PSI Winter School for Protons 2020

19 Jan 2020, 18:00 → 24 Jan 2020, 17:00 Europe/Zurich

Seminar Room (Park-Hotel Bad Zurzach)

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

Please note that the PSI Winter School for Protons 2020 has taken place.

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January 19th - 24th, 2020

Starting on Sunday, 19.01.20 at 6pm with the registration
Cours starts on Monday, 20.01.20 at 9am
Cours ends on Thursday, 23.01.20 at 5pm
Optional Skiing day takes place on Friday, 24.01.20
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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, 19 January

Registration

Welcome Apéro

Monday, 20 January

1 Welcome (Introduction of faculty, logistics etc.)

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

2 A short historical overview of proton therapy

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

3 Basic physics for protons radiation

Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Coffee break

4 Basic radiaton biology of protons

Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)

5 Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy

Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Lunch

6 Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

7 Treatment for skull base tumors

Speaker: Robert Malyapa (Singapore Proton, Singapore)

15:30 Coffee Break

8 Treatment of early and advanced stage lung cancer

Speaker: Joe Y. Chang (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)

9 GI and proton therapy

Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)

Tuesday, 21 January

10 Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery

Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

11 Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (Paul Scherrer Institut)

10:15 Coffee break

12 Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry

Speaker: Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)

13 Proton therapy workflow

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)

12:15 Lunch

14 Treatment planning SFUD and IMPT

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

15 Uncertainties and their consequences

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:30 Coffee break

16 Motion and motion mitigation

Speaker: Antje Knopf (University Medical Center Groningen)

17 Ocular PT

Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)

17:15 Bus leaves to social event place - meeting point in front of the Park Hotel at 5.45 pm

Wednesday, 22 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)

19 Second malignancies

Speaker: Uwe Schneider (Klinik Hirslanden)

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Walk to the Center for Proton Therapy

20 Workshop 1

Speaker: Robert Malyapa (Singapore Proton, Singapore)

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, 23 January

25 Head and neck tumors treated with proton therapy

Speaker: Robert Malyapa (Singapore Proton, Singapore)

26 Pediatrics and AYA tumors treated with protons

Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)

10:00 Coffee break

27 Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy

Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)

28 Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Hakan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)

12:00 Lunch

13:15 Group picture

29 Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Jörg Rottmann (Paul Scherrer Institut)

30 Technological innovation: Delivery

Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

15:00 Coffee break

31 Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (Paul Scherrer Institut)

32 Particles vs. high precision photons

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

33 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Friday, 24 January

Skiing day optional