PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025

Name: PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025
Start: 2025-01-12T18:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-01-17T17:30:00+01:00
Location: No location set

12 Jan 2025, 18:00 → 17 Jan 2025, 17:30 Europe/Zurich

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

Description

The PSI Winter School 2025 has taken place.

Please note that the website for the PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2026 can be found under below link:

PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2026

Content of the course:

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: Monday, December 16th, 2024

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Registration

Registration Form

Sunday 12 January
- 18:00
  
  Enjoy the finger food Dorint Parkhotel Bad Zurzach
  
  Dorint Parkhotel Bad Zurzach
- 1
  
  Registration Dorint Parkhotel Bad Zurzach
  
  Dorint 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 13 January
- 08:30
  
  Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel
- 2
  Welcome (Introduction of faculty, virtual meeting, etc.) Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Day 01_Talk 01_Introduction WD17 WS 2025.pdf
  
  Welcome to access talks.docx
  
  Welcome to access talks.pdf
  - a) Welcome
  - b) Welcome (Introduction of faculty, etc)
- 3
  
  A short historical overview of proton therapy Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Day 01_Talk 02_Brief history of proton therapy Damien C. Weber V2.pdf
- 4
  
  Basic physics for proton radiation Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Day01_Talk 03_BasicPhysics-40m-Schippers-2025-pdf.pdf
- Coffee break
- 5
  
  Basic radiaton biology of photons and protons Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)
  
  Day 01_Talk 04_Pruschy PSI-School 2025 - final.pdf
- 6
  
  Toxicity Clinical Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Speaker: Esther Troost
  
  Day 01_Talk 05_20250103_PSI_Toxicity.pdf
- 12:30
  
  Lunch break
- 7
  
  How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy? Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital / Harvard Medical School)
  
  Day 01_Talk 06_ 11_H_Paganetti.pdf
- 8
  
  Toxicity: Clinical impact of proton RBE Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Speaker: Dirk Wagenaar
  
  Day 01_Talk 07_Radiation ulcers after definitive radiotherapy for oropharyngeal cancer - 12_D_Wagenaar.pdf
- 14:45
  
  Coffee break
- 9
  
  Financial Toxicity Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Speaker: Barbara Bachtiary (Dr. med.)
  
  Day 01_Talk 08_13_B_Bachtiary.pdf
- 10
  
  Second malignancies Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Uwe Schneider
  
  Day 01_Talk 09_2025_Schneider_PSI_Winterschool_V0.pdf
- 16:05
  
  Break
- 11
  
  Treatment planning for pencil beam scanning and IMPT Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Day 01_Talk 10_Treatment planning V4.pdf
- 17:15
  
  Group picture
- 17:20
  
  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
Tuesday 14 January
- 08:30
  
  Departure to Paul Scherrer Institut - Meeting point in front of the hotel
- Physicians block Time OUT building, WBGB/019
  
  Time OUT building, WBGB/019
  - 12
    
    Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma
    
    Speaker: Dominic Leiser (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 01b_Dominic Leiser Winterschool Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma.pdf
  - 13
    
    Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors
    
    Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 02b_Ver. 2025 Winterschool CNS tumor adult.pdf
  - 10:15
    
    Break Time OUT building, WBGB/019
    
    Time OUT building, WBGB/019
  - 14
    
    GI and proton therapy
    
    Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)
    
    Day 02_Talk 03b_Fossati_GI and proton therapy.pdf
  - 11:10
    
    Coffee break Time OUT building, WBGB/019
    
    Time OUT building, WBGB/019
  - 15
    
    Proton therapy for pediatrics and AYA patients
    
    Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)
    
    Day 02_Talk 04b_Pediatrics and AYA Tumors treated with Proton Therapy - 214_A_Mahajan.pdf
  - 16
    
    Advancing proton therapy in lung cancer: Beyond proton bragg peak
    
    Speaker: Joe Chang (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
    
    Day 02_Talk 05b_PSI proton TX 2025 PDF.pdf
- Physics block Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  - 17
    
    Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery
    
    Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 01a_2025_ActiveScanningBeam1_ ModulatingDelivery_DMeer.pdf
  - 18
    
    Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery
    
    Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 02a_250114_Winterschool_gm17.pdf
  - 10:15
    
    break Auditorium
    
    Auditorium
  - 19
    
    Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry
    
    Speaker: Michele Togno (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 03a_M_Togno.pdf
  - 11:10
    
    Coffee Break Online
    
    Online
  - 20
    
    Advanced physics
    
    Speaker: Sairos Safai (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 04a_AdvancedPhysics_2025.pdf
  - 21
    
    Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy
    
    Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
    
    Day 02_Talk 05a_2025_AcceleratorsAndBeamProductionTechniquesForProtonTherapy_DMeer.pdf
- 13:00
  
  Lunch break
- 22
  
  Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)
  
  Day 02_Talk 06_2025 Langendijk - PSI-Winterschool - Model-based Approach - handout.pdf
- 23
  
  Head and neck cancers Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)
  
  Day 02_Talk 07_2025 Langendijk - PSI-Winterschool - HNC Proton therapy - handout.pdf
- Coffee break Online
  
  Online
- 24
  
  Proton therapy workflow Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Michelle van Heerden
  
  Day 02_Talk 08_PSI WS 2025 - Proton Therapy Workflow - Michelle van Heerden.pdf
- 25
  
  Ocular proton treatment Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Day 02_Talk 09_PSI WS 2025 - Ocular Proton Therapy.pdf
- 17:15
  
  Departure to social EVENT - Meeting point PSI West outside the auditorium
- 17:30
  
  On the way to the social event
- 18:15
  
  Bowling
- 19:45
  
  Dinner
- 22:00
  
  Back to Park Hotel Bad Zurzach
Wednesday 15 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)
  
  Day 03_Talk 01_Uncertainties_2025.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)
  
  Day 03_Talk 02_Fattori_Motion-MotionMitigation_2025_V2.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)
  
  Day 03_WS 2a_WINTER_SCHOOL_2025_QA_planning.pdf
  
  Day 03_WS 2b_WINTER_SCHOOL_2025_QA_Physics_ForDistribution.pdf
- 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 - Optional 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 16 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: Alejandro Mazal (Centro de Protonterapia Quironsalud)
  
  Day 04_Talk 01_ - 000 Mazal COMMISIONING PSI winter January 2025.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)
  
  Day 04_Talk 02_PSI WS 2025 - Meijers - 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)
  
  Day 04_Talk 03 - 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
  
  Day 04_Talk 04_MCVozenin_PSI25.pdf
- 37
  
  Technological Innovation: Flash:: PHYSICS Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: Robert Schäfer
  
  Day 04_Talk 05_WS2025_FLASH_SR17_latest2.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)
  
  Day 04_Talk 06_PSI WS 2025 - Tech Inno TPS 2.pdf
- 39
  
  Technological innovations: AI in radiotherapy
  
  Speaker: Zoltan Perko
  
  Day 04_Talk 07_AI_in_PT_PSI_Winter_School_ZP_Rev1_Split.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)
  
  Day 04_Talk 08_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2025.pdf
- 41
  
  Technological innovation: Delivery Auditorium
  
  Auditorium
  
  Auditorium c/o Paul Scherrer Institut West Forschungsstrasse 111 5232 Villigen PSI
  
  Speaker: David Meer (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Day 04_Talk 09_2025_TechnologicalInnovations_DMeer.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 17 January
- 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
- Tour within Paul Scherrer Institut - Optional
  
  Wishing you a safe travel back to your home country.

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PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2025

The PSI Winter School 2025 has taken place.

Please note that the website for the PSI Winter School for Proton Therapy 2026 can be found under below link:

Content of the course:

Dorint Parkhotel Bad Zurzach

Dorint Parkhotel Bad Zurzach

Auditorium

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Time OUT building, WBGB/019

Time OUT building, WBGB/019

Time OUT building, WBGB/019

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Online

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Online

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Auditorium

Auditorium

Auditorium

WPTA 139

WPTA 141

WBGB/19 in Time OUT

Gantry 1

TIME OUT

Center for Proton Therapy

Villigen

Auditorium

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Auditorium

Auditorium

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