Accelerating the Technological, Clinical and Commercialisation Progress in the Area of Medical Microwave Imaging

Working Group Meeting 4th Meeting for WG1, WG2 and WG4

Presentations Day 1:
Thursday 09.00 COST_TD1301_update from chair and vice-chair
Thursday 09.15 COST_TD1301_update from grantholder

WG2 Meeting
Focus Area #1 – Microwaves to monitor brain diseases and functionality
I – Brain diseases diagnostics and therapy: the clinician’s point of view
09:30 – Claudio Pollo, Switzerland – Presurgical evaluation for pharmacoresistant epilepsy: challenges and issues (presentation not provided)
09.55 – Werner Z’Graggen, Switzerland – Imaging of cerebral brain perfusion in neurointensive care: new techniques are needed
10:50 – Claudio Pollo, Switzerland – Deep brain stimulation for neurological and psychiatric disorders: challenges and issues (presentation not provided)

II – MWI for Brain: the engineering point of view
11:15 – Lorenzo Crocco, Italy – MWI for brain monitoring: physical foundations, potential and limitations
11.35 – Andreas Fhager, Sweden – Microwave system for improved stroke care
11:55 – Markus Hopfer, Austria – Electromagnetic tomography for brain imaging
12:15 – Ibrahim Akduman, Turkey – Brain stroke imaging with experimental datum (presentation not provided)

III – EM fields and Nanotechnologies for Brain
14:00 – Irene Karanasiou, Greece – Towards multispectral multimodal non-ionizing, non-invasive diagnosis and therapy
14:20 – Dário Rodrigues, United States – The use of microwave radiometry for noninvasive tracking of deep tissue thermal profiles
14:40 – Ovidio Bucci, Italy – On the optimal choice of the treatment conditions in Magnetic Nano-Particles Hyperthermia
15:00 – Luca Vannucci, Czech Republic – Nanoparticles in central nervous system drug delivery

Presentations Day 2:
WG1 and WG2 Meeting
09:30 – Azadeh Kamali Tafreshi, Turkey – Design and realization of a hybrid medical imaging system: harmonic motion microwave doppler imaging
09:50 – Lesya Anishchenko, Russia – 94 GHz radar for vital signs monitoring
10:10 – Francesca Vipiana, Italy – Design and prototyping of a microwave imaging system
11:00 – Raquel Conceição, Portugal – Microwave imaging of axillary lymph nodes
11:20 – Michael Dieudonné, Belgium – Eurostar project CCDMM capitalizing on a common disruptive microwave measurement system for imaging & char. applications
11:40 – Nadine Joachimovitz, France – Stable-in-time 3D-printed breast phantoms for microwave imaging

WG4 Meeting
13:30 – Ferry Kienberger, Austria – Horizon2020 funding opportunities for companies and universities/research institutes: FET Open and SME Instruments