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Chair: Ugo Amaldi (Univ. Milano and TERA Foundation), Rapporteur: Purification Tejedor-Del-Real (European Commission, Brussels)
K. Peach
(John Adams Inst. for Acc. Sci and PTCRI, Oxford)
03/02/2010, 16:15
J.P. Gerard
(Centre Antoine Lacassagne, Nice)
03/02/2010, 16:45
Mr
Silvan Zenklusen
(Paul Scherrer Institute, ETH Zurich)
03/02/2010, 17:15
Novel technologies in radiation therapy
Oral presentations
Treating moving targets using a scanning gantry for proton therapy is a challenging, unexplored and unresolved problem. The interference of organ motion with the sequence of the beam delivery produces uncontrolled dose inhomogeneities within the target. One promising approach to overcome this difficulty is to increase the speed of scanning in order to apply the dose repeatedly (so called...
Dr
Christoph Bert
(GSI)
03/02/2010, 17:30
Novel technologies in radiation therapy
Oral presentations
Scanned ion beam therapy is an innovative technique for conformal treatment of tumors with high sparing of organs at risk in the vicinity of the target. Based on the positive experience of pilot studies in research centers several clinical facilities are currently constructed throughout Europe with the first patients already being treated at the Heidelberg Ion Beam Therapy Center....
Dr
Nils Achterberg
(Strahlenklinik-Universitätsklinikum Erlangen)
03/02/2010, 17:45
Novel technologies in radiation therapy
Oral presentations
Introduction:
The idea of tomotherapy is the most comprehensive IMRT concept for optimization of today tumour therapy with photons. It refers to a radiation treatment with a sequential exposure of body slices. For realization of this concept there are some technical developments to be found. Most of them are based on a multitude of beam angles set in place by a rotating gantry of the...
Mr
Vladimir Vostrikov
(BINP, Novosibirsk, Russia)
03/02/2010, 18:00
Novel technologies in radiation therapy
Oral presentations
Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics (BINP, Novosibirsk) is engaged in R&D of the new cancer therapy accelerator system based on the synchrotron with electron cooling. The electron cooling is used for the ion beam accumulation in process of repeated multi turn injection into the main synchrotron from the fast cycling booster. After acceleration of ions the electron cooling is used for...
Mr
Alberto Degiovanni
(TERA Foundation)
03/02/2010, 18:15
Novel technologies in radiation therapy
Oral presentations
A cyclotron-linac complex for carbon ion therapy
A. Degiovanni, U. Amaldi, R. Bonomi, M. Garlasché, A. Garonna, P. Pearce,
S. Verdù Andres and R. Wegner
TERA Foundation, Via Puccini 11, Novara, Italy
The machines used today for carbon therapy are 20-25 m diameter synchrotrons. For the ARCHADE project IBA is building a 400 MeV/u superconducting cyclotron weighting 700 tons and needing a...
Evangelos Gazis
(CERN-NTUA)
03/02/2010, 18:30
Novel technologies in radiation therapy
Oral presentations
The growing incidence of cancer, its high mortality level and need for progress in the therapy of patients are still among the dominant problems in our days. As available statistics show, about 70% of cancer patients are treated by radiotherapy. According to estimates of the leading radiotherapy experts, hadron therapy (HT) will significantly complement the radiotherapy using traditional...
