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PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2024

→ Europe/Zurich
Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Damien Charles Weber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
Description

The PSI Winter School 2024 has taken place.

Please note that the website for the PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025 can be found under: 
PSI Winter School 2025


                                                    

                                                                                      
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.

Important:

Kindly note that the course is designed for 45 external participants and registration will close when the number of participants has been reached, but latest by: Sunday, December 17th, 2023

 

Support
  • Sunday 14 January
    • 18:00
      Enjoy the finger food
    • 1
      Registration Parkhotel Bad Zurzach

      Parkhotel Bad Zurzach

      Badstrasse 44 CH-5330 Bad Zurzach

      Dry run if requested.

    • 20:00
      Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths
  • Monday 15 January
  • Tuesday 16 January
  • Wednesday 17 January
    • 08:30
      Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel
    • 26
      Delivery uncertainties and their consequences Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Francesca Albertini (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      20_Albertini_uncertainties_2024_final.pdf
    • 27
      Motion / motion mitigation Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      21_Fattori_Motion-MotionMitigation_2024.pdf
    • 10:30
      Coffee break and group allocation
    • 10:55
      On the way to the workshop
    • 28
      Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel WPTA 139

      WPTA 139

      Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speakers: Barbara Bachtiary, Dominic Leiser (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Nicola Bizzocchi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 12:10
      Change workshop session
    • 29
      Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel WPTA 141

      WPTA 141

      Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speakers: Alessandra Bolsi (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 13:15
      On the way for lunch
    • 13:30
      Lunch break
    • 14:30
      On the way to the workshop
    • 30
      Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel WBGB/19 in Time OUT

      WBGB/19 in Time OUT

      Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 15:45
      Change workshop session
    • 31
      Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel Gantry 1

      Gantry 1

      Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speakers: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Martin Grossmann Handschin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 16:50
      Coffee break TIME OUT

      TIME OUT
    • 32
      Site tour Center for Proton Therapy (Villigen)

      Center for Proton Therapy

      Villigen
    • 18:25
      on way back to meeting point outside the auditorium
    • 18:45
      On the way to Park Hotel
    • 19:15
      Dinner at Parkhotel
  • Thursday 18 January
    • 08:30
      Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the Hotel
    • 33
      Commissioning a new facility: Specifications Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Håkan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)
      30_PSI WS 2024 Nyström.pdf
    • 34
      Commissioning a new facility: Clinical Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Arturs Meijers (PSI)
      31_PSI WS 2024 - Commissioning.pdf
    • 10:30
      Coffee-Break
    • 35
      Protons versus "the competition" Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      32_Competition_V2.pdf
    • 36
      Technological Innovation: Flash:: BIOLOGY Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin
      33_MCVozenin_PSI2024.pdf
    • 37
      Technological Innovation: Flash:: PHYSICS Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Serena Psoroulas (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      34_WS2024_FLASH_Physics.pdf
    • 12:30
      Lunch break
    • 38
      Technological Innovation: Treatment planning Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      35_PSI WS 2024 Hrbacek - TPS.pdf
    • 39
      Technological innovations: AI in radiotherapy
      Speaker: Zoltan Perko
      36_AI_in_PT_PSI_Winter_School_ZP_Rev2.pdf
    • 15:00
      Coffee break
    • 40
      Technological innovation: Imaging Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      37_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2024.pdf
    • 41
      Technological innovation: Delivery Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speaker: Serena Psoroulas (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
      38_WS2024_TechInn_Delivery.pdf
    • 42
      Closing Remarks Auditorium

      Auditorium

      Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
      Speakers: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut), Damien Charles Weber (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    • 17:15
      Departure to the hotel - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium
    • 17:30
      On the way to Park Hotel
    • 18:00
      Dinner at Parkhotel
    • 19:30
      Time at your convenience - you may enjoy the thermal baths
  • Friday 19 January
    • Checking out

      Wishing you a safe travel back to your home country.

    • 07:30
      Skiing day - Optional https://www.flumserberg.ch/en/Experience-winter (Flumserberg)

      https://www.flumserberg.ch/en/Experience-winter

      Flumserberg

      The Skiing day will take place at Flumserberg. For any further information about it, please see: https://www.flumserberg.ch/en/Experience-winter

      The Skiing day will take place at Flumserberg.
      For any further information about it, please see:
      https://www.flumserberg.ch/en/Experience-winter

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