PSI Winter School for Protons 2021

Name: PSI Winter School for Protons 2021
Start: 2021-01-18T01:05:00+01:00
End: 2021-01-21T22:00:00+01:00
Location: No location set

18 Jan 2021, 01:05 → 21 Jan 2021, 22:00 Europe/Zurich

VIRTUAL

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

Description

The virtual edition of the PSI Winter School 2021 has taken place.

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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.

Support

winterschool@psi.ch

Monday 18 January
- 12:30 → 13:00
  
  Registration
- 13:00 → 13:15
  
  Welcome (Introduction of faculty, logistics etc.) 15m
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  11_Introduction WD17 WS 2021.pdf
- 13:15 → 13:35
  
  A short historical overview of proton therapy 20m
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  12_Ver.2 Brief history of proton therapy Damien C. Weber WS2021_050121.pdf
- 13:35 → 14:10
  
  Basic physics for protons radiation 35m
  
  Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  13_BasicPhysics-30m-Schippers-2021.pdf
- 14:10 → 15:00
  
  Accelerators and beam production techniques for proton therapy 50m
  
  Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  14_Beamproduction-45m-Schippers-2021.pdf
  
  Train Snow Plow Getting Stuck2.wmv
- 15:00 → 15:10
  
  Coffee-Break
- 15:10 → 15:50
  
  Basic radiaton biology of protons 40m
  
  Speaker: Martin Pruschy (University Hospital Zurich)
  
  15_Pruschy PSI-School 2021_ updated.pdf
- 15:50 → 16:30
  
  How significant are RBE variations in proton therapy? 40m
  
  Speaker: Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital)
  
  16_Paganetti_PSI_Winterschool_2021.pdf
- 16:30 → 17:00
  
  Second malignancies 30m
  
  Speaker: Uwe Schneider (Klinik Hirslanden)
  
  17_2021_Schneider_PSI_Winterschool_V0.pdf
- 17:00 → 17:10
  
  Coffee-Break
- 17:10 → 17:50
  
  Treatment for skull base tumors 40m
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  18_Winterschool Tumors of the skull base and spine chordoma and chondrosarcoma_050121.pdf
- 17:50 → 18:30
  
  Pediatrics and AYA tumors treated with protons 40m
  
  Speaker: Anita Mahajan (Mayo Clinic)
  
  19_PSI Mahajan PED AYA 2021.pdf
Tuesday 19 January
- 13:00 → 13:40
  
  Active scanning beam 1: Modulation delivery 40m
  
  Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  21_2021_ActiveScanningBeam1_ ModulatingDelivery_DMeer.pdf
- 13:40 → 14:05
  
  Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery 25m
  
  Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  Grossmann_Winterschool_2021_01_19.pdf
- 14:05 → 14:45
  
  Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry 40m
  
  Speaker: Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  23_Dosimetry_2020_Safai.pdf
- 14:45 → 15:10
  
  Coffee-Break
- 15:10 → 16:05
  
  Treatment planning SFUD and IMPT 55m
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  24_Treatment planning.pdf
- 16:05 → 16:45
  
  Proton therapy workflow 40m
  
  Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  25_PSI WS 2021 - Proton Therapy Workflow.pdf
- 16:45 → 17:10
  
  Coffee-Break
- 17:10 → 17:50
  
  Advancing proton therapy in lung cancer: Beyond proton bragg peak 40m
  
  Speaker: Joe Y. Chang (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center)
  
  26_PSI 2021 JYC.pdf
- 17:50 → 18:30
  
  GI and proton therapy 40m
  
  Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)
  
  27_PSIwinterschoolPFO2021.pdf
Wednesday 20 January
- 13:00 → 13:40
  
  Commissioning a new facility: Specifications 40m
  
  Speaker: Hakan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)
  
  31_PSI WS 2021 to print_Nystrom New.pdf
- 13:40 → 14:20
  
  Commissioning a new facility: Clinical 40m
  
  Speaker: Anna Sara Margareta Fredh
  
  32_Commissioning a new facility_Fredh_2021.pdf
- 14:20 → 14:50
  
  Ocular PT 30m
  
  Speaker: Jan Hrbacek (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  33_PSI WS 2021 - Ocular Proton Therapy 2.pdf
- 14:50 → 15:20
  
  Coffee-Break: and PSI virtual Tour incl. Group Picture
- 15:20 → 16:00
  
  Uncertainties and their consequences 40m
  
  Speaker: Francesca Albertini (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  34_Albertini_uncertainties_2021.pdf
- 16:00 → 16:40
  
  Motion and motion mitigation 40m
  
  Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  35_Fattori_Motion_MotionMitigation_2021.pdf
- 16:40 → 17:00
  
  Coffee-Break
- 17:00 → 18:30
  Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel - 30 minutes each
  - 17:00
    
    Workshop 1 30m
    
    Speakers: Barbara Bachtiary, Dominic Leiser, Nicola Bizzocchi
  - 17:30
    
    Workshop 2 30m
    
    Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  - 18:00
    
    Workshop 3 30m
    
    Speakers: Alessandra Bolsi (Paul Scherrer Institut), Sairos Safai (Paul Scherrer Institut)
Thursday 21 January
- 13:00 → 13:30
  Workshop 1 to 4 in parallel - 30 minutes each
  - 13:00
    
    Workshop 4 30m
    
    Speakers: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut), Christian Bula (Paul Scherrer Institut)
- 13:30 → 14:10
  
  Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors 40m
  
  Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  42_Ver.2 Winterschool CNS tumor adult vWS 2021_050121.pdf
- 14:10 → 14:50
  
  Validation methodologies for the clinical benefit of proton therapy 40m
  
  Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)
  
  43_Langendijk - Validation methodologies - v2021-01-19b sent to PSI.pdf
- 14:50 → 15:30
  
  Head and neck tumors treated with proton therapy 40m
  
  Speaker: Johannes Langendijk (University Medical Center Groningen)
  
  44_Langendijk - HNC Proton therapy - FINAL.pdf
- 15:30 → 16:00
  
  Coffee-Break: and PSI virtual Tour (replay)
- 16:00 → 16:40
  
  Technological innovation: Delivery 40m
  
  Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  45_2021_TechnologicalInnovations_DMeer.pdf
- 16:40 → 17:20
  
  Technological innovation: Imaging 40m
  
  Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  46_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2021.pdf
- 17:20 → 17:50
  
  Particles vs. high precision photons 30m
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)
  
  47_Competition.pdf
- 17:50 → 18:00
  
  Closing Remarks 10m
  
  Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)