International Conference on Medical Accelerators and Particle Therapy

from Tuesday, September 3, 2019 (8:00 PM) to Friday, September 6, 2019 (2:50 PM)
CNA Seville (Salón de Actos)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Sep 3, 2019
Sep 4, 2019
Sep 5, 2019
Sep 6, 2019
AM
8:45 AM --- Registration ---
9:00 AM Welcome and Introduction  
9:15 AM State of the art in ion beam therapy - Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)  
9:30 AM Next-generation therapy accelerators - Yves Jongen (IBA)  
10:00 AM FlashTherapy: an innovation in radiation therapy - Lucia Giuliano (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
10:20 AM Technical Challenges for FLASH Proton Therapy - Simon Jolly (University College London)  
10:40 AM Exploring of advances in high gradient technologies for use in hadron therapy accelerators - Anna Vnuchenko (Instituto de Física Corpuscular (IFIC), Valencia, Spain)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM Imaging beam in patient - Katia Parodi (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)  
9:00 AM Monte Carlo Dosimetry - Antonio Lallena (University of Granada)  
9:30 AM Review of the improved nuclear physics models in FLUKA for helium and carbon ion therapy - Giulia Arico' (European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva, Switzerland)  
9:50 AM A data-driven nuclear fragmentation model for a fast Monte-Carlo code, FRED, in Particle Therapy with Carbon beams - Mrs Micol De Simoni (Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Fisica, Rome, Italy)  
10:10 AM Monte Carlo modelling of the Clatterbridge Proton Therapy beamline for Beam Diagnostics integration - Jacinta Yap (University of Liverpool / Cockcroft Institute)  
10:30 AM A Monte Carlo study of target fragmentation in Protontherapy - Dr Alessia Embriaco (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM Dosimetry and Quality Assurance - Simon Marcelis (IBA)  
9:00 AM 4D Patient monitoring - Prof. Guido Baroni (CNAO)  
9:30 AM Organ motion quantification and margins evaluation in carbon ion therapy of abdominal lesions - Mr Charalampos Kalantzopoulos (Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)  
9:50 AM Optimization of high-performance 3D/4D surface scanning technology for patient monitoring in radiotherapy environment - Dr Roland Höfling (ViALUX GmbH)  
10:10 AM A Modular Control System for Treating Moving Targets with Scanned Ion Beams: Design, Development, and Preliminary Test Results - Ms Michelle Lis (GSI Helmholtzzentrum fur Schwerionenforschung, Louisiana State University)  
10:30 AM Uncertainty Quantification Analysis and Optimization For Proton Therapy Beam Lines - Dr Valeria Rizzoglio (Paul Scherrer Institut)  
11:00 AM --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 AM The upcoming European Joint Research Project “Metrology for advanced radiotherapy using particle beams with ultra-high pulse dose rates” - Dr Andreas Schüller (Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB))  
11:50 AM Challenges in assessing risks for particle accelerators as medical devices - Roberto Filippini (EBG MedAustron GmbH)  
PM
8:30 PM --- Reception ---
12:00 PM PET Imaging and Dose correlation from Proton Activation. - Victor Valladolid Onecha (Grupo de Física Nuclear, Universidad Complutense de Madrid)  
12:20 PM Toward a novel treatment planning approach accounting for prompt gamma range verification - Mr Liheng Tian (LMU)  
12:40 PM The SiFi-CC project - prompt gamma imaging for real time monitoring of proton therapy - Ms Katarzyna Rusiecka (Marian Smoluchowski Institute of Physics, Jagiellonian University)  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM Beam Diagnostics - Michele Caldara (AVO/ADAM)  
3:00 PM Characterisation of the LHCb VELO detector modules as a non-invasive Proton Beam Monitor - Roland Schnuerer (Cockcroft Institute)  
3:20 PM Beamline characterization of a Dielectric-filled Reentrant Cavity Resonator as a Beam Current Monitor for medical cyclotron beamline at PSI, Switzerland: Its advantanges and limits - Sudharsan Srinivasan (PSI - Paul Scherrer Institut)  
3:40 PM Beam and detector characterisation using Medipix3 at MedAustron IR1 using protons and carbon ions at clinical flux rates and full energy range - Navrit Johan Singh Bal (Nikhef National institute for subatomic physics (NL))  
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Dose Delivery - Antony Lomax (PSI)  
5:00 PM Superconducting gantry for proton therapy and imaging - Ewa Oponowicz (University of Manchester/Cockcroft Institute)  
5:20 PM Design considerations of a superconducting gantry with alternating-gradient combined-function magnets - Dr Bin Qin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology)  
7:30 PM Public Talk - Acelerando partículas para tratar el cáncer - María Isabel Gallardo  
12:00 PM Luminescence imaging of proton beams in water: Is this method sufficient for use in clinical quality assurance? - Mr Jan Michael Burg (THM University of Applied Sciences, Giessen, Germany, University Medical Center Marburg Philipps-University, Marburg, Germany)  
12:20 PM Inter-fractional monitoring in Carbon ions Particle Therapy treatments with the Dose Profiler detector - Marta Fischetti (INFN - National Institute for Nuclear Physics)  
12:40 PM Monitoring intra-fractional motion using a novel range telescope in a mixed He/C beam - Mr Laurent Kelleter (UCL)  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM
Poster Session (until 4:00 PM)
4:00 PM --- Coffee Break ---
4:30 PM Treatment facility optimization - Dr Andrea De Franco (EBG MedAustron)  
4:50 PM Preparation of a radiobiology beam-line at the 18 MeV proton cyclotron facility at CNA - Anna Baratto-Roldán (Centro Nacional de Aceleradores / Universidad de Sevilla)  
5:10 PM Light ion therapy software for data exchange - Carlos Afonso (Centro Nazionale di Adroterapia Oncologica)  
5:30 PM Advancements in particle therapy systems - acceleration and delivery - Dr Jonathan Farr (ADAM S.A.)  
8:30 PM --- Conference Dinner ---
12:10 PM Digital LLRF system: concepts and requirements for proton therapy based on a linear accelerator - Mr Borut Baricevic (Instrumentation Technologies)  
12:30 PM Summary - Carsten Peter Welsch (Cockcroft Institute / University of Liverpool)  
1:00 PM --- Lunch ---
2:30 PM --- Departure ---