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1st International Training School on PET-MRI EngineeringMay 13-16, 2014, Technological Education Institute of Athens, Greece
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General Description The COST Action TD1007: "Bimodal PET-MRI molecular imaging technologies and applications for in vivo monitoring of disease and biological processes" organizes the "1st International Training School on PET-MRI Engineering". The School will focus on the Software and Hardware aspects of PET/MR technology and is open for Masters and early PhD students, interested in this interdisciplinary, emerging topic. The training school will take place in Athens, from May 13th to May 16th 2014. Members of the COST Action TD1007 and young lecturers will share their experience on PET/MR basics, Multimodality Image Processing, Simulation tools for PET and MR, Reconstruction & Corrections for PET and MR, Pulse Programming in MR, Kinetic Modelling for PET and MR, as well as their combination. The Training School will be held only a few days before the annual International Conference: 3rd Conference on PET/MR and SPECT/MR, which will take place between 19th and 21st May 2014 in Kos island, Greece. Thus Training School participants can benefit by also attending this event. |  | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Application Process The maximum number of students will be 25, since hands on training will be also be provided. Students interested to apply for attending the school should send i) a short motivation letter and ii) a short CV to gloudos[at]teiath[dot]gr. The deadline for applications is April 15th, 2014. The aim of school organizers is to have a fair geographical distribution, thus the selection process will take into account the participation of students from different countries and laboratories, as well as gender balance issues. Students Support There will be no registration fee and the COST Action will support students with a fixed grant of 500€, towards travelling and accommodation expenses. Accommodation The accommodation will be at Hotel President, which has offered room availability for all and good prices. The hotel is very close to a metro line, which connects to the School Venue and 10 min from the center and all places to visit. Also the area around the hotel is rather alive in the night for a "last drink"! Venue The School will be held in Demokritos Research Center (www.demokritos.gr). Demokritos is a big research institute inside a forest, at the foot of the Imittos mountain. More directions on how to reach Demokritos can be found here. To enter Demokritos you normally have to leave your ID or passport. We will provide a list of all school attendants and tutors, so that we speed up the process. The school will take place in the main Conference Center of Demokritos. It is the first building after the entrance on the left. There are some stairs and then we reach the School amphitheater. On Tuesday, we will pick you up and the meeting point is at President Hotel lobby at 8:15 and for those that do not stay at President it can be at 8:30 at PANORMOU metro station. We will take the Blue line towards the Airport and we will descend at NOMISMATOKOPIO metro station. From there we take bus B5, which passes every 5-10min and leaves us just outside Demokritos campus. This is the daily route and normally it will not take more than 40min or maybe only 30. Local Organizers George Loudos, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece Theodora Christopoulou, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece Eleftherios Fysikopoulos, Technological Educational Institute of Athens, Greece Maria Georgiou, BET Solutions, Greece Panagiotis Papadimitroulas, BET Solutions, Greece Dimitra Papoutsoglou, BET Solutions, Greece Organizing Committee Liliana Caldeira, Research Center Juelich, Germany Brian Hutton, University College London, United Kingdom Charalampos Tsoumpas, University of Leeds, United Kingdom Dimitris Visvikis, LaTIM, INSERM UMR1101, France Advisory Committee Nicola Belcari, University of Pisa, Italy Edoardo Charbon, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Antonio Gonazalez Martinez, Universitat Politechnica de Valencia, Spain Stefaan Vandenberghe, Ghent University, Belgium Contact For application to the school or questions, you can send an e-mail to George Loudos at gloudos[at]teiath[dot]gr. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Tentative Program Tuesday 13 May 2014 Introduction to the Training Course: George Loudos, Athens (30 minutes) General introduction to PET, factors affecting quantification: Harry Tsoumpas (ppt), Leeds & Mattia Veronese (ppt), KCL (1.5 hours) General introduction to MRI and factors affecting image quality: Kaveh Vahedipour, Juelich (1.5 hours) General overview of issues in PET/MRI as background for focus on software: Hadi Fayad (ppt), Brest (1.5 hours) Multimodality Image Processing: Mathieu Hatt (ppt), Brest (1 hour) Wednesday 14 May 2014 Simulation
Theory on PET: Julien Bert (ppt), Brest (1.5 hours) PET
simulation software: Julien Bert, Brest & Panagiotis Papadimitroulas (ppt1, ppt2), Patras (1.5 hours) Simulation
Theory on MR: Kaveh Vahedipour, Juelich (1.5 hours) Thursday 15 May 2014 Reconstruction
& Corrections for PET: Kris Thielemans (ppt), UCL & Harry Tsoumpas (ppt), Leeds (1.5 hours) Demonstration
of STIR: Thielemans, Kris Thielemans (ppt) UCL & Harry Tsoumpas, Leeds & Elisabetta Grecchi,
KCL (1.5 hours) PET Kinetic
Modelling Theory: (Mattia Veronese (ppt), KCL (1.5 hours) Friday 16 May 2014 Iterative
reconstruction & Pulse Programming in MR: Nikos Dikaios (ppt), UCL (1 hour) Opportunities
for combined PET-MR Kinetic Modelling: Mattia Veronese (ppt), KCL (1 hour) MR Kinetic
Modelling: Demonstration of Software: Nikos Dikaios (ppt), UCL (1 hour) General
overview of hardware for PET/MRI as background for hardware component including
a practical demo: Maria Georgiou, TEIA & Eleftherios Fysikopoulos (ppt), TEIA (2 hours) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Detailed Program
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| School Events Welcome drink on Monday evening Since most of the School attendants will be in Athens on Monday we can organize a welcome drink on the roof of President Hotel bar (Penthouse 21 - Skyscraper Pool Bar & Restaurant). We can meet directly on the top of President at 20:00, so that we will have the chance to see Athens from above and also the interesting shift from day to night. There we will have the chance to get to know each other, meet the tutors.
School Dinner on Wednesday evening We have arranged the official dinner at Aschimopapo Tavern (Ugly Duckling). This is a small tavern in Petralona area, which is another hot spot of the city, at the foot of Acropolis hill. There is access via Petralona metro. The dinner will be offered by the hosts and we will all have the chance to taste several Greek traditional dishes in a house-style.  Other evenings We have also some suggestions for all evening of the School, so that tutors and students can spend more time together. Those are only some suggestions and you can refer to the "Surivor Guide" that has been provided. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
