ITAU2020 - Advanced light sources for medical and life science imaging and analysis

Apr 6, 2020, 8:15 AM → Apr 7, 2020, 6:30 PM Europe/Rome

ICTP, Trieste, Italy

Alessandra Gianoncelli (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A.)

7ItalOZ: Advanced light sources for medical and life science imaging and analysis

 

The Australian Synchrotron and Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste have many common interests and scientific goals. Over the years, there has been significant co-operation, with staff and users performing complementary and collaborative experiments at each other's facility. We have therefore decided to hold a workshop to discuss in detail areas of common interest, to focus on some hot research topics, and to think about the future. 

The workshop will be held on the 6th and 7thof April, and will focus on synchrotron based imaging for life sciences and medicine, fields in which both synchrotron light sources excel. As well, there will be contributions on novel and advanced light sources, such as Free Electron Lasers, and contributions from researchers using conventional x-ray sources.

This is the seventh in a series of thematic Italian-Australian workshop on synchrotron radiation, and the venue is the International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste.

Registration is free, but the number of seats is limited by the size of the lecture hall. The conference dinner is free for speakers, but others must pay at the time of registration.

Monday, April 6

8:15 AM → 8:45 AM Registration

8:45 AM → 9:00 AM Welcome

Convener: Dr Giorgio Paolucci (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

9:00 AM → 10:00 AM Coherent Diffractive Imaging

9:00 AM Bragg coherent diffractive imaging and crystallography: opportunities and challenges

Speaker: Dr Brian Abbey (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

10:00 AM → 10:30 AM Coffee Break

10:30 AM → 12:30 PM X-ray imaging and analysis with advanced light sources

10:30 AM Fast-demagnetization and four wave mixing processes witnessed using FERMI seeded-FEL

Speaker: Dr Flavio Capotondi (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

11:00 AM From development to application: Simultaneous X-ray fluorescence and ptychography comes of age

Speaker: Dr Micheal Jones (Queensland University of Technology)

11:30 AM Soft X-ray microscopy imaging at TwinMic: recent results

Speaker: Dr Alessandra Gianoncelli (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

12:00 PM In Situ Ptychography for Materials Characterisation

Speaker: Dr Grant Van Riessen (La Trobe University)

12:30 PM → 2:30 PM Lunch

2:30 PM → 4:00 PM FEL technology and novel light sources

2:30 PM Compact Light Source Opportunities for Australia

Speaker: Dr Richard Garrett (ANSTO, Lucas Heights, Australia)

3:00 PM Compton scattering, compact and exotic light sources

Speaker: Dr Simone Di Mitri (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

3:30 PM Using a high repetition rate hard X-ray FEL for imaging. Probably arrive late on Monday, leave late Tuesday

Speaker: Dr Adrian Mancuso (European XFEL, Hamburg and La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia)

4:00 PM → 4:30 PM Coffee Break

4:30 PM → 5:30 PM Imaging Detectors

4:30 PM Recent developments of imaging x-ray detectors at Elettra

Speaker: Dr Ralf H. Menk (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

5:00 PM Detectors for medical imaging with x-rays

Speaker: Dr Chris Hall (Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO, Melbourne)

7:30 PM → 8:30 PM Social Dinner

Tuesday, April 7

9:00 AM → 10:30 AM Beamlines and projects for medical imaging

9:00 AM Imaging beamline at the Australian Synchrotron and breast CT setup

Speaker: Dr Daniel Hausermann (Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO, Melbourne)

9:30 AM New imaging beamline at Elettra 2.0 and breast CT protocol

Speaker: Dr Giuliana Tromba (Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste)

10:00 AM The breast CT project at the Australian Synchrotron

Speaker: Dr Andrew Peele (Australian Synchrotron, ANSTO, Melbourne)

10:30 AM → 11:00 AM Coffee Break

11:00 AM → 1:00 PM Phase contrast X-ray imaging with conventional sources

11:00 AM Grat-X project for phase contrast breast imaging

Speaker: Dr Marco Stampanoni (Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen, Switzerland)

11:30 AM TBD

Speaker: Dr Andreas Boss (Medical University of Zurich)

12:00 PM TBD

Speaker: Dr Joannis Sechopoulos (Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, NL)

12:30 PM Reducing the number of re-operations in breast conserving surgery through fast, intra-operative phase contrast CT

Speaker: Dr Alessandro Olivo (UCL London, UK)

1:00 PM → 3:00 PM Lunch

3:00 PM → 4:30 PM Phase contrast X-ray imaging with synchrotron sources - Part I

3:00 PM Radiological assessment of phase contrast CT images

Speaker: Dr Patrick Brennan (Sydney University, Sydney, Australia)

3:30 PM TBD

Speaker: Dr Luca Brombal

4:00 PM SAXS signal in propagation-based phase-contrast breast CT

Speaker: Dr Tim Gureyev

4:30 PM → 5:00 PM Coffee Break

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Phase contrast X-ray imaging with synchrotron sources - Part II

5:00 PM TBD

Speaker: Dr Christian Dullin (Goettingen University Hospital)

5:30 PM Quantitative Coherent X-ray Lung Imaging. Arrive Sunday, leave Wednesday

Speaker: Dr Markus Kitchen

6:00 PM → 6:30 PM Round Table