Course Directors
Ben Heijmen, Physicist, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam (NL)
Teachers
Tom Depuydt,
Physicist, UZ Brussels - VUB, Brussels (BE)
Michael Gubanski, Karolinska University Hospital - Sodersjukhuset, Stockholm (SE)
Ann Henry, Radiation Oncologist, Cookridge Hospital, Leeds (GB)
Trine Juhler-Nottrup, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital Herlev (DK)
Silvia Molinelli, Physicist, Fondazione CNAO, Pavia (IT)
José Alfredo Rubio Polo, Radiation Oncologist, Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid (ES)
Milan Tomsej, Physicist, CHU Charleroi, Hopital Andre Vesale, Montigny-le-Tilleul (BE)
Local Organiser
Nopadol Asavametha, Radiation Oncologist, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Bangkok
Course Aim
For the lectures, the aims are:
1. to provide physics knowledge relevant to clinical radiotherapy
2. to provide overviews of imaging and volume concepts in radiotherapy
3. to discuss principal aspects of modern dose delivery techniques, such as IMRT, stereotactic treatment, rotational therapy, IGRT, and brachytherapy
4. to discuss safety issues in lectures on commissioning and QA/QC, radiation protection, in-vivo dosimetry, and induction of secondary tumors
Complimentary to the lectures, this course has clinical case discussions as an important component.The aim of these discussions is to enhance knowledge of, and insight in, practical issues related to treatment planning and delivery.
Target group
The course is primarily aimed at trainees in radiation oncology or radiation physics, and at radiation oncologists and physicists who would like to refresh part of their knowledge. The course is also suited for radiation technologists having an advanced training and experience in treatment planning and a strong interest in physics aspects of radiotherapy. For PhD students in radiation therapy or physics, this course can broaden their knowledge.
Educational programme
I. Lectures on
• Basics of 3DCRT and IMRT
• Basics of stereotactic radiotherapy
• Basics of rotational therapy
• Basics of brachytherapy
• IMRT - physics aspects
• Volumes in external beam radiotherapy
• Imaging for GTV definition I
• Imaging for GTV definition II
• CT for treatment preparation and planning
• IGRT - equipment for in-room imaging
• IGRT - tumor set-up correction strategies
• IGRT - set-up correction in clinical practice
• Dose prescription and plan evaluation
• Field junctions: theory and practice
• Radiobiology in the clinic
• Radiotherapy dose and induction of secondary tumors
• In-vivo dosimetry
• Radiation protection
• Commissioning and QA/QC of equipment and software
• Principles of radiation therapy equipment (for clinicians)
• Basic radiation physics, I and II (for clinicians)
• Basic dose calculation principles (for clinicians)
• Calculation of dose distribution in TPS (for clinicians)
• Basic oncologic concepts (for physicists)
• Reference dosimetry (for physicists)
• Non-reference dosimetry (for physicists)
• Dose calculation I, II (for physicists)
II. Clinical case discussions
This course will have four sessions with discussions of concrete clinical cases, i.e. a palliative spine case, a breast case, a lung case, and a head and neck case. Based on the medical descriptions and acquired images, clinical and physics aspects of target definition, planning and treatment will be discussed in detail by a clinician and physicist teacher. There will be ample time for interaction with the attendees to discuss questions, alternatives, etc.