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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”)

❑ From 1998 to 2018, the course has been given 20 times (including this week) and about 1700 physicists have participated so far.

Dublin 2018