Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges

from Monday, 18 January 2016 (10:15) to Wednesday, 20 January 2016 (14:00)
Postgraduate Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital (Lecture Theatre)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
18 Jan 2016
19 Jan 2016
20 Jan 2016
AM
10:15 Registration and coffee   (Lecture Theatre)
11:00
Introduction to ion beam therapy (until 13:00) (Lecture Theatre)
11:00 Welcome - Stuart Green (University Hospital Birmingham)   (Lecture Theatre)
11:15 Aims - Rob Edgecock (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))   (Lecture Theatre)
11:30 Clinical case for ions - Reinhard Schulte   (Lecture Theatre)
12:00 Dose calculations for He beam radiotherapy - Hermann Fuchs (Medical University of Vienna)   (Lecture Theatre)
12:30 Discussion   (Lecture Theatre)
08:30 --- Coffee and pastries ---
09:00
New accelerator designs (until 10:30) (Lecture Theatre)
09:00 Linear accelerator options - Alberto Degiovanni (CERN)   (Lecture Theatre)
09:20 Hitachi particle therapy solutions - Dr. Akiyama   (Lecture Theatre)
09:40 IBA developments for ion beam therapy - Jarno Van de Walle   (Lecture Theatre)
10:00 FFAG options - Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)   (Lecture Theatre)
10:20 Discussion   (Lecture Theatre)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Gantry designs (until 13:00) (Lecture Theatre)
11:00 Clinical comparison between fixed beam lines and gantries - Alexandra Jensen   (Lecture Theatre)
11:25 ULICE gantry - Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO (IT))   (Lecture Theatre)
11:45 NIRS superconducting gantry - Yoshiyuki Iwata   (Lecture Theatre)
12:05 Large momentum acceptance superconductiong and permanent magnet FFAG gantry for carbon/proton cancer therapy - Dejan Trbojevic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)   (Lecture Theatre)
12:25 Gantries for pCT - Hywel Owen (University of Manchester)   (Lecture Theatre)
12:45 Discussion   (Lecture Theatre)
08:30 --- Coffee and pastries ---
09:00 STFC accelerator capabilities - Grahame Blair   (Lecture Theatre)
09:30
Imaging (until 10:30) (Lecture Theatre)
09:30 Silicon tracking detectors for hadron beam monitoring and imaging - Philip Patrick Allport (University of Birmingham (UK))   (Lecture Theatre)
09:50 MRI guided radiotherapy - Bernt Nordin   (Lecture Theatre)
10:10 Dosimetry - Hugo Palmans   (Lecture Theatre)
10:30 --- Coffee ---
11:00
Imaging (until 11:30) (Lecture Theatre)
11:00 Treatment planning - Erik Traneus   (Lecture Theatre)
11:30
Round table - Stuart Green (University Hospital Birmingham) (until 12:30) (Lecture Theatre)
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Experience from existing ion facilities (until 15:30) (Lecture Theatre)
14:00 Imaging with protons - Reinhard Schulte   (Lecture Theatre)
14:30 Technology challenges and requirements of ion beam accelerators - Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)   (Lecture Theatre)
15:00 Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy centre - Alexandra Jensen   (Lecture Theatre)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
15:45
Experience from existing ion facilities (until 16:15) (Lecture Theatre)
15:45 Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica, Pavia - Roberto Orecchia   (Lecture Theatre)
16:15
New accelerator designs (until 17:15) (Lecture Theatre)
16:15 OpenMed CERN - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))   (Lecture Theatre)
16:35 Mitsubishi Electric ion beam accelerator activities - Sashi Harada   (Lecture Theatre)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Round table - Hisham Mehanna (until 15:00) (Lecture Theatre)
15:00
New accelerator designs (until 15:30) (Lecture Theatre)
15:00 Consideration of heavy ions at MDAnderson - Radhe Mohan   (Lecture Theatre)
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Imaging (until 17:30) (Lecture Theatre)
16:00 Radiobiology aspects of ion therapy - Anne-Catherine Heuskin   (Lecture Theatre)
16:30 Clinical requirements - Paul Sanghera   (Lecture Theatre)
17:00 Complete control of respiratory motion - Mike Parkes   (Lecture Theatre)
12:30
Conclusions (until 13:00) (Lecture Theatre)
13:00 --- Lunch ---