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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
Teaching Course on
Dose Modelling and Verification for External Beam Radiotherapy
Day 1
Sunday 6 March
Introduction
09:00 – 09:30
Introduction to course and faculty + Participant Survey
TK/BMcC
09:30 - 10:30
Basic concepts, definitions, convolution, superposition
ray trace,
fluence and the Boltzmann transport equation
etc
BMcC
10 :30 –11:00
Coffee
Input Data
11:00 – 12:00
Linac head design
TK
12:00 – 12:45
Dose measurements: Part 1 Relative dose away from reference
conditions
NJ
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch
13:45 – 14:30
Patient characterisation
BMcC
14:30 – 15:00
Phantoms
MMA
15:00 – 15:30
Coffee
Verification 1
15:30 – 16:15
Dose measurements; Part 2 The best detector for different jobs –
point detectors.
NJ
Day 2
Monday 7 March
Modelling 1
9:00 – 9:30
Pencil kernels
MMA
9:30 – 10:00
Out of field dose modelling
BMcC
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee
10:30 – 11:15
Multisource models
AA
11:15 – 12:00
Electron Modelling
TK
12:00 – 12:45
Point Kernels
AA
12.45 -13.45
Lunch
13:45 - 14:15
Grid Based approaches
AA
14:15 – 15:00
Small fields: Measurement
MMA
15:00- 15:30
Coffee
15:30 – 16:00
Small fields: Modelling
MMA