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Programme in Details

Preliminary programme (subject of change)

Sunday, June 03, 2018 14:00 – 15:45

Forum Hall
OPENING CEREMONY / PRESIDENT´S WELCOME ADDRESS / PRESIDENT´S PLENARY PRESENTATIONS
  • Official opening Congress - president IUPESM                                                                              
  • President´s IFMBE, IOMP, CAMP, CSBMEMI Welcome Addresses
  • IUPESM, IFMBE, IOMP President´s Plenary Speech
ID: 947
PRESIDENT'S PLENARY PAPER: Global distribution of medical physicists, their growth over the past 50 years and future development
Slavik Tabakov
ID: 1355
PRESIDENT'S PLENARY PAPER: Inovations in medicine- the role of medical physicists and biomedical engineers
Kin Yin Cheung
ID: 1936
PRESIDENT'S PLENARY PAPER: Engineering Innovations for Future Healthcare
James Goh

Sunday, June 03, 2018 15:45 – 16:00

Forum Hall
Break

Sunday, June 03, 2018 16:00 – 18:30

Forum Hall
PLENARY LECTURES INVITED SPEAKERS / AWARDS CEREMONY

Professor Uwe Oelfke (United Kingdom)
Improving clinical outcomes of adaptive cancer therapies with radiation: Strategies,technologies and challenges

Professor Russell Ritenour (United States of America)
Physicists and Engineer´s Interaction with Physicians in Medical Imaging 

Awards Ceremony

  • IUPESM Award of Merit in Medical Physics 2018
  • IUPESM Award of Merit in Biomedical Engineering 2018                                                                                 
  • IFMBE Vladamir Zworykin Award
  • IFMBE Otto Schmidt Award
  • IFMBE John Hopps Award     
  • IFMBE Laura Bassi Award
  • IOMP Maria Sklodowska-Curie Award
  • IOMP Harold Johns Medal

Sunday, June 03, 2018 18:30 – 19:30

Forum Hall
WELCOME COCKTAIL - Exhibition Area

Monday, June 04, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1550
Spatio-temporal aspects of DNA damage and repair upon action of ionizing radiations of different types
Martin Falk

Monday, June 04, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Terrace 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1541
Developing clinically oriented physics learning outcomes for healthcare professionals: a multi-stakeholder consensus based approach
Carmel J. Caruana

Monday, June 04, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

South Hall 2B
Educational lecture MP - John M. Boone (Image quality CT)

Monday, June 04, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Club C
IOMP School - Session on IOMP Project “History of Medical Physics”

Presentation 1
Presentation Title: Session on IOMP Project "History of Medical Physics"
Speaker Name: Slavik Tabakov
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP President

Presentation 2
Presentation Title:
Speaker Name: Perry Sprawls
Speaker Affiliation: Sprawls.org

Presentation 3
Presentation Title:
Speaker Name: KY Cheung
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP History Sub-Com Chair

Monday, June 04, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1857
Evolution and Innovation in X-ray Tomographic Imaging Driven by Applications
Xiaochuan Pan

Monday, June 04, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1913
Additive manufacturing in medicine
Radovan Hudak

Monday, June 04, 2018 09:00 – 10:30

Club B
IOMP School - IOMP-AAPM joint session 1

Presentation 1
Presentation Title: Doses and Risks
Speaker Name: John Damilakis
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP ETC Chair

Presentation 2
Presentation Title: Dose Optimization Strategies
Speaker Name: Mahadevappa Mahesh

Presentation 3
Presentation Title: Dose Management Systems
Speaker Name: Virginia Tsapaki

Monday, June 04, 2018 09:00 – 10:30

Club C
IOMP School - Dosimetric Challenges of Photon Brachytherapy in Terms of Absorbed Dose to Water

Dosimetric Challenges of Photon Brachytherapy in Terms of Absorbed Dose to Water

Golam Abu Zakaria

Monday, June 04, 2018 09:00 – 10:30

Club D
SS-19 The status of Bioengineering, Biomedical Engineering and Clinical Engineering Education in Latin America. “ Curriculum, Accreditation, Innovation and Research”
ID: 867
Accreditation of Biomedical Engineering careers in Latin America: quality standards, quality practice, quality outcomes
Virginia Ballarin
ID: 1016
Innovative biosensor of circulating breast cancer cells; a potential tool in latin America oncology rooms
Cesar Gonzalez
ID: 1312
The First Latin American Joint Summer School “Emerging Technologies to Support Health Care and Independent Living”
Martha Lucia Zequera Diaz
ID: 1456
How to Motivate young Students to Pursue a Research Thesis on Mathematical Medicine.
Luis Miguel Zamudio Fuentes
ID: 1468
The new model of health care in Mexico as an opportunity for the incorporation of Clinical Engineering
Elliot Vernet

Monday, June 04, 2018 09:15 – 12:00

Club A
IAMBE Early Career Award Presentations
ID: 1896
Optimal 3D and multicolor localization microscopy by point-spread-function engineering
Yoav Shechtman
ID: 1895
The Repertoire of Mutational Signatures in Human Cancer
Ludmil Alexandrov
ID: 1905
Human-centered surgical robotics with continuum, compliance, collaboration, and cognition
Hongliang Ren

Monday, June 04, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

South Hall 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1437
Establishment of clinical DRLs: The European experience
John Damilakis

Monday, June 04, 2018 11:00 – 12:00

Club E
IUPESM Awardees Presentation Session

Monday, June 04, 2018 11:00 – 12:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1536
Technologies to capture real world use of assistive devices
Laurence Kenney

Monday, June 04, 2018 11:00 – 13:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 369
The supportability of medical devices
Michael Capuano

Monday, June 04, 2018 12:00 – 12:30

South Hall 2B
MT6 - Patient Safety
ID: 1342
Elaboration of New NDRLs as part of Third National Patient Dose Survey in Diagnostic Radiology in Bulgaria
Asen Dimov
ID: 963
Local dose survey on pediatric multi-detector CT: a preliminary result
Lukmanda Evan Lubis

Monday, June 04, 2018 12:00 – 13:00

Club A
Health Informatics Panel Discussion

Monday, June 04, 2018 12:00 – 13:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1875
Medical Device Safety
Alan Murray

Monday, June 04, 2018 12:30 – 14:00

South Hall 2A
Lunch Break

Monday, June 04, 2018 12:45 – 13:45

North Hall
Symposium Elekta - Innovation in advanced Radiation Medicine

Session 1 Optimizing Cone Beam CT guided radiotherapy

Prof Marcel Van Herk PhD, Chair of Radiotherapy Physics, University of Manchester and The Christie Hospital, UK

 

Session 2 MR guided RT from Vision to Reality

Prof. Uwe Oelfke, PhD, Royal Marsden Hospital, UK

 

Session 3 Revolution in planning and treatment delivery:  High Definition Dynamic Radiosurgery HDRS

Roberto Pellegrini, Director Clinical Marketing, Elekta

Monday, June 04, 2018 13:00 – 14:30

Terrace 2B
IOMP Awardees Presentations

Monday, June 04, 2018 13:30 – 15:30

Club A
IFMBE Council of Societies (CoS) Meeting

Monday, June 04, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

North Hall
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1877
NTCP models
Arjen van der Schaaf

Monday, June 04, 2018 14:00 – 15:30

Club C
SS-37 Medical Physics for World Benefit: A Volunteer Organization in Support of Medical Physics in Challenging Environments
ID: 1920
Why Medical Physics for World Benefit (MPWB)?
Jacob (Jake) Van Dyk
ID: 1911
Current Status of Medical Physics for World Benefit (MPWB)
Yakov Pipman
ID: 1914
How can you participate in MPWB activities?
Robert Jeraj
ID: 1915
Open syllabus for medical physics residents
Parminder Basran

Monday, June 04, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1864
Biomechanics of the cell - experiments and mathematical modelling
Matěj Daniel

Monday, June 04, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1556
How NOT to write a manuscript that cannot be published
Karel Roubik

Monday, June 04, 2018 14:00 – 18:00

South Hall 1A
Educational Course BME - NOT in the Congress Venue! Address: Salmovská 3, Prague

Center for Advanced Preclinical Imaging - Invitation to Hands-On Workshop

Center for Advanced Preclinical Imaging (CAPI) First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague

ID: 1876
Center for Advanced Preclinical Imaging - Invitation to Hands-On Workshop
Pavla Francová

Monday, June 04, 2018 15:30 – 16:00

South Hall 2A
Networking Break

Monday, June 04, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

Club B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1880
The use of Monte Carlo simulations to optimise new detector designs
Susanna Guatelli

Monday, June 04, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

Terrace 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1873
The use of Fourier metrics for quality control of x-ray imaging systems: MTF and the assessment of sharpness
Nicholas Marshall

Monday, June 04, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

South Hall 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1535
The radiobiology of particle radiotherapy
Kevin Prise

Monday, June 04, 2018 16:00 – 17:00

Club E
SS-35 Radiation exposure monitoring and tracking
ID: 1625
Patient radiation exposure and dose tracking: An overview
Madan Rehani
ID: 1632
Using patient dose monitoring for optimization in diagnostic radiology
Jenia Vassileva
ID: 1636
Slovakian experience in tracking of patient’s radiation doses
Dušan Šalát
ID: 1640
IT means for automatic patient exposure data monitoring
Annalisa Trianni

Monday, June 04, 2018 16:30 – 19:30

Forum Hall
IUPESM Presentation of 2024 bids

Monday, June 04, 2018 17:00 – 18:00

Club E
SS-36 Radiation protection of women in childbearing age
ID: 1630
Status of radiation protection in pregnancy and breastfeeding
Jenia Vassileva
ID: 1633
Managing pregnant and lactating patients and staff in nuclear medicine
Sören Mattsson
ID: 1635
Foetal dosimetry in medical imaging
John Damilakis
ID: 1641
Protecting pregnant workers in interventional radiology
Mahadevappa Mahesh

Monday, June 04, 2018 17:00 – 18:00

South Hall 2B
MT22 - Biological Effects of Ionizing Radiation
ID: 76
Transfer of minibeam radiation therapy into a small animal irradiator
Yolanda Prezado
ID: 75
Glioma tumor control effectiveness after proton minibeam radiation therapy
Yolanda Prezado
ID: 1062
Preferential sensitization of S-phase cells with gold nanoparticles
Ivan Kempson

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1917
Small field dosimetry in radiotherapy
Hugo Palmans

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club H
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1865
Biophysical modelling of radiation-induced cell death and chromosome damage, with applications for hadrontherapy
Francesca Ballarini

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Terrace 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1892
Artificial intelligence and big data in future medical imaging – what could be expected?
Carlo Cavedon

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:00 – 09:15

Club C
IOMP SCHOOL - Radiation Safety Culture in Healthcare (Joint session of IOMP-WHO-IAEA-IRPA)

Presentation 1
Presentation Title: Overview of Radiation Safety Culture in Healthcare
Speaker Name: Madan Rehani
Speaker Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and IOMP

Presentation 2
Presentation Title: IRPA Actions on Radiation Safety Culture
Speaker Name: Bernard Le Guen
Speaker Affiliation: IRPA Executive Office, Paris, France

Presentation 3
Presentation Title: Conclusions of 5 joint workshops held in different region regions
Speaker Name: Maria Perez
Speaker Affiliation: WHO, Geneva

Presentation 4
Presentation Title: IAEA's Actions on Radiation Safety Culture
Speaker Name:  Debbie Gilley
Speaker Affiliation: IAEA, Vienna

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:00 – 12:30

South Hall 1B
IOMP Council 1 / IOMP GA / IOMP Council 2

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:30 – 09:45

Club B
SS-11 Context-driven BME Interventions in Limited Resources Settings
ID: 1683
IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division project for Training in lower income settings
Ernesto Iadanza
ID: 1811
Resilience of Medical Devices in lower-income settings
Leandro Pecchia
ID: 1533
Clinical Engineers and ethical committees in Italy, a national survey
Stefano Bergamasco
ID: 1534
Safety and efficacy of new and innovative medical technology
David Watson
ID: 1417
Collaborative solutions for safe design of needs based medical devices
Arti Ahluwalia

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1354
Electronic devices can motivate patients during rehabilitation
Ákos Jobbágy

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 09:00 – 10:30

Club A
IOMP School - IOMP-AAPM joint session 2

Presentation 1
Presentation Title: Breast Tomosynthesis
Speaker Name: Ioannis Sechopoulos
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP

Presentation 2
Presentation Title: PET-CT or PET-MR
Speaker Name: Habib Zaidi
Speaker Affiliation: Habib Zaidi

Presentation 3
Presentation Title: Spectral CT
Speaker Name: Cynthia McCollough
Speaker Affiliation: AAPM

Presentation 4
Presentation Title: Flat Panel Detector Fluoroscopy
Speaker Name: Mahadevappa Mahesh
Speaker Affiliation: AAPM

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 09:00 – 10:30

Terrace 2B
IOMP SCHOOL - New aspects of medical physics in radiation oncology and imaging

New aspects of medical physics in radiation oncology and imaging

Golam Abu Zakaria

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 09:30 – 10:30

Club C
IOMP SCHOOL - Quality control for CBCT devices according to EFOMP-ESTRO-IAEA

Presentation 1
Measuring objective image quality parameters in CBCT
Hugo de las Heras Gala

Presentation 2
Measuring radiation output in CBCT
Jonas Andersson

Presentation 3
Practical application to three devices (dental, C-arm and linac)
Hugo de las Heras Gala

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 09:30 – 10:30

Terrace 2A
IFMBE E & A Committee Meeting

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 09:45 – 10:45

Club B
SS-12 BME contributions to medical device trials
ID: 1544
Clinical and Biomedical Engineering as a key profession in ethical committees
Sergio Cerutti
ID: 1612
BME contributions to medical device trials
Bradley Schoener
ID: 1670
CED IFMBE - Global initiatives for the advancement of the Clinical Engineering profession
Ernesto Iadanza
ID: 1807
The rule of BME in medical device trials, EAMBES and IFMBE HTAD prospective
Leandro Pecchia

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1609
Image filters in nuclear medicine
József Varga

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

Terrace 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1763
Mechanistic modelling of subcellular and cellular radiation effects with PARTRAC
Werner Friedland

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

South Hall 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1881
Dual energy CT – advantages and limitations
Mahadevappa Mahesh

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 11:00 – 12:30

Club C
IOMP/IAEA School on Uncertainties in Medical Dosimetry

Chair:
Paula Toroi, IAEA

Co-chairs:
Hugo Palmans,  National Physical Laboratory, UK and EBG Med Austron GmbH, AUT
Geoffrey Ibbott, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, USA

  • The need for uncertainty estimation in measurement and international guidelines
    Hugo Palmans
  • Uncertainties in dosimetry: From the lab to the field
    Hugo Palmans
  • Uncertainties in Patient Dosimetry in Diagnostic Radiology
    Paula Toroi
  • Accuracy Requirements and Uncertainties in Radiotherapy
    Geoffrey Ibbott
  • Discussion, 10 min

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 11:00 – 13:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1366
Neurodynamic functional brain imaging using magnetoecephalography
Selma Supek

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 12:00 – 12:30

Club E
MT23 - Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
ID: 997
Evaluation the performance of a PET detector using a sparse SiPM array with reflectors
Qingyang Wei
ID: 1653
Neutron-generating target for nuclear medicine purposes
Olga Novozhilova

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 12:00 – 12:30

Terrace 2B
MT4 - Modelling and Simulation
ID: 884
4D cellular model of tumor growth, radiation track structures and DNA damage induction
Jake Forster
ID: 1238
Radiation-induced plasmid DNA damage in relation to DNA length and high level molecular structure
Kateřina Pachnerová Brabcová

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 12:00 – 12:30

South Hall 2B
MT1 - Diagnostic Imaging
ID: 220
An accurate multi-material decomposition method in dual-energy CT
Yi Xue
ID: 290
Optimization of energy in determination of urinary stone composition using micro CT
Leni Aziyus Fitri

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 12:00 – 17:30

Forum Hall
IFMBE General Assembly

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Terrace 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1732
Dosimetry audits in radiotherapy
Catharine Clark

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 14:00 – 15:30

Terrace 2A
IOMP School - Teaching of Medical Physics to Radiology Residents

Presentation 1
Presentation Title: Survey of situation in 67 countries and way forward
Speaker Name: Madan M Rehani
Speaker Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Presentation 2
Presentation Title: European situation and suggested solutions
Speaker Name: Carmel J Caruana
Speaker Affiliation: Malta

Presentation 3
Presentation Title: Asian situation, suggested solutions and what to teach
Speaker Name: Kwan Hoong Ng
Speaker Affiliation: University of Malaya, Kualalumpur, Malaysia

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1645
Modern approaches to diagnosis of hearing disorders
Josef Syka

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1627
Event related potentials: principles and practice
Jan Kremláček

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

Club C
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1897
Breast dosimetry: Where are we and where are we going?
Ioannis Sechopoulos

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP - Sibylle Ziegler

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

Terrace 2A
Educational lecture MP - Kristy Brock - Image Registration and Fusion in Radiotherapy - TG 132

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 16:30 – 18:30

Club A
IOMP Young Investigator Symposium Oral Presentations

Tuesday, June 05, 2018 16:45 – 17:00

Terrace 2A
Break

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1879
Track structure simulations with Geant4-DNA
Sebastien Incerti

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1547
QA Metrics: A Scientific Approach to Quality Improvement
Charles Bloch

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Terrace 2A
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1884
Seven years from nuclear accidents at Fukushima - low dose radiation effects and biomedical engineering
Nakahiro Yasuda

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Club D
SS-24 Global Credentialing in Clinical Engineering
ID: 1554
Creation of Global Clearing House for Credentialing in CE and HTM
Yadin David
ID: 1578
The case for accredited undergraduate programs in Clinical Engineering
James Wear
ID: 1601
(Inter)national credentialing as an essential thing in clinical engineering
Mario Medvedec
ID: 1701
Clinical engineer as a creative partner of medical team
Ewa Zalewska

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:00 – 10:30

Club C
IOMP SCHOOL - IOMP/IUPAP Workshop on Medical Physics Partnering with the Developing World
  • Aims of the Workshop – Dr Yakov Pipman (IOMP PRC Chair)
  • Challenges to the profession – Prof. Slavik Tabakov (President IOMP 2015-2018)
  • Status of Medical Physics and Activities to Boost the Professional Development in the AFOMP Region – Prof. Arun Chougule  (India, Vice-President AFOMP)
  • Status of Medical Physics and Activities to Boost the Professional Development in the SEAFOMP Region – Prof. Anchali Krisanachinda (Thailand, Past-President SEAFOMP)
  • Status of Medical Physics and Activities to Boost the Professional Development in the MEFOMP Region – Mr Nabil Iqeilan (Jordan, Chair ETC of MEFOMP)
  • Status of Medical Physics and Activities to Boost the Professional Development in the EFOMP Region – Dr Hrvoje Hrsak (Croatia, nominated by EFOMP President)
  • Status of Medical Physics and Activities to Boost the Professional Development in the FAMPO Region – Dr Taofeeq Ige (Nigeria, President FAMPO)
  • Status of Medical Physics and Activities to Boost the Professional Development in the ALFIM Region – Dr Rodolfo Alfonso (Cuba, President ALFIM)
  • IAEA activities towards Capacity Building in LMI countries – Dr Harry Delis
  • Open discussion and Way Forward 

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1367
Novel digital signal processing tools in cardiac electrophysiology
Ivo Provazník

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1469
Interactions of Electromagnetic Fields with Biological Systems
JAN VRBA

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 09:00 – 10:00

Club B
IOMP SCHOOL - IOMP-ISR Session on Diagnostic Reference Levels – New Trends in Concepts and Methodology

Presentation 1 
Presentation Title: An Introduction by the International Society of Radiology (global perspective)
Speaker Name: Guy Frija
Speaker Affiliation: ISRQSA Co-Chair 

Presentation 2 
Presentation Title: Clinical DRLs for adults: A novel approach
Speaker Name: Guy Frija
Speaker Affiliation: ISRQSA Co-chair

Presentation 3 
Presentation Title: DRLs for paediatric patients: An overview
Speaker Name: K. Applegate

Presentation 4 
Presentation Title: EUCLID – A European Commission funded European Study on Clinical DRLs for X-ray 
Speaker Name: J. Damilakis
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP ETC

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 09:15 – 10:15

Club D
IOMP SCHOOL - Radiobiological optimization of treatment plans

MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy
Colin Orton

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 10:30 – 13:30

Forum Hall
IUPESM GA

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

North Hall
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1760
Modelling radiation effects beyond single-cell level
Pavel Kundrát

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 11:00 – 12:30

South Hall 2A
MT4 - Modelling and Simulation
ID: 1909
KEYNOTE LECTURE: The IUPS Physiome Project
Peter Hunter
ID: 667
Mathematical modeling of ocular pulse blood filling in rheoophthalmography
Dmitry Shamaev
ID: 684
Light transmission refractometry for multi-phase polymers
Birgit Glasmacher
ID: 944
Model studies of the flow in an abdominal aortic aneurysm
Ulf Krueger

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 11:00 – 13:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1517
Biosignal Analysis - demonstrated with Intracardiac Electrograms
Olaf Doessel

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 11:00 – 13:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Club B
MT11 - Minimum Invasive Surgery, Robotics, Image Guided Therapies, Endoscopy
ID: 199
Pressure dependence of cancer detection in tissue using high-frequency ultrasound
Michael Bennett
ID: 479
High-frequency (10-100 MHz) ultrasonic forceps for precision cancer surgery
Michael Bennett
ID: 1161
Stereotactic Brain Tumor Optical Biopsy
Karin Wårdell

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Club D
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1518
Hybrid imaging technology: Looking back and moving forward
Habib Zaidi

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP - Martin Soukup - Dose calculation in proton and heavy ion therapy

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 15:30

Club H
MT5 - BME and MP Education, Training and Professional Development
ID: 732
Evaluation of the impact of an international Master of advanced studies in medical physics
Giorgia Loreti
ID: 1297
Medical physicists certification process and examination in the middle east
Ibrahim Duhaini
ID: 548
Attract, retain and develop new nuclear talents beyond academic curricula - ENEN+ H2020 project
Csilla Pesznyak

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 15:30

Terrace 2B
MT12 - Diagnostic and Therapeutic Instrumentation
ID: 1030
Diffuse control system for the treatment of phobias using virtual reality
Ignacio Delgado
ID: 1386
Use of magnetic probe for detection of hook-wire in the extracted tissue from breast biopsy
Oiendrila Debnath
ID: 1672
Tactile resonance technology and Raman spectroscopy for ex vivo detection of prostate cancer
Olof Lindahl

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 15:30

South Hall 2B
SS-03 Results and Recommendations from a Canada-Italy Workshop on Patient Safety
ID: 442
Patient safety and Health Technology Assessment of medical devices: where are we?
Leandro Pecchia
ID: 862
Information Technology and Patient Safety
Monique Frize
ID: 924
Human factors and aligning corrective actions and causal factors
Patricia Trbovich
ID: 1025
Education and training of Biomedical and Clinical Engineers. Are we aware of the new threats to patient safety?
Ernesto Iadanza

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1510
Biological Cells and Tissues in Electric Fields
Igor Lacković

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1626
Numerical solving of ordinary differential equations in MATLAB/ or OCTAVE, with focus on neuronal simulation
Petr Maršálek

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 14:30 – 16:00

Club A
SS-14 Women in Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering
ID: 859
Gender balance in medical physics – lost in transition?
Loredana G. Marcu
ID: 1587
Women in Medical Physics, professional problems and the reasons: Indian perspective
Rajni Verma
ID: 1271
Women for Biomedical Engineering in Cuba
Consuelo Varela Corona
ID: 1576
Women in Medical Physics: Bangladesh
Hasin Anupama Azhari
ID: 1598
Women in biomedical engineering and medical physics in the Czech Republic
Lenka Lhotska

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 15:00 – 17:30

Club B
IFMBE Young Investigator Symposium Oral Presentations

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

Terrace 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1921
Effects, risks and detriment of low radiation doses and their implications in medical diagnostics and treatment
Marie Davídková

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 16:00 – 16:45

South Hall 2B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1767
Digital Radiography Detectors: Overview and Acceptance Testing / Quality Control Update
Tony Seibert

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 16:00 – 17:00

South Hall 1B
MT10 - Biomechanics, Rehabilitation and Prosthetics
ID: 1841
Interface based on inertial sensors for the application of the trunk control scale on patients with spinal cord injury
Janet Carolina López Romero

Wednesday, June 06, 2018 16:15 – 17:45

Club A
SS-10 HTA Research and Education: Challenges and Opportunities for BMEs
ID: 431
IFMBE HTAD Guidelines on HTA of Medical Devices
Rossana Castaldo
ID: 1029
Health Technology Assessment (HTA) research and education: challenges and opportunities for Biomedical Engineers (BMEs)
Nicolas Pallikarakis
ID: 1179
IFMBE HTAD Guidelines on eHTA
Marjan Hummel
ID: 1813
IFMBE HTA Division Activities 2012-18
Leandro Pecchia
ID: 1815
HTA Education in BME: IFMBE HTAD Summer Schools and the eLearning Platform
Leandro Pecchia
ID: 1838
What’s it got to do with me anyway? Engaging the unengaged in HTA
Dan Clark

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club H
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1654
Particle Therapy
Håkan Nyström

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Club B
IOMP SCHOOL - e-Learning experience: Building educational modules in Medical Physics and Engineering with Moodle VLE

Presentation Title: e-Learning experience: Building educational modules in Medical Physics and Engineering with Moodle VLE 
Speaker Name: Dr Vassilka Tabakova
Speaker Affiliation: King's College London

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Club C
IOMP SCHOOL - Session on Medical Physics e-Encyclopaedia and Dictionary Update

Presentation 1 
Presentation Title: Medical Physics e-Encyclopaedia and Dictionary Update
Speaker Name: Slavik Tabakov
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP President

Presentation 2 
Presentation Title: 
Speaker Name: Perry Sprawls
Speaker Affiliation: Sprawls.org

Presentation 3 
Presentation Title: 
Speaker Name: Franco Milano
Speaker Affiliation: Italy

Presentation 4 
Presentation Title: 
Speaker Name: Magdalena Stoeva
Speaker Affiliation: IOMP MPWB Chair

Presentation 5 
Presentation Title: 
Speaker Name: Sameer Tipnis (USA) & Tracy Underwood (UK)
Speaker Affiliation: 

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Terrace 2B
IOMP SCHOOL - Partnering with developing neighbours, medical physics volunteering in SE Asia

Partnering with developing neighbours, medical physics volunteering in SE Asia
Nikki Shelton

Discussion
Eva Bezak

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:00 – 09:15

Club A
SS-15 The Proposed IFMBE African Working Group
ID: 1846
History of the Struggle to form African Federation of Biomedical Engineering
Kenneth Nkuma-Udah

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:00 – 09:30

South Hall 2B
IOMP SCHOOL - IOMP-UNSCEAR Workshop on Data Collection “Improved global information on medical exposures and occupational exposures in medicine”

08:00 – 08:05      
Opening and Introduction (Geoffrey Ibbott, IOMP) 

08:10 – 08:20      
UNSCEAR’s Global exposure survey – including practical demonstration of the online data collection platform (Ferid Shannoun, UNSCEAR) 

08:20 – 08:30      
Information on exposures in radiotherapy and access to treatment services (Geoffrey Ibbott, IOMP) 

08:30 – 08:40      
A global commitment to improve data collection on radiation exposure: WHO’s views (Maria Perez, WHO) 

08:40 – 08:50      
IAEA’s information resources on radiological practice (Jenia Vassileva, IAEA)

08:50 – 09:00      
Q&A (all)

09:00 – 09:05     
Summary and closing remarks (Ferid Shannoun, UNSCEAR) 

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1516
How to pick up an X-ray image: from celluloid to digital Flat-Panel Detectors
Olaf Doessel

Thursday, June 07, 2018 08:30 – 10:30

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1360
Technologies supporting diagnostics and therapy of diabetes with special attention to tele-homecare and the artificial pancreas
Piotr Ladyzynski

Thursday, June 07, 2018 09:00 – 10:30

Club B
IOMP SCHOOL - Exercises in strategic medical physics leadership - case studies from the trenches

Exercises in strategic medical physics leadership - case studies from the trenches
Carmel J. Caruana

Thursday, June 07, 2018 09:30 – 12:00

Club A
IFMBE Awardees Keynote Lectures
1 Otto Schmitt Award (1)   9:30 AM to 10:00 AM Bo Håkansson, Sweden Bone Conduction Hearing Applications over 40 years
2 Vladimir K. Zworykin Award   10:00 AM to 10:30 AM Pai-Chi Li, Taiwan Ultrasound Technologies for Preclinical and Clinical Research
3 John A. Hopps Distinguished Service Award   10:30 AM to 11:00 AM Nicolas Pallikarakis, Greece Digital Tomosynthesis; Image Reconstruction and Simulation Studies
4 Laura Bassi Award   11:00 AM to 11:30 AM Maria Lindén, Sweden Research in Biomedical Engineering - Towards the Real-life Settings
5 Otto Schmitt Award (2)   11:30 AM to 12:00 PM Amit Gefen, Israel
(*)
Revolutionizing the Understanding of Pressure Ulcers: How Biomedical Engineering makes the Difference.

(*) Pre-recorderd Powerpoint

Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

Club B
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1878
Implementing traceability in molecular radiotherapy
Ludovic Ferrer

Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:00 – 11:45

Club H
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1768
Implementation of the IEC 62494-1 Exposure Index Standard for Digital Radiography
Tony Seibert

Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:00 – 12:30

North Hall
MT14 - Neuroengineering, Neural Systems
ID: 98
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Neural implants for therapy and enhancement
Kevin Warwick
ID: 1692
Self-propagating waves in the hippocampus by ephaptic coupling
Dominique Durand
ID: 1205
Applying weightless neural networks to a P300-based brain-computer interface to train social attention
Marco Simoes
ID: 68
gurbetalejla@gmail.com
Lejla Gurbeta

Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:00 – 12:30

Terrace 2B
IOMP/IAEA Session on Capacity Building in Medical Physics

Introduction and welcome – IOMP and IAEA

IOMP, Mr Madan Rehani

IAEA, Ms Giorgia Loreti

ALFIM, Mr Rodolfo Alfonso

EFOMP, Mr John Damilakis

FAMPO, Mr Chris Trauernicht

MEFOMP, Mr Ibrahim Duhaini

SEAFOMP, Mr James C L Lee

All speakers and participants: discussion and Q&A

Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:00 – 13:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1856
Lower limb prosthetic socket biomechanics, soft tissue mechanics and state-of-the-art technologies and research for assessing socket fit
Peter Vee Sin Lee

Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:00 – 13:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1542
Advanced Implantable Cardiac Devices Settings and Patient Troubleshooting
David Korpas

Thursday, June 07, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Club C
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1337
MRI physics for the non-specialist: understanding the basics to appreciate current advances
David Lurie

Thursday, June 07, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Club D
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1906
Measurement and calculation of x-ray and neutron doses outside the treatment volume
Stephen Kry

Thursday, June 07, 2018 14:00 – 14:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP - Johannes Hofmanniger: Machine learning on routine medical imaging data
ID: 1938
Machine learning on routine medical imaging data
Johannes Hofmanninger

Thursday, June 07, 2018 14:00 – 15:30

Terrace 2B
MT7 - Accreditation and Certification
ID: 1901
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Certification of clinical medical physicists - how to uphold the standard globally
Raymond Wu
ID: 899
KEYNOTE LECTURE: Accreditation and certification in medical physics
John Damilakis

Thursday, June 07, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.1.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1874
Advances in functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
Mário Forjaz Secca

Thursday, June 07, 2018 14:00 – 16:00

Room 4.2.
Educational Course BME
ID: 1639
Super-resolution microscopy: principles and applications
Dalibor Pánek

Thursday, June 07, 2018 15:00 – 15:30

Club C
MT20 - Dosimetry and Radiation Protection
ID: 1445
Response of ionization chambers in the presence of magnetic fields
Mohamad Alissa
ID: 427
Reference dosimetry measurements in a prototype high-field inline MRI-linac
Ilias Billas

Thursday, June 07, 2018 16:00 – 16:30

Club H
MT16 - Assistive Technologies
ID: 1798
Internet of Instruments - the future of instrument management in hospitals
Lukas Böhler
ID: 1800
Self powered sterilisable IoT modules in healthcare
Mateusz Daniol

Thursday, June 07, 2018 16:00 – 17:30

Terrace 2B
IOMP SCHOOL - The troubling shortage of medical physicists: causes, consequences, solutions

Presentation 1
Presentation Title: How IAEA supports efforts to increase the number of qualified medical physicists worldwide
Speaker Name: Harry Delis
Speaker Affiliation: IAEA

Presentation 2 
Presentation Title: Perspectives on professional issues and suggested solutions
Speaker Name: Yakov Pipman
Speaker Affiliation: Retired, New York & Chair PRC, IOMP

Presentation 3 
Presentation Title: Assessment of the global situation and way forward
Speaker Name: Madan M. Rehani
Speaker Affiliation: MGH, Harvard and IOMP

Thursday, June 07, 2018 16:00 – 18:00

North Hall
Memorial Session for Joachim Nagel, Herb Voigt and Nandor Richter

Friday, June 08, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club B
Educational lecture MP - Sandrine Lacombe - Nanoparticle radio-enhancement: principles, progress and application to cancer treatment

Friday, June 08, 2018 08:00 – 08:45

Club E
Educational lecture MP
ID: 1525
Quality assurance and control in CT
Virginia Tsapaki

Friday, June 08, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Club C
IOMP SCHOOL - MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy

MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy
Geoffrey S. Ibbott

Friday, June 08, 2018 08:00 – 09:00

Terrace 2A
IOMP SCHOOL - Meet the Editors

Presentation 1:
IOMP Publications Committee
Paolo Russo

Presentation 2:
IOMP Medical Physics International Journal
Slavik Tabakov

Presentation 3:
Magdalena Stoeva
IOMP Medical Physics World

Presentation 4:
CRC Press Representative
CRC Press publications activities in the field of medical physics

Friday, June 08, 2018 10:45 – 13:00

Forum Hall
CLOSING CEREMONY