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NPSS News ISSUEISSUE 3 1: :SEPT. MAY 22O13O17 A PUBLICATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference th CONFERENCES 24 Room-Temperature Semiconductor Detector Workshop NSS/MIC/RTSD 1 NSREC 4 21 through 28 October 2017, Hyatt Regency Atlanta, Atlanta, Georgia ICALEPCS 5 SOFE 5 The 2017 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium-Medical The Engineering and Science (plenary, oral and PULSED POWER 6 Imaging Conference (NSS-MIC) and the 24th poster sessions) International Symposium on Room-Temperature SOCIETY GENERAL BUSINESS Semiconductor Detectors (RSTD) will be an excellent The core of the meeting is the engineering and President’s Report 8 meeting for all interested in the technologies of science presented and discussed. The NSS and Secretary’s Report 8 nuclear detection and imaging. Over 1300 abstracts RTSD oral, poster, and plenary scientific sessions and summaries from nearly 50 countries were will run from 8 AM Monday, Oct. 23rd through noon TECHNICAL COMMITTEES submitted to the core scientific program of the Friday, Oct. 27th. The MIC plenary, oral, and poster CANPS 9 conference. Those submissions have been assessed scientific sessions will run from 8 AM Wednesday, NMISC 9 by over 60 session conveners and 500 abstract/ Oct. 25th through noon Saturday, Oct. 28th. John N. Aarsvold Pulsed Power 16 summary reviewers. Acceptance emails have been General Chair sent with session times and days to authors now Individuals planning to attend the conference FUNCTIONAL COMMITTEES invited to present in oral or poster form at the should review the full schedule of events prior to The Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority Awards 9 conference. making airline and hotel reservations as many will (MARTA) http://www.itsmarta.com/ operates the be interested in activities beyond the core scientific trains and buses of the Atlanta public transportation LIAISON REPORT sessions, including Joint Sessions, Short Courses, system. A MARTA train travels between the airport IEEE Smart Village Workshop 9 ATLANTA AND THE Workshops, Special Events, and Social Events some (ATL) and the Hyatt Regency. The train is boarded in HYATT REGENCY of which occur on days before or after the days of the airport and the appropriate stop is within a block ARTICLES the core NSS, MIC, and RTSD scientific sessions. of the hotel. This MARTA train is the most direct way Metamaterials for High Power The 2017 IEEE NSS-MIC & 24th RSTD http://www. to travel between the Atlanta airport and the Hyatt Microwave Applications 10 nss-mic.org/2017/ will be held in downtown Atlanta, Regency, the conference hotel. Improving PET Quantitation with Georgia, USA. The Hyatt Regency Atlanta https:// TO THE CONFERENCE Denoising, Motion Compensation, atlanta.regency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html will and Deblurring 13 serve as the conference hotel and the conference’s The Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport AT THE CONFERENCE An I/O Controller for primary meeting facility. Scientific and social activities (ATL) http://www.atl.com/ is the world’s busiest Real Time Distributed Tasks are scheduled from Saturday, October 21st through airport as measured by passenger traffic. Most The Peachtree Center Food Court http:// in Particle Accelerators 14 Saturday, October 28th. Most activities will be at the attendees will fly into ATL, as there are direct flights peachtreecenter.com/dine-shop/ is within a block’s hotel. between ATL and most major cities in the world. distance of the Hyatt and is connected to the Hyatt OBITUARY via a covered walkway. The Food Court has over Magne “Kris” Kristiansen 16 CONFERENCES Continued on PAGE 2 2 CONFERENCES ieee.org/npss NPSS News Conferences Continued from PAGE 1 NSS Program Topics » Analog and digital circuits » Astrophysics and space instrumentation » Computing and software for experiments » Data analytics » Data acquisition and analysis systems » Gaseous detectors » High energy physics instrumentation » Instrumentation for homeland and nuclear security Ralf Engels » Neutron detectors and instrumentation Deputy General Chair » Neutron and gamma imaging applications » Nuclear instrumentation and measurement for 50 options for food and provides reasonably priced reactors and related applications options for breakfast and lunch during daytime » Nuclear physics instrumentation conference hours. Most of the food court options are » Photodetectors closed in the evenings. » Radiation damage effects and radiation hardened devices » Scintillators NUCLEAR SCIENCE » Semiconductor detectors SYMPOSIUM (NSS) (tracking and spectroscopy) » Synchrotron, FEL and beamline instrumentation MEDICAL IMAGING CONFERENCE (MIC) Lorenzo Fabris NSS Program Chair Lars R. Furenlid MIC Program Chair » Assessment and comparison of image quality and methods » Tomographic image reconstruction methods » Signal and image processing » Parametric imaging and tracer kinetic modeling methods Sara Pozzi » Imaging in radiotherapy and hadron therapy NSS Deputy Program Chair » Simulation and modeling of medical The NSS is the leading opportunity for scientists imaging systems and engineers interested in the fields of nuclear science, radiation instrumentation, software, and their Ralph James Matthew A. Kupinski applications, to learn about the latest developments 24TH INTERNATIONAL RTSD Program Cochair MIC Deputy Program Chair in their field and to meet and discuss the field with SYMPOSIUM ON ROOM- colleagues from around the world. The MIC is the principal international meeting TEMPERATURE such as medicine, homeland security, astrophysics, focused on the technologies of medical imaging SEMICONDUCTOR and environmental remediation. The objective of In assembling the program, we have paid close using ionizing radiation. Attendees of the MIC DETECTORS (RTSD) this symposium is to provide a forum for discussion attention to the feedback received form our disseminate new research in physics, engineering, of the state-of-the-art in the development of attendees over the years. With a minor exception on and mathematics relevant to the detection of photoconductive materials for radiation detection, Monday, the NSS program will feature no more than ionizing radiation, quantitative image generation, material and detector characterization, device three parallel sessions at any given time, allowing and multimodality system integration. The topics fabrication processes, electronics, and applications. NSS attendees the opportunity to effectively miss covered in the conference range from modality- Oral and poster presentations have been organized fewer talks due to conflicts. We are continuing the specific advances primarily in nuclear medicine to represent a broad spectrum of research activities tradition started last year that was well received (SPECT and PET), X-ray, and CT, to multimodality emphasizing either device or material understanding. by our community to have a dinner rather than advances of SPECT or PET in combination with The RTSD received 132 high-quality abstract a luncheon. This time, the dinner will be held at other imaging technologies (eg, MRI, optical, or US). submissions, from which 80 oral and 45 poster the Georgia Aquarium. The Aquarium offers an The MIC scientific core, the joint oral sessions with presentations were selected. incredible setting that is hard to find anywhere else, NSS and RTSD, and the MIC-focused workshops all within walking distance of the conference hotel. and short courses, provide an excellent forum for Michael Fiederle RTSD Program Topics We hope everyone will take advantage of this sharing fundamental advances in medical imaging RTSD Program Cochair unique opportunity. detector technologies, algorithms, and practical » 3-D photon tracking detectors and image implementations of such. The RTSD represents the largest forum of scientists reconstruction technology The scientific and educational program emphasizes and engineers developing improved semiconductor » Pixel, strip, Frisch-grid, coplanar grid, and discrete the latest developments in technology, radiation MIC Program Topics radiation detectors and imaging arrays. Room- semiconductor detectors detection materials, new instrumentation techniques, temperature solid-state radiation detectors for X-ray, » Detector/ASIC hybridization, interconnects, and their implementation in nuclear and high energy » New detector materials/technologies for gamma-ray, and neutron radiation are increasingly and electronics physics, astrophysics, accelerators, national nuclear medical imaging being used in applications in several diverse fields, » Semiconductor materials for radiation detection security, and many other radiation environments. » High-resolution and preclinical systems Joint sessions with MIC and RTSD, as well as topical (e.g. , small-animal, application-specific, workshops cover areas of specific interest. Within the intraoperative, portable systems) NUCLEAR & PLASMA SCIENCES SOCIETY NEWS framework of an educational scientific program, short » Clinical emission and hybrid tomography courses are organized focusing on topics of interest instrumentation (e.g., PET, SPECT, PET/MRI, (USPS 000-560) is published quarterly by the Nuclear & Plasma Sciences Society of the Institute of Electrical for the scientific community. SPECT/MRI, PET/CT, SPECT/CT) and Electronics Engineers, Inc. Corporate Office: 3 Park Avenue, 17th Floor, New York, NY 10017-2394, ieee. » Nonemission imaging (e.g., CT, dual-energy CT, org. Printed in the USA. One dollar per member