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ESTRO SCHOOL
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
- prostate cancer
- brain tumours
- gastro-intestinal tumours
- gynaecological tumours
• Response assessment usingmolecular imaging during
and after treatment.
Hands-on workshops and group discussions on:
• Diagnostic viewing
• 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).
ESTRO/ESMIT Course on Molecular Imaging and
Radiation Oncology
10-13 April 2017
Bordeaux, France