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

The onsite edition of the PSI Winter School 2023 has taken place.

Our next PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2024 is scheduled from January 14th to January 19th.
If you would like to be informed when the registration opens, you are very welcome to contact us under: winterschool@psi.ch

Thank you.

                                                                                                
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.