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

Working Group Meeting 8th Meeting for WG2 – Naples, 2-3 February 2017

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Paolo Netti (Center for Advanced Biomaterials for Health Care – Italian Institute of Technology & Federico II University of Naples, Italy) – Engineering polymeric nanoshuttles for theranostic

Maya Thanou (Kings College London, UK) – Image guided drug delivery potential application of MW imaging

Rosa Scapaticci (CNR-IREA) – Design and Characterization of a set-up for experimental validation of magnetic nanoparticle enhanced microwave imaging

Ovidio Mario Bucci (Federico II University of Naples & CNR-IREA) – Experimental feasibility assessment of magnetic nanoparticle enhanced microwave imaging in breast mimicking phantoms

Jurgen Sachs (TU-Ilmenau, Germany) – Differential microwave imaging based on ultra-wideband pseudo-noise MIMO-radar and modulated nanoparticles

Panagiotis Kosmas (King’s College London, UK) – Review of our recent work towards the numerical and experimental assessment of the impact of various nanoparticles in microwave imaging and therapy

Johannes Wölfer (Klinikum University Muenster, Germany) – Magnetic nanoparticles in brain tumor therapy

Cesar de Julian Fernandez (CNR-IMEM Institute of Materials for Electronics and Magnetism, Italy) – Magnetic nanoparticles and composites for magnetic hyperthermia in biomedical applications

Gennaro Bellizzi (Federico II University of Naples & CNR-IREA) – Optimization of magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia

Luca Vannucci (Czech Academy of Science, Czech Republic) – Nanoparticle distribution in vivo and evidence by Laser Ablation Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)

Ilja Ocket, (KU Leuven, Belgium) – Multimodal cell characterization: synchronized broadband dielectric spectroscopy and fluorescence microscopy

Gennaro G. Bellizzi, (Mediterranea University of Reggio Calabria & CNR-IREA, Italy) – Some unexpected results in the microwave response of nanoparticle suspensions