7:30-8:00 Breakfast and warm-up (Wii)
8:00-8:15 Opening remarks - Katsuyuki (Ken) Taguchi
8:15-9:45 Paper Session 1 (90 min 6 X 15 min) - Martin Stumpf
• A Monte Carlo simulation study of scatter in microCT using photon-counting detector
-- Xiaolan Wang, Yong Du, and Eric C. Frey
• Penalized Maximum Likelihood Method for Photon Counting X-ray Detector with Pulse Pileup
--Mengxi Zhang, Eric C. Frey, Jingyan Xu and Katsuyuki Taguchi
• Investigating the Effect of Fourier Rebinning Method on the Quantitative Capability of Small Animal PET with a Monte Carlo Simulation Study
--Ching-Ching Yang, Jianhua Yu, Benjamin M.W. Tsui
• Investigation of using fluorescent X-ray to enhance CZT detector resolution for OctoSPECT
--Si Chen, Yuchuan Wang, Dirk Meier, Douglas Wagenaar* and Benjamin M.W. Tsui
• Banding Artifact Reduction for Cardiac CT
--Zhihui Sun and Katsuyuki Taguchi
• Ablation Monitoring with 3D Elastography: Ex-vivo and In-vivo Studie
--Hassan Rivaz, Ioana Fleming, Ulrike Hamper, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory Hager, Michael Choti, and Emad Boctor
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00-10:30 Overview Session (30 min) - Seng Peng (Great) Mok
• Overview of collaborative research projects in DMIP - Benjamin M. W. Tsui
• Overview of research projects in Radiation Oncology - John Wong
8:15-9:45 Paper Session 2 (75 min 5 X 15 min) - Seng Peng (Greta) Mok
• Ultrasound Elastography - Enabling Technology for Image Guided Laparoscopic Prostatectomy
-- Ioana Fleming, Hassan Rivaz, , Ulrike Hamper, Li-Ming Su, Tamara Lotan, Gregory Hager, Russ Taylor, Katarzyna Macura and Emad Boctor
• Evidence of Reduced Mechanosensitivity in Postmenopausal Women from the Women¡¯s Health Initiative Observation Study who Suffer Fractures
--Alia Khaled, Thomas J. Beck, Jane Cauley, Cora B. Lewis, Tamsen Bassford, Scott Going, Zhao Chen
• Investigation of a Quantitative Problem of the Point Source Scanned on the VISTA Small Animal PET System
--Jianhua Yu, Chingching Yang, Benjamin Tsui
• Evaluation of the Quantitative SPECT for I-131 by Monte Carlo Simulation
--Na Song, Bin He, Yong Du and Eric C. Frey
• Breast Irradiation Planning System Based on Multi-modality Fusion of CT, 3DUS, and Tracked Strain Images
--Pezhman Foroughi, Csaba Csoma, Hassan Rivaz, Gabor Fichtinger, Gregory Hager, Richard Zellars, and Emad Boctor
11:45-13:45 Lunch, Games, and Hiking
13:45-14:45 Proposal Session 1 (60 min 3 X 10 min + 30 min breakout Session) - Sussane Bonekamp
• Ultrasound Guided Refocused SPECT (US-ReSPECT) for In vivo Cancer Imaging
--Yuchuan Wang, Emad Boctor, Russell Taylor, and Benjamin Tsui
• Statistical iterative reconstruction methods with region-of-interest resolution compensation for x-ray CT applications
--Jingyan Xu, Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Elliot Fishman, Thomas Flohr
• Development of optimized 4D image reconstruction methods for gated MP SPECT
--Taek-Soo Lee
14:45-15:00 Break
15:00-16:00 Proposal Session 2 (60 min 3 X 10 min + 30 min breakout Session) - Yuchuan Wang
• Partial Volume Compensation for Cardiac Emission Computed Tomography
--Yong Du
• Quantitative Tumor Imaging Methods for Targeted Radionuclide Therapy
--Bin He
• Four-dimensional imaging and data analysis toward quantitative evidence-driven interventional tumor oncology
--Katsuyuki (Ken) Taguchi, Jean-Francois H. Geschwind, Sabine Mollus, Juergen Weese, and Jan Timmer
16:00-16:15 Break
16:15-17:15 Proposal Session 3 (60 min 3 X 10 min + 30 min breakout Session) - Shiu-Kai (George) Fung
• Task-based Optimization for Clinical Rb-82 Myocardial PET imaging
--Jing Tang, Benjamin M. W. Tsui, Arman Rahmim, and Frank Bengel
• Three-class ROC Analysis for Diagnostic Task Perfromance Evaluation
--Xin He
• Dual-isotope or photon counting x-ray micro-CT/span>
--Eric C. Frey
17:15-17:25 Break and Award judge discussion
17:25-17:35 Award presentation
17:35-17:45 Closing remarks - Benjamin M. W. Tsui
18:00- Game, game, game!!!