Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges

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Experience from existing ion facilities

Introduction to ion beam therapy

Gantry designs

New accelerator designs

Imaging

Round table

Conclusions

Round table

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Aims (in session "Introduction to ion beam therapy")

Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica, Pavia (in session "Experience from existing ion facilities")

Clinical case for ions (in session "Introduction to ion beam therapy")

Clinical comparison between fixed beam lines and gantries (in session "Gantry designs")

Clinical requirements (in session "Imaging")

Complete control of respiratory motion (in session "Imaging")

Consideration of heavy ions at MDAnderson (in session "New accelerator designs")

Discussion (in session "New accelerator designs")

Discussion (in session "Gantry designs")

Discussion (in session "Introduction to ion beam therapy")

Dose calculations for He beam radiotherapy (in session "Introduction to ion beam therapy")

Dosimetry (in session "Imaging")

FFAG options (in session "New accelerator designs")

Gantries for pCT (in session "Gantry designs")

Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy centre (in session "Experience from existing ion facilities")

Hitachi particle therapy solutions (in session "New accelerator designs")

IBA developments for ion beam therapy (in session "New accelerator designs")

Imaging with protons (in session "Experience from existing ion facilities")

Large momentum acceptance superconductiong and permanent magnet FFAG gantry for carbon/proton cancer therapy (in session "Gantry designs")

Linear accelerator options (in session "New accelerator designs")

Mitsubishi Electric ion beam accelerator activities (in session "New accelerator designs")

MRI guided radiotherapy (in session "Imaging")

NIRS superconducting gantry (in session "Gantry designs")

OpenMed CERN (in session "New accelerator designs")

Radiobiology aspects of ion therapy (in session "Imaging")

Registration and coffee

Silicon tracking detectors for hadron beam monitoring and imaging (in session "Imaging")

STFC accelerator capabilities

Technology challenges and requirements of ion beam accelerators (in session "Experience from existing ion facilities")

Treatment planning (in session "Imaging")

ULICE gantry (in session "Gantry designs")

Welcome (in session "Introduction to ion beam therapy")

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