Name: Superconductivity and other new Developments in Gantry Design for Particle Therapy
Start: 2015-09-17T12:00:00+02:00
End: 2015-09-19T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Park Hotel Bad Zurzach

Monday 14 September 2015
Tuesday 15 September 2015
Wednesday 16 September 2015
Thursday 17 September 2015

12:00 Welcome lunch and registration
Welcome lunch and registration
12:00 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 16:00
Contributions

14:00 Welcome and introduction - Marco Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institute)

14:15 Recent developments and experiences in beam optics of compact gantries for proton therapy - Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital)

15:00 How to keep high quality treatments using a compact gantry - Emma Pearson (IBA)

15:30 Clinical importance of gantries in particle therapy - Tony Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institute)
16:00 Coffee break
Coffee break
16:00 - 16:30
16:30
16:30 - 18:30
Contributions

16:30 Clinical aspects of compact gantry designs - Jürgen Heese (Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH)

17:00 Consequences of fast beam scanning on gantry design - Serena Psoroulas (Paul Scherrer Institute)

17:30 Advantages and challenges of superconducting magnets use in gantry design - Alexander Gerbershagen (Paul Scherrer Institute)
19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Friday 18 September 2015
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Contributions

09:00 MgB2 Development for magnets in medical applications - Matteo Tropeano (Columbus Superconductors SpA)

09:30 Last developments and performance of Nb3Sn at CERN - Gijs de Rijk (CERN)

10:00 Cooling methods and cyogenic systems for rotating superconducting magnets - Bertrand Baudouy (CEA Saclay)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:30
Contributions

11:00 Dynamic effects on superconducting dipoles used for an ion beam cancer therapy gantry - Pasquale Fabbricatore (INFN)

11:30 Magnet design for carbon therapy gantry, comparison of alternatives to superconducting gantry - Frank Ebskamp (Danfysik)

12:00 Status of the superconducting rotating gantry for heavy-ion therapy - Yoshiyuki Iwata (NIRS)
12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Contributions

14:00 Compact curved superconducting magnets for an ion therapy gantry using the Canted Cosine Teta geometry - Shlomo Caspi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

14:30 Study of a compact curved superconducting dipole for the next generation of gantries at PSI using racetrack coils - Ciro Calzolaio (Paul Scherrer Institute)

15:00 Novel lightweight achromatic superconducting magnets for gantries - Leslie Bromberg (MIT)
15:30 Coffe break
Coffe break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 18:00
Contributions

16:30 Beam optics in large aperture magnets - Weishi Wan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

17:00 Parametrization of an upstream scanning system - Oxana Actis (Paul Scherrer Institute)

17:30 Large momentum acceptance super conducting carbon gantry design, and permanent magnet proton gantry design - Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital) Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO)
18:30 Apéro
Apéro
18:30 - 19:00
Room: Bar

19:00 Dinner
Dinner
19:00 - 20:30
Saturday 19 September 2015

08:30 Transfer Zurzach to PSI
Transfer Zurzach to PSI
08:30 - 09:00
09:00
09:00 - 10:20
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001
Contributions

09:00 Welcome at PSI: Organization and GFA - Leonid Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institute)

09:20 PSI Gantry 3 - Alexander Koschik (Paul Scherrer Institute)

09:40 Proton therapy at PSI - Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:00 Optimal Transport Systems for Treatment by Proton and Ion Beams - Mark Kats (ITEP)
10:20 Break
Break
10:20 - 10:40
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001
10:40
10:40 - 11:10
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001
Contributions

10:40 A gantry design based on several identical superconducting magnets - Hywel Owen (University of Manchester)
11:10

11:10 - 11:40
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001

11:40 Tour Center for Proton Therapy
Tour Center for Proton Therapy
11:40 - 13:10
Room: Center for Proton Therapy

13:10 Lunch and farewell
Lunch and farewell
13:10 - 14:00
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001