2026 IEEE NSS MIC RTSD Online program
Saturday, 07 Nov, 2026
- SC-01
Sunday, 08 Nov, 2026
- SC-03
- WS-01
Workshops
Sunday, 8 November, 2026
11:30 – 17:00 ANDALUCÍA II & III
AI in Nuclear Sciences and Nuclear Medical Imaging – Review and future expectations
Session chair: Michaud, Jean-Baptiste, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Canada); Loignon-Houle, Francis, (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M), CSIC-UPV, Valencia, Spain)
Monday, 09 Nov, 2026
- NP-01
NSS Session
Monday, 9 November, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
NSS Plenary Session
Session chair: Corbeil Therrien, Audrey, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Génie électrique et génie informatique, Sherbrooke, Canada); Hull, Giulia, Dr. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France)
- NP-02
NSS Session
Monday, 9 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:30 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
NSS Plenary Session
Session chair: Corbeil Therrien, Audrey, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Génie électrique et génie informatique, Sherbrooke, Canada); Hull, Giulia, Dr. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France)
- N-LT-02
- N-LT-01
NSS Session
Monday, 9 November, 2026
12:30 – 13:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
NSS Lightning Talks 1
Session chair: Corbeil Therrien, Audrey, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Génie électrique et génie informatique, Sherbrooke, Canada); Hull, Giulia, Dr. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France)
Saturday, 07 Nov, 2026
- SC-02
Sunday, 08 Nov, 2026
- WS-02
Monday, 09 Nov, 2026
- RTSD-01
RTSD Session
Monday, 9 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 ANDALUCÍA II & III
RTSD Opening
Session chair: Fiederle, Michael, Professor (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Freiburg, Germany); Arino-Estrada, Gerard, (IFAE-BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain)
- NSS-01
- NSS-03
- RTSD-02
- NSS-02
NSS Session
Monday, 9 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Neutron and gamma-ray detectors and applications, including security, dosimetry and other related applications
Session chair: LYOUSSI, Abdallah, Professor (CEA / French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, CEA/DES/IRESNE/DER, Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France); Joyce, MalcolmJ., Professor (Lancaster University, Department of Engineering, Lancaster, UK)
Sunday, 08 Nov, 2026
- SC-04
Monday, 09 Nov, 2026
- NSS-04
NSS Session
Monday, 9 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 PICASSO
Semiconductor detectors
Session chair: Guazzoni, Chiara, (Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milano, Italy); Mezza, Davide, Dr. (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), SLS Detector Group, Villigen, Switzerland)
Sunday, 08 Nov, 2026
Monday, 09 Nov, 2026
- SC-05
- SC-06
Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2026
- NSS-06
- RTSD-03
RTSD Session
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 ANDALUCÍA II & III
RTSD Pixel Detectors
Session chair: Greiffenberg, Dominic, (Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI), SLS Detector Group, Villigen, Switzerland); Mele, Filippo, Dr. (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy)
Monday, 09 Nov, 2026
Tuesday, 10 Nov, 2026
- NSS-05
NSS Session
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Neutron and gamma-ray detectors and applications, including security, dosimetry and other related applications
Session chair: Lalleman, Anne-Sophie, Dr. (CEA, GIF SUR YVETTE, France); Joyce, MalcolmJ., Professor (Lancaster University, Department of Engineering, Lancaster, UK)
- NSS-07
- SC-07
- SC-08
- JS-01
- NSS-08
- RTSD-04
RTSD Session
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 Poster Area
RTSD Poster Session
Session chair: Fiederle, Michael, Professor (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Freiburg, Germany); Arino-Estrada, Gerard, (IFAE-BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain)
- JS-02
Joint Sessions
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:05 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Joint Session - NSS-MIC
Session chair: DaVia, Cinzia, Professor (University of Manchester, Manchester, UK); Lecomte, Roger, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke Molecular Imaging Center and Department of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, Sherbrooke, Canada)
- NSS-09
NSS Session
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 ALBÉNIZ & MACHUCA
Neutron and gamma-ray detectors and applications, including security, dosimetry and other related applications
Session chair: Sagatova, Andrea, Dr. (Bratislava, Slovakia); Cao, LeiR., (The Ohio State University, Nuclear Engineering, Columbus, USA)
- JS-03
Joint Sessions
Tuesday, 10 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Joint Session NSS-RTSD
Session chair: Motakef, Shariar, Dr. (CapeSym, Inc., 6 Huron Drive, Natick, USA); Guazzoni, Chiara, (Politecnico di Milano and INFN, Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria, Milano, Italy)
Wednesday, 11 Nov, 2026
- NSS-10
NSS Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
9:00 – 10:30 ALBÉNIZ & MACHUCA
Analog and Digital Circuits I
Session chair: Bertuccio, Giuseppe, Professor (Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Como, Italy); Porro, Matteo, Professor (European X-Ray Free-Electron Laser Facility GmbH, Schenefeld, Germany)
- NSS-11
NSS Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
9:00 – 10:30 MACHADO
AI and ML for radiation detection
Session chair: Carminati, Marco, Professor (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy); Koziol, AnnaA., Dr. (AGH University of Krakow, Department of Measurement and Electronics, Cracow, Poland)
- RTSD-05
- MP-01
- NSS-12
- TS-01
- N-LT-03
- N-LT-04
- MIC-01
- MIC-02
MIC Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:45 MANUEL DE FALLA
High resolution imaging systems (organ-dedicated, small animal systems (1)
Session chair: Ma, Tianyu, (Tsinghua University, Department of Engineering Physics, Beijing, China); Zannoni, Elena Maria, Dr. (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
- RTSD-06
RTSD Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
11:30 – 13:00 ANDALUCÍA II & III
RTSD Perovskite Detectors II
Session chair: Useche Parra, JuanS., Dr. (University of Freiburg, Freiburg Material Research Center, Freiburg, Germany); Yang, Ge, (North Carolina State University, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Raleigh, USA)
- NSS-13
- TS-02
- M-LT-01
MIC Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
12:45 – 13:05 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Advanced tomographic reconstruction techniques, X-ray imaging systems (CT, spectral CT, photo-counting CT)
Session chair: Reader, AndrewJ., Professor (King's College London, School of Biomedical Engineering and Imaging Sciences, London, UK); Qi, Wenyuan, Dr.
- M-LT-02
MIC Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
12:45 – 13:05 MANUEL DE FALLA
High resolution imaging systems (organ-dedicated, small animal systems, X-ray imaging systems (CT, spectral CT, photo-counting CT), Quantitative imaging, image assessment and standardization
Session chair: Ma, Tianyu, (Tsinghua University, Department of Engineering Physics, Beijing, China); Zannoni, Elena Maria, Dr. (The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, USA)
- NSS-14
- RTSD-07
- MIC-03
MIC Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
X-ray imaging systems (CT, spectral CT, photo-counting CT)
Session chair: Darambara, DimitraG., Dr. (The Institute of Cancer Research & The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Division of Radiotherapy and Imaging, London, UK); Taguchi, Katsuyuki, Professor (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA)
- SimSET
- NSS-15
- MIC-04
MIC Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 MANUEL DE FALLA
Quantitative imaging, image assessment and standardization
Session chair: Lerche, ChristophW., Dr. (Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Institut für Neurowissenschaften, Jülich, Germany); Roser, Jorge, Dr. (University of Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany)
- NSS-16
- TS-03
- NSS-17
- RTSD-08
- NSS-18
NSS Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 MACHADO
Neutron and gamma-ray detectors and applications, including security, dosimetry and other related applications
Session chair: LYOUSSI, Abdallah, Professor (CEA / French Atomic Energy and Alternative Energies Commission, CEA/DES/IRESNE/DER, Saint Paul-lez-Durance, France); Jovanovic, Igor, Professor (University of California, Berkeley, Department of Nuclear Engineering, Berkeley, USA)
- NSS-19
- MIC-05
MIC Session
Wednesday, 11 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 Poster Area
MIC Poster Session 1
Session chair: Daube-Witherspoon, MargaretE., Dr. (University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiology, Philadelphia, USA); Karakatsanis, NicolasA., Professor (Weill Cornell Medical College, Department of Radiology, New York, USA)
- TS-04
Thursday, 12 Nov, 2026
- NSS-20
- RTSD-09
- MP-02
- NSS-21
- NSS-22
NSS Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 PICASSO
Neutron and gamma-ray detectors and applications, including security, dosimetry and other related applications
Session chair: Flaska, Marek, (The Pennsylvania State University, Nuclear Engineering, University Park, Germany); Pérot, Bertrand, Dr. (CEA, DES, IRESNE, Nuclear Measurement Laboratory, Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, France)
- MIC-06
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:45 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Simulation and modeling of medical imaging systems (1)
Session chair: Bert, Julien, Dr. (Laboratory of Medical Information Processing (LaTIM), INSERM UMR1101, Brest, France); Lee, Min Sun, Dr. (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DGIST), Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Daegu, South Korea)
- MIC-07
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:45 MANUEL DE FALLA
Multi-modality imaging systems including applications and High resolution imaging systems (organ-dedicated, small animal systems) (2)
Session chair: Schulz, Volkmar, (RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Imaging and Computer Vision and Imaging, Aachen, Germany); Efthimiou, Nikos, Dr. (UMCG, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Groningen, Netherlands)
- NSS-23
NSS Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
11:30 – 13:00 ALBÉNIZ & MACHUCA
Analog and digital circuits III
Session chair: Gundacker, Stefan, Dr. (Marietta Blau Institute for Particle Physics, Vienna, Austria); Ratti, Lodovico, Professor (University of Pavia, Dept. of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Pavia, Italy)
- RTSD-10
RTSD Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
11:30 – 13:00 ANDALUCÍA II & III
RTSD Awards and Closing
Session chair: Fiederle, Michael, Professor (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Freiburger Materialforschungszentrum (FMF), Freiburg, Germany); Arino-Estrada, Gerard, (IFAE-BIST, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain)
- NSS-24
NSS Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
11:30 – 13:00 MACHADO
Gas detectors
Session chair: Tytgat, Michael, Professor (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Inter-University Institute for High Energies, Brussel, Belgium); Fujiwara, Takeshi, Dr. (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tskuba, Japan)
- NSS-25
- M-LT-03
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
12:45 – 13:05 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
New radiation detector technologies for medical imaging,Novel applications of AI in radiation-based medical imaging
Session chair: Bert, Julien, Dr. (Laboratory of Medical Information Processing (LaTIM), INSERM UMR1101, Brest, France)
- M-LT-04
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
12:45 – 13:05 MANUEL DE FALLA
New radiation detector technologies for medical imaging, Simulation and modeling of medical imaging system, Multi-modality imaging systems including applicationss
Session chair: Schulz, Volkmar, (RWTH Aachen University, Institute of Imaging and Computer Vision and Imaging, Aachen, Germany); Efthimiou, Nikos, Dr. (UMCG, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Groningen, Netherlands)
- WIE & YP
Special Event
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
13:00 – 15:00 Z1
WIE & YP
Session chair: Corbeil Therrien, Audrey, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Génie électrique et génie informatique, Sherbrooke, Canada); Gonzalez Montoro, Andrea, Dr. (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Image (i3M, CSIC-UPV), Detectors for Molecular Imaging Laboratory (DMIL), Valencia, Spain)
- OG-WS
- NSS-26
NSS Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 ALBÉNIZ & MACHUCA
AI and ML for radiation detection
Session chair: Carminati, Marco, Professor (INFN - Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Sezione di Milano, Milano, Italy); Koziol, AnnaA., Dr. (AGH University of Krakow, Department of Measurement and Electronics, Cracow, Poland)
- MIC-08
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Novel applications of AI in radiation-based medical imaging (1)
Session chair: Li, Quanzheng, Professor (Massachusetts General Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Boston, USA); Yousefirizi, Fereshteh, Dr. (BC Cancer Research Institute, Vancouver, Canada)
- NSS-27
- MIC-09
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 MANUEL DE FALLA
New radiation detector technologies for medical imaging (1)
Session chair: Cates, JoshuaW., (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Applied Nuclear Physics, Berkeley, USA); Freire, Marta, (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M), CSIC-UPV, Valencia, Spain)
- NSS-28
- NSS-29
NSS Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
CLOSING
Session chair: Corbeil Therrien, Audrey, Professor (Université de Sherbrooke, Génie électrique et génie informatique, Sherbrooke, Canada); Hull, Giulia, Dr. (Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS/IN2P3, IJCLab, Laboratoire de Physique des 2 infinis Irène Joliot-Curie, Orsay, France)
- MIC-10
MIC Session
Thursday, 12 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 Poster Area
MIC Poster Session 2
Session chair: Schaart, DennisR., Dr. (Delft University of Technology, Medical Physics & Technology, Delft, Netherlands); Tashima, Hideaki, Dr. (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology, Department of Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Chiba, Japan)
- STIR
Friday, 13 Nov, 2026
- MIC-11
MIC Session
Friday, 13 November, 2026
9:00 – 11:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Young Investigator Session (oral)
Session chair: Roncali, Emilie, Dr. (University of California, Davis, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Davis, USA); Catana, Ciprian, Dr. (Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Radiology/A.A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Charlestown, USA)
- MIC-12
- MIC-13
MIC Session
Friday, 13 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:45 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
New radiation detector technologies for medical imaging (2)
Session chair: Gonzalez Martinez, Antonio J.J., Dr. (Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M), Valencia, Spain); Kang, Han Gyu, Dr. (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Advanced Nuclear Medicine Science, Chiba, Japan)
- MIC-14
- M-LT-05
MIC Session
Friday, 13 November, 2026
12:45 – 13:05 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Kinetic modeling, molecular connectivity analysis and radiomics, Theranostics, Imaging and dosimetry in therapy (particle, radiopharmaceutical, surgery), Total body imaging systems including applications
Session chair: Gonzalez Martinez, Antonio J.J., Dr. (Consejo Superior Investigaciones Cientificas (CSIC), Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Imaging (i3M), Valencia, Spain); Kang, Han Gyu, Dr. (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Advanced Nuclear Medicine Science, Chiba, Japan)
- M-LT-06
- MIC-15
MIC Session
Friday, 13 November, 2026
15:00 – 17:00 Poster Area
MIC Poster Session 3
Session chair: Schramm, Georg, (KU Leuven, Department of Imaging and Pathology, Belgium); Tsoumpas, Charalampos, Professor (University Medical Center Groningen, Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Groningen, Netherlands)
- MIC-16
MIC Session
Friday, 13 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Simulation and modeling of medical imaging systems (2)
Session chair: Nitta, Munetaka, (Ludwig Maximillian University Munich, Garching, Germany); Sarrut, David, Dr. (CNRS - CREATIS - CLB, CREATIS - Radiotherapy department, Villeurbanne, France)
- MIC-17
MIC Session
Friday, 13 November, 2026
17:30 – 19:00 MANUEL DE FALLA
Theranostics, Imaging and dosimetry in therapy (particle, radiopharmaceutical, surgery) (1)
Session chair: Hamato, Akram, Principal Researcher (National Institutes for Quantum Science and Technology (QST), Advanced Nuclear Medicine Sciences, Chiba, Japan); Pennazio, Francesco, Researcher (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Torino, Italy)
Saturday, 14 Nov, 2026
- MIC-18
- MIC-19
- MIC-20
MIC Session
Saturday, 14 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:45 FEDERICO GARCÍA LORCA
Total body imaging systems including applications and kinetic modeling, molecular connectivity and radiomics
Session chair: Vandenberghe, Stefaan, (Ghent University, Medical Image and Signal Processing Group, Ghent, Belgium); Chung, Kevin, (MGH Martinos Center, Boston, USA)
- MIC-21
MIC Session
Saturday, 14 November, 2026
11:30 – 12:45 MANUEL DE FALLA
Theranostics, Imaging and dosimetry in therapy (particle, radiopharmaceutical, surgery) (2)
Session chair: Seo, Youngho, Professor (University of California, San Francisco, Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, San Francisco, USA); Gonzalez Montoro, Andrea, Dr. (Institute for Instrumentation in Molecular Image (i3M, CSIC-UPV), Detectors for Molecular Imaging Laboratory (DMIL), Valencia, Spain)
- MIC-22
- WS-03
- WS-04
Workshops
Saturday, 14 November, 2026
15:00 – 19:00 MANUEL DE FALLA
Emerging Directions in Theranostic Imaging: From PET and SPECT to Novel Modalities
Session chair: Abbaszadeh, Shiva, (University Of California, Santa Cruz / ECE, Santa Cruz, USA); Caravaca, Javier, Dr. (LBNL, Nuclear Science, Berkeley, USA)