PHYSICS FOR CLINICAL RADIOTHERAPY
A Joint course For Clinicians and Physicists
Budapest, Hungary, October 17 - 21, 2010
Course Director
Ben Heijmen, Physicist, Erasmus Medical Centre, Rotterdam (NL)
Teachers
Edwin Aird, Physicist, Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood (GB)
Alberto Bossi, Radiation Oncologist, Institut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif (FR)
Ann Henry, Radiation Oncologist, St James’s Institute of Oncology, Leeds (GB)
Trine Juhler-Nøttrup, Radiation Oncologist, University Hospital Herlev (DK)
Mikael Karlsson, Physicist, University Umeå Norrlands Universitetssjukhus, Umeå (SE)
Dag Rune Olsen, Physicist, DNR – Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo (NO)
Luis A. Pérez-Romasanta, Radiation Oncologist, Hospital de Ciudad Real (ES)
Course aim
For the lectures, the aims are:
1. to provide basic physics knowledge relevant to clinical radiotherapy
2. to provide overviews of imaging and volume concepts in radiotherapy
3. to provide introductions to modern dose delivery techniques, such as conformal therapy, IMRT, stereotactic treatment, IGRT, and brachytherapy
4. to discuss safety issues in lectures on induction of secondary tumours, radiation protection, and in-vivo dosimetry
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 treatment planning issues.
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
· IMRT – physics aspects
· IMRT – basics of clinical application
· Basics of stereotactic radiotherapy
· Basics of brachytherapy
· Volumes in external beam radiotherapy
· Imaging for GTV definition, I and II (for clinicians)
· CT for treatment preparation and planning
· IGRT – equipment for in-room imaging
· IGRT – tumour set-up correction strategies
· Radiobiology in the clinic
· Radiotherapy dose and induction of secondary tumours
· In-vivo dosimetry
· 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)
· Classification systems in oncology (for physicists)
· Reference dosimetry (for physicists)
· Non-reference dosimetry (for physicists)
· Basic dose plan algorithms (for physicists)
· Advanced dose plan algorithms (for physicists)
· Radiation protection (for physicists)
II. Clinical case discussions
The participants are invited to prepare treatment plans for four selected clinical cases, based on case descriptions and CT scans as provided prior to the course. During the course, the plans are discussed in small groups, guided by a clinician and physicist teacher.