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2007 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) and Medical Imaging Conference
(MIC) will be held October 28 – November 3, 2007 at the Hilton
Hawaiian Village Beach Resort and Spa in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
For the first time, the Hawaiian site was chosen for its location
as a crossroad between the US mainland and the booming Asian-Pacific
region. Detailed information concerning the joint conference can
be found on the conference website at http://www.nss-mic.org/2007.
A major objective of the joint conference is to attract and welcome
new members from countries in this region to the IEEE Nuclear and
Plasma Sciences Society (NPSS) and to encourage current members
in this region to become more actively involved in the Society.
This follows our very successful experience of holding the conference
in Europe, for the first time in Lyon, France in 2000 and then in
Rome, Italy in 2004. We hope the 2007 conference will provide a
unique opportunity to promote and foster closer interactions and
collaborations between colleagues in nuclear science and medical
imaging from the Asian-Pacific countries and all over the world
to further enhance its truly international character. A special
session organized by our Asian-Pacific members is being planned.
The Organizing Committee was pleasantly surprised to see a record
1,506 abstract submissions. The program chairs are organizing the
accepted papers into a five full-day NSS program with two parallel
sessions and a four full-day MIC program with two parallel sessions
with regular oral and poster presentations. The daily program includes
two 1.5-hour sessions in the morning (8:30 AM to 12:00 Noon) and
two 2-hour sessions (1:30 PM to 6:00 PM) in the afternoon. An afternoon
of joint NSS-MIC sessions will be held on Tuesday, October 31. There
will be a number of full and half-day topical short courses held
before the meeting. A new addition to the program is a series of
50-minute refresher courses held during the meeting to review current
topics of special interest. In addition, there will be two special-interest
workshops on new developments in micro-pattern gas detectors and
on hadron therapy, and a special session on technology transfer.
To support and enhance these scientific and educational activities
and to provide travel grants for students, a fund-raising campaign
is underway.
A commercial exhibit featuring state-of-the-art products and services
from a wide range of vendors will take place during the main part
of the meeting. Also, a companion program will provide daily tours
to the many attractions and activities in and around Honolulu and
Oahu Island during the conference.
On behalf of the organizing committee, we extend our warmest welcome
to you and encourage you to make plans now to attend this exciting
joint conference of the IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society.
We look forward to welcoming you to beautiful Honolulu, Hawaii.
NSS Program
The Nuclear Science Symposium (NSS) this year promises to be remembered
beyond the wonderful Hawaii venue. A total of 853 abstracts were
received. To accommodate this record-breaking submission, NSS authors
were polled to express their preference on the program length and
the parallel session numbers. The poll shows a majority favoring
a five-day NSS program with four parallel sessions. Accordingly,
the NSS program this year is expanded from Monday to Friday. The
NSS luncheon will be held on Monday, October 29, where various awards
will be presented. Our lunch speaker, Gary Sanders, will describe
the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) Project, planned to open the next
generation of giant ground-based telescopes and to sweep away the
disturbances of the atmosphere by use of adaptive optics.
The NSS plenary talks will be delivered on Monday, October 29, by
the following speakers.
• Jim Virdee: The Large Hadron Collider Experiments: Status
and Physics Prospects
• Jim Brau: The Physics and Detectors of the International
Linear Collider
• David Hitlin: The SuperB Project
• Chris Bebek: Dark Energy and the SNAP Space Mission
The symposium also offers an outstanding opportunity for scientists
and engineers in the field of nuclear science to meet with their
colleagues and present new and original work on the latest developments
in technology and instrumentation. The symposium program includes
380 oral papers in 60 parallel sessions and 450 poster papers in
two poster sessions. The scientific topics to be covered this year
are listed below.
• Instrumentation for Homeland Security
• Analog and Digital Circuits
• Astrophysics and Space Instrumentation
• Data Acquisition and Analysis Systems
• Environmental Health and Safety Instrumentation
• Gaseous Detectors
• High Energy and Nuclear Physics Instrumentation
• New Solid State Detectors
• Nuclear Measurements and Monitoring Techniques
• Photodetectors and Radiation Imaging
• Radiation Damage Effects
• Scintillators and Scintillation Detectors
• Solid State Tracking Detectors
• Synchrotron and Neutron Instrumentation
• Trigger and Front-End Electronics
• Instrumentation for Medical and Biological Research
• Accelerators and Beam Line Instrumentation
• Computing and Software for Experiments
• Neutron Imaging and Radiography
The NSS Short Course program will cover specialized topics, and
provide an excellent educational opportunity for young scientists
in the field. In addition, this year's NSS program features three
refresher courses covering detectors, electronics and software.
For information concerning the NSS Program, please contact:
Ren-Yuan Zhu, NSS Program Chair,
256-48, HEP, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA;
zhu@hep.caltech.edu;
Phone: +1 626-395-6661
Liyuan Zhang, NSS Deputy Chair.
256-48, HEP, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA;
liyuan@hep.caltech.edu;
Phone: +1 626-395-6618.
MIC Program
The 2007 MIC will span four full days (Wednesday, October 31 through
Saturday, November 3) plus NSS-MIC joint sessions on Tuesday, October
30. The MIC provides a forum for presenting fundamental theoretical
and applied contributions to the physics, engineering, and mathematical
aspects of medical imaging. This conference will provide the opportunity
for exchange of ideas and recent advances in medical imaging. There
will be two plenary sessions, one on October 31 by Dr. H. William
Strauss entitled The Scintillating Future of Multi-Modality Cardiac
Imaging and one on November 1 on applications of nanotechnology
to medicine. A 50-minute refresher course will be given at 7:30
AM each morning (topics are described below). The MIC Banquet will
be held on Friday, November 2. The contributed papers are the heart
of the program: a record 653 abstracts were received. To accommodate
these and to provide adequate time for poster viewing, there will
be over 400 posters presented in four two-hour poster sessions and
134 oral presentations in 20 oral sessions, two in parallel at a
time, plus two joint sessions on Tuesday, October 30. Contributed
papers will be presented describing original and innovative technical
contributions to the field of medical imaging in the following areas:
• PET & PET/CT Instrumentation and Reconstruction
• SPECT & SPECT/CT Instrumentation and Reconstruction
• Small Animal Imaging and Imagers
• Application Specific Imagers
• X-ray CT Instrumentation and Reconstruction
• X-ray Imaging Technologies and Techniques
• Simulation Tools and Modeling of Imaging Systems
• Acquisition and Processing of Dynamic Data
• Quantitative Imaging and Compensation Methods
• Evaluation and Optimization of Imaging Systems and Image
Reconstruction and Compensation Methods
• Scintillator-based Detection and Imaging Technologies
• Semiconductor Detector and Imaging Techniques
• Clinical Applications of Biomedical Imaging
In addition, 50-minute refresher courses will be given detailing
advances in analytic reconstruction, X-ray computed tomography,
scintillators, and photodetectors.
For information concerning the MIC Program, please contact:
Eric C. Frey,
MIC Program Chair,
Johns Hopkins University,
JHOC 4263,
601 N. Caroline Street,
Baltimore, MD 21287-0859, USA;
mic2007@jhmi.edu;
Phone: +1 443-287-2426.
Magnus Dahlbom,
MIC Deputy Program Chair,
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA,
650 Charles Young Drive South,
Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;
mic2007@jhmi.edu;
Phone: +1 310-206-8273.
Short Course Program
In depth full-day and two-day courses on topical subjects in science
and medical imaging will be offered prior to the Conference. Topics
will include:
NSS Short Courses:
• Nuclear Science for Homeland Security
• Radiation Detection and Measurement
• Integrated Circuit Front Ends for Nuclear Pulse Processing
MIC Short Courses:
• Programming and Medical Applications Using Graphics Hardware
• Image Quality
• Molecular Biology
• Statistical Methods for Image Reconstruction
• Dynamic Imaging in Emission Computed Tomography
• Physics and Design of Detectors for PET and SPECT
Please visit the conference website www.nss-mic.org/2007 for updated
information. For information regarding the Short Course program,
please contact.
Stephen E. Derenzo, NSS Short Course Program Chair, Lawrence Berkeley
National laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. sederenzo@lbl.gov.
Phone: +1 510-486-4097 or
Grant T. Gullberg, MIC Short Course Program Chair, Lawrence Berkeley
National laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA. GTGullberg@lbl.gov.
Phone: +1 510-486-7483
New Refresher Course Program
Refresher courses will be offered for the first time during the
conference. They are short lectures designed to provide reviews
of current topics that interest most participants. Topics will include:
NSS Refresher Courses:
• Improving Gas Detectors: Why and How
• Digital Designs with FPGAs: Examples and Resource Saving
Tips
MIC Refresher Courses:
Two to four Refresher Courses and one or two Focused Courses on
topics related to the meeting are scheduled for outside of normal
session times. Please visit the conference website at www.nss-mic.org/2007
for updated information.
The Asian-Pacific Program
Following the successful NSS/MIC conference in Europe, a major reason
for holding the conference in Hawaii is to reach out to our colleagues
in the fast growing regions of Asia and the South Pacific. A special
Asian-Pacific Program has been organized to provide a forum for
the participants to learn about the range of scientific research
and technological development in the Asian-Pacific region that is
of great interest to the multidisciplinary nuclear science communities,
including HEP, radiation detectors and instrumentation, medical
physics and medical imaging.
To overview the major NSS/MIC scientific activities in Asia and
the South Pacific, three special Asian-Pacific sessions have been
organized which are based on presentations from 18 invited speakers
from Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and Singapore,
but not limited to that. These sessions have been scheduled to overlap
minmally with the other parts of the scientific program of the NSS/MIC
conference to enable the maximum attendance by all conference participants
and support the exchange of ideas and collaboration between East
and West. Increased numbers of presentations from Asian and South
Pacific countries are included in the regular NSS/MIC program.
The Asian-Pacific Program has demonstrated strong interest from
Asian and South Pacific regions. This has essentially increased
the number of conference participants this year. It will provide
an informal forum for discussion of opportunities in mutually beneficial
technology transfer and the commercialization of ideas between East
and West, which will lead to future active attendance of our Asian
and South Pacific colleagues at IEEE NSS MIC conferences and IEEE
NPSS professional activities.
All registered participants are entitled to attend the Asian-Pacific
sessions and contribute to the exchange of ideas. All presented
invited papers with in the Asian-Pacific program will be submitted
to the IEEE TNS for publication.
For information concerning the Asian-Pacific Program, please contact:
Anatoly B. Rozenfeld, Asian-Pacific Program Chair, Centre for Medical
Radiation Physics, Faculty of Engineering, University of Wollongong,
Wollongong, NSW 2522, Australia; Anatoly@uow.edu.au;
Phone: +61-2-42214574
Workshop on New Developments in Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors
The recent results in the field of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors –
used for fast tracking at the LHC and planned for high precision
tracking at the ILC, pixel readout of Micro-pattern Gas Detectors,
astrophysics research and medical applications, optical readout
of MPGD, with a focus on design principles, performance, reliability
and limitations - will be discussed. The workshop format includes
invited speakers and presentations selected from submitted abstracts.
The Workshop Topics will include:
• High Precision Tracking for TPC
• High Rate Tracking, Triggering and Aging Studies
• Gaseous Photomultipliers
• New Manufacturing Technologies for MPGD
• Pixel Readout of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors
• Astrophysics, Neutrino Physics and Medical Imaging
• Optical Readout of Micro-Pattern Gas Detectors
• System Aspects: Detector and Electronic Integration
For more information on the workshop, please contact the co-chairs:
Paul Colas, SACLAY, France, Paul.Colas@cea.fr,
Leszek Ropelewski, CERN, Switzerland, Leszek. Ropelewski@cern.ch
or Maxim Titov, SACLAY, France, maxim.titov@cea.fr.
Workshop on Innovative Techniques for Hadron
Therapy
This one day workshop will review the evolution of innovative concepts
and instrumentation around technologies for hadron beam radiotherapy
(hadron therapy). This emerging field is a perfect illustration
of merging Nuclear and Radiation Instrumentation experts with the
Medical Imaging community. The goal of the workshop is to provide
a forum for interested participants to discuss in a convivial manner
the technical progress in the field and to exchange recent experiences.
The workshop format will consist of invited review talks, and oral
and poster presentations. The preliminary agenda includes review
talks and presentations in the areas of new accelerator concepts
for protons, ions, antiprotons and neutrons, instrumentation for
beam delivery control and real time dose monitoring, and simulation
and modeling for beam delivery and patient treatment planning.
For more information on the workshop, please contact the workshop
co-chairs:
Patrick Le Dû, DAPNIA CEA Saclay, France (pledu@cea.fr),
Anatoly Rozenfeld, University of Wollongong, Australia (anatoly@uow.edu.au)
or Steve Peggs, Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA (peggs@bnl.gov).
Special Session on Technology Transfer
In the special session on Technology Transfer professionals and
top experts from the field will share their experience and present
examples of great success stories within our community where “just
an idea” or “small invention” has led to a new
commercial product, spin-off, or a new company. Conference participants
will have an opportunity to inquire and learn about the necessary
steps for such paths of success. Technology Transfer Office professionals
and experts will provide information concerning intellectual property,
patents, seed money, venture capital and other forms of start-up
funding. Detailed information can be found on the conference website
www.nss-mic.org/2007.
For more information, contact the co-chairs of the Special Session:
Uwe Bratzler, Uwe.Bratzler@cern.ch
or Jean-Marie Le Goff, Jean-Marie.Le.Goff@cern.ch.
Publications
All papers presented at the NSS, MIC and Workshops will be published
in the Conference Record provided they are received on or before
November 16, 2007. In addition, all authors are encouraged to submit
their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. Authors
of medical imaging papers may alternatively choose to submit their
manuscripts to the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. All Transaction
papers will be subject to a formal review process. Detailed information
on paper publication will be provided to authors of accepted papers.
Industrial Program
A record number of vendors with products and services related to
the NSS and MIC have registered to participate in the Industrial
Program, both for the exhibition and the program of technical seminars.
An exhibition area central to conference activities will be provided
to display the latest products and innovations. Interested vendors
should quickly contact:
Ron Keyser, Industrial Program Chair, ORTEC, 801 South Illinois
Avenue, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831 USA; Ron.Keyser@ametek.com;
Phone:+1 865-483-2146.
Tours and Companion Program
The focus of the Companion program is to provide an opportunity
to meet new people and experience Hawaii through a variety of activities.
All tours depart from and return to the conference hotel. For tours
beginning in the morning, participants are invited to meet for a
complimentary Continental breakfast in the Rainbow Room. We hope
your visit will be enhanced by the opportunity to experience the
beauty of Hawaii through these activities.
Daily Tours
Sunday, October 28
The Grand Circle Island Tour will leave the Hilton Hawaiian Village
at 7:15 am and return at 3:15 pm. We will visit the famous sites
of Diamond Head Lookout, Pali Lookout, Hanauma Bay, and Halona Point/Blow
Hole. Traveling north around the island we will see the exclusive
Kahala Estates, North Shore surfing beaches, Wiamea Bay and sugar
and pineapple fields, and stop at Kelemano Plantation for a no-host
lunch. Our tour will also include a visit to the famous Byodo-In
Temple.
Monday, October 29 and Thursday, November 1
Pearl Harbor/Arizona Memorial/City Tour
Our exclusive tour includes a 75-minute guided tour, documentary
film, short boat trip, and self-exploration of the USS Arizona Memorial.
You will have an opportunity to visit the museum, museum shops and
many self-guided exhibits located throughout the Visitors Center
and park grounds. No reservations are taken for the Arizona Memorial
tour and tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis. This tour
will leave the hotel at least by 7 am and will return by 11 am.
Our driving tour will include Punchbowl National Cemetery, Iolani
Palace, the State Capitol, Kawaiahao Church and Mission Homes, and
the famous King Kamehameha Statue.
Tuesday, October 30 and Friday, November 2
Kayak or Snorkel Adventure Tours
Today you will have a choice of three all day adventure tours. A
Kayak Adventure tour for those with some kayaking experience, will
begin with a trip to Kailua Beach and a safety briefing with mapping
and orientation of the paddling area. Your kayak, paddle, padded
backrest, life jacket and picnic lunch are included in the price.
For beginners, we offer a tour with a trained naturalist to guide
you along the beautiful coastal area. You will be landing your safe
and stable sit-on kayak on one of two world famous beaches (Kailua
or Lanikai) for some snorkeling among the tropical fish and sea
turtles. Your guide is a master paddler and instructor so you will
learn the fun and safe way to paddle your kayak. Guide, kayak, snorkel
gear, padded backrest and picnic lunch are included in the price.
A third option for today’s adventure is a Snorkel trip providing
a day in an area where sea turtles abound. A boogie board, snorkeling
gear and delicious picnic lunch are included in the price. All tours
leave the Hilton Hawaiian Village at 8:15 am and return at 3 pm.
Wednesday, October 31
Hawaiian Waterfall Hiking Adventure
Spectacular 2000 foot jagged cliffs tower above as you walk into
the lush Koolau mountains that rise above Kaneohe Bay. We will visit
a picturesque rainforest waterfall and enjoy Hawaii’s unique
rainforest plants and birds. You will have the choice of a morning
hike leaving the Hilton Hawaiian Village at 8 am and returning at
12 noon or an afternoon hike leaving the Hilton at 2 pm and returning
at 6 pm.
Thursday, November 1
Pearl Harbor/Manoa Waterfall Hiking Adventure
Thursday offers two choices for your day’s activities. The
Pearl Harbor/Arizona Memorial/City Tour will be repeated (see Monday’s
tour) or you may choose to fulfill your fantasies about Hawaii’s
lush rainforests, giant ferns, cascading tropical waterfalls, picturesque
streams and unique species that can be found nowhere else on earth,
on the Manoa Waterfall Hiking Adventure. This tour leaves the Hilton
Hawaiian Village at 8 am for a morning hike or at 2 pm for an afternoon
hike.
Friday, November 2
Snorkeling Adventure or Waikele Outlet Shopping
Today you may choose to a trip to Snorkel among sea turtles on the
Snorkeling Adventure (see Tuesday's activities) or take the exclusive
charter bus to the Waikele Outlet stores for a day of shopping.
Saturday, November 3
Polynesian Cultural Center
Plan for an all day trip to explore the unique and varied cultures
of the South Pacific. We will leave the Hilton Hawaiian Village
at 10 am for a visit to the Polynesian Cultural Center and return
at 9:30 pm. The price includes round trip transportation and admission
to the center, which includes the 7 Polynesian Villages and Pageant
of the Long Canoes. Meals are not included.
Details of the Companion Program and registration will be posted
to the conference website www.nss-mic.org/2007.
For more information concerning the Tour and Companion Program,
please contact Kathy Gullberg or Nancy Jaszczak, Tour and Companion
Program Co-Chairs, kathy.gullberg@gmail.com
and njj@spect.com.
Registration
This year all registration formalities for participants are being
handled electronically through the conference web site at http://www.nss-mic.org/2007.
Participants can register for the conference, Short Courses, Workshops,
Tours and Companion Program, Technical Visits, as well as all social
events and request hotel accommodations via our link to the hotel's
website. Payment may be made in several convenient ways.
Traveling to Honolulu, Hawaii
A formal letter of invitation for visa purposes can be downloaded
from, and more information on Honolulu, Hawaii, hotel accommodations
and general travel information can be found on the conference website
www.nss-mic.org/2007.
Benjamin M. W. Tsui, General Chair, can be reached at Department
of Radiology, Johns Hopkins University, JHOC 4263, 601 N. Caroline
Street, Baltimore, MD 21287-0859, USA; nss-mic2007@jhmi.edu;
Phone: +1 443-287-4025.
Ronald J. Jaszczak, Deputy General Chair, at Duke University Medical
Center, DUMC-3949, Durham, NC 27710, USA; r.jaszczak@ieee.org;
Phone: +1 919-684-7685.
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