Sede ufficiale: LARGO BRUNO PONTECORVO, 3, 56127 PISA
Email: giancarlo.sportelli@unipi.it
Telefono: 050 2214938
Sito web: http://www.df.unipi.it/~fiig/personalPage.php?id=sportellig
Profilo
Ruolo:
Professore Associato
Struttura: Dipartimento di Fisica
Settore scientifico-disciplinare: Fisica per le Scienze della Vita, l'ambiente e I Beni Culturali PHYS-06/A
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M. Eng. degree in 2006 for the Technical University of Bari with a thesis on Low-cost tomographic reconstructions. PhD with European Label and honours grade in 2010 for the Department of Electronic Engineering, Higher Tech. School of Telecom. Eng., Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, with a thesis on A modular data acquisition system for high resolution clinical PET scanners. Since 2008 he has been working with the Functional Instrumentation and Imaging Group of the Department of Physics E. Fermi, University of Pisa, and he is now a tenured researched in Applied Physics of the same department.
He has been students tutor for the Laboratory of digital electronic systems from 2008 to 2010, invited lecturer in Advanced digital electronic systems and examiner for the course in Digital electronic systems from 2009 to 2011 at the UPM. Since 2014 he is teaching Applied Physics and Medical Physics for the university degrees in Medicine and Surgery, and Dentistry (UNIPI). Since 2014 he is also teacher for the PET laboratory module of the "Medical physics laboratory" for the university degree in Physics (UNIPI).
Most recent projects and collaborations
2018-now - UTOFPET Ultra Time-of-flight Positron Emission Tomography. Call PhotonicSensing H2020 ERA-NET Cofound (Co-PI of the project).
2013-2018 - TRIMAGE A dedicated trimodality (PET/MR/EEG) imaging tool for schizophrenia. Call FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1, grant n. 602621, UNIPI.
2013-2015 - INSIDE Innovative Solutions for In-beam Dosimetry in Hadron Therapy. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, PRIN 2010-2011, grant n. 2010P98A75.
2012-2014 - FULLBEAM Fully digital in-beam PET for hadron therapy. Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, grant n. 300838, UNIPI.
2011-2012 - ENVISION European Novel Imaging Systems for Ion Therapy. Call FP7-HEALTH-2009, grant n. 241851, INFN.
Main publications as the corresponding author in major scientific journals
2017 - G. Sportelli, S. Ahmad, N. Belcari, M. G. Bisogni, N. Camarlinghi, A. Di Pasquale, S. Dussoni, J. Fleury, M. Morrocchi, E. Zaccaro, A. Del Guerra, The TRIMAGE PET Data Acquisition System: Initial Results, IEEE T Rad Plasma Med Sci.
2016 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, N. Camarlinghi, M. Ciocca, F. Collini, S. Molinelli, M. Pullia, E. Zaccaro, A. Del Guerra, and V. Rosso, In-beam PET data characterization with the large area DoPET prototype, J Instrum.
2014 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, N. Camarlinghi, G. A. P. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, S. Ferretti, A. Kraan, J. E. Ortuño, F. Romano, A. Santos, K. Straub, A. Tramontana, A. Del Guerra, and V. Rosso, First full-beam PET acquisitions in proton therapy with a modular dual-head dedicated system, Phys Med Biol.
2013 - G. Sportelli, J. E. Ortuño, J. J. Vaquero, M. Desco, and A. Santos, Massively parallelizable list-mode reconstruction using a Monte Carlo-based elliptical Gaussian model, Med Phys.
2011 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, and A. Santos, Low-resource synchronous coincidence processor for positron emission tomography, Nucl Instrum Meth A.
2011 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, F. Spinella, G. Franchi, F. Attanasi, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, A. Santos, and A. Del Guerra, Reprogrammable acquisition architecture for dedicated positron emission tomography, IEEE T Nucl Sci.
Patents
2018 - G. Sportelli, M. G. Bisogni, E. Kostara, M. Morrocchi, N. Camarlinghi, Metodo ed apparato per lacquisizione dati per tomografia ad emissione di positroni in adroterapia a fascio acceso (Method and apparatus for beam on data acquisition in positron emission tomography for hadron therapy). Italian national patent request n. IT201800000867.
2017 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, M. Morrocchi, A. Del Guerra, M. Luise, G. Franchi, A. Puccini, M. DInzeo, R. Andreotti, O. Picchi, M. Della Maggiora, Architettura di acquisizione senza fili per tomografia a emissione d
M. Eng. degree in 2006 for the Technical University of Bari with a thesis on Low-cost tomographic reconstructions. PhD with European Label and honours grade in 2010 for the Department of Electronic Engineering, Higher Tech. School of Telecom. Eng., Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), Spain, with a thesis on A modular data acquisition system for high resolution clinical PET scanners. Since 2008 he has been working with the Functional Instrumentation and Imaging Group of the Department of Physics E. Fermi, University of Pisa, and he is now a tenured researched in Applied Physics of the same department.
He has been students tutor for the Laboratory of digital electronic systems from 2008 to 2010, invited lecturer in Advanced digital electronic systems and examiner for the course in Digital electronic systems from 2009 to 2011 at the UPM. Since 2014 he is teaching Applied Physics and Medical Physics for the university degrees in Medicine and Surgery, and Dentistry (UNIPI). Since 2014 he is also teacher for the PET laboratory module of the "Medical physics laboratory" for the university degree in Physics (UNIPI).
Most recent projects and collaborations
2018-now - UTOFPET Ultra Time-of-flight Positron Emission Tomography. Call PhotonicSensing H2020 ERA-NET Cofound (Co-PI of the project).
2013-2018 - TRIMAGE A dedicated trimodality (PET/MR/EEG) imaging tool for schizophrenia. Call FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1, grant n. 602621, UNIPI.
2013-2015 - INSIDE Innovative Solutions for In-beam Dosimetry in Hadron Therapy. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, PRIN 2010-2011, grant n. 2010P98A75.
2012-2014 - FULLBEAM Fully digital in-beam PET for hadron therapy. Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, grant n. 300838, UNIPI.
2011-2012 - ENVISION European Novel Imaging Systems for Ion Therapy. Call FP7-HEALTH-2009, grant n. 241851, INFN.
Main publications as the corresponding author in major scientific journals
2017 - G. Sportelli, S. Ahmad, N. Belcari, M. G. Bisogni, N. Camarlinghi, A. Di Pasquale, S. Dussoni, J. Fleury, M. Morrocchi, E. Zaccaro, A. Del Guerra, The TRIMAGE PET Data Acquisition System: Initial Results, IEEE T Rad Plasma Med Sci.
2016 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, N. Camarlinghi, M. Ciocca, F. Collini, S. Molinelli, M. Pullia, E. Zaccaro, A. Del Guerra, and V. Rosso, In-beam PET data characterization with the large area DoPET prototype, J Instrum.
2014 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, N. Camarlinghi, G. A. P. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, S. Ferretti, A. Kraan, J. E. Ortuño, F. Romano, A. Santos, K. Straub, A. Tramontana, A. Del Guerra, and V. Rosso, First full-beam PET acquisitions in proton therapy with a modular dual-head dedicated system, Phys Med Biol.
2013 - G. Sportelli, J. E. Ortuño, J. J. Vaquero, M. Desco, and A. Santos, Massively parallelizable list-mode reconstruction using a Monte Carlo-based elliptical Gaussian model, Med Phys.
2011 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, and A. Santos, Low-resource synchronous coincidence processor for positron emission tomography, Nucl Instrum Meth A.
2011 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, F. Spinella, G. Franchi, F. Attanasi, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, A. Santos, and A. Del Guerra, Reprogrammable acquisition architecture for dedicated positron emission tomography, IEEE T Nucl Sci.
Patents
2018 - G. Sportelli, M. G. Bisogni, E. Kostara, M. Morrocchi, N. Camarlinghi, Metodo ed apparato per lacquisizione dati per tomografia ad emissione di positroni in adroterapia a fascio acceso (Method and apparatus for beam on data acquisition in positron emission tomography for hadron therapy). Italian national patent request n. IT201800000867.
2017 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, M. Morrocchi, A. Del Guerra, M. Luise, G. Franchi, A. Puccini, M. DInzeo, R. Andreotti, O. Picchi, M. Della Maggiora, Architettura di acquisizione senza fili per tomografia a emissione d
Didattica
Attività didattica
Incarichi di responsabilità didattica di moduli/insegnamenti
- Medical physics laboratory b / laboratorio di fisica medica (modulo dell'insegnamento medical physics laboratory / laboratorio di fisica medica cod. 104bb) per Laurea Magistrale in Fisica
- Fisica applicata (cod. 153BB) per Laurea Magistrale Ciclo Unico 6 anni in Odontoiatria e protesi dentaria
Incarichi di co-docenza in moduli/insegnamenti
- Laboratorio 3 (Cod. 034BB) per Laurea in Fisica
Ricevimento
Modalità: Ricevimento studenti dal lunedì al venerdì, previo appuntamento concordato via e-mail.
Ricerca
Pubblicazioni
- Development and characterization of a ?E-TOF detector prototype for the FOOT experiment (Morrocchi, Matteo,Ciarrocchi, Esther,Alexandrov, Andrey,Alpat, Behcet,Ambrosi, Giovanni,Argirò, Stefano,Arteche Diaz, Raul,Bartosik, Nazar,Battistoni, Giuseppe,Belcari, Nicola,Bertazzoni, Matteo,Biondi, Silvia,Bruni, Graziano,Camarlinghi, Niccolò,Carra, Pietro,Cerello, Piergiorgio,Clozza, Alberto,Colombi, Sofia,De Lellis, Giovanni,Del Guerra, Alberto,Simoni, Micol De,Crescenzo, Antonia Di,Donetti, Marco,Dong, Yunsheng,Durante, Marco,Embriaco, Alessia,Emde, Max,Faccini, Riccardo,Ferrero, Veronica,Ferroni, Fernando,Fiandrini, Emanuele,Finck, Christian,Fiorina, Elisa,Fischetti, Marta,Francesconi, Marco,Franchini, Matteo,Galli, Luca,Garbini, Marco,Gentile, Valerio,Giraudo, Giuseppe,Hetzel, Ronja,Hild, Sebastian,Ionica, Maria,Kanxheri, Keida,Kraan, Aafke Christine,Lante, Valeria,Lauria, Adele,La Tessa, Chiara,Lopez Torres, Ernesto,Marafini, Michela,Mattei, Ilaria,Mengarelli, Alberto,Mirabelli, Riccardo,Montesi, Maria Cristina,Morone, Maria Cristina,Muraro, Silvia,Narici, Livio,Pastore, Alessandra,Pastrone, Nadia,Patera, Vincenzo,Pennazio, Francesco,Placidi, Pisana,Pullia, Marco,Ramello, Luciano,Ridolfi, Riccardo,Rosso, Valeria,Rovituso, Marta,Sanelli, Claudio,Sarti, Alessio,Sartorelli, Gabriella,Sato, Osamu,Savazzi, Simone,Scavarda, Lorenzo,Schiavi, Angelo,Schuy, Christoph,Scifoni, Emanuele,Sciubba, Adalberto,Selvi, Marco,Servoli, Leonello,Silvestre, Gianluigi,Sitta, Mario,Spighi, Roberto,Spiriti, Eleuterio,Sportelli, Giancarlo,Stahl, Achim,Tomassini, Sandro,Tommasino, Francesco,Traini, Giacomo,Tioukov, Valeri,Valle, Serena Marta,Vanstalle, Marie,Villa, Mauro,Weber, Ulrich,Zoccoli, Antonio,Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina - 9999 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- The FLUKA code: Overview and new developments (Null, Null; Ballarini, Francesca; Batkov, Konstantin; Battistoni, Giuseppe; Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina; Böhlen, Till T.; Campanella, Mauro; Carante, Mario P.; Chen, Daiyuan; De Gregorio, Angelica; Degtiarenko, Pavel V.; De la Torre Luque, Pedro; dos Santos Augusto, Ricardo; Engel, Ralph; Fassò, Alberto; Fedynitch, Anatoli; Ferrari, Alfredo; Ferrari, Anna; Franciosini, Gaia; Kraan, Aafke Christine; Lascaud, Julie; Li, Wenxin; Liu, Juntao; Liu, Zhiyi; Magro, Giuseppe; Mairani, Andrea; Mattei, Ilaria; Mazziotta, Mario N.; Morone, Maria C.; Müller, Stefan E.; Muraro, Silvia; Ortega, Pablo G.; Parodi, Katia; Patera, Vincenzo; Pinsky, Lawrence S.; Ramos, Ricardo L.; Ranft, Johannes; Rosso, Valeria; Sala, Paola R.; Santana Leitner, Mario; Sportelli, Giancarlo; Tessonnier, Thomas; Ytre-Hauge, Kristian S.; Zana, Lorenzo - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- In-beam PET treatment monitoring of carbon therapy patients: Results of a clinical trial at CNAO (Kraan, Aafke Christine; Susini, Filippo; Moglioni, Martina; Battistoni, Giuseppe; Bersani, Davide; Carra, Pietro; Cerello, Piergiorgio; De Gregorio, Angelica; Ferrero, Veronica; Fiorina, Elisa; Franciosini, Gaia; Morrocchi, Matteo; Muraro, Silvia; Patera, Vincenzo; Pennazio, Francesco; Retico, Alessandra; Rosso, Valeria; Sarti, Alessio; Schiavi, Angelo; Sportelli, Giancarlo; Traini, Giacomo; Vischioni, Barbara; Vitolo, Viviana; Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Expansion and Light-Sheet Microscopy for Nanoscale 3D Imaging (Pesce, Luca; Ricci, Pietro; Sportelli, Giancarlo; Belcari, Nicola; Sancataldo, Giuseppe - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Synthetic CT imaging for PET monitoring in proton therapy: a simulation study (Moglioni, Martina; Carra, Pietro; Arezzini, Silvia; Belcari, Nicola; Bersani, Davide; Berti, Andrea; Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina; Calderisi, Marco; Ceppa, Ilaria; Cerello, Piergiorgio; Ciocca, Mario; Ferrero, Veronica; Fiorina, Elisa; Kraan, Aafke Christine; Mazzoni, Enrico; Morrocchi, Matteo; Pennazio, Francesco; Retico, Alessandra; Rosso, Valeria; Sbolgi, Francesca; Vitolo, Viviana; Sportelli, Giancarlo - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Using the gamma-index analysis for inter-fractional comparison of in-beam PET images for head-and-neck treatment monitoring in proton therapy: A Monte Carlo simulation study (Kraan, Aafke Christine; Moglioni, Martina; Battistoni, Giuseppe; Bersani, Davide; Berti, Andrea; Carra, Pietro; Cerello, Piergiorgio; Ciocca, Mario; Ferrero, Veronica; Fiorina, Elisa; Mazzoni, Enrico; Morrocchi, Matteo; Muraro, Silvia; Orlandi, Ester; Pennazio, Francesco; Retico, Alessandra; Rosso, Valeria; Sportelli, Giancarlo; Vischioni, Barbara; Vitolo, Viviana; Bisogni, Maria Giuseppina - 2024 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Walk-through flat panel total-body PET: a patient-centered design for high throughput imaging at lower cost using DOI-capable high-resolution monolithic detectors (Vandenberghe, S.; Muller, F. M.; Withofs, N.; Dadgar, M.; Maebe, J.; Vervenne, B.; Akl, M. A.; Xue, S.; Shi, K.; Sportelli, G.; Belcari, N.; Hustinx, R.; Vanhove, C.; Karp, J. S. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Analysis methods for in-beam PET images in proton therapy treatment verification: a comparison based on Monte Carlo simulations (Moglioni, M.; Kraan, A. C.; Berti, A.; Carra, P.; Cerello, P.; Ciocca, M.; Ferrero, V.; Fiorina, E.; Mazzoni, E.; Morrocchi, M.; Pennazio, F.; Retico, A.; Rosso, V.; Sportelli, G.; Vitolo, V.; Bisogni, G. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- MLS analysis of INSIDE in-beam PET images for the detection of morphological changes in patients treated with protontherapy (Moglioni, M.; Kraan, A. C.; Berti, A.; Carra, P.; Cerello, P.; Ciocca, M.; Ferrero, V.; Fiorina, E.; Mazzoni, E.; Morrocchi, M.; Pennazio, F.; Retico, A.; Rosso, V.; Sportelli, G.; Vitolo, V.; Bisogni, M. G. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Calibration and performance assessment of the TOF-Wall detector of the FOOT experiment (Kraan, A. C.; Battistoni, G.; Belcari, N.; Bisogni, M. G.; Carra, P.; Ciarrocchi, E.; De Gregorio, A.; Francesconi, M.; Franciosini, G.; Galli, L.; Marafini, M.; Marini, L.; Massa, M.; Moggi, A.; Montefiori, M.; Muraro, S.; Pullia, M.; Rosso, V.; Sportelli, G.; Traini, G.; Zarrella, R.; Morrocchi, M. - 2023 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)