Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy Workshop (VHEE'2020)

from Monday, October 5, 2020 (8:30 AM) to Wednesday, October 7, 2020 (7:30 PM)
CERN

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Oct 5, 2020
Oct 6, 2020
Oct 7, 2020
AM
PM
3:00 PM
State of the Art - Roberto Corsini (CERN) (until 4:15 PM)
3:00 PM Clinical perspectives for FLASH therapy - Jean Bourhis (CHUV)  
3:25 PM Novel high-gradient accelerators for radiotherapy and imaging - Emilio Nanni (SLAC)  
3:50 PM Dosimetry of electron beams - challenges and possible solutions for VHEE and FLASH - Andreas Schüller (PTB)  
4:15 PM Welcome Speech - Roberto Corsini (CERN)  
4:25 PM --- Break & Group photo ---
4:35 PM
Mechanism and Innovation for FLASH RT - Manjit Dosanjh (until 5:35 PM)
4:35 PM Neuroprotective effects of FLASH-RT in the juvenile and adult brain - Charles Limoli (University of California, Irvine)  
4:55 PM Tumor response to FLASH-RT - Marie-Catherine Vozenin (CHUV)  
5:15 PM Electron dose rate and oxygen depletion protect zebrafish embryo from radiation damage - Elke Beyreuther (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden - Rossendorf)  
5:35 PM --- Break ---
5:45 PM
New indications and hot topics - Angeles Faus-Golfe (Université Paris-Saclay (FR)) (until 6:45 PM)
5:45 PM Oxygen depletion and radical recombination after pulsed Ultra-high dose rate irradiations - Vejlko Grilj (CHUV)  
6:05 PM FLASH-RT in the lung: What we know and what we would like to know - Charles Fouillade (Institut Marie Curie)  
6:25 PM VHEE experiments and future plans at Stanford and Indiana - Peter Maxim (SLAC)  
6:45 PM --- Closing ---
3:00 PM
Facilities description, current and planned ones (Chaired by Claude Bailat) - Claude Bailat (CHUV) (until 4:00 PM)
3:00 PM CLEAR for Radiotherapy Research - Wilfrid Farabolini (Université Paris-Saclay (FR))  
3:20 PM Full energy beam exploitation possibilities on CLARA at Daresbury Laboratory - Deepa Angal-Kalinin (STFC)  
3:40 PM High-gradient RF systems for compact accelerators - Walter Wuensch (CERN)  
4:00 PM --- Break & Group Photo ---
4:10 PM
Facilities description, current and planned ones (Chaired by Charles Limoli) (until 5:10 PM)
4:10 PM New FLASH radiation therapy R&D options at PITZ - Frank Stephan (DESY)  
4:30 PM Radiation biology with laser-accelerated electrons at LOA - Alessandro Flacco (ENSTA)  
4:50 PM Novel high-gradient accelerators for radiotherapy and imaging - Bill Loo (Stanford University)  
5:10 PM --- Break ---
5:20 PM
Dosimetry and Detectors (Chaired by Marie-Catherine Vozenin) (until 6:20 PM)
5:20 PM Diamond-based detector development for pulsed beam monitoring for medical applications - Marie-Laure Gallin-Martel (CNRS)  
5:40 PM Dosimetry of particle beams with ultra-high pulse dose rates - Anna Subiel (NPL)  
6:00 PM The challenges of Ultra high dose rate dosimetry for preclinical irradiation - Claude Bailat (CHUV)  
6:20 PM --- Break ---
6:30 PM
Treatment Planning, Modelling and Imaging (Chaired by Roger Jones) (until 7:30 PM)
6:30 PM VHEE initial inception and future potential - Colleen Desrosiers (Indiana University)  
6:50 PM Imaging challenges for VHEE - Marcel Van Herk (Manchester University)  
7:10 PM Treatment planning with Very High Energy Electron Scanned Beams - Louie Hancock (Manchester University)  
7:30 PM --- Closing ---
3:00 PM
Accelerators R&D and Technologies for medical (Chaired by Frank Stephan) (until 4:10 PM)
3:00 PM Compact high-energy electron accelerator at Tsinghua University - Jiaru Shi  
3:20 PM Sources for high dose rate electron and proton irradiation at the ELBE center Dresden - Ulrich Schramm  
3:40 PM Research and Development of High Efficiency, High Gradient Accelerator Systems for VHEE at SLAC - Emma Snively (SLAC)  
4:00 PM Experience with electron linear accelerators for low-energy FLASH Intraoperative RT with perspectives on VHEE beams - Luigi Faillace (University di Roma)  
4:15 PM --- Break ---
4:25 PM
Industries for medical (Chaired by Gerardo D'Auria and Sami Tantawi) (until 6:02 PM)
4:25 PM Outline of the roadmap involved in taking a working design through to something that is approved to treat clinical - John Allen (ELEKTA)  
4:35 PM Perspectives for industrial superconducting accelerators for isotope production and radiation therapy - Claudio Serpico  
4:45 PM Progress status for the 40 MeV Rhodotron and the new very high dose rate 10 MeV Flash platform at Aérial/Feerix - Jeremy Brison (IBA)  
4:55 PM Inverse Compton scattering X-ray source optimized for radiotherapy - Benjamin Hornberger (Lynceantech)  
5:05 PM Compact linac design for FLASH radiation therapy - Arundhuti Ganguly (TiBaRay)  
5:15 PM High Frequencry (12 GHz) RF generated electrons (100 MeV) - Christopher Barty (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)  
5:25 PM The challenge of high dose rate for ionisation chambers - Daniela Poppinga (PTW)  
5:35 PM Capabilites of the AWA facility for potental medical applications - Jing Chunguang  
5:45 PM Single electron imaging of samples using multiple coulomb scattering - Hendrick Jansen  
5:55 PM Plans for growth in accelerator physics in Australia: medical and VHEE applications - Suzie Sheehy (University of Melbourne)  
6:05 PM --- Break ---
6:15 PM
Where are we going? Which experiments/facilities are needed? (Chaired by Jean Bourhis) - Manjit Dosanjh (until 7:30 PM)
6:15 PM Main topics - Angeles Faus-Golfe Manjit Dosanjh  
6:30 PM Roundtable discussion - Angeles Faus-Golfe Manjit Dosanjh  
7:15 PM Concluding remarks - Angeles Faus-Golfe Manjit Dosanjh