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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  
11:00
Introduction to ion beam therapy (until 13:00)
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  
08:30 --- Coffee and pastries ---
09:00
New accelerator designs (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Gantry designs (until 13:00)
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  
08:30 --- Coffee and pastries ---
09:00 STFC accelerator capabilities - Grahame Blair  
09:30
Imaging (until 10:30)
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 ---
11:00
Imaging (until 11:30)
11:00 Treatment planning - Erik Traneus  
11:30
Round table - Stuart Green (University Hospital Birmingham) (until 12:30)
PM
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Experience from existing ion facilities (until 15:30)
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 ---
15:45
Experience from existing ion facilities (until 16:15)
15:45 Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica, Pavia - Roberto Orecchia  
16:15
New accelerator designs (until 17:15)
16:15 OpenMed CERN - Roger Barlow (University of Huddersfield (GB))  
16:35 Mitsubishi Electric ion beam accelerator activities - Sashi Harada  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:00
Round table - Hisham Mehanna (until 15:00)
15:00
New accelerator designs (until 15:30)
15:00 Consideration of heavy ions at MDAnderson - Radhe Mohan  
15:30 --- Coffee ---
16:00
Imaging (until 17:30)
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  
12:30
Conclusions (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
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