PSI Winter School for Protons 2022

Name: PSI Winter School for Protons 2022
Start: 2022-01-17T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2022-01-21T18:15:00+01:00
Location: Online

17 Jan 2022, 10:00 → 21 Jan 2022, 18:15 Europe/Zurich

Online

Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut), Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Description

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The PSI Winter School for Protons 2022 has taken place.

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The next PSI Winter School 2023 is scheduled as follows:
Sunday, 15.01.23 to Friday, 20.01.23
We do hope it will be an onsite event again.If you would like to be informed when the registration opens, then you are very welcome to contact us under: winterschool@psi.ch

Thank you.

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Aim of course:

To provide detailed knowledge on the clinical, physics and technological aspects of proton therapy using pencil beam scanning

Target audience:

Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, physicists, engineers, radiation technologists and dosimetrists. No previous knowledge of proton therapy is necessary.

Support

winterschool@psi.ch

Monday 17 January
- 1
  
  Registration to ZOOM
  
  Dry run if requested.
- 2
  Welcome (Introduction of faculty, virtual meeting, etc.)
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  01_Introduction WD17 WS 2022.pdf
  - a) Welcome
- 3
  
  A short historical overview of proton therapy
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  02_Ver. 2022 Brief history of proton therapy Damien C. Weber.pdf
- 4
  
  Basic physics for proton radiation
  
  Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  03_BasicPhysics-30m-Schippers-2022.pdf
- 5
  
  Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy
  
  Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  04_Beamproduction-45m-Schippers-2022.pdf
- Coffee break
- 6
  
  Basic radiaton biology of photons and protons
  
  Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)
  
  05_Pruschy PSI-School 2022.pdf
- 7
  
  How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy?
  
  Speaker: Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  
  06_ Paganetti_PSI_Winterschool_2022.pdf
- Coffee break
- 8
  
  Second malignancies
  
  Speaker: Uwe Schneider (Klinik Hirslanden)
  
  07_2022_Schneider_PSI_Winterschool_V0.pdf
- 9
  
  Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  08_2022 Winterschool CNS tumor adult.pdf
- 17:55
  
  Group picture
Tuesday 18 January
- 10
  
  Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery
  
  Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  09_ActiveScanningBeam1_ ModulatingDelivery_DMeer.pdf
- 11
  
  Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery
  
  Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  10_Winterschool_gm17.pdf
- 12
  
  Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry
  
  Speaker: Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  11_Dosimetry_2022_Safai.pdf
- Coffee break
- 13
  
  Treatment planning for pencil beam scanning and IMPT
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  12_Treatment planning (Lomax).pdf
- 14
  
  Proton therapy workflow
  
  Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  13_Hrbacek PSI WS 2022 - Proton Therapy Workflow.pdf
- 16:40
  
  Coffee Break
- 15
  
  Advancing proton therapy in lung cancer: Beyond proton bragg peak
  
  Speaker: Joe Y. Chang (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
  
  14_Proton TX in lung ca Winter school Jan. 2022.pdf
- 16
  
  GI and proton therapy
  
  Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)
  
  15_PSIwinterschoolPFO2022.pdf
Wednesday 19 January
- 17
  
  Participants to be allocated into the workshop
  
  Group Allocation for Workshops - Wednesday, 19.1.22.pdf
- 18
  
  Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel
  
  Speaker: Barbara Bachtiary
- 19
  
  Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)
- Coffee break
- 20
  
  Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel
  
  Speakers: Alessandra Bolsi (Paul Scherrer Institut), Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)
- 21
  
  Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel
  
  Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Thursday 20 January
- 22
  
  Commissioning a new facility: Specifications
  
  Speaker: Hakan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)
  
  16_PSI WS 2022 to print for PSI.pdf
- 23
  
  Commissioning a new facility: Clinical
  
  Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI)
  
  17_Meijers PSI Winterschool Commissioning.pdf
- 24
  
  Ocular proton treatment
  
  Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  18_PSI WS 2022 - Ocular Proton Therapy 2.pdf
- 14:55
  
  Coffee-Break and PSI virtual Tour (Reply)
- 25
  
  Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma Online
  
  Online
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber
  
  19_Winterschool Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma.pdf
- 26
  
  Proton therapy for pediatrics and AYA patients
  
  Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)
  
  20_Maha.pdf
- 16:55
  
  Coffee-Break
- 27
  
  Delivery uncertainties and their consequences
  
  Speaker: Francesca Albertini (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  21_Albertini_uncertainties_2022_noquestions.pdf
- 28
  
  Motion / motion mitigation
  
  Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  22_Fattori_Motion-MotionMitigation_2022.pdf
Friday 21 January
- 29
  
  Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy
  
  Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)
  
  23_Langendijk - Validation methodologies - v2022-01-14b.pdf
- 30
  
  Head and neck cancers
  
  Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)
  
  24_Langendijk - HNC Proton therapy - 2022-01-15.pdf
- 14:30
  
  Coffee-Break
- 31
  
  Technological innovation: Imaging
  
  Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  25_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2022.pdf
- 32
  
  Technological innovation: Delivery
  
  Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  26_TechnologicalInnovations_DMeer.pdf
- 16:20
  
  Coffee-Break
- 33
  
  Technological Innovation: Flash:: MEDICAL
  
  Speaker: James Metz
  
  27_Metz PSI FLASH Presentation 012122 Final.pdf
- 34
  
  Technological Innovation: Flash:: BIOLOGY
  
  Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin
  
  28_coursPSIwintershool+quizz1b.pdf
- 35
  
  Technological Innovation: Flash:: PHYSICS
  
  Speaker: Serena Psoroulas (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  29_WS2022_FLASH_Physics_21.1.22.pdf
- 36
  
  Protons versus "the competition"
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  30_Competition_V2_for PDF.pdf
- 37
  
  Closing Remarks
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

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