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Professore Associato – Dipartimento di Fisica | Tel.: 050 2214938 – Email: giancarlo.sportelli@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"92756","unipi-persone-nome":"Giancarlo","unipi-persone-cognome":"Sportelli","unipi-persone-email":"giancarlo.sportelli@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"orcid.org\/0000-0001-9982-0292
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\r\nM. Eng. degree in 2006 for the Technical University of Bari with a thesis on \u201cLow-cost tomographic reconstructions\u201d. 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 \u201cA modular data acquisition system for high resolution clinical PET scanners\u201d. Since 2008 he has been working with the Functional Instrumentation and Imaging Group of the Department of Physics \u201cE. Fermi\u201d, University of Pisa, and he is now a tenured researched in Applied Physics of the same department.
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\r\nHe has been students tutor for the \u201cLaboratory of digital electronic systems\u201d from 2008 to 2010, invited lecturer in \u201cAdvanced digital electronic systems\u201d and examiner for the course in \u201cDigital electronic systems\u201d from 2009 to 2011 at the UPM. Since 2014 he is teaching \u201cApplied Physics\u201d and \u201cMedical Physics\u201d 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).
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\r\nMost recent projects and collaborations
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\r\n2018-now - UTOFPET \u201cUltra Time-of-flight Positron Emission Tomography\u201d. Call PhotonicSensing H2020 ERA-NET Cofound (Co-PI of the project).
\r\n2013-2018 - TRIMAGE \u201cA dedicated trimodality (PET\/MR\/EEG) imaging tool for schizophrenia\u201d. Call FP7-HEALTH-2013-INNOVATION-1, grant n. 602621, UNIPI.
\r\n2013-2015 - INSIDE \u201cInnovative Solutions for In-beam Dosimetry in Hadron Therapy\u201d. Funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research, PRIN 2010-2011, grant n. 2010P98A75.
\r\n2012-2014 - FULLBEAM \u201cFully digital in-beam PET for hadron therapy\u201d. Call FP7-PEOPLE-2011-IEF, grant n. 300838, UNIPI.
\r\n2011-2012 - ENVISION \u201cEuropean Novel Imaging Systems for Ion Therapy\u201d. Call FP7-HEALTH-2009, grant n. 241851, INFN.
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\r\nMain publications as the corresponding author in major scientific journals
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\r\n2017 - 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, \u201cThe TRIMAGE PET Data Acquisition System: Initial Results,\u201d IEEE T Rad Plasma Med Sci.
\r\n2016 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, N. Camarlinghi, M. Ciocca, F. Collini, S. Molinelli, M. Pullia, E. Zaccaro, A. Del Guerra, and V. Rosso, \u201cIn-beam PET data characterization with the large area DoPET prototype,\u201d J Instrum.
\r\n2014 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, N. Camarlinghi, G. A. P. Cirrone, G. Cuttone, S. Ferretti, A. Kraan, J. E. Ortu\u00f1o, F. Romano, A. Santos, K. Straub, A. Tramontana, A. Del Guerra, and V. Rosso, \u201cFirst full-beam PET acquisitions in proton therapy with a modular dual-head dedicated system,\u201d Phys Med Biol.
\r\n2013 - G. Sportelli, J. E. Ortu\u00f1o, J. J. Vaquero, M. Desco, and A. Santos, \u201cMassively parallelizable list-mode reconstruction using a Monte Carlo-based elliptical Gaussian model,\u201d Med Phys.
\r\n2011 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, and A. Santos, \u201cLow-resource synchronous coincidence processor for positron emission tomography,\u201d Nucl Instrum Meth A.
\r\n2011 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, P. Guerra, F. Spinella, G. Franchi, F. Attanasi, S. Moehrs, V. Rosso, A. Santos, and A. Del Guerra, \u201cReprogrammable acquisition architecture for dedicated positron emission tomography,\u201d IEEE T Nucl Sci.
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\r\nPatents
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\r\n2018 - G. Sportelli, M. G. Bisogni, E. Kostara, M. Morrocchi, N. Camarlinghi, \u201cMetodo ed apparato per l\u2019acquisizione dati per tomografia ad emissione di positroni in adroterapia a fascio acceso\u201d (\u201cMethod and apparatus for beam on data acquisition in positron emission tomography for hadron therapy\u201d). Italian national patent request n. IT201800000867.
\r\n2017 - G. Sportelli, N. Belcari, M. Morrocchi, A. Del Guerra, M. Luise, G. Franchi, A. Puccini, M. D\u2019Inzeo, R. Andreotti, O. Picchi, M. Della Maggiora, \u201cArchitettura di acquisizione senza fili per tomografia a emissione d","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"http:\/\/www.df.unipi.it\/~fiig\/personalPage.php?id=sportellig","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"Ricevimento studenti dal luned\u00ec al venerd\u00ec, previo appuntamento concordato via e-mail.","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2214938","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"www.df.unipi.it\/~fiig\/personalPage.php?id=sportellig","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=013990","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=013990&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Fisica per le Scienze della Vita, l'ambiente e I Beni Culturali PHYS-06\/A","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp00893","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"