Name: Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges
Start: 2016-01-18T10:15:00+00:00
End: 2016-01-20T14:00:00+00:00
Location: Postgraduate Centre, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital

Ion Beam Therapy: Clinical, Scientific and Technical Challenges

from Monday, 18 January 2016 (10:15) to Wednesday, 20 January 2016 (14:00)

Monday, 18 January 2016

10:15 Registration and coffee
Registration and coffee
10:15 - 11:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 Welcome - Stuart Green (University Hospital Birmingham)

11:15 Aims - Rob Edgecock (STFC - Rutherford Appleton Lab. (GB))

11:30 Clinical case for ions - Reinhard Schulte

12:00 Dose calculations for He beam radiotherapy - Hermann Fuchs (Medical University of Vienna)

12:30 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
14:00
14:00 - 15:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

14:00 Imaging with protons - Reinhard Schulte

14:30 Technology challenges and requirements of ion beam accelerators - Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

15:00 Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy centre - Alexandra Jensen
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 15:45
Room: Lecture Theatre
15:45 Continued
Continued
15:45 - 16:15
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

15:45 Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica, Pavia - Roberto Orecchia
16:15
16:15 - 17:15
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:15 OpenMed CERN - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))

16:35 Mitsubishi Electric ion beam accelerator activities - Sashi Harada
Tuesday, 19 January 2016

08:30 Coffee and pastries
Coffee and pastries
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:00 Linear accelerator options - Alberto Degiovanni (CERN)

09:20 Hitachi particle therapy solutions - Dr. Akiyama

09:40 IBA developments for ion beam therapy - Jarno Van de Walle

10:00 FFAG options - Carol Johnstone (Fermilab)

10:20 Discussion
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
11:00
11:00 - 13:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 Clinical comparison between fixed beam lines and gantries - Alexandra Jensen

11:25 ULICE gantry - Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO (IT))

11:45 NIRS superconducting gantry - Yoshiyuki Iwata

12:05 Large momentum acceptance superconductiong and permanent magnet FFAG gantry for carbon/proton cancer therapy - Dejan Trbojevic (Brookhaven National Laboratory)

12:25 Gantries for pCT - Hywel Owen (University of Manchester)

12:45 Discussion
13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Theatre

14:00 How to make ion beam therapy more economically viable
How to make ion beam therapy more economically viable
14:00 - 15:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
15:00 Continued
Continued
15:00 - 15:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

15:00 Consideration of heavy ions at MDAnderson - Radhe Mohan
15:30 Coffee
Coffee
15:30 - 16:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
16:00
16:00 - 17:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

16:00 Radiobiology aspects of ion therapy - Anne-Catherine Heuskin

16:30 Clinical requirements - Paul Sanghera

17:00 Complete control of respiratory motion - Mike Parkes
Wednesday, 20 January 2016

08:30 Coffee and pastries
Coffee and pastries
08:30 - 09:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
09:00 STFC accelerator capabilities - Grahame Blair
STFC accelerator capabilities
- Grahame Blair
09:00 - 09:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
09:30
09:30 - 10:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

09:30 Silicon tracking detectors for hadron beam monitoring and imaging - Philip Patrick Allport (University of Birmingham (UK))

09:50 MRI guided radiotherapy - Bernt Nordin

10:10 Dosimetry - Hugo Palmans
10:30 Coffee
Coffee
10:30 - 11:00
Room: Lecture Theatre
11:00 Continued
Continued
11:00 - 11:30
Room: Lecture Theatre
Contributions

11:00 Treatment planning - Erik Traneus
11:30 Requirements for a helium therapy facility
Requirements for a helium therapy facility
11:30 - 12:30
Room: Lecture Theatre

12:30

12:30 - 13:00
Room: Lecture Theatre

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Room: Lecture Theatre

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