PSI Winter School for Protons 2019

20 Jan 2019, 17:00 → 25 Jan 2019, 16:00 Europe/Zurich

Seminar Room (Park-Hotel Bad Zurzach)

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

January 20th - 25th, 2019

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This years PSI Winter School has taken place.
Please note that the new date for ths PSI Winter School 2020 has been fixed as follows:

Starting on Sunday, 19.01.20 at 6pm with the registration
Cours starts on Monday, 20.01.20 at 9am
Cours ends on Thursday, 24.01.20 at 5pm
Optional Skiing day takes place on Friday, 25.01.20
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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.

Sunday 20 January

Registration

Welcome Apéro

Monday 21 January

1 Welcome (Introduction of faculty, logistics etc.)

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

01_Weber Damien_Welcome.pdf

2 A short historical overview of proton therapy

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

02_Weber Damien_History of Protons.pdf

3 Basic physics for protons radiation

Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)

03_Schippers Marco_Basic.pdf

Coffee break

4 Basic radiaton biology of protons

Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)

04_Pruschy Martin.pdf

5 Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy

Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)

05_Schippers Marco_Accelerators.pdf

Lunch

6 Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

06_Weber Damien_Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors.pdf

7 Treatment for skull base tumors

Speaker: Robert Malyapa (University Maryland Proton Treatment Center)

07_Malyapa Robert.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

8 Treatment of early and advanced stage lung cancer

Speaker: Marc Walser (Paul Scherrer Institut)

08_Walser Marc.pdf

9 GI and proton therapy

Speaker: Barbara Bachtiary (Paul Scherrer Insitut)

09_Bachtiary B.pdf

Tuesday 22 January

10 Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery

Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

01_Meer David_Active scanning beam 1 Modulating delivery.pdf

11 Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (Paul Scherrer Institut)

02_Grossmann Martin_Active scanning beam 2 Controlling delivery.pdf

10:15 Coffee break

12 Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry

Speaker: Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)

03_Safai Sairos_Active scanning beam 2 Controlling delivery.pdf

13 Proton therapy workflow

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)

04_Hrbacek.pdf

12:15 Lunch

14 Treatment planning SFUD and IMPT

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

05_Lomax Toni_Treatment planning SFUD and IMPT.pdf

15 Uncertainties and their consequences

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (Paul Scherrer Institut)

06_Albertini Francesca_Uncertainties and their consequencees 2019_final.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

16 Motion and motion mitigation

Speaker: Antje Knopf (University Medical Center Groningen)

07_Knopf Antje_Motion and Motion mitigation.pdf

17 Ocular PT

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)

08_Hrbacek .pdf

17:45 Bus leaves to social event place - meeting point in front of the Park Hotel at 5.45 pm

Wednesday 23 January

08:45 Day at PSI: Meeting point in front of the Park Hotel to enter the bus to Paul Scherrer Institut

18 How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy?

Speaker: Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital)

01_Paganetti Harald_How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy.pdf

19 Second malignancies

Speaker: Uwe Schneider (Klinik Hirslanden)

02_Schneider Uwe_Second Malignancies.pdf

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Walk to the Center for Proton Therapy

20 Workshop 1

Speaker: Robert Malyapa (University Maryland Proton Treatment Center)

21 Workshop 2

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

13:15 Walk to the Auditorium

13:30 Lunch at the "Auditorium"

14:30 Walk to the Center for Proton Therapy

22 Workshop 3

Speakers: Alessandra Bolsi (Paul Scherrer Institut), Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)

23 Workshop 4

Speakers: Christian Bula (Paul Scherrer Institut), David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

16:45 Coffee break

24 Site tour

18:15 Walk to bus station

18:30 Bus to Bad Zurzach

Thursday 24 January

25 Head and neck tumors treated with proton therapy

Speaker: Robert Malyapa (University Maryland Proton Treatment Center)

01_Malyapa Robert_Medical Indications.pdf

26 Pediatrics and AYA tumors treated with protons

Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)

02_Mahajan PED AYA 2019.pdf

10:00 Coffee break

27 Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

03_Langendijk Hans_Medical indications.pdf

28 Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Hakan Nyström (Danish Center for Particle Therapy)

04_Nyström Hakan_Commissioning new Facility.pdf

12:00 Lunch

13:15 Group picture

29 Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Anna Sara Margareta Fredh (Paul Scherrer Institut)

05_Fredh Anna_Commisisoning a new facility technical.pdf

30 Technological innovation: Delivery

Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

06_Meer David_Technological innovation delivery.pdf

15:00 Coffee break

31 Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (Paul Scherrer Institut)

07_Fattori G.pdf

32 Particles vs. high precision photons

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

08_Lomax Toni.pdf

33 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Friday 25 January

Skiing day optional