11 Jun 2019 Manchester (United Kingdom)

Program

Tuesday, June 11, 2019

Time Event  
08:00 - 08:30 Opening / adjustments to the program  
08:30 - 10:00 Imaging systems  
08:30 - 09:00 › From PRaVDA to OPTIma: next generation proton imaging system. - Nigel Allinson, University of Lincoln  
09:00 - 09:30 › Analysis of Proton Images from a Prototype System - Ethan DeJongh, ProtonVDA Inc  
09:30 - 10:00 › Imaging with ion beams at MedAustron - Felix Ulrich-Pur, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute of High Energy Physics(HEPHY), Nikolsdorfer Gasse 18, 1050 Wien  
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee break  
10:30 - 11:30 Reconstruction methods  
10:30 - 11:00 › Investigation of image quality optimization in list-mode particle imaging without front tracker - Lennart Volz, Department of Biomedical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg  
11:00 - 11:30 › A comparison of direct reconstruction algorithms in proton CT - Feriel Khellaf, University Lyon, CNRS, CREATIS, France  
11:30 - 12:30 Round table discussion  
11:30 - 12:30 › Wishlist for an accelerator engineer - interplay between ion imaging and the beam delivery system - Hywel Owen, School of Physics & Astronomy, University of Manchester  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch  
14:00 - 15:30 Alternative ion imaging approaches  
14:00 - 14:30 › Inverse-planned fluence field modulation for optimal usage of imaging dose in proton CT - Jannis Dickmann, Department of Medical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU)  
14:30 - 15:00 › Investigation of a mixed helium/carbon beam for treatment monitoring in carbon therapy - Lennart Volz, Faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Department of Biomedical Physics in Radiation Oncology, German Cancer Research center (DKFZ), Heidelberg  
15:00 - 15:30 › Scaling the ultra-fast LANL proton radiography system to medical energies. - Matthew Freeman, Los Alamos National Laboratory  
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break  
16:00 - 17:00 Clinical investigations  
16:00 - 16:30 › Proton Radiography for detection of proton range errors in proton radiation therapy - Christina Sarosiek, Northern Illinois University  
16:30 - 17:00 › Regularised patient-specific stopping power calibration for proton therapy planning based on proton radiographic images - Nils Krah, University Lyon, CNRS, CREATIS, France  
17:00 - 18:00 Round table discussion  
17:00 - 18:00 › Wishlist from a medical physicist - what ion imaging should/could do in practice - Ranald Mackay - Christie Medical Physics and Engineering, Joël Herault - Centre Antoine Lacassagne de Nice  
18:00 - 18:30 Closing discussion  
19:30 - 21:30 Dinner  
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