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SATURDAY 6 MAY 2017
INTERDISCIPLINARY RADIOBIOLOGY CLINICAL BRACHYTHERAPY PHYSICS RTT YOUNG
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Programme and Exhibition Guide |
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
JOINT SYMPOSIUM
ESTRO-AAPM: New technological and computational developments in
particle therapy
08:45 - 10:00 | STRAUS 2-3
The session will focus on three aspects:
The role of ‘compact solutions’ in proton therapy. We’ll review what is available, see
an example of how a centre did fit its department to the new needs, what it takes to
‘shrink’ these facilities further to fit in a conventional bunker and whether a fixed line
may still be adequate.
Concerning imaging, we’ll discuss the role of Cone beam CT(CBCT), i.e. design
of different CBCT systems, their use for different treatment sites, its quantitative
applications, the limitations of different methods for using CBCT for dose calculation,
and the use of CBCT in an adaptive ion therapy.
On treatment planning, we’ll outline the limitations of compensating systematic and
random uncertainties by dose planning, argue whether probabilistic planning can
achieve risk minimisation of geometric uncertainties via direct consideration in dose
optimisation and finally we’ll bring up the issue of the uncertainties associated with
estimating uncertainties.
Chair: M. Schwarz (Italy)
Co-chair: T. Bortfeld (USA)
08:45 > Scaling down proton therapy facilities to fit into photon vaults
Speaker: T. Bortfeld (USA)
SP-0019
09:10 > Integrating CBCT in ion beam therapy: challenges and opportunities
beyond anatomical guidance
Speaker: K. Teo (USA)
SP-0020
09:35 > New horizons in probabilistic and robust treatment planning in particle
therapy
Speaker: M. Alber (Germany)
SP-0021
SYMPOSIUM
CT imaging, new developments
08:45 - 10:00 | LEHAR 1-3
Modern radiotherapy relies heavily on pre-treatment imaging, both to determine
the target volumes, delineate organs at risk and to build an attenuation model of the
patient to facilitate accurate dose calculations. Magnetic resonance and positron