ESTRO course Dose Modelling and Verification 2017

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History

 1 st Teaching course dedicated to Physicists ONLY o initiated by H. Svensson and A. Dutreix after an ESTRO workshop on “MU calculation and verification for therapy machines” in 1995 in Gardone Riviera (Italy) during the 3 rd ESTRO biennial physics  The first courses held from 1998 o Mainly on ”Monitor Unit Calculations” which mainly covered factor based models for dose calculation (ESTRO booklet #3 and #6) o Since 2002 a much broader physics (“dose determination and verification”) content was aimed for photon and electron beam physics, beam modeling and dose calculation algorithms, ...

 From 1998 to 2017, the course has been given 19 times (including this week) and about 1600 physicists have participated so far.

Warsaw 2017