PSI Winter School for Protons 2021

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

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

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.

Gruppenbild - Group Picture.jpg

Monday 18 January

12:30 → 13:00 Registration

13:00 → 13:15 Welcome (Introduction of faculty, logistics etc.)

Speaker: Damien Charles Weber (Paul Scherrer Institut)

11_Introduction WD17 WS 2021.pdf

13:15 → 13:35 A short historical overview of proton therapy

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

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

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

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?

Speaker: Harald Paganetti (Massachusetts General Hospital)

16_Paganetti_PSI_Winterschool_2021.pdf

16:30 → 17:00 Second malignancies

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

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

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

Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

21_2021_ActiveScanningBeam1_ ModulatingDelivery_DMeer.pdf

13:40 → 14:05 Active scanning beam 2: Controlling delivery

Speaker: Martin Grossmann Handschin (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Grossmann_Winterschool_2021_01_19.pdf

14:05 → 14:45 Active scanning beam 3: Checking delivery/dosimetry

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

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

24_Treatment planning.pdf

16:05 → 16:45 Proton therapy workflow

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

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

Speaker: Piero Fossati (EBG MedAustron GmbH)

27_PSIwinterschoolPFO2021.pdf

Wednesday 20 January

13:00 → 13:40 Commissioning a new facility: Specifications

Speaker: Hakan Nyström (The Skandion Clinic)

31_PSI WS 2021 to print_Nystrom New.pdf

13:40 → 14:20 Commissioning a new facility: Clinical

Speaker: Anna Sara Margareta Fredh

32_Commissioning a new facility_Fredh_2021.pdf

14:20 → 14:50 Ocular PT

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

Speaker: Francesca Albertini (Paul Scherrer Institut)

34_Albertini_uncertainties_2021.pdf

16:00 → 16:40 Motion and motion mitigation

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

Speakers: Barbara Bachtiary, Dominic Leiser, Nicola Bizzocchi

17:30 Workshop 2

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

18:00 Workshop 3

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

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

13:30 → 14:10 Proton therapy for adult CNS tumors

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

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

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

Speaker: David Meer (Paul Scherrer Institut)

45_2021_TechnologicalInnovations_DMeer.pdf

16:40 → 17:20 Technological innovation: Imaging

Speaker: Giovanni Fattori (Paul Scherrer Institut)

46_Fattori_TechnologicalInnovation_Imaging_2021.pdf

17:20 → 17:50 Particles vs. high precision photons

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)

47_Competition.pdf

17:50 → 18:00 Closing Remarks

Speaker: Antony John Lomax (Paul Scherrer Institut)