Speakers

Ricardo Budde is a Full professor of Cardiovascular Radiology at Erasmus MC Rotterdam and heads the PCCT group. His research interests include advanced no-invasie imaging in ischemic heart disease and endocarditis and a focus on PCCT in particular. He has (co-)authored over 260 peer reviewed publications.  He is a member of the Executive boards of the European Society of Cardiovascular Radiology, the Cardiovascular Institute at Erasmus MC, and the Cardiovascular Section of the Dutch Society of Radiology. He has given >150 invited lectures at international meetings and is course-director of the annual Hands-on Cardiac CT course at Erasmus MC.

Edwin Oei is Professor of Musculoskeletal Imaging at Erasmus MC Rotterdam. He is the section chief of musculoskeletal radiology and the principal investigator of the Advanced Musculoskeletal Imaging Research Erasmus MC (ADMIRE) lab. His research focuses on imaging of common musculoskeletal disorders, such as osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, sports injuries and trauma, with advanced techniques such as PCCT.

Judith van der Bie completed her studies as a Technical Physician at TU Delft in August 2021. In January 2022, she began her PhD in photon-counting CT research under the guidance of Prof. Dr. Ricardo Budde and Dr. Marcel van Straten. Her doctoral research concentrates on the clinical applications and optimization of photon-counting CT for cardiovascular imaging.

Sara graduated cum laude from the Medical School of the University of Genova in 2010 and completed her residency in Radiology at the University of Genova in 2016. Due to her strong interest in Cardiovascular Radiology she spent the last year of her residency as clinical and research fellow at the Radiology Department of the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam. After the end of her residency she returned to the Erasmus Medical Center for a one-year Fellowship in Cardiovascular Imaging of the European School of Radiology (ESOR) and to complete her PhD.

Since May 2018, Sara is working as radiologist at the University Hospital of Lyon in France (Hospices Civils de Lyon) with specialization in Cardiovascular as well as Thoracic Imaging and has a joint appointment with the Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. She is currently involved in several research projects including the development of cardiovascular applications of Spectral Imaging, on Dual Energy CT and Photon Counting CT.

dr. Ronald Booij is a CT expert radiographer since 1997. He has more than 25  years of experience in optimization of CT protocols, implementation and managing of CT innovations, setting up (CT) research activities, protocols, education & training in the basics and advanced use of CT in clinical and research practice. Thereby, he is experienced in (pre-)clinical evaluation of CT scanner software and hardware. He is working closely together with physicists, expert clinicians and is experienced in supervising bachelor, master and PhD thesis candidates. dr. Booij is (co-)author of 30+ scientific publications and a regular contributor of (internal and external) lectures, educational & scientific presentations.

Dr Cao is from South Carolina and trained at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. He is a pediatric radiologist at Duke University and serves on the Society of Pediatric Radiology CT committee. His research interests are focused on pediatric CT and radiation dose reduction.

David Cormode is a Professor of Radiology at the University of Pennsylvania. Prof. Cormode’s expertise lies in the development and evaluation of novel contrast agents for x-ray imaging modalities such as photon counting computed tomography. Dr. Cormode has published more than 130 papers, has received more than 40 grants and was recently named a Distinguished Investigator of the Academy for Radiology & Biomedical Imaging Research.

Marcel Dijkshoorn is a specialized CT radiographer with >20 years experience. He has a vast knowledge about the technical and practical aspects of CT acquisition in general and cardiac CT in particular. In Erasmus MC, Marcel is a key person in CT acquisition protocol development. Over the years, he has trained many CT technicians both nationally and internationally.

Philippe Douek is professor of radiology at Lyon University where he is teacher and researcher belonging to CREATIS and has more than 30 years of imaging research experience. Prof  Douek is in charge of the co-development of the SPCCT technique and was the coordinator of the European project H2020 on SPCCT research with Philips Imaging Systems.

Matthias Eberhard completed training in radiology in 2018. He is a cardiovascular, chest and musculoskeletal radiologist at the University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland and an active researcher in multimodality cardiovascular radiology with a special focus on photon-counting CT and structural heart disease. He has authored about 100 scientifc papers and book chapters.

Tilman Emrich is  an attending radiologist specializing in cardiovascular imaging at the University Medical Center Mainz, Germany. In parallel, he works as an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Radiology and Director of Photon Counting CT Research at the Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Division of Cardiovascular Research, Medical University of South Carolina, USA.

He board certified in diagnostic radiology in 2015  and obtained cardiac imaging (CT and CMR) certifications in 2017 and the European Board of Cardiovascular Imaging (EBCR) Diploma in 2021. His main scientific interests focuses on the implementation of Photon Counting Detector CT for cardiovascular applications

Prof. Iris Grunwald is the Chair of Neuroradiology at University of Dundee. She is Vice President of the World Federation for Interventional Stroke Treatment (WIST).  Iris is passionate about developing and implementing novel imaging methodologies and evaluates the 1^st mobile Photon Counting CT scanner (OmniTom Elite PCD).  She co-founded Brainomix Ltd. – where she co-developed the 1st AI solution for image interpretation in acute stroke, now the European market leader. She was in the team that developed the worlds 1st Mobile Stroke Unit Ambulance (MSU) that incorporates a CT scanner and introduced this concept to the UK. This year she won the InnovateUK Women in Innovation award. In her spare time, she enjoys sailing and competition aerobatics.

Jan-Peter Grunz is as an attending radiologist at University Hospital Würzburg in Germany, where he leads the research efforts on photon-counting CT and musculoskeletal imaging. He has particular interest in pathologies of the hand and wrist. At the moment, Dr. Grunz works as a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

Linda (A.A.) Jacobi- Postma currently works at the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at the Maastricht University Medical Centre in the Netherlands. She is a dedicated neuro and head and neck radiologist with a strong focus on educating residents, fellows, and colleagues. Her research mainly focuses on imaging in neuro-oncology, vertigo, and stroke. She has a particular interest in dual-energy applications in neuro and head and neck radiology, as well as the use of photon-counting CT in these fields.

Prof. Dr. Marc Kachelrieß is chair of the division of X-Ray Imaging and CT of the German Cancer Re-search Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany.
His research interests are basic hardware, algorithmic and physics aspects of tomographic imaging with ionizing radiation, with a strong
focus on x-ray computed tomography. Marc Kachelrieß is author or coauthor of more than 800 publications, among these more than 100
original scientific papers with first or last authorship.

Shuai Leng, Ph.D., is a Professor of Medical Physics, Section Head of CT Physics, and Director of the Medical Physics Residency Program at Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, and a Fellow of American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Society of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (SCCT), and Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). His research interest is in technical development and clinical applications of computed tomography (CT) in diagnosis and image-guided therapy, with recent work focusing on photon-counting-detector-CT which he has been working with multiple prototype and commercial systems in the last 15 years. Dr. Leng has been actively involved in professional societies (e.g., AAPM, RSNA, DICOM, and IEC,) and has published over 260 peer-reviewed journal articles, 350 abstracts and proceedings, and 20 issued patents.

Aad van der Lugt leads the Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine at Erasmus MC. His research interests focus on diagnosis and treatment of neuromuscular disease and acute stroke in particular. He was co-founder and director of the Erasmus MC Stroke Centrum and principal investigator of the Mr. Clean study. Before he was appointed head of the department in 2022, he led the PCCT team at Erasmus MC.

A recognized leader in the development and evaluation of new CT technology and dose reduction methods, Cynthia H. McCollough, PhD, is the Brooks-Hollern Professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, where she holds the rank of professor in both medical physics and biomedical engineering. Dr. McCollough is a fellow of the American College of Radiology, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She has over 500 peer-reviewed papers and multiple NIH grants related to CT imaging. She has served as the president of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine and is a vice-president of the International Society of Computed Tomography. She received her master’s and doctorate degrees in medical physics at the University of Wisconsin, Madison after graduating in physics from Hope College in Holland, Michigan. The first whole-body, high-flux photon counting CT (PCCT) was installed in her lab in 2014 and she has played a key role in the development of PCCT since then.

Mathias Prokop is Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Medical Imaging in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. He had studied Medicine and Physics in Germany and trained at Hanover Medical School. His career took him to the Vienna, Austria and Utrecht in the Netherlands, where he established himself as one of the pioneers of novel CT technologies and lung screening. His department in Nijmegen focusses on impactful innovations in care and now hosts one of the largest research groups in Europe. He now serves as  2^nd Vice President of the European Society of Radiology.

Dr. Geoffrey D. Rubin is a renowned expert in cardiovascular and pulmonary imaging. Originally from Los Angeles, he spent over two decades at Stanford University, becoming a full professor and later chairing the Department of Radiology at Duke University. He pioneered the use of spiral and multidetector-row CT for cardiovascular imaging and co-founded the Stanford 3-D Medical Imaging Laboratory. Dr. Rubin has authored over 200 peer-reviewed manuscripts and holds six U.S. patents. He is actively involved in mentoring and leadership roles, including as president of the International Society for Computed Tomography and board member of RAD-AID International. He has also founded two medical corporations and served as a consultant to numerous start-ups.

Fides Schwartz is a Lead Investigator in the Center for Advanced CT Translation and Innovation (CACTI) in the Department of Radiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Her research interests are in the streamlining of processes for CT imaging within diverse imaging departments, especially for the new technology of PCCT. Previously, she received her MD at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. She completed her Diagnostic Radiology residency at Basel University Hospital in Switzerland and research fellowships in the Duke University Department of Radiology, Durham, NC.

Prof. Sechopoulos is the chair of the AXTI lab of the Department of Medical Imaging of the Radboud University Medical Center, part-time Professor at the M3i Group at the University of Twente, and Scientific Advisor of the Dutch Expert Center for Screening (LRCB). His main area of research is the development of advanced x-ray-based imaging techniques, especially for breast cancer detection, diagnosis, and therapy response monitoring, and on body CT, especially for the development and optimization of functional imaging.

Salim Si-Mohamed is full professor at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 in medical imaging. He is a practicing radiologist working in the cardiovascular and thoracic radiology department in Louis Pradel Hospital Lyon. He is specialized in diagnostic and interventional imaging of cardiovascular and chest diseases, working mainly with CT technology. His experimental research focuses on the development of spectral photon-counting CT and dual-energy CT systems, in combination with the use of novel contrast agents, for diagnostic and theragnostic applications.

Marcel van Straten studied Applied Physics at Delft University of Technology. His PhD project at the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam focused on the application of image registration techniques in spiral CT. After that he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Medical Physics of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He worked on the optimization and dosimetric aspects of CT. In 2008 he joined the Department of Radiology of Erasmus MC. As a medical physicist and assistant professor, he focuses on the standardization and optimization of image quality in x-ray computed tomography based on the laws of physics and driven by technological innovations.

Adam Wang, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Radiology and, by courtesy, of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research group develops technologies for advanced x-ray and CT imaging, including artificial intelligence for CT acquisition, reconstruction, and image processing; spectral imaging, including photon counting CT (PCCT) and dual-layer flat-panel detectors; novel system and detector designs; and their applications in diagnostic imaging and image-guided procedures. He is the Director of the Photon Counting CT Lab (in collaboration with GE HealthCare), Zeego Lab, and Tabletop X-Ray Lab in Stanford Radiology.

Joachim Ernst Wildberger (1966) is full Professor of Radiology and Chairman of the Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), the Netherlands. In addition, he serves as Medical Director of the Division of Medical Imaging and Clinical Laboratories at MUMC+.  He is also principal investigator “Imaging” at the Cardiovascular Research Institute Maastricht (CARIM) and chair of the imaging cluster within Maastricht University; Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences (FHML). He (co)-authored ~450 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals. His main research topics are technical developments and functional imaging in computed tomography, contrast media research, cardiovascular and thoracic imaging as well as image-guided interventions.

Ricardo Budde
Edwin Oei
Ronald Booij
Judith van der Bie
Bertil Dekkers
Britt Gulpen