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ESTRO/ESMIT Course on Molecular Imaging and Radiation Oncology 10-13 April 2017 Bordeaux, France

TARGET GROUP The course is aimed at senior residents or young spe- cialists in radiation oncology, nuclear medicine or radiology, who intend to expand their knowledge and skills in the use of molecular imaging methods for radiation oncology. COURSE AIM The applications of molecular imaging (MI) for treat- ment selection, target definition and response eval- uation in radiation oncology are increasing. This advanced course, jointly organised by ESTRO and ESMIT (European School of Multimodality Imaging and Therapy), aims at providing the participants with profound knowledge and skills to deal with chances and challenges in the use of MI methods in all fields of radiation oncology. LEARNINGOUTCOMES By the end of this course participants should be able to: • List the implications of PET and some MRI basedMI methods in radiation oncology • Understand technical issues of PET in radiotherapy treatment planning • Understand technical issues of functional MRI in radiotherapy treatment planning • Have knowledge of the current evidence of PET in staging, treatment planning and response assessment in main solid tumours • Discuss GTV delineation procedures based on MI • Discuss nodal CTV concepts with the background of diagnostic data • Take home some points of necessary research in this field. COURSE CONTENT The course will be interactive with talks and hands- on group sessions on MI based GTV delineation, the discussion of MI based CTV concepts, as well as the use of MI methods for staging and response assessment

in several tumour types. The MI methods addressed will mainly be nuclear medicine based (e.g. PET) but MRI-based methods will also be touched. Lectures on: • Technical and biological basics of imaging methods and radiotherapy techniques involved • Related physics (segmentation, registration, handling of 4D data, dose painting) • Clinical application of PET and/or molecular MRI in staging and treatment planning of: - lung cancer - head and neck cancer - gastro-intestinal tumours - gynaecological tumours • Response assessment usingmolecular imaging during and after treatment. Hands-on workshops and group discussions on: • Diagnostic viewing - prostate cancer - brain tumours

• Multimodal image coregistration • Automatic image segmentation • GTV delineation • CTV concepts • Response assessment.

PREREQUISITES Before commencing this course participants should have acquired: • Basic knowledge on radiation oncology • Some basic knowledge on anatomical (CT, MRI) imaging in radiation oncology. To participate in the hands-on delineation sessions you should bring a laptop that can run the on-line FALCON* teaching software (it is strongly suggested to confirm this functionality at home).

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