OMA School on Medical Accelerators

from Sunday 4 June 2017 (17:45) to Friday 9 June 2017 (14:00)
Fondazione CNAO

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
4 Jun 2017
5 Jun 2017
6 Jun 2017
7 Jun 2017
8 Jun 2017
9 Jun 2017
AM
08:30 Welcome / Introduction  
09:30 History of Medical Accelerators - Tomas Vrba (FJFI)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Introduction to Radiation Therapy - Roberto Orecchia (CNAO)  
08:30 Ion Sources - Gabriel Gaubert (Pantechnik)  
09:30 Low Energy Beam Transport including the RFQ - Simon Jolly (University College London)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Beam Manipulation - Angeles Faus Golfe (LAL)  
08:30 Simulation Codes - Sven Reiche (Paul Scherrer Institute)  
09:30 Accelerator Control Systems - Luigi Casalegno (CNAO)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Beam Delivery System - Oxana Actis (Center for Proton Therapy, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland)  
08:30 Radiobiology - Emanuele Scifoni (TIFPA/INFN)  
09:30 Treatment Planning System - Adam Aitkenhead (Christie/NHS)  
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Image-guided Radiotherapy - Guido Baroni (Politecnico di Milano)  
08:30
Supervisory Board (SB) Annual Meeting (until 09:30)
09:30 CNAO –challenges and perspectives - Sandro Rossi (Fondazione CNAO-Unknown-Unknown)  
09:30
Supervisory Board (SB) Annual Meeting (until 10:30)
10:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:00 Patient Imaging - George Dedes (L)  
PM
17:45 --- Tour of CNAO ---
19:00 --- Reception ---
12:00 Beam Physics Fundamentals - Javier Resta Lopez (Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular (ES))  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Beam Diagnostics I - Adam Jeff (A.D.A.M. Applications of Detectors and accelerators to Medicine)  
15:30 Beam Diagnostics II - Ralph Fiorito (Cockcroft Institute)  
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
Questions and Answers (until 18:00)
19:15 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Cyclotron - Eric Forton (IBA - Ion Beam Applications)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30 Synchrotron - Fadmar Osmic (Medaustron)  
15:30
Study Session (until 16:30)
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 Beam Extraction - Adriano Garonna (TERA Foundation (IT))  
18:00
Public Talk - Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO (IT)) (until 19:00)
18:00 Accelerators to beat Cancer - public talk - Dr Marco Pullia (Fondazione CNAO (IT))  
19:45 --- Dinner ---
12:00 Regulations governing the application of medical accelerators - Marko Mehle (Cosylab)  
13:00 --- Lunch ---
15:00 --- Social activity - Hike in Casteggio including a guided tour of Prime Alture Wine Resort ---
19:30 --- Dinner ---
12:00
Study Session (until 13:00)
13:00 --- Lunch ---
14:30
Poster session and industry table-top display (until 16:30)
15:00
SC meeting (until 16:30)
16:30 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00
SC meeting (until 18:00)
17:00
Seminar - Gil Travish (Adaptix) (until 18:00)
20:30 --- Formal Dinner ---
12:00 Industry talk: High-speed optical 3D surface scanning for medical use (ViALUX) - Roland Hoefling (ViALUX)  
12:30 Industry talk: Control systems (Cosylab) - Mark Plesko (C)  
13:00 Industry talk: (IBA) - Julien Smeets (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)  
13:30 School conclusion