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SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME
| PROGRAMME AND EXHIBITION GUIDE
SATURDAY 30 APRIL 2016
INTERDISCIPLINARY RADIOBIOLOGY
CLINICAL BRACHYTHERAPY PHYSICS
RTT
YOUNG
Symposium
TOWARDS USER ORIENTED QA PROCEDURES FOR TREATMENT
VERIFICATION
08:45 - 10:00 | ROOM 4
The session comprises presentations on treatment planning, imaging, and actual dose verification
procedures. Treatment planning will cover acceptance testing, commissioning (general data, TG-43
and non-TG-43 dose calculation algorithms, applicators), periodic QA, TPS inter-comparison, and
phantom based tests. Within the context of imaging, all modalities in use for clinical applications will
be discussed (x-ray, CT, MRI, US, PET-CT). Dose verification will focus on real-time verification meth-
ods including classic applications of in vivo dosimetry, real-time in vivo dosimeters, and applications
of real-time in vivo dosimetry.
Chair: A. Haworth (Australia)
Co-Chair: S. Bresciani (Italy)
08:45 > How to ensure the quality in brachytherapy treatment planning systems?
Speaker: F. A. Siebert (Germany)
SP-0021
09:10 > Imaging
Speaker: T.P. Hellebust (Norway)
SP-0022
09:35 > Dose verification
Speaker: K. Tanderup (Denmark)
SP-0023
Symposium
ROBUST AND ACCURATE FUNCTIONAL MRI FOR RADIOTHERAPY
08:45 - 10:00 | ROOM 1
This session will focus on different aspects in terms of image acquisition and technical requirements
for the integration of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (f-MRI) into radiotherapy (RT). F-MRI
can be applied in RT for tissue classification, monitoring of treatment response and dose painting.
The geometrical accuracy of the images is of crucial importance. In the second talk, different issues
concerning data acquisition and analysis in dynamic contrast enhanced (DCE) MRI will be discussed.
Accurate quantification of DCE-MRI parameters is difficult and requires the use of dedicated models.
The third speaker will focus on diffusion weighted (DW) MRI including the importance of the choice
of b-values, acquisition problems and geometric distortion in extracranial applications of DW-MRI as
well as implications for RT.
Chair: D. Thorwarth (Germany)
Co-Chair: G. Loi (Italy)
08:45 > Needs and technical requirements for functional MRI in radiotherapy
Speaker: U. Van der Heide (The Netherlands)
SP-0024
09:10 > Variation in DCE-MRI methodology and its implications for
radiotherapy
Speaker: A. Garpebring (Sweden)
SP-0025