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

Superconductivity and other new Developments in Gantry Design for Particle Therapy

from Thursday, September 17, 2015 (12:00 PM) to Saturday, September 19, 2015 (3:00 PM)

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

12:00 PM Welcome lunch and registration
Welcome lunch and registration
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Welcome and introduction - Marco Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institute)

2:15 PM Recent developments and experiences in beam optics of compact gantries for proton therapy - Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital)

3:00 PM How to keep high quality treatments using a compact gantry - Emma Pearson (IBA)

3:30 PM Clinical importance of gantries in particle therapy - Tony Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institute)
4:00 PM Coffee break
Coffee break
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM
4:30 PM
4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Clinical aspects of compact gantry designs - Jürgen Heese (Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH)

5:00 PM Consequences of fast beam scanning on gantry design - Serena Psoroulas (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:30 PM Advantages and challenges of superconducting magnets use in gantry design - Alexander Gerbershagen (Paul Scherrer Institute)
7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Friday, September 18, 2015
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Contributions

9:00 AM MgB2 Development for magnets in medical applications - Matteo Tropeano (Columbus Superconductors SpA)

9:30 AM Last developments and performance of Nb3Sn at CERN - Gijs de Rijk (CERN)

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

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

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

12:00 PM Status of the superconducting rotating gantry for heavy-ion therapy - Yoshiyuki Iwata (NIRS)
12:30 PM Lunch
Lunch
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Contributions

2:00 PM Compact curved superconducting magnets for an ion therapy gantry using the Canted Cosine Teta geometry - Shlomo Caspi (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

2:30 PM Study of a compact curved superconducting dipole for the next generation of gantries at PSI using racetrack coils - Ciro Calzolaio (Paul Scherrer Institute)

3:00 PM Novel lightweight achromatic superconducting magnets for gantries - Leslie Bromberg (MIT)
3:30 PM Coffe break
Coffe break
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
4:00 PM
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Contributions

4:30 PM Beam optics in large aperture magnets - Weishi Wan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

5:00 PM Parametrization of an upstream scanning system - Oxana Actis (Paul Scherrer Institute)

5:30 PM Large momentum acceptance super conducting carbon gantry design, and permanent magnet proton gantry design - Jay Flanz (Massachusetts General Hospital) Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO)
6:30 PM Apéro
Apéro
6:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Room: Bar

7:00 PM Dinner
Dinner
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Saturday, September 19, 2015

8:30 AM Transfer Zurzach to PSI
Transfer Zurzach to PSI
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM
9:00 AM
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001
Contributions

9:00 AM Welcome at PSI: Organization and GFA - Leonid Rivkin (Paul Scherrer Institute)

9:20 AM PSI Gantry 3 - Alexander Koschik (Paul Scherrer Institute)

9:40 AM Proton therapy at PSI - Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)

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

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

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

11:40 AM Tour Center for Proton Therapy
Tour Center for Proton Therapy
11:40 AM - 1:10 PM
Room: Center for Proton Therapy

1:10 PM Lunch and farewell
Lunch and farewell
1:10 PM - 2:00 PM
Room: Auditorium WHGA/001

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