11–16 Dec 2022
Australia/Adelaide timezone
Co-locating with the 7th International Workshop of Specialty Optical Fibres and Their Applications (WSOF), the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (ANZCOP), and the Conference on Optoelectronlc and Microelectronic Materials and Devices (COMMAD)

Reducing Uncertainty in Proton Therapy Treatment Planning

15 Dec 2022, 15:00
15m
Room E2 (Adelaide Convention Centre)

Room E2

Adelaide Convention Centre

Talk (preferred) AIP: Biomedical and Medical Physics AIP: Biomedical and Medical Physics

Speaker

Melissa McIntyre (University of Adelaide)

Description

Proton therapy is a modern radiotherapy treatment which allows significant sparing of healthy tissues compared with conventional photon radiation. Some assumptions made during treatment planning introduce uncertainties into the process which should be well understood and quantified.

Author

Melissa McIntyre (University of Adelaide)

Co-authors

Prof. Anthony Thomas (University of Adelaide) Dr Ayse Kizilersu (University of Adelaide)

Presentation materials