Gamma-ray
pOlarimeter (20) |
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19:00 Departure by bus for Nybroviken where M/S Symfoni will take us to the Conference Dinner in Vaxholm. The boat trip will take approximately 1 hour. 20:00-23:30 Conference Dinner at Kastellet, Vaxholm. 23:30 Return by taxi boat and bus for downtown Stockholm |
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Thursday June 26 |
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Session IIIa, Beijer Hall |
Session
IIIb, Linné Hall |
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8:30-10:30 Imaging using Gaseous detectors Chairman A. Breskin H. Sakurai (Yamagata Univ., Japan) Imaging with Capillary Plate Detectors (30) O.H.W. Siegmund (Univ. California, Berkeley, USA) High performance
microchannel plate detectors for UV/visible Astronomy (20) W.
Bonivento (INFN,
Cagliari, Italy) A triple-GEM detector for high rate charged particle
triggering (20) T.
Nagayoshi (Kyoto
Univ., Japan) Development of Micro-PIC and its imaging properties (20) M.
Ueno (Kyoto
Univ., Japan) Application of Micro-Pixel Chambers for X-ray Polarimetry (15) J.
Miyamoto (Purdue
Univ., USA) A study of industrially produced Gas Electron Multipliers (15) 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-11:50 Imaging using Gaseous detectors, ctd’ Chairman V. Peskov A.
Breskin (The
Weizmann Inst., Israel) Recent advances in multi-GEM
imaging detectors (30) S.
Denisov
(Institute for High Energy Physics, Protvino, Moscow region, Russia) The
Performance of a gas electromagnetic calorimeter (20) 11:50-13:00 Imaging with Synchrotron Radiation Chairman B. Lund-Jensen M. Kocsis (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility, Grenoble, France) Imaging using Synchrotron Radiation (30) H.
Toyokawa (Japan
Synchrotron Radiation Research Institute, Hyogo, Japan) A High Energy X-ray
Imager with a [128x128] matrix of YAlO3:Ce crystals for Synchrotron Radiation
Application(20) I.
Ramos-Lerate
(Laboratorio de Luz Sincrotrón, Bellaterra, Spain) Comparative tests between
commercial and in-house charge preamplifiers for Multiwire detectors at
synchrotron facilities (20) |
8:30-10:30 Technical Applications of Imaging Detectors for Ionising Radiation Chairman B.
Cederwall K.
Vetter (LLNL,
Livermore, USA) Gamma-ray imaging with high-purity Ge detectors (30) J. Gerl (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
High-Resolution Gamma Backscatter Imaging for
Technical Applications (30) V.V.
Porossev (Budker
Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia) An imaging system for
security radiographic inspection (20) R.
Cesareo (Univ.
Sassari, Italy) X-ray computed tomography based on primary and secondary
radiation (20) T. Menezes (Univ.
Surrey, UK) Characterisation of a multi-line fluorescence X-ray tube for
security imaging applications (20) 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-11:30 Technical Applications of Imaging Detectors for Ionising
Radiation, ctd’ P.M. Jenneson (Univ. Surrey, UK) Large vessel process imaging using cosmic-ray muons (30) 11:30-13:00 Neutron Imaging Chairman
M. Pearce A. Oed (ILL, Grenoble, France) Imaging detectors for thermal neutrons (30) G.
Manzin (ILL,
Grenoble, France) GSPC neutron detectors for intense neutron sources (20) Th.
Materna (Univ.
Köln, Germany) The cold neutron tomography set-up at SINQ (20) S.
Andriamonje (CEA-DSM/DAPNIA
Saclay, France) New neutron detectors based on Micromegas technology (20) |
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13:00-14:30 Lunch at Stockholm
University Campus restaurant “Lantis” (5 min walk) |
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Session IV, Beijer Hall |
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14:30-16:30 Medical Imaging, mixed presentations Chairman M. Danielsson L. Tabar (Uppsala Univ., Sweden) Challenges in mammography from a clinical perspective (35) D.G.
Darambara (Univ. Surrey, UK) A low-angle x-ray scatter
enhanced breast-imaging system based on a novel multi-element Si-pad array
operated in spectroscopic pulse counting mode (25) K Belkic (Karolinska Institute, Sweden) MAGNETIC
RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING IN ONCOLOGY: Possibilities Beyond The
Conventional Theoretical Framework For Data Analysis (20) M. Caccia (SUCIMA collab.) Position sensitive silicon detectors for real time
dosimetry in medical applications (20) R. Mastrippolito (IPN, Orsay, France) New instrumental
approaches in vivo small animal radioimaging (20) 16:30-17:00 Coffee 17:00-18:10 Medical Imaging, mixed presentations, ctd’ L.
Eriksson (CPS
Innovations, USA and Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Experiences with
scintillation Detectors for PET (and SPECT) (30) F.
Scopinaro
(Euromedim group) Peptide radiopharmaceuticals for breast, colon and prostate
cancer; imaging with Anger camera and high resolution cameras (20) A. Barr (ESPCI, Paris, France)
Preparing a multi-wire gamma camera for imaging applications in
nuclear medicine (20) 18:10-19:40 Imaging Detectors and Techniques for High-Energy Physics Chairman A. Oed H.
Drevermann (CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland) Data Oriented Projections (30) O.
Busch (GSI,
Darmstadt, Germany) Results from prototype tests for the ALICE TRD (20) R. Pestotnik (Univ. Ljubljana, Slovenia) Tests of a proximity
focusing RICH with aerogel as radiator and flat panel PMT (Hamamatsu H8500)
as photon detector (20) F.
Cusanno (Univ.
Roma III, Italy) A RICH detector for strangeness physics in Hall A at Jefferson
Lab (20) |
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Friday June 27 |
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Session Va, Beijer
Hall |
Session Vb, Linné Hall |
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8:30-10:05 Imaging Detectors in High-Energy Physics Chairman D.
Nygren C. Williams (CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland) Resistive Plate Chambers (20) A. Di Mauro (CERN, Geneva, Switzerland) Recent CsI RICH Developments (20) U. Straumann (Univ. Zurich, Switzerland) Wide
pitch silicon strip detectors with long strips and fast signal shaping for
LHCb (20) H.
Kagan (Ohio State
Univ., USA) Recent Developments in Diamond Tracking Devices (20) Y.
Tayalati (Royal
Inst. of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) The ATLAS Electromagnetic
Calorimeter, Construction and Test of a Large Scale System (15) 10:05-10:40
Detectors and Techniques for Medical Imaging Chairman B. Hasegawa A.
Sanchez-Crespo (Stockholm
Univ. and Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Proton Therapy Beam Dosimetry with
Silicon CMOS Image Sensors (15) L. del
Risco Norrlid
(Uppsala Univ., Sweden) Optimization of an X-ray imaging photon-counting
detector for Diagnostic Radiology (20) 10:40-11:00 Coffee 11:00-13:00 Detectors and Techniques for Medical Imaging ctd’ N.
Belcari (INFN,
Pisa, Italy) Detector development for a novel PEM scanner based on YAP:Ce
crystals (20) M.
Gimenez (IFIC,
Valencia, Spain) Medium field of view multi-flat panel based portable gamma
camera (20) D.
Staub (IReS,
Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France) Real time radio-transparent
dosimeter for X ray imaging systems (20) C.
Nicorescu
(National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Bucharest, Romania)
Perspectives for Positron Emission Tomography with RPCs (20) A.
Larsson (Umeå
Univ., Sweden) Transmission dependent convolution
subtraction of 99mTc-HMPAO rCBF SPECT - A Monte Carlo study (20) J.
Östling (Royal
Institute of Technology and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden) First
images with a new portal imaging device (20) |
8:30-10:10 Imaging Detectors for Low-Energy Experiments in Nuclear and Particle Physics Chairman A. Johnson S. Shimoura
(Univ. Tokyo, Japan) Position Sensitivity of Ge Detectors and its Applications to
In-Beam Nuclear Spectroscopy (35) A.J. Boston (Univ. Liverpool, UK) Digital Gamma-ray Spectroscopy with High Purity Germanium Detectors (25) N. D’Ambrosio (INFN, Napoli, Italy) A new automatic microscope for nuclear emulsion (20) T. Onodera (Tohoku Institute of Technology, Sendai, Japan) Pixelated Thallium
Bromide Detectors for Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy and Imaging (20) 10:10-10:30 Electronics for Imaging Detectors Chairman C. Bohm F. Edling
(Uppsala Univ., Sweden) Characterisation of a Pixel Readout Chip for Medical
X-ray Imaging (20) 10:30-11:00 Coffee 11:00-11:40 Electronics for Imaging Detectors, ctd’ J.Y. Yeom (Univ. Tokyo, Japan) Development of an 8-ch Waveform Sampling ASIC for PET with DOI Information (20) H. Takahashi (Univ. Tokyo, Japan) New M-MSGC Readout Method and Front-end ASIC Development (20) 11:40-13:00 Algorithms and simulations Chairman H.
Drevermann J.M. Kinser
(George Mason Univ., Manassas, USA) Texture recognition in medical images with ICM
method (30) U. Ekblad (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) The Unified Cortical Model in Image Processing (25) V. Ivanchenko
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia) Geant4: physics
potential for instrumentation in space and medicine (25) |
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13:00-14:30 Lunch at Stockholm
University Campus restaurant “Lantis” (5 min walk) |
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Session
VI, Beijer Hall |
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14:30-16:10 Novel Medical Imaging Techniques Chairman
W. Moses Y.
Ohno (Tokyo
Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan) Measurement of Electron Density
Distribution using Heavy Ion CT (20) J. Norman (Univ. Liverpool, UK) Characterising a Germanium Strip Detector for Medical Imaging Applications (20) I. Piqueras
(IReS, Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France) Segmented germanium
detector developments for Compton Camera application (20) D.
Belkic
(Karolinska Institute, Sweden) Spectroscopic Positron Emission Tomography
(sPET) for monitoring radiation therapy (20) F.
Garibaldi
(ISS/INFN, Rome, Italy) Novel design of high-resolution parallax-free Compton
enhanced PET scanner (20) 16:10-16:40 Coffee 16:40-19:30 New Developments in Position Sensitive Detectors Chairman G.F. Knoll R.
Orito (Kyoto
Univ., Japan) Performance of the gamma-ray imaging detector with Micro-TPC
(20) W. Enghardt (FZ
Rossendorf, Germany) Charged Hadron Tumour Therapy Monitoring by Means of
In-Beam PET (20) K.
Kwiatkowski
(LANL, USA) Fast imagers for proton radiography – 2D vs. 3-D interconnect
approach (20) J.
Végh (ATOMKI,
Debrecen, Hungary) Visualization of Heavy Ion Induced Particle Production in
a CMOS Image Sensor (20) J.G.
Kim (LBNL
Berkeley, USA) Electron Avalanche in Liquid Argon (20) A.E. Sakdinawat (Univ. California, San Francisco, USA) Position
Sensitive Avalanche Photodiodes for SPECT (20) F.A.F. Fraga (Univ. Coimbra, Portugal) The
scintillation of GEMs coated with wavelength
shifters (20) A.
Breskin (The
Weizmann Inst., Israel) ”Conference Summary” (30) |
LIST OF
POSTERS
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D. Belkic (Karolinska
Institute, Sweden) |
Fast Padé Transform (FPT) as Opposed to Conventional
Fitting for Signal and Image Processing |
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D. Belkic (Karolinska
Institute, Sweden) |
Reduction of long to short time signals with no
loss of information in a given
bandwidth |
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S. Denisov (Institute for High Energy
Physics, Protvino, Moscow region, Russia) |
Systematic studies of timing characteristics for 2
m long scintillation counters. |
U.
Ekblad (Royal
Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden)
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Image Information Content and Extraction Techniques |
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F.
Garibaldi
(ISS/INFN, Rome, Italy) |
A
full-body PET scanner with CsI photocathodes |
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C. Iacobaeus (Karolinska Institute and
Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) |
A study of capillary plates and their applications |
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M.J. Key (Centro Nacional de
Microelectrónica, Barcelona, Spain) |
Gas Amplification Structures Fabricated with SU8
Photosensitive Epoxy |
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J.M. Kinser (George Mason
Univ., Manassas, USA) |
High Speed Content Based Image Retrieval |
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R.T. Lopes (Federal Univ. of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil) |
Application of X-Ray Scanning and Tomography to
Evaluate the Filter-Cake Removal Efficiency |
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L. Milechina (Royal Institute
of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden) |
Performance of algorithms for tracking gamma-ray
interactions in highly segmented Ge detectors |
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L. del Risco Norrlid (Uppsala Univ., Sweden) |
Minimum Exposure for the Efficient Operation of a
Medical X-ray Imaging Detector |
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L. Ounalli
(Institute of Physics, Neuchatel, Switzerland) |
Particle Identification in Time Projection Chamber:
MUNU and Gotthard Experiments |
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I.V. Panichenko (Moscow Cancer Center, Russia) |
Imaging processing algorithm for cancer cells
search and analysis |
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V.V. Porossev
(Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics, Novosibirsk, Russia) |
A new improved gas detector for digital scanning radiography |
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I. Tapan
(Uludag University Bursa, Turkey) |
Simulation of gain fluctuation for non-uniform
field argon based gas detector |
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Yu. G. Teterev (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) |
Profile Image Detector for the Observation of a Beam
on the Target of the Fragment-Separator |
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Yu.S. Tsyganov (Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia) |
Detection System for Heavy Element Research:
Present Status |
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