8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-8:35 Opening remarks - Katsuyuki Taguchi
8:35-9:55 Session 1 (80 min) - Yong Du
Overview of Rotating slant-hole SPECT project - Benjamin M. W. Tsui
• Completeness conditions in rotating multi-segment variable slant angle SPECT technique - Jingyan Xu
Overview of Dosimetry project - Eric C.Frey
• The impact of VOI definition on activity estimation accuracy in quantitative SPECT and planar imaging methods - Bin He
"Overview of ultrasound research in DMIP" and "Ultrasound Elasticity Image Guidance for External Beam Partial Breast Irradiation" - Emad M. Boctor and Hassan Rivaz
9:55-10:10 Break
10:10-11:45 Session 2 (90 min) - Martin J. Stumpf
Overview of Gated cardiac SPECT project - Benjamin M. W. Tsui
• The Development and Application of Simultaneous Cardiac and Respiratory Gated ECT/CT Dataset from the 4D NCAT Phantom - Taek-Soo Lee
• Three-D cardiac motion estimation: study on cost function and initial estimates - Jing Tang
Overview of x-ray CT project - Katsuyuki Taguchi
• Image-Based "Reconstruction" for Motion Compensated Cardiac CT - Zhihui Sun
Patient dose measurements during cardiac CT Angiography procedures - Mahesh Mahadevappa
11:45-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:30 Session 3 (75 min) - Jingyan Xu
Overview of Dual isotope SPECT project - Eric C. Frey
• Optimization of Tc injected activity in simultaneous dual-isotope myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging using a three-class channelized Hotelling observer study - Xiaolan Wang
• Efficient Monte Carlo based scatter estimation for SPECT imaging with photon track reuse - Yong Du
Overview of SPECT/MRI and Prostate cancer projects - Benjamin M. W. Tsui
• Performance Evaluation of Block-Iterative Algorithms for SPECT Reconstruction - Chi Liu
14:30-15:40 Guided poster sessions (70 min) - Yuchuan Wang, Jing Tang, and Katsuyuki Taguchi
• Measurement of Glucose Uptake in the Contused Spinal Cord of Adult Rats Using small animal PET imaging - Jianhua Yu
• A simulation platform for SPECT-MRI system - Si Chen
• Prostate Cancer and Prostate Monoclonal Antibody Imaging (ProstascintTM) - Susanne Hemker
• Mutual Information Based Multimodality registration for Cumulated Activity Distribution Estimation - Na Song
• Development of "SmileyZ" Phantom for Evaluating the Accuracy of Material Decomposition - Mengxi Zhang
• A Robust Meshing and Calibration Approach for Sensorless Freehand 3D Ultrasound - Hassan Rivaz
15:40-15:50 Break
15:50-16:55 Session 4 (65 min) - Bin He
Overview of Animal imaging project - Benjamin M. W. Tsui
• High-Resolution Small Animal SPECT/CT Imaging of Atherosclerotic Plaques in ApoE-/- Mice Using Tc-99m Annexin-V and Contrast Enhanced CT - Greta S. P. Mok
• Physical phantom evaluation of the efficiency of reconstruction and compensation methods on quantitative SPECT prostate imaging - Alex K. F. Kwok
Progress on 3 dimensional bone geometry assessments in vivo - Thomas J. Beck
16:55-17:10 Award selection
17:10-17:20 Award presentation
17:20-17:25 Closing remarks - Benjamin M. W. Tsui