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Day-1 Presentations

August 8, Monday (Day 1) – Focus: Ionizing Radiation Protection
Session-1 Chair: George Xu, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Keynote Presentations:
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
8:40-9:25 am	Maria Zankl	German Research Center for Environmental Health	ICRP Reference Computational Phantoms and Helmholtz Family of Voxel Phantoms
9:25-10:10 am	Junli Li	Tsinghua University, China	The Chinese Visible Human Project
Session-2 Chair: Maria Zankl, German Research Center for Environmental Health
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
10:45-11:10 am	Wesley Bolch	University of Florida, USA	The UF Series of Hybrid Computational Phantoms – Applications to Radiological Protection and Medical Patient Dosimetry
11:10- 11:35 am	Chan Hyeong Kim	Hanyang University, Korea	Development of Reference Korean Phantoms For Ionizing Radiation Dosimetry
11:35-12:00 am	Qian Liu	Huazhong University of Science and Technology, PR China	Space Radiation Dose Estimation: A Comparison of Proton Doses for Male And Female VCH Phantoms
Session-3 Chair: Chan Hyeong Kim, Hanyang University, Korea
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
1:30 –1:55 pm	Yican Wu	Chinese Academy of Sciences, China	Monte Carlo and CAD Geometry Modeling for Computational Phantoms
1:55- 2:20 pm	David Broggio	Institut de Radioprotection et de Sûreté Nucléaire, France	Development and Application of Computational Phantoms at IRSN
2:20- 2:45 pm	Rui Qiu	Tsinghua University, P.R. China	The Development of Multi-Scale Voxel Phantoms for Chinese Reference Man and Woman
2:45-3:10 pm	Stefan Pölz	Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany	Comparison of Anthropomorphic Reference Phantoms for Numerical Efficiency Calibration
Session-4 Chair: Wesley Bolch, University of Florida
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
3:40- 4:05 pm	Kimiaki Saito	Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan	Evaluation of Exposures in the Environment
4:05-4:30 pm	Harry Cullings	Radiation Effects Research Foundation, Japan	Plans for a New Series of Phantoms for the Calculation of Organ Doses of the Japanese Atomic Bomb Survivors by Dosimetry System DS02
4:30-4:55 pm	X. George Xu	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA	Quantifying Uncertainty in Radiation Protection Dosimetry Using Statistical Phantoms
4:55-5:40 pm	Panel Discussion: Maria Zankl, George Xu, Kimiaki Saito, Harry Cullings, Chan H Kim
4:55-5:40 pm	Moderator: Wesley Bolch

Day-2 Presentations

August 9, Tuesday (Day 2) – Focuses: Applications in Imaging/Therapy and Non-Ionizing Radiation
Session-5 Chair: Junli Li, Tsinghua University
Keynote Presentations:
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
8:20 -9:05 am	Ben Tsui	Johns Hopkins University, USA	The MCAT/NCAT/XCAT Series of Phantoms for Biomedical Imaging
9:05-9:50 am	Niels Kuster	IT'IS Foundation, Switzerland	The "Virtual Population": Latest Developments and Novel Techniques
Session-6 Chair: Niels Kuster, IT'IS Foundation, Switzerland
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
10:30-10:55 am	Ji Chen	University of Houston, USA	Safety Evaluation of Pregnant Woman under EM Emission Environments
10:55-11:20 am	Christopher Collins	The Pennsylvania State University, USA	Numerical Phantoms in Safety Assurance for Magnetic Resonance Imaging
11:20-11:45 am	Tomoaki Nagaoka	National Institute of Info and Communications Technology, Japan	Review of NICT computational models and their application for EMF dosimetry
Session-7 Chair: Ben Tsui, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Time	Name	Organization	Topic
1:20-1:45 pm	Harald Paganetti	Massachusetts General Hospital, USA	Computational phantoms for estimating the risk for radiation-induced cancers in radiation therapy
1:45-2:10pm	Tsi-chian Chao	Chang Gung University, Taiwan, ROC	The development of dual-resolution phantoms for assessing doses of head and neck radiation therapy
2:10-2:35 pm	Jan Jansen	Health Protection Agency, United Kingdom	Voxel phantoms applied in calculating CT dose conversion factors for various CT scanners
2:35-3:00 pm	X. George Xu	Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA	Joint RPI/UF Project on The Development of VirtualDose software for CT dose
2:35-3:00 pm	Wesley Bolch	University of Florida, USA
3:00-3:25 pm	Charlotte Robert	CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), France	Modeling of clinically realistic phantoms with GATEv6 for imaging and radiotherapy applications
4:00-4:40 pm	Panel Discussion: Harald Paganetti, Ben Tsui, Neils Kuster, Tomoaki Nagaoka
4:00-4:40 pm	Moderator: Christopher Collins
Workshop Wrap-up (George Xu and Junli Li)
4:40 -5:00 pm	Future activities of this group (when and where to host the 4th workshop, publication, website, guidelines to the research community, etc)

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