Workshop on Medical Accelerator Design and Diagnostics

10 Dec 2018, 19:00 → 12 Dec 2018, 14:30 Europe/Berlin

KBW - Auditorium (GSI)

Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool), Christian Graeff (GSI)

FAIR-3D Photo Composition of the Planned Facility. Copyright FAIR-GSI Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung

OMA Topical Workshops cover the main research areas on the optimization of medical accelerators and are open to experts from within and outside of this European network. 

The OMA collaboration is happy to announce a Workshop on ‘Medical Accelerator Design & Diagnostics’. The workshop will discuss the efficient integration of beam imaging and diagnostics devices into medical facilities, beam lines and gantries. The 2-day event will focus on current R&D challenges related to diagnostics and how advances in beam monitoring can help design better treatment facilities. Each scientific sessions will be introduced by an overview talk discussing the current state-of-the-art. Contributed talks by other workshop participants will complement the program. 

The workshop is mandatory for all OMA Fellows in WP2 and WP4; all other Fellows are welcome to attend.

This event is open to any researcher working in this field. Contributed talks of 15 or 30 minutes will be selected from all submitted contributions.

Registration deadline: 7th November 2018

Abstract submission deadline: 7th November 2018

Payment deadline: 14th November 2018

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 675265.

Poster OMA 3rd TW GSI.pdf

Practical Info Topical_Workshop_GSI.pdf

Monday, 10 December

19:00 → 21:00 Reception

Tuesday, 11 December

09:00 → 09:15 Welcome / admin & logistics

Speaker: Dr Samantha Colosimo (University of Liverpool)

Welcome_TW3.pdf

Welcome_TW3.pptx

09:15 → 09:45 Challenges and trends in imaging technologies at medical accelerators

Speaker: Christian Graeff (GSI)

09:45 → 10:30 Least invasive beam monitoring

09:45 Detector technologies for medical accelerators

Speaker: Bernd Voss (Helmholtzzentrum für Schwerionenforschung GmbH (GSI))

10:15 Study of the Clatterbridge Eye Proton Therapy beamline

Speaker: Jacinta Yap (University of Liverpool / Cockcroft Institute)

JYAP_OMA_TW_Dec2018.pdf

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:15 Least invasive beam monitoring

11:00 Characterisation of the LHCb VELO detector as a stand-alone, non-invasive Online Beam Monitor for Medical Accelerators

Speaker: Roland Schnuerer (Cockcroft Institute)

OMA_TW3_Roland_Schnuerer.pdf

OMA_TW3_Roland_Schnuerer.pptx

11:15 Developing a supersonic gas-jet based beam profile monitor

Speaker: Amir Salehilashkajani (Liverpool University)

Supersonic gas-curtain monitor-OMA.pdf

Supersonic gas-curtain monitor-OMA.pptx

11:30 Minimum invasive diagnostics for medical accelerators

Speaker: Dr Hao Zhang (University of Liverpool/Cockcroft Institute)

OMA_workshop_v2.pdf

OMA_workshop_v2.pptx

12:00 Non-Interceptive BPM system for PROSCAN

Speaker: Sudharsan Srinivasan (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)

Quadrated Dielectric Reentrant Cavity Resonator as a BPM.pdf

Quadrated Dielectric Reentrant Cavity Resonator as a BPM.pptx

12:15 → 12:30 Discussion Session: Challenges, collaborative projects, funding opportunities

12:30 → 14:00 Lunch

Vouchers provided

14:00 → 15:15 Least invasive beam monitoring

14:00 Design and optimisation of ultra-compact, high-resolution X-ray imaging systems

Speaker: Thomas Primidis (University of Liverpool)

OMADEC18THOMASPRIMIDIS.pdf

OMADEC18THOMASPRIMIDIS.pptx

14:15 A scintillator-based range telescope for particle therapy

Speaker: Laurent Kelleter (UCL)

14:30 MOGA Optimisation method in storage ring

Speaker: Sara Dastan (GSI)

14:45 Future ion therapy: challenges and opportunities

Speaker: Maurizio Vretenar (CERN)

gsi_ion_therapy.pdf

gsi_ion_therapy.pptx

15:15 → 15:30 Discussion Session: Future Trends, R&D needs

15:30 → 16:00 Coffee break

16:00 → 17:00 Monitor Integration

16:00 Challenges in medical accelerator design

Speaker: Jarno Van de Walle (IBA)

OMA_workshop_JVdW.pptx

16:30 Integration of prototype range verification systems in a gantry treatement room

Speaker: Johannes Petzoldt (Iba)

Y18M11D23_Integration_of_PG_in_PTS_JohannesPetzoldt.pdf

Y18M11D23_Integration_of_PG_in_PTS_JohannesPetzoldt.pptx

16:45 Response function measurements and simulations for the integral monitor chambers

Speaker: Ulrich Weber (GSI)

Weber__2018.12.16__Workshop_Oma__ResponseFunction_Detectors.pdf

Weber__2018.12.16__Workshop_Oma__ResponseFunction_Detectors.pptx

19:30 → 21:30 Dinner

Wednesday, 12 December

09:00 → 10:30 Accelerator Control and Optimization

09:00 State of the art accelerator control and optimization

Speaker: David Ondreka

OMA_20181212_Accelerator_Control.odp

OMA_20181212_Accelerator_Control.pdf

09:30 Standardisation of software applications in control system’s slow environment

Speaker: Carlos Afonso (Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)

OMA-GSIWorkshop.pdf

OMA-GSIWorkshop.pptx

09:45 Trends towards highest dose-rate applications – Consequences for medical accelerators and diagnostics

Speaker: Simon Busold (Varian Medical Systems Particle Therapy GmbH)

10:00 Beam diagnostics for commissioning and operation at MedAustron

Speaker: Andrea De Franco (MedAustron)

181212_OMATopicalWorkshop_GSI.pdf

181212_OMATopicalWorkshop_GSI.pptx

10:30 → 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 → 12:45 Technology Upgrades

11:00 Technology Updates - A Vision for the Future

Speaker: Jacobus Maarten Schippers

Schippers-OMA-GSI-20181212.pdf

12:00 Gantry design using superconducting magnets

Speaker: Ewa Oponowicz (University of Manchester/Cockcroft Institute)

2018OMAworkshopGSI_EO.pdf

12:15 Breakdown studies in RF High Gradient acceleration structure for hadron therapy

Speaker: Anna Vnuchenko (Univ. of Valencia and CSIC (ES))

OMA_GSI_Vnuchenko_121218.pdf

OMA_GSI_Vnuchenko_121218.pptx

12:30 Geant4 simulation and validation of the CAN (Sevilla, Spain) cyclotron beam parameters

Speaker: Anna Baratto-Roldán (Centro Nacional de Aceleradores / Universidad de Sevilla)

Baratto_IIIOMAW.pdf

12:45 → 13:00 Discussion Session: Challenges, collaborative projects, funding opportunities

13:00 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 14:20 End of Workshop