2^nd International Conference on Medical Physics and Biophysics November 07-08, 2016 Barcelona, Spain

Baki Karaböce has completed his PhD in Yeditepe Univertsity in İstanbul in 2014. He is head of Medical Metrology Laboratory and Head of Medical Metrology Focus Group at National Metrology Institute of Turkey. He is member of EURAMET-The European Association of National Metrology Institutes, Task Group Health and Ultrasound subcommitte. He has published more than 30 papers in journals and has been serving as steering committe member of IEEE MeMeA-Medical Measurements and Applications Sympossium.

Metrological approach in medical measurements

Dr. Stergios Stergiopoulos received a B.Sc. (Hon.) degree from the University of Athens in 1976 and the M.Sc. & Ph.D. degrees in Physics in 1977 and 1982, respectively, from York University, Toronto, Canada. Presently he is the Acting Chief Scientist at the Defence R&D Canada (DRDC) Toronto, an Associate Professor (Status Only) at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto, and the main innovator of the Defence R&D Canada (DRDC) medical diagnostic technologies and patents that have been licensed for commercialization. These innovation include a number of non-invasive 3D imaging (i.e. cardiac 3D CT, portable 3D/4D ultrasound) and vital signs monitoring (i.e., motion & noise tolerant automated blood pressure and intracranial dispersive-ultrasound) technologies. To complete their development and their commercialization process, Dr. Stergiopoulos raised approximately $21 million from private investors and Government grants. He has an extensive background in science and research. Since 1991 he is with DRDC, a Research Agency for the Canadian Department of National Defence. From 1988 to 1991, he was with the NATO SACLANT Centre in La Spezia, Italy, where he performed as Senior Scientist both theoretical and experimental research in sonar signal processing. At SACLANTCEN, he developed jointly with Dr. Sullivan from US Naval Underwater Warfare Centre (NUWC) an acoustic synthetic aperture technique that has been patented by the U.S. Navy. From 1984 to 1988 he developed an underwater fixed array surveillance system for the Hellenic Navy in Greece and there he was appointed also senior adviser to the Greek Minister of Defence. From 1982 to 1984 he worked as a research associate at York University and in collaboration with the U.S.Army Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), Aberdeen,MD, on projects related to the stability of liquid filled spin stabilized projectiles. In 1984 he was awarded a U.S. NRC Research Fellowship for BRL. He was Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and for this Journal he has prepared two special issues on Acoustic Synthetic Aperture and Sonar System Technology. He has published numerous scientific articles and a Handbook (i.e. 2nd Edition, CRC-Press) in the areas of advanced signal processing for sonar and medical non-invasive system applications. His present interests are associated with the implementation of advanced processing schemes in multi-dimensional arrays of sensors for sonar and medical tomography (CT, MRI and ultrasound) systems. His research activities are supported by Canadian-DND Grants, NSERC Research & Strategic Grants, the Ontario Challenge Fund and NATO collaborative Research Grants. He has been awarded with European Commission-IST grants as technical manager of several projects that included as project partners major European corporations and Institutes (i.e., Siemens, Nucletron, Philips, Sema Group, Esaote, Atmel, Fraunhofer). These project were entitled “New Roentgen”, “MITTUG”, “ADUMS”, “MRI-MARCB”, “DUST” and Euroworkshop “Fourier”, with an average budget level of the order of Euro 1.5 million per project. Dr. Stergiopoulos is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a senior member of the IEEE. He has been a consultant to a number of companies, including Atlas Elektronik in Germany, Hellenic Arms Industry and Hellenic Aerospace Industry.

His present interests are associated with the implementation of advanced processing schemes in multi-dimensional arrays of sensors for sonar and medical tomography (CT, MRI and ultrasound) systems

Dr. Jiang has been trained in the area of biomedical optical imaging with significant experience with both complex inverse computations and experiments in biomedical contexts. He has made pioneering contributions to diffuse optical tomography, fluorescence tomography, bioluminescence tomography, and quantitative photoacoustic tomography.

Discovering and developing fundamentally new optical-based imaging technologies for in vivo visualization of tissue at both the macroscopic and microscopic scales

Kiki theodorou received her Bachelor degree in Physics in 1994, a master degree in Medical Physics in 1996 and her PhD in Medical physics in 1990.she is an Associate processor in the Medical school at the University of Thessaly, in Medical Physics and Medical Informatics.

Physics of Radiotherapy, Radio biology, Advanced MRI Techniques and Radiation Protection.

Medical Physicist at Yale-New Haven Hospital · Department of Diagnostic Radiology (Imaging Services) United States. Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale University · Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Pediatric Diagnostic Radiology United States.

Medical physics

Yekta Ulgen is director of Institute of Biomedical Enginnering.His Assistant Professor Istanbul Technical University 1978 – 1980 (2 years)Istanbul, Turkey Assistant Professor Bogazici University 1980 – 1985 (5 years)Istanbul, Turkey Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Bogazici university

Research Interest in Biomedical Enginnering

Assoc. Director, Medical Physics Program Biophysics and Radiation Biology B.S., Sonoma State University, Biophysics, 1980 Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Biophysics, 1986 Postdoctoral Positions: University of Michigan, Biophysics Division University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Radiation Oncology University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Dermatology

Medical Physics and radiation oncology

Assistant Professor in Duke University May 2009 – Present (7 years) and Faculty in Duke University Medical Physics 2009 – Present (7 years.Postdoctoral Research Associate Duke University, Durham, NC September 2007 – April 2009 and PhD and Research Assistant Duke University August 2002 – August 2007

Imaging modality - Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography (NSECT)

Assistant Professor University of Florida Director, Clinical Radiological Physics Shands Hospital Director of Clinical Radiological Physics University of Florida-Shands Health Care

Direct dosimetry measurements in CT Protocol Optimization in CT Skin Injury prevention in IR Functional MRI and DTI.

Dr. Silvia Mittler is a physicist who was educated at the Johannes-Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany. Her diploma thesis work was conducted in the group of Prof. Paul Leiderer in the Department of Physics at the Johannes-Gutenberg University on the topic of " The Investigation of the Phase Transition between Amorphous and Crystalline Tetracene by Raman Spectroscopy" in 1986. For her PhD she joined the group of Prof. Wolfgang Knoll at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Mainz and graduated in 1989 with a biophysical topic: "Charge Induced Phase Separation in Black Lipid Membranes". In 1990 she became a postdoctoral fellow with Prof. George Stegeman at the Optical Sciences Center of the University of Arizona and at CREOL of the University of Central Florida. Her research interests during this period were polymeric waveguide devices for nonlinear optical application and spectroscopy.

Nanotechnology Photonics

I started my research as an Engineer in The Central Research Institute of Structural Materials "Prometey" (2005-2008) in Russia where I worked developing novel materials using laser thermo-strengthening. My PhD was at Dundee University and concerned the development of novel diode lasers for biomedical applications with broad tunability in the 1.1– 1.5 μm wavelength range. The spectral versatility of the lasers was demonstrated through novel mode-locking regimes such as dual wavelength mode-locking, wavelength bistability and broad tenability. The outcomes of my research work were published in peer-reviewed high impact journals including Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Optics Express, and Applied Physics Letters. Furthermore, the results were disseminated at conferences such as CLEO, CLEO-Europe, and Laser Optics to ensure that academic and industrial beneficiaries were aware of my work. After my PhD I worked in The Aston Institute of Photonics Technologies and at Swansea University characterizing fibres lasers and amplifiers, performing dispersion measurement of Yb-doped fibres with white-light interferometry. For the last three years, I have been working at the University College London with a photoacoustic ultrasound system for ex-vivo and in-vivo imaging of the tissues and organs. Part of this project involved designing and making specialist holders and connectors and I chose to do this using 3D CAD software and 3D printing. I was fascinated by 3D printing technology and its possibilities, for example I used 3D printing to develop Agar-based ultrasound phantoms for vascular access training and flow studies. I also investigated properties of acoustic lenses made by 3D printing along with a colleague. Recently I joined a GIFT-SURG project as a research associate building a system that performs human placental dual perfusion (i.e. joint fetal and maternal sides) experiments. It will provide a unique platform for vascular and haematological studies such as vessel cannulation skill analysis and evaluation of novel methods for measuring blood oxygenation and flow.

I was fascinated by 3D printing technology and its possibilities

Assoc. Director, Medical Physics Program Biophysics and Radiation Biology B.S., Sonoma State University, Biophysics, 1980 Ph.D., University of California at Berkeley, Biophysics, 1986 Postdoctoral Positions: University of Michigan, Biophysics Division University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Radiation Oncology University of Michigan Medical School, Department of Dermatology

Medical Physics and radiation oncology

Maria Elisabete C.D. Real Oliveira, Associated Professor with Habilitation at Physics Department of UMinho, completed her BsC in Physics, UCoimbra, Portugal, 1975, and her PhD at the University of Salford, UK/University of Minho, in 1986. She was Head of the Master Degree in Biophysics and Bionanosystems, (2009-2014), Head of the Research Group Atomic Molecular and Optics Physics (FAMO), Centre of Physics, UM (2013-present) and President of the Group of Colloids and Polymer (Portuguese Chemical Society), since 2013. She is author of more than 54 Full Publications (ISI) in repute journals (h index-16) and author of 2 Patents. She was also Founder of the Spin-off NANODELIVERY–I&D in Bionanotecnology, LDA..

Medical physics

Dr. Rosu joined the Department of Radiation Oncology in 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences from the University of Michigan in 2005. Following graduation Dr. Rosu was a postdoctoral fellow in the Radiation Oncology Department at the University of Michigan and her research represented one of the first comprehensive studies of the influence of motion in three-dimensional and four-dimensional treatment planning in deformable organs using Monte Carlo dose computation engine. Her current research interests include further investigations of the motion effects on dose calculation, treatment delivery and clinical outcomes.

Radiation Oncology Medical Physics

Dr Tachtsidis is a biomedical engineer, he received his PhD in medical physics and biomedical optics from UCL in 2005. In 2010 he received a Wellcome Trust career development fellowship to stay in UCL and in 2015 he was awarded a Wellcome Trust senior fellowship. Dr Tachtsidis considered an expert in near-infrared spectrscopy technology and has co-authored more than 90 publications in the field of biomedical optics. Dr Tachtsidis optical systems are currently being used at UCL Hospitals to monitor brain injury patients and birth asphyxiated infants.

Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering