PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2023

Jan 15, 2023, 6:00 PM → Jan 20, 2023, 5:30 PM Europe/Zurich

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

We are glad to announce that it will be an onsite edition.

                                                                                                
Content of the course:

• Clinical indications adult (CNS, GI, Head & Neck, Skull base)
• Pediatrics and AYA
• Basic physics of proton therapy
• Radiation biology
• Delivery & treatment planning
• Therapy workflow
• Uncertainty & motion
• Specification, commissioning & Q.A.
• New directions in proton therapy

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.

 

 

link to material

Sunday, January 15

1 Registration

Dry run if requested.

Monday, January 16

8:30 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel

Coffee break

2 Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

05_Ver. 2023 Winterschool CNS tumor adult.pdf

12:30 PM Lunch break

Coffee break

6:00 PM Departure to the hotel - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

Tuesday, January 17

8:30 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel

3 Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

11_2023_ActiveScanningBeam1_ ModulatingDelivery_DMeer.pdf

4 Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

12_Winterschool_gm17.pdf

5 Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry

Speaker: Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

13_Dosimetry_2023_Safai.pdf

11:00 AM Coffee Break

6 Treatment planning for pencil beam scanning and IMPT

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

14_Treatment planning V2.pdf

7 Proton therapy workflow

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

15_PSI WS 2023 - Proton Therapy Workflow .pdf

1:05 PM Lunch break

8 Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

16_LANGENDIJK - Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy - FINAL.pdf

9 Head and neck cancers

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

17_LANGENDIJK - HNC Proton therapy - FINAL.pdf

Coffee break

4:00 PM Group picture

10 Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber

18_Ver. 2023 Winterschool Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma.pdf

11 Ocular proton treatment

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

19_PSI WS 2023 - Ocular Proton Therapy.pdf

5:40 PM Departure to social EVENT - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

Wednesday, January 18

8:30 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel

12 Delivery uncertainties and their consequences

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

20_Albertini_uncertainties_2023_new.pdf

13 Motion / motion mitigation

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

21_Fattori_Motion-MotionMitigation_2023.pdf

10:30 AM Coffee break and group allocation

11:00 AM On the way to the workshop

14 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speakers: Barbara Bachtiary , Dominic Leiser (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut) , Nicola Bizzocchi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Workshop 1 - Nasal Cavities Project.pdf

Workshop 1 - Paper.pdf

Workshop 1 - tox meeting statements_summary-131022.pdf

Workshop 1 - TS-1716-592_Case-based Planning Standardization.pdf

15 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speakers: Alessandra Bolsi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut) , Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Workshop 2 - WINTER_SCHOOL_2023_QA_Physics.pdf

Workshop 2 - WINTER_SCHOOL_2023_QA_planning.pdf

1:15 PM On the way for lunch

1:30 PM Lunch break

2:30 PM On the way to the workshop

16 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

17 Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel

Speakers: Christian Bula (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut) , David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

4:45 PM Coffee break

18 Site tour

6:30 PM Departure to the hotel - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

Thursday, January 19

8:30 AM Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel

19 Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Håkan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)

30_PSI WS 2023 Nyström.pdf

20 Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI)

31_PSI WS 2023 - Commissioning.pdf

21 Proton therapy for pediatrics and AYA patients

Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)

32_PSI Mahajan PED AYA 2023.pdf

11:15 AM Coffee-Break

22 Protons versus "the competition"

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

33_Competition_V2.pdf

23 Technological Innovation: Flash:: BIOLOGY

Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin

34_MCVozenin_PSI2023b.pdf

24 Technological Innovation: Flash:: PHYSICS

Speaker: Serena Psoroulas (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

35_WS2023_FLASH_Physics.pdf

1:15 PM Lunch break

25 Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

36_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2023.pdf

26 Technological innovation: Delivery

Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

37_2023_TechnologicalInnovations_DMeer.pdf

27 Technological Innovation: Treatment planning

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

38_PSI WS 2023 Hrbacek - TPS.pdf

28 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

4:45 PM Departure to the hotel - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium

Friday, January 20

7:30 AM Skiing day is cancelled.