15th CYCLEUR Workshop

Jun 22, 2023, 9:00 AM → Jun 23, 2023, 6:00 PM Europe/Bucharest

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The CYCLEUR workshop is an excellent opportunity for developing collaborations and networking among members of the European research cyclotrons community. 

The 15th Workshop of the European Cyclotron Network (CYCLEUR) will take place in Bucharest (Romania) on 22–23 June 2023. After the last edition before the COVID-19 pandemic in Dresden (2019), this event will reassemble again major experts in the field of cyclotrons, radioisotope production, targets, and target chemistry. In recent years, significant advances have been made in these fields and novel instruments and methodologies have been developed with direct implications for science and society.

 

 

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Thu, June 22

9:30 AM → 9:40 AM Welcome

Speaker: Dr Dana Niculae (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering, Radiopharmaceutical Research Centre)

9:30 AM → 10:00 AM Welcome and Opening

9:40 AM → 10:00 AM Welcome

Speaker: Dr Mihai Radu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

10:00 AM → 10:40 AM Ten years user experience with the TR19 cyclotron at IFIN-HH

Speakers: Dr Craciun Liviu Stefan (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering), Dr Esanu Tiberiu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering), Dr Laurentiu Teodorescu (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

10:00 AM → 11:00 AM Welcome and Opening: Accelerators at IFIN-HH

10:40 AM → 11:00 AM Ion Beams for Science, Education and Technology

Accelerated ion beams can be regarded as a highly versatile multi-tool extremely useful to date artefacts, clean-up air, detect and remove tumours, sanitise sewage, improve microprocessors, transmute nuclear waste, detect a counterfeit, manufacture cutting-edge materials or even look into the stars.
The history of particle accelerators at the "Horia Hulubei" National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering - IFIN-HH started in '50s with the installation of a U-120 cyclotron, followed by the commissioning of the 7.5 MV FN Tandem machine in 1973.
Nowadays we proudly operate 3 electrostatic accelerators and a TR-19 cyclotron that are equipped to tackle a broad range of applications, but also for fundamental research.

Speaker: Dr Mihai Straticiuc (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

11:00 AM → 11:20 AM Coffee break

11:20 AM → 11:40 AM Accelerator and detector developments for the production of theragnostic radioisotopes with solid targets at the Bern medical cyclotron

Speaker: Saverio Braccini (Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC), Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

Braccini_et_al_CYCLEUR_2023_FINAL.docx

11:20 AM → 1:20 PM Session 2: Developments - Site presentations

Oral contributions

Conveners: Dr Liviu Stefan Craciun (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering), Prof. Saverio Braccini (Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC), Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

11:40 AM → 12:00 PM ICNAS´s experience of daily production of gallium-68 from liquid targets with 2 cyclotrons of distinct energies: introducing the new IBA Kiube VE – Variable Energy

Speakers: Prof. Francisco Alves (ICNAS— Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal), Dr Sergio do Carmo (ICNAS PHARMA, Polo das Ciências da Saúde, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;)

12:00 PM → 12:20 PM Updates from DKFZ Heidelberg

Speaker: Dr Viplav Gupta (DKFZ Heidelberg)

12:20 PM → 12:40 PM Production of 76Br at the cyclotron Cyclone 18/9

Speaker: Prof. Karsten Franke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Leipzig, Germany,)

Franke_Abstract_Cycleur_2023.pdf

12:40 PM → 1:00 PM Simple Lab automation

With the advent of low cost single board computers and micro controllers it is possible to design, easily build and program small synthesis modules.
The use of modern controllers can also give a second life to older modules and to main components such as HPLCs, heaters and syringe actuators.

Speaker: Dr Dean Jolly (McGill Univeristy)

1:00 PM → 1:20 PM Production of 64Cu and 89Zr using solid targets

Speakers: Diana Cocioaba (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering), Dr Radu Leonte, Dr Simona Baruta (Horia Hulubei National Institute for Physics and Nuclear Engineering)

1:20 PM → 2:15 PM Lunch

2:15 PM → 2:35 PM Comparison of gallium-68 production using IBA and GE liquid target system

Speaker: Dr Antje Uhlending (Herz- und Diabeteszentrum NRW Universitätsklinik der Ruhr-Universität Bochum Institut für Radiologie, Nuklearmedizin und molekulare Bildgebung)

Abstract.docx

2:15 PM → 4:35 PM Open: Applications

Conveners: Prof. Francisco Alves, Dr Karsten Franke

2:35 PM → 2:55 PM Current status on the U-120M cyclotron

During almost half a century of operation, the U-120M cyclotron has undergone a number of upgrades and improvements that have enabled the development and production of the most common radiopharmaceuticals on a daily basis. The transfer of routine production to the dedicated TR-24 cyclotron enabled a long-term shutdown and major improvement of the U-120M cyclotron. In addition to the progress in beam extraction, the results achieved in the development of pulsed beams, neutron sources and target technologies will be presented.

Speaker: Dr Tomas Matlocha (Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)

2:55 PM → 3:15 PM Production of radionuclides for medical application at the Hevesy Laboratory – 64,67Cu, 135La, 165Er

Speaker: Kristina Soeborg Pedersen (Technical University of Denmark)

Abstract_CYCLEUR_Kristina_S_Pedersen.pdf

3:15 PM → 3:35 PM Production of the theranostic pair copper-64/-67

Speaker: Dr Martin Kreller (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf)

Kreller_64Cu-67Cu_Abstract_Cycleur.pdf

3:35 PM → 3:55 PM 52Mn and 165Er production, last developments

At Orleans, proton and alpha production of 52Mn will be presented . Separation of 52Mn from V 52Mn (proton beam was done and AMA has been established (results on progress).
Relative to 165Er, some parameters have a crucial impact on AMA value. Its production is one. The radiochemical separation is another. In order to improve the separation factor between Ho and Er, mesoporous carbon support have been tested and compared with Triskem resin. Behaviors of resin are different ever functionalized with same molecules.

Speaker: Dr Isidro da Silva (CNRS Orleans, France)

3:55 PM → 4:15 PM The role of a Diagnostic Cyclotron in the Theranostic Era

Speaker: Dr Luis Metello (ISOPOR Azores, Portugal)

4:15 PM → 4:35 PM Q&A, Discussions

4:35 PM → 5:00 PM Coffe break

5:00 PM → 5:20 PM Emerging medical radioisotopes production at Radiopharmaceuticl Research Centre @IFIN-HH

Speaker: Dana Niculae (IFIN-HH)

5:00 PM → 6:00 PM Open DIscussions

Conveners: Prof. Francisco Alves (IICNAS— Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal), Dr Karsten Franke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Leipzig, Germany,), Prof. Saverio Braccini (Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC), Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

5:20 PM → 6:00 PM Round Table - Future of CYCLEUR

Speakers: Francisco Alves (IICNAS— Institute for Nuclear Sciences Applied to Health, University of Coimbra, Pólo das Ciências da Saúde, Azinhaga de Santa Comba, 3000-548 Coimbra, Portugal), Dr Karsten Franke (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR), Leipzig, Germany,), Saverio Braccini (Albert Einstein Center for Fundamental Physics (AEC), Laboratory of High Energy Physics (LHEP), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland)

7:30 PM → 10:30 PM Social Dinner

Fri, June 23

9:30 AM → 11:30 AM VISIT to Radiopharmaceutical Research Centre

11:30 AM → 12:30 PM VISIT to Accelerators (1MV&3MV)

12:30 PM → 12:50 PM Coffe Break

12:50 PM → 1:20 PM Presentation ELI-NP

1:20 PM → 2:20 PM ELI-NP: Visit to ELI-NP

2:20 PM → 3:20 PM Lunch

3:20 PM → 4:00 PM Round Table Discussions and Closing