ICTR-PHE 2014

Europe/Zurich
Centre International de Conferences de Geneve (CICG)

Centre International de Conferences de Geneve (CICG)

International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
Jacques BERNIER, Manjit Dosanjh
Description
A conference that brings together the International Conference on Translational Research in Radio-Oncology and Physics for Health in Europe.




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Participants
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:00 13:30
      Welcome addresses 30m Room 2

      Room 2

      Speakers: Jacques Bernier, Manjit Dosanjh, Representative of the Geneva state, Rolf Heuer
    • 13:30 14:00
      The Higgs boson and our life Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Jacques Bernier, Rolf-Dieter Heuer
      • 13:30
        The Higgs boson and our life 30m
        Speaker: Fabiola Gianotti
        Slides
    • 14:00 16:00
      Radiobiology Room 2

      Room 2

      Conveners: Kevin Prise, Marco Durante
      • 14:00
        Ion Beam Radiobiology: From the Lab to the Clinic 30m
        Speaker: Eleanor Blakely
        Slides
      • 14:30
        International Cancer Expert Corps (ICEC) 30m
        Speaker: Norman Coleman
      • 15:00
        New challenges for biologically adapted ion beam treatment planning: single and multi-ion approaches 15m
        Speaker: Emanuele Scifoni
        Slides
      • 15:15
        RBE and DNA damage variation along monoenergetic and modulated Bragg peaks of a 62 MeV therapeutic protons beam 15m
        Speaker: Kevin Prise
        Slides
      • 15:30
        Influences of aberrant mitochondrial DNA in cancer and cancer therapy 15m
        Speaker: Marike van Gisbergen
      • 15:45
        Hpv Status and Effect on Radiosensitivity in Head and Neck Cancer Tumor Xenografts 15m
        Speaker: Brita S Sørensen
    • 16:00 16:30
      Coffee 30m
    • 16:30 17:00
      Radiobiology Room 2

      Room 2

      Conveners: Kevin Prise, Marco Durante
      • 16:30
        Rectal cancer and fractionation sensitivity in the neo-adjuvant radiation therapy setting: a project of meta-analysis and radiobiological modeling from individual patient data in randomized and observational data-sets 15m
        Speaker: Raymond Miralbell
      • 16:45
        A Biomedical Research Facility at CERN based on the Low Energy Ion Ring 15m
        Speaker: Adriano Garonna
        Slides
    • 17:00 18:15
      Nuclear Medicine
      Conveners: Irene Virgolini, Ulli Koster
      • 17:00
        Radiochemical aspects of radionuclide therapies 30m
        Speaker: Helmut Maecke
      • 17:30
        ²¹²Pb-labeled mAbs targeting CEA or HER2 during α-RIT of small peritoneal carcinomatosis – Dose effect relationship? 15m
        Speaker: Jean-Pierre Pouget
      • 17:45
        152/161Tb-DOTA-RM6 biodistribution studies in prostate cancer bearing SCID mice and 149Tb sources from CERN-MEDICIS 15m
        Speaker: Thierry Stora
      • 18:00
        A radionuclide generator of Erbium-165, an isotope for Auger Therapy 15m
        Speaker: Gregory Severin
    • 08:30 10:00
      Nuclear Medicine
      Conveners: Thomas Beyer, Ulli Koster
      • 08:30
        Clinical experience with radionuclide therapies 30m
        Speaker: Irene Virgolini
      • 09:00
        From bench to bedside: development and early clinical results of 188Re-SSS/Lipiodol for HCC treatment 15m
        Speaker: Nicolas Lepareur
      • 09:15
        PIP: a compact recirculating accelerator for the production of medical isotopes 15m
        Speaker: Adina Toader
      • 09:30
        Gamma Probe Based on Scintillation Crystal and Silicon Photomultiplier 15m
        Speaker: Konstantin Zhukov
      • 09:45
        Preclinical studies and radiopharmaceutical developments with 64Cu produced by ARRONAX facility 15m
        Speaker: Mickael Bourgeois
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:30
      Detectors & Imaging
      Conveners: Alberto Del Guerra, Denis Dauvergne
      • 10:30
        From CERN to PET/MR 30m
        Speaker: David Townsend
        Slides
      • 11:00
        Software challenges and opportunities for multidisciplinary PET/CT and PET/MR imaging 30m
        Speaker: Dimitris Visvikis
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Prompt gamma imaging of proton pencil beams at clinical beam current 15m
        Speaker: Julien Smeets
      • 11:45
        Prediction of β+-activity distributions from PT-PET by means of a yield approach 15m
        Speaker: Stephan Helmbrecht
      • 12:00
        ProXY – High performance monolithic pixel tracker for proton tomography 15m
        Speaker: Piero Giubilato
      • 12:15
        The recent developments of the FLUKA Monte Carlo code oriented to its applications in Hadrontherapy 15m
        Speaker: Paola Sala
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 14:15
      Detectors & Imaging
      Conveners: Alberto Del Guerra, Denis Dauvergne
      • 13:30
        Different detector concepts for several imaging scenarios: from hadrontherapy monitoring to clinical imaging 15m
        Speaker: Paola Solevi
      • 13:45
        An integrated monitoring system for the on-line assessment of particle therapy  treatment accuracy 15m
        Speaker: Vincenzo Patera
        Slides
      • 14:00
        Development of Advanced Quality Assurance Instrumentation for Hadrontherapy 15m
        Speaker: David Watts
        Slides
    • 14:15 15:45
      New Technologies
      Conveners: Anthony Lomax, Wolfgang Enghardt
      • 14:15
        Novel detectors for range assessment in particle therapy 30m
        Speaker: Peter Thirolf
        Slides
      • 14:45
        The ELIMED (Multidisciplinary and Medical applications at the ELI-Beams) network perspectives for laser driven beam applications 15m
        Speaker: Andrea Attili
      • 15:00
        Harnessing laser-plasma accelerated ion beams for applications using Gabor lenses 15m
        Speaker: Christopher Hughes
      • 15:15
        Positron emission tomography (PET) isotope production from laser-driven proton 15m
        Speakers: John Wong, Kai Ding
      • 15:30
        A novel TOF-PET detector based on organic scintillators 15m
        Speaker: Pawel Moskal
    • 15:45 16:15
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 16:15 17:30
      New Technologies
      Conveners: Anthony Lomax, Wolfgang Enghardt
      • 16:15
        Requirements from Oncology to Imaging Technologies 30m
        Speaker: Heinz-Peter Schlemmer
      • 16:45
        Potential of Detection of fast Cherenkov Photons for Improved Time of Flight Positron Emission Tomography 15m
        Speaker: Stefan Brunner
      • 17:00
        Experimental characterization of acoustic detection and imaging for Bragg peak localization in proton therapy 15m
        Speaker: Katia Parodi
      • 17:15
        A new elastic image fusion model for lung deformation simulation in 4D dose calculations 15m
        Speaker: Stefan Milz
    • 18:30 19:30
      Physics is beautiful and useful 1h 2 (CICG)

      2

      CICG

      Speaker: Ugo Amaldi (TERA Foundation (IT))
      Slides
      Video in CDS
    • 20:00 20:45
      Cocktail 45m
    • 08:30 09:00
      ESTRO lecture
      Convener: Jean Bourhis
      • 08:30
        Individualized Radiation Oncology – harnessing clinics, biology and high technology 30m
        Speaker: Michael Baumann
    • 09:00 10:00
      Plenary session
      Conveners: Jacques Bernier, Manjit Dosanjh
      • 09:00
        Health implications and applications in space 30m
        Speaker: Christer Fuglesang
      • 09:30
        The convergence of science - the way to develop novel radiation oncology technologies for the future 30m
        Speaker: Dag Rune Olsen
    • 10:00 10:30
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:30 12:00
      Plenary session
      Conveners: Jacques Bernier, Manjit Dosanjh
      • 10:30
        Current status of Carbon Ion Radiotherapy at NIRS 30m
        Speaker: Hirohiko Tsujii
      • 11:00
        Radioisotopes - the "fuel" for nuclear medicine 30m
        Speaker: Ulli Koster
      • 11:30
        Medical applications at CERN 30m
        Speaker: Steve Myers
    • 12:00 13:00
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:00 14:15
      New Insights into molecular mechanisms of radio-curability Room 2

      Room 2

      Convener: Conchita Vens
      • 13:00
        New insights into the complexities of NHEJ and HR repair 25m
        Speaker: Simon Powell
      • 13:25
        Homologous recombination deficiency and radio-curability in mouse models for BRCA1/2-deficient breast cancer 25m
        Speaker: Sven Rottenberg
      • 13:50
        Mechanism of HR dysfunction in single dose radiotherapy 25m
        Speaker: Zvi Fuks
    • 13:00 14:15
      Optimizing treatment planning and delivery Room 3

      Room 3

      Convener: Rahde Mohan
      • 13:00
        New insights in IGRT for prostate cancer 25m
        Speaker: Marcel Van Herk
        Slides
      • 13:25
        Adaptive radiotherapy 25m
        Speaker: Vincent Gregoire
      • 13:50
        New health technologies and evidence-based medicine 25m
        Speaker: Soren Bentzen
    • 14:15 14:45
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 14:45 16:25
      Hadrons Room 2

      Room 2

      Conveners: Manjit Dosanjh, Norman Coleman
      • 14:45
        Carbon Ion Therapy: Actual and Future Strategies at HIT 25m
        Speaker: Jurgen Debus
      • 15:10
        Present status of CNAO 25m
        Speaker: Roberto Orecchia
      • 15:35
        Proton Radiation Therapy: Current Status of Clinical Trials 25m
        Speaker: Thomas Delaney
        Slides
      • 16:00
        France HADRON: national infrastructure for hadrontherapy research including ETOILE, ARCHADE and protontherapy centers 25m
        Speaker: Jacques Balosso
        Slides
    • 14:45 16:25
      Proffered papers - Physics I Room 3

      Room 3

      Conveners: David Townsend, Thomas Beyer
      • 14:45
        The development of a low energy facility for clinical trials of Boron Neutron Capture Therapy 10m
        Speaker: Rob Edgecock
      • 14:55
        Interstitial Detectors for Synchronized Radiation Quality 10m
        Speaker: Giulio Magrin
        Slides
      • 15:05
        An innovative on-line beam-monitoring detector based on the emission of secondary electrons 10m
        Speaker: Saverio Braccini
      • 15:15
        Radiotherapy Dose Monitoring to Low-Dose Morphologic Imaging with Scanned Megavoltage X-rays 10m
        Speaker: Paulo Crespo
      • 15:25
        Data models for the Compton camera acquisition and their influence on the reconstructed images 10m
        Speaker: Voichita Maxim
        Slides
      • 15:35
        Detection of ionizing radiation by intrinsic optical fiber sensors: preliminary results 10m
        Speaker: Laura Cella
        Slides
      • 15:45
        First investigations of Ultra-Thin 3D silicon detectors as microdosimeters 10m
        Speaker: Celeste Fleta
      • 15:55
        Frequency difference electrical impedance tomography for imaging lung tumour 10m
        Speaker: Chuan Li Yang
      • 16:05
        A novel dual-modality optical tomography and x-ray system for small animal radiation research platform 10m
        Speaker: Ken Kang Hsin Wang
      • 16:15
        Digital Image Processing Techniques for Application in a Microbeam End-Station Microscopy 10m
        Speaker: Antonios Georgantzoglou
    • 16:30 18:00
      Proffered papers - Biology I Room 3

      Room 3

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Bleddyn Jones, Kevin Prise
      • 16:30
        DCE-MRI and DCE-US quantification in CWR22 prostate tumour xenografts 10m
        Speaker: Natalia Arteaga-Marrero
      • 16:40
        Antitumor activity of combination therapy with TH-302 and irradiation in a rat rhabdomyosarcoma model 10m
        Speaker: Sarah Peeters
      • 16:50
        Development of a novel ELISA for detecting inducible Hsp70 in serum 10m
        Speaker: Stephanie Ertl
      • 17:00
        Advancing the small animal radiation research platform for pre-clinical radiation research 10m
        Speaker: John Wong
      • 17:10
        Evaluation of Late Toxicity Risk for RT Patients through Geant 4 Simulation of X-Ray Dose Deposition 10m
        Speaker: Frederic Brochu
      • 17:20
        Log file based dose calculations as a quality assurance tool in scanned beam proton radiotherapy 10m
        Speaker: Gabriel Meier
      • 17:30
        A Novel Radioguided Surgery Technique Exploiting - decays 10m
        Speaker: Riccardo Faccini
      • 17:40
        Investigation of irregular motion influence for future 4D In-beam PET imaging 10m
        Speaker: Yuan Tian
      • 17:50
        Ongoing investigations on ion-based radiography and tomography 10m
        Speaker: Lorena Magallanes
    • 16:30 18:10
      Proffered papers - Physics II (Hadrons) Room 2

      Room 2

      Conveners: Guido Baroni, Katia Parodi
      • 16:30
        Initial Qualification of the Irradiation Uncertainties in Ion Beam Therapy of Prostate Cancer 10m
        Speaker: Antoni Rucinski
      • 16:40
        Can particle beam therapy be improved using helium ions? - A treatment planning study focusing on pediatric patients 10m
        Speaker: Barbara Knaeusl
      • 16:50
        MCTP: a new Monte Carlo-based treatment planning tool for hadrontherapy 10m
        Speaker: Giusseppe Battistoni
        Slides
      • 17:00
        PlanIt: Planning Ion therapy open platform for treatment plans testing and comparing 10m
        Speaker: Faiza Bourhaleb
      • 17:10
        Robustness of range prediction in proton therapy using prompt gamma emission 10m
        Speaker: Fiere Janssen
      • 17:20
        Simulation of Hadrontherapy In-beam monitoring at CNAO with the INSIDE detector 10m
        Speaker: Piergiorgio Cerello
        Slides
      • 17:30
        Evaluation of existing ripple filter designs for clinical use at the MedAustron ion beam therapy facility 10m
        Speaker: Loic Grevillot
      • 17:40
        The (non-) detectability of failures in motion mitigated ion beam delivery by means of in-beam PET 10m
        Speaker: Kristin Stützer
      • 17:50
        Assessment and improvements of Geant4 models in the context of prompt-gamma hadrontherapy monitoring 10m
        Speaker: George Dedes
      • 18:00
        Monte Carlo modelling of whole-body secondary cancer risk for conventional and emergent radiotherapy 10m
        Speaker: Richard Hugtenburg
    • 19:00 22:00
      Gala Dinner 3h Hotel Intercontinental

      Hotel Intercontinental

    • 08:15 08:50
      GH Fletcher Lecture Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Ritsuko Komaki
      • 08:15
        Host and Tumor Immunity: Local and Systemic Opportunities to Enhance Tumor Curability by Radiotherapy 35m
        Speaker: Ralph Weichselbaum
    • 08:50 10:05
      From new therapeutic targets to personalized treatment Room 2

      Room 2

      Convener: Søren Bentzen
      • 08:50
        Identification of new therapeutic targets 25m
        Speaker: Conchita Vens
      • 09:15
        Single-dose radiotherapy: from learning curve to long-term clinical outcome 25m
        Speaker: Carlo Greco
      • 09:40
        From bench to bedside: experience of the glioblastoma model for the optimization of radiosensitization 25m
        Speaker: Elizabeth Moyal
    • 08:50 10:05
      Radiotherapy - Hypoxic modification of radiotherapy Room 3

      Room 3

      Convener: Marianne Nordsmark
      • 08:50
        Hypoxia-induced gene expression 25m
        Speaker: Marianne Koritzinsky
      • 09:15
        Impact of tumor autophagy on solid tumors response to IR: role of the tumor stroma 25m
        Speaker: Eric Deutsch
      • 09:40
        Hypoxia: where to go from here? 25m
        Speaker: Jens Overgaard
    • 10:05 10:30
      Coffee Break 25m
    • 10:30 11:50
      EORTC symposium Room 2

      Room 2

      Conveners: Philippe Maingon, Sofia Rivera
      • 10:30
        The new business model of the EORTC 20m
        Speaker: Emad Shash
      • 10:50
        The Radiation Oncology Group of the EORTC: from the past to the future 20m
        Speaker: Philippe Maingon
      • 11:10
        The new drug and radiotherapy working party 20m
        Speaker: Conchita Vens
      • 11:30
        An example of the integrated model: the EORTC DAHANCA-1219 trial 20m
        Speaker: Vincent Gregoire
    • 10:30 11:50
      Proffered papers - Biology II Room 3

      Room 3

      Conveners: Raj Jena, Wolfgang Dörr
      • 10:30
        Enhanced RBE of sub-micrometer focused low-LET protons 10m
        Speaker: Thomas Schmid
      • 10:40
        Expression of common or species specific DNA damage-repair pathway related genes in thymus of low-dose-rate irradiated AKR/J and ICR mice 10m
        Speaker: Hee Sun Kim
      • 10:50
        [18F] HX4 PET imaging of tumour hypoxia in HNSCC patients 10m
        Speaker: Karen Zegers
      • 11:00
        Inhibition of tumour growth using the small molecule Cathepsin L inhibitor, KGP94 10m
        Speaker: Thomas Wittenborn
      • 11:10
        Delayed and Persistent Response of Human Mitochondria after Single Exposure to 0.5 to 4 Gy of Gamma Radiation 10m
        Speaker: Winnie Kam
      • 11:20
        Dosimetric considerations to determine the optimal technique for localized prostate cancer 10m
        Speaker: Peter Kuess
        Slides
      • 11:30
        Auger electron emitters labeled to monoclonal antibodies trigger cell membrane-mediated bystander effects 10m
        Speaker: Jean-Pierre Pouget
      • 11:40
        Comparing Ion Computed Tomography under clinical constraints 10m
        Speaker: David Hansen
    • 10:30 11:50
      Proffered papers - Physics III Room 4

      Room 4

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Denis Dauvergne, Ken Peach
      • 10:30
        Ultimate Time Resolution in Time-of-Flight PET 10m
        Speaker: Paul Lecoq
      • 10:40
        Ultrafast PET Detectors Based on Digital SiPMs and Their Use in In-Situ PET and Prompt Gamma Ray Imaging 10m
        Speaker: Dennis Schaart
        Slides
      • 10:50
        4D Dose calculations and 4D PET image reconstruction using deformable tetrahedral models of moving organs 10m
        Speaker: Petre Manescu
      • 11:00
        Motion compensated reconstructions in PET-based ion beam treatment verification for moving target 10m
        Speaker: Chiara Gianoli
      • 11:10
        Usage of long axial crystals for PET applications: the AX-PET demonstrator and beyond 10m
        Speaker: Chiara Casella
        Slides
      • 11:20
        Realistic on-the-fly dose calculation for low energy X-rays Intra-Operative Radiation Therapy 10m
        Speaker: Marie Vidal
      • 11:30
        A single device for mechanical and radiation Quality Assurance measurements of medical accelerators 10m
        Speakers: Ernesto Valverde, John Wong
      • 11:40
        A combined electrical impedance tomography and cone beam CT for radiation therapy monitoring 10m
        Speaker: Manuchehr Soleimani
    • 11:50 12:30
      Proffered papers - Biology III Room 3

      Room 3

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Raj Jena, Wolfgang Dörr
      • 11:50
        Oxygen ions achieve better tumour control probability in hypoxic tumours than carbon ions do 10m
        Speaker: Niels Bassler
      • 12:00
        Direct evaluation of ion beam radiobiological parameters from clinical data: an alternative approach to the RBE 10m
        Speaker: Andrea Attili
      • 12:10
        Equivalent uniform dose (EUD) based biological optimization for carbon ion therapy 10m
        Speaker: Sarah Brüningk
        Slides
      • 12:20
        Variance Based Sensitivity Analysis of Biological Uncertainties in Carbon Ion Therapy 10m
        Speaker: Florian Kamp
        Slides
    • 11:50 12:30
      Proffered papers - Physics IV (Hadrons) Room 4

      Room 4

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Sandro Rossi
      • 11:50
        TOF-PET scanner configurations for quality assurance in proton therapy: a patient case study 10m
        Speaker: Peter Dendooven
        Slides
      • 12:00
        Implementation of a GPU Monte Carlo protons transport code for dose calculations: methods and challenges 10m
        Speaker: Daniel Maneval
        Slides
      • 12:10
        Fast pencil beam dose calculation for hadron therapy on GPU 10m
        Speaker: Joakim Da Silva
      • 12:20
        Parameterization of lateral dose profiles for proton therapy application at CNAO 10m
        Speaker: Martina Mori
    • 11:50 12:30
      Profferred papers - Radiotherapy I Room 2

      Room 2

      Convener: Marcel Verheij
      • 11:50
        Modelling acute urinary toxicity after radiotherapy for prostate cancer 10m
        Speakers: Tiziana Rancati, Viviana Caillo
      • 12:00
        Mediators associated to the inflammatory response in prostate cancer patients undergoing RT: preliminary results 10m
        Speaker: Bedini Nice
      • 12:10
        Daily variation in rectal size and position during prostate radiotherapy measured from helical tomotherapy CT scans 10m
        Speaker: Jessica Scaife
      • 12:20
        Clinical experience with adaptive radiotherapy for muscle invasive bladder cancer 10m
        Speaker: Anne Vestergaard
        Slides
    • 12:30 13:30
      Lunch 1h
    • 13:30 14:00
      ESO Session - E. van der Schueren Award Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Alberto Costa
      • 13:30
        The ART of translation 30m
        Speaker: Marcel Verheij
    • 14:00 15:15
      Symposium in honour of Prof. Kian K. Ang- Translational research: the example of head and neck cancer Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Ritsuko Komaki
      • 14:00
        Eulogy of Professor Kian K. Ang 25m
        Speaker: James Cox
        Slides
      • 14:25
        Milestones of Pr Kian Ang’s scientific contribution 25m
        Speaker: Jacques Bernier
      • 14:50
        Molecular biology of head and neck carcinomas: old challenges, new insights 25m
        Speaker: Kevin Harrington
    • 15:15 15:45
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 15:45 16:35
      Proffered papers - Biology IV Room 3

      Room 3

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Kevin McMullen, Manjit Dosanjh
      • 15:45
        Vimentin (EMT Marker Protein) Score As One of Predictors Resistance to Erlotinib and Radiotherapy for Patients with Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer on A Prospective Phase II Trial 10m
        Speaker: Ritsuko Komaki
        Slides
      • 15:55
        Towards simpler and better prediction of relative biological effect (RBE) 10m
        Speaker: Bleddyn Jones
      • 16:05
        Combined Radiochemotherapeutical Strategies for Microtubule Stabilizing Agent (MSA)-Resistant Tumors 10m
        Speaker: Angela Broggini-Tenzer
      • 16:15
        Preclinical Assessment of Efficacy of Radiation Dose Redistribution Based on Intratumoral FDG-PET Uptake 10m
        Speaker: Ludwig Dubois
        Slides
      • 16:25
        Fat percentage and hand grip strength in lung cancer: the influence on survival and toxicity 10m
        Speaker: Kim Smits
        Slides
    • 15:45 16:35
      Proffered papers - Physics V (Detectors) Room 4

      Room 4

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Paul Lecoq, Ulli Köster
      • 15:45
        Verification of dynamictrajectory radiotherapy based on Monte Carlo 10m
        Speaker: Michael Fix
      • 15:55
        Development of a transparent photon detector for the online monitoring of IMRT beams 10m
        Speaker: Rachel Delorme
        Slides
      • 16:05
        An Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy Beam Monitoring System using a Monolithic Active Pixel Sensor 10m
        Speaker: Johannes Velthuis
      • 16:15
        Geant4 simulation of a dedicated beam line at the CNAO facility for the study of uveal melanomas 10m
        Speaker: Edoardo Farina
        Slides
      • 16:25
        EndoTOFPET-US: A multimodal ultrasound and time of flight PET endoscope for developing new biomarkers for the prostate and pancreatic cancers 10m
        Speaker: Etiennette Auffray
    • 15:45 16:35
      Proffered papers - Radiotherapy II Room 2

      Room 2

      Convener: David Brizel
      • 15:45
        The REQUITE project: validating predictive models and biomarkers of radiotherapy toxicity to reduce side-effects 10m
        Speaker: Tiziana Rancati
        Slides
      • 15:55
        Potentiation of radiation response by a novel EGFR/DNA targeting molecule in a triple negative breast cancer model 10m
        Speaker: Beatrice Fournier
      • 16:05
        Studying inter- and intrafraction motion mitigation with sequential 4D CTs of lung tumor patients 10m
        Speaker: Romain Brevet
        Slides
      • 16:15
        Time resolved portal dosimetry for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) in lung cancer patients with atelectasis 10m
        Speaker: Mark Podesta
      • 16:25
        Spot-scanning Proton Therapy for Pediatric Parameningeal Rhabdomyosarcomas: Clinical Outcome of 39 Patients Treated at PSI 10m
        Speaker: Carmen Ares
    • 16:45 19:00
      CERN visit 2h 15m ATLAS (CERN)

      ATLAS

      CERN

    • 19:00 20:00
      Cocktail in Globe 1h Globe of Science and Innovation (CERN)

      Globe of Science and Innovation

      CERN

    • 08:30 09:45
      Panel discussion - Clinical trials in particle therapy Room 3

      Room 3

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Manjit Dosanjh, Vikram Bhadrasain
      slides
      • 08:30
        Panel discussion 1h 15m
        Speakers: Hirohiko Tsujii, James Cox, Jürgen Debus, Roberto Orecchia
    • 08:30 09:45
      Radiosensitivity modulation - new angles of attack Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Richard Kolesnick
      • 08:30
        Growth factor and integrin receptor targeting - there is more to it than just inhibition 25m
        Speaker: Nils Cordes
      • 08:55
        Notch and radiotherapy: does it matter? 25m
        Speaker: Marc Vooijs
      • 09:20
        Head-and-neck cancers: towards new, intriguing fractionation schedules 25m
        Speaker: Jean Bourhis
    • 09:45 10:15
      Coffee Break 30m
    • 10:15 11:45
      Proffered papers - Biology V Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Tim Maughan, Vikram Bhadrasain
      • 10:15
        Radiosensitization of Non–Small Cell Lung Cancers by Targeting Ionizing Radiation-Induced Activation of ADAM17 15m
        Speaker: Martin Pruschy
      • 10:30
        Do physiological relevant doses of biguanides have any role in cancer treatment? 15m
        Speaker: Morten Busk
      • 10:45
        Oral mucosal radiation response (mouse) - relevance of ceramide-induced apoptosis? 15m
        Speaker: Wolfgang Dörr
      • 11:00
        A phase I/II study of proton and hyperthermia in primary unresectable and recurrent adult soft tissue sarcoma 15m
        Speaker: Niloy Datta
        Slides
    • 10:15 11:35
      Proffered papers - Biology VI Room 3

      Room 3

      Conveners: Kevin Prise, Norman Coleman
      • 10:15
        Radiobiological Considerations for Retreatment of Central Nervous System Tumours 10m
        Speaker: Bleddyn Jones
      • 10:25
        Gadolinium based nanoparticles for radiosensitization of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma 10m
        Speaker: Lucie Sancey
      • 10:35
        Noninvasive Imaging of Radiation-Induced Lung Inflammation with Positron Emission Tomography (PET) in a Murine Model 10m
        Speakers: Jin Zhang, Ken Kang Hsin Wang
      • 10:45
        The use of ‘planned overshoot’ for reducing dose to healthy tissue and improve treatments robustness for scanned proton beams 10m
        Speaker: Francesca Albertini
        Slides
      • 10:55
        Clinical testing of an in-room imaging system for patient setup verification in particle therapy 10m
        Speaker: Guido Baroni
      • 11:05
        Reduced side effects by proton microchannel radiotherapy – study in a human skin model 10m
        Speaker: Stefanie Girst
        Slides
      • 11:15
        Entervision Wp4. Biological Dosimetric Phantom. Proof Of Concept Preliminary Results 10m
        Speaker: Thiago Viana Miranda Lima
      • 11:25
        A knowledge exchange case study: computational radiotherapy at Cambridge 10m
        Speaker: Michael Simmons
    • 10:15 11:45
      Proffered papers - Physics VI (Hadrons) Room 4

      Room 4

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Conveners: Hirohiko Tsujii, Ugo Amaldi
      • 10:15
        Intra-fraction tumor tracking based on a surrogate-driven 4D CT motion model in particle radiation therapy 10m
        Speaker: Guido Baroni
      • 10:25
        Prompt Gamma Imaging at MGH with LaBr3 Scintillating Crystals 10m
        Speaker: Joao Seco
      • 10:35
        Nanoparticles and protontherapy: disentangling possible physical effects 10m
        Speaker: Yolanda Prezado
      • 10:45
        95 MeV/A carbon fragmentation studies for hadrontherapy: measurements and comparisons with GEANT4 simulations 10m
        Speaker: Marc Labalme
      • 10:55
        Properties of therapeutic He, Li and O beams studied with Geant4 10m
        Speaker: Lucas Burigo
      • 11:05
        Automatic beam dose profiler for scanned pencil beams (protons and carbon ions) at the CNAO hadrontherapy facility 10m
        Speaker: Aurora Tamborini
      • 11:15
        Proton Interaction Vertex Imaging for carbon therapy quality control 10m
        Speaker: Regina Rescigno
      • 11:25
        Dual energy CT  to reduce range uncertainties in hadrontherapy 10m
        Speaker: Guillaume Landry
      • 11:35
        Research and development of a TOF-based multi-slit collimated camera for online hadrontherapy monitoring 10m
        Speaker: Marco Pinto
    • 11:45 12:45
      Lunch 1h
    • 12:45 14:00
      Symposium - Hadrons Room 4

      Room 4

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Roberto Orecchia
      • 12:45
        Evolution of technology to optimize the delivery of proton therapy: the third generation 25m
        Speaker: Thomas Bortfeld
      • 13:10
        Robust optimization of IMPT dose distributions 25m
        Speaker: Radhe Mohan
        Slides
      • 13:35
        Proton clinical correlates of patient throughput and cyclotron availability 25m
        Speaker: Kevin McMullen
        Slides
    • 12:45 14:00
      Symposium - Imaging Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Philippe Lambin
      • 12:45
        Hypoxia Imaging 25m
        Speaker: Marianne Nordsmark
      • 13:10
        Functional image-based target definition 25m
        Speaker: Robert Jeraj
        Slides
      • 13:35
        Predictive and prognostic role of functional imaging of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas 25m
        Speaker: David Brizel
    • 12:45 14:00
      Symposium - Tumor vascularization Room 3

      Room 3

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Jens Overgaard
      • 12:45
        Hypoxia modification in experimental tumours 25m
        Speaker: Daniel Zips
      • 13:10
        The vascular supply and microenvironment of tumours and their significance for cancer therapy 25m
        Speaker: Michael Horsman
      • 13:35
        Targeting hypoxia through autophagy 25m
        Speaker: Kasper Rouschop
    • 14:00 15:15
      Symposium - Biomarker driven individualization of radiotherapy - from preclinical validation to clinical trials? Room 3

      Room 3

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Michael Baumann
      • 14:00
        Biomarker for stratification in radiotherapy - preclinical and early clinical models 25m
        Speaker: Mechthild Krause
      • 14:25
        Imaging for prescription function 25m
        Speaker: Daniela Thorwarth
      • 14:50
        How will we develop the evidence base for biologically individualized radiotherapy? 25m
        Speaker: Tim Maughan
    • 14:00 15:20
      Symposium - Modulation of tumor and normal tissue response to radiation Room 2

      Room 2

      International Conference Centre Geneva 17, rue de Varembé CH- 1211 Geneva 2
      Convener: Simon Powell
      • 14:00
        Carbonic Anhydrase IX inhibitors: a new class of targeted agents 20m
        Speaker: Philippe Lambin
        Slides
      • 14:20
        Immunosensitization by radiotherapy: the example of immunocytokines 20m
        Speaker: Ludwig Dubois
      • 14:40
        Novel strategies to spare normal tissues from radiation damage 20m
        Speaker: Marie-Catherine Vozenin
      • 15:00
        Intestinal Stem Cells are Radiation Resistant 20m
        Speaker: Richard Kolesnick
    • 15:20 15:40
      Concluding remarks 20m Room 2

      Room 2

      Speakers: Jacques Bernier, Manjit Dosanjh (CERN)