Name: Workshop on Medical Accelerator Design and Diagnostics
Start: 2018-12-10T19:00:00+01:00
End: 2018-12-12T14:30:00+01:00
Location: GSI

Workshop on Medical Accelerator Design and Diagnostics

from Monday 10 December 2018 (19:00) to Wednesday 12 December 2018 (14:30)

Monday 10 December 2018

19:00 Reception
Reception
19:00 - 21:00
Tuesday 11 December 2018
09:00 Welcome / admin & logistics - Samantha Colosimo (University of Liverpool)
Welcome / admin & logistics
- Samantha Colosimo (University of Liverpool)
09:00 - 09:15
Room: KBW - Auditorium
09:15 Challenges and trends in imaging technologies at medical accelerators - Christian Graeff (GSI)
Challenges and trends in imaging technologies at medical accelerators
- Christian Graeff (GSI)
09:15 - 09:45
Room: KBW - Auditorium
09:45
09:45 - 10:30
Room: KBW - Auditorium
Contributions

09:45 Detector technologies for medical accelerators - Bernd Voss (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI))

10:15 Study of the Clatterbridge Eye Proton Therapy beamline - Jacinta Yap (University of Liverpool / Cockcroft Institute)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:15
Room: KBW - Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Characterisation of the LHCb VELO detector as a stand-alone, non-invasive Online Beam Monitor for Medical Accelerators - Roland Schnuerer (Cockcroft Institute)

11:15 Developing a supersonic gas-jet based beam profile monitor - Amir Salehilashkajani (Liverpool University)

11:30 Minimum invasive diagnostics for medical accelerators - Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute)

12:00 Non-Interceptive BPM system for PROSCAN - Sudharsan Srinivasan (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)
12:15 Challenges, collaborative projects, funding opportunities
Challenges, collaborative projects, funding opportunities
12:15 - 12:30
Room: KBW - Auditorium

12:30 Lunch
Lunch
12:30 - 14:00
Room: Canteen
14:00
14:00 - 15:15
Room: KBW - Auditorium
Contributions

14:00 Design and optimisation of ultra-compact, high-resolution X-ray imaging systems - Thomas Primidis (University of Liverpool)

14:15 A scintillator-based range telescope for particle therapy - Laurent Kelleter (UCL)

14:30 MOGA Optimisation method in storage ring - Sara Dastan (GSI)

14:45 Future ion therapy: challenges and opportunities - Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)
15:15 Future Trends, R&D needs
Future Trends, R&D needs
15:15 - 15:30
Room: KBW - Auditorium

15:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
15:30 - 16:00
16:00
16:00 - 17:00
Room: KBW - Auditorium
Contributions

16:00 Challenges in medical accelerator design - Jarno Van de Walle (IBA)

16:30 Integration of prototype range verification systems in a gantry treatement room - Johannes Petzoldt (Iba)

16:45 Response function measurements and simulations for the integral monitor chambers - Ulrich Weber (GSI)
19:30 Dinner
Dinner
19:30 - 21:30
Wednesday 12 December 2018
09:00
09:00 - 10:30
Room: KBW - Auditorium
Contributions

09:00 State of the art accelerator control and optimization - David Ondreka

09:30 Standardisation of software applications in control system’s slow environment - Carlos Afonso (Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)

09:45 Trends towards highest dose-rate applications – Consequences for medical accelerators and diagnostics - Simon Busold (Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH)

10:00 Beam diagnostics for commissioning and operation at MedAustron - Andrea De Franco (MedAustron)
10:30 Coffee break
Coffee break
10:30 - 11:00
11:00
11:00 - 12:45
Room: KBW - Auditorium
Contributions

11:00 Technology Updates - A Vision for the Future - Jacobus Maarten Schippers

12:00 Gantry design using superconducting magnets - Ewa Oponowicz (University of Manchester/Cockcroft Institute)

12:15 Breakdown studies in RF High Gradient acceleration structure for hadron therapy - Anna Vnuchenko (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

12:30 Geant4 simulation and validation of the CAN (Sevilla, Spain) cyclotron beam parameters - Anna Baratto-Roldán (Centro Nacional de Aceleradores / Universidad de Sevilla)
12:45 Challenges, collaborative projects, funding opportunities
Challenges, collaborative projects, funding opportunities
12:45 - 13:00
Room: KBW - Auditorium

13:00 Lunch
Lunch
13:00 - 14:15
Room: Canteen

14:15 End of Workshop
End of Workshop
14:15 - 14:20
Room: KBW - Auditorium

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