ESTRO / EANM EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR on PET IN RADIATION ONCOLOGY
Vienna, Austria, November 20 - 21, 2010
This course is fully booked
Course Director
Bart Reymen, radiation oncologist, MAASTRO Clinic/ University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht (NL)
Wouter Vogel, nuclear medicine physician, The Netherlands Cancer Insitute, Amsterdam (NL)
Course aim
Upon completion of the course the delegate:
1. can list the implications of PET in radiation oncology
2. can address technical issues to implement PET in radiation treatment planning
3. has knowledge of the current evidence and state of the art of PET in radiation oncology
4. is able to incorporate PET into planning-CT, perform delineation and recognise pitfalls
Target Group
The course is aiming at duos of nuclear medicine physicians and radiation oncologists from the same hospital who want to learn about PET / CET in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning (RTP) in order to develop and/or start up local co-operation on PET/CT based RTP in their institution. The attendance is limited to 20 participants (10 groups of 2 persons).
Educational programme
The course will include:
1) Lectures/slides available to participants before the course:
- Basics of RTP for nuclear medicine physicians
- Basics of PET for radiation oncologists
2) Hands-on workshops on:
- Basic RTP in NSCLC
- Advanced PET-based RTP Including also examples of brain, oesophagus, and pelvic malignancies
3) Copies of interactive lectures will be provided:
- Impact of PET in staging: stage migration (focus on NSCLC, lymphoma, oesophagus).
- Requirements of PET acquisition and data processing for incorporation in staging: (re)positioning, gating.
- Technical issues of PET: filters, thresholds, image fusion, pitfalls
- The use & added value of PET for RTP and treatment follow up (including discussions on tracer development) for several tumour sites (NSCLC, HNSCC, Cervical cancer, Brain Tumours, Oesophageal Cancer, Malignant Lymphoma, Prostate cancer)
The instructors are available to discuss specific issues regarding these lectures upon request of the participants during the course
4) Discussion of case reports provided and presented by the participants