Check out what has been discussed during our second annual management committee and working group meeting held in Lisbon, Portugal between the 13th and 14th January, 2020.
Working Group 1
- Tuba Yilmaz Abdolsaheb, “Practical Applications of Open-ended Coaxial Probes from Detection of Malignancies to Identification of Biomaterials”.
- Urban Simoncic, “Thermal transport simulation in healthy and arthritic fingers”.
- Catarina Pelicano, “Modelling the head and neck region for microwave imaging of cervical lymph nodes”.
- Michael Handler, “Measurement and evaluation of cryoimpedance during cardiac cryoablation”.
- Iman Farhat, “Investigation of the characteristics of the Biological tissues by means of TDR probes: a preliminary work on some future perspectives”.
- João Felício, “A study of the dielectric properties of animal lymph nodes and the effect of freezing tissue on their permittivity”.
- Simona Di Meo, “An experimental analysis of the sample water content as a classifier for the variability of the dielectric measurement data up to 50 GHz”.
- Natália Dias, Presentation on Horizon Europe: MSCA – ITNs, RISE and ERC.
Working group 2
- Dario Rodrigues, “Standardizing Language and Data for the Thermal Medicine Community”.
- Hana Trefna, “Standardization in hyperthermia: a plethora of work to be done”.
- Petra Kok, “Hyperthermia Treatment Planning: Clinical applications and QA”.
- Bryn Lloyd, “Virtual Population 4.0 – First Generation of Neuro-functionalized Computational Anatomical Models”.
- Gennaro G. Bellizzi, “Impact of Realistic Patient Modelling in Hyperthermia Treatment Planning: Introducing the Erasmus Virtual Patient Repository”.
- Julian Bonello, “A study of gold nanoparticles of different sizes and geometries for the focusing of microwaves”.
Working group 3
- Adras Szasz, “Modulated electro-hyperthermia, (mEHT, Oncothermia®) – Transfer of knowledge from idea to market”.
- Pierfrancesco Pavoni, Silvia Ciampa, “ALBA 4D: from research to market”.
- Sergio Curto, “The role of MR-guidance on quality assurance for deep hyperthermia treatments”.
- Ignacio Del Moral, “Human Factor Engineering discipline in Healthcare to design new technologies, implementation of technology and training”.
- Laura Farina, “The new European landscape for Medical Devices: EU MDR 2017/745”.
Link to meeting organisational details here.
