11:00 – 12:00 Registration

12:00 – 12:45 Lunch

12:45 – 13:00 Official opening of the course

13:00 – 14:00 Session 1

                    Chairperson: Stine Groth-Hansen

                    History and evolution of CT

                         Professor Jiang Hsieh,Chief Scientist, GE Healthcare

                         Waukesha, USA

14:00 – 15:30 Session 2:

                    Chairperson: Stine Groth-Hansen

                    Tube technology, detector technology, dose modulation,

                         image reconstruction

                         Professor Jiang Hsieh,Chief Scientist, GE Healthcare,

                         Waukesha, USA

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 – 16:40 Session 3

                    Chairperson: Jon Holm

                    Acceptance testing and quality assurance.

                    Hans Bomholt, Asbjørn Seegert, CT group, Denmark

16:40 – 18:00 Session 4

                    Chairperson: Jon Holm

                    Iterative reconstruction techniques                        

                         GE - Per Iversen

                         Philips - Kristina Norrgren

                         Siemens - Dr. Martin Sedlmair

18:20 – 18.50 Bus from Skejby University Hospital to AROS

19:00 – 20.00 "Aros Art Museum" - guided tours start at 19.00

20:00 – 22.00 Conference Dinner

Thursday, 11^th November 2010

Time

08:30 – 09:15 Session 5

                    Chairperson: Jolanta Hansen

                         CT dosimetry

                         Bjørn Helge Østerås, Section for diagnostic physics.

                         The Interventional Centre OsloUniversityhospital, Norway 

09:15 – 10:00 Session 6

                    Chairperson: Jolanta Hansen

                         Practical CT dosimetry and the use of software for dose

                         assessment in CT

                         Bjørn Helge Østerås, Section for diagnostic physics.

                         The Interventional Centre OsloUniversityhospital, Norway 

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:15 Session 7

                    Chairperson: Henrik Andersson

                         The CTDI paradigm:  misconceptions, misnomers,

                         and myths exposed; physical reality explained

                         Professor Robert L. Dixon, Department of Radiology

                         WakeForestUniversitySchool of Medicine,USA

11:15 – 12:00 Session 8

                    Chairperson: Henrik Andersson

                    Comprehensive Methodology for the Evaluation of

                         Radiation Dose in X-ray CT. Report of AAPM Task Group

                         111 on The Future of CT Dosimetry (and beyond)      

                    Professor Robert L. Dixon, Department of Radiology

                         WakeForestUniversitySchool of Medicine,USA

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 13:45 Session 9

                    Chairperson: Mika Kortesniemi

                         Noise power spectrum measurements on CT Systems

                         Robert Bujila, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

13:45 – 14:30 Session 10

                    Chairperson: Mika Kortesniemi

                    GE noise index concept

                         Professor Jiang Hsieh, Chief Scientist, GE Healthcare

                         Waukesha, USA

14:30 – 15:00 Coffee break

15:00 – 17:00 Workshops

                    Workshop 1:

                         CT dosimetry

                     Asger Greval Petersen, Røntgenfysik, Region Nordjylland,

                          Denmark

                    Workshop 2:

                         QA image quality (phantom measurements -Catphan)

                         Jesper Thygesen, MTA, Århus University Hospital, Denmark

                    Workshop 3:

                         QAlite program

                         Ingerid Skjei, Section for diagnostic physics.

                         The Interventional Centre OsloUniversityhospital, Norway 

Friday, 12^th November 2010

Time

08:30 – 09:15 Session 11

                    Chairperson: Stine Groth-Hansen

                         Quantification of image heterogeneity using texture 

                         analysis (TexRAD): a computer simulated validation &

                         multi-centre reproducibility assessment of Phantom CT

                         Dr. Balaji Ganeshan, TexRAD Principal Developer & Project

                         Manager, Clinical Imaging Sciences Centre, Brighton & Sussex

                         Medical School, UK

09:15 – 10:00 Session 12

                    Chairperson: Stine Groth-Hansen

                         Quantitative analysis of Catphan images reconstructed

                         with Filtered Back Projection and with Iterative

                         Reconstruction: a comparison including texture analysis

                         (TexRAD)

                          Jesper Thygesen, Imaging Scientist, Computed Tomography

                         Dept. of Biomedical Engineering, Aarhus Universityhospital, DK

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 – 11:15 Session 13

                    Chairperson: Jon Holm    

                    Automated calculation of CT doses from DICOM header

                         data

                         Hans-Erik Källman, Registered medical physicist

                         Radiology Dalarna; Sweden