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2024 Agenda

Day 1 - 16 February 2024

8:45

2024 Program Introduction

Greg Robinson, M.Sc., CMD, RTT, Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company, United States

Challenges in Safety & Quality Control

9:00

Keynote Presentation: ESTRO Initiatives to Improve Safety and Quality Throughout the Patient Treatment Course

Nuria Jornet, Ph.D., Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain

9:30

Developing a Voluntary Incident Reporting and Learning System and Defining Radiation Protection in Radiotherapy (ROSEIS)

Mary Coffey, RTT, Trinity College, Ireland

10:00

BREAK

10:30

Cybersecurity Risks: Experience and Lessons from a Hospital Cyberattack

Carla Cases, BSc, Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, Spain

11:00

Before and After: Standardization of Machine QA, with Updates from 4-Year Study on IC PROFILER for Dosimetry Tests

David Barbee, Ph.D., DABR, NYU Langone Health, United States

11:30

Moving Towards Process-based Radiotherapy Quality Assurance Using Statistical Process Control

Vysakh Raveendran, Ph.D., Advanced Center for Treatment, Research and Education in Cancer (ACTREC), Tata Memorial Hospital, India

11:40

Panel Discussion

Moderators: Jie Shi, Ph.D., and Michaël Claessens, Ph.D.

12:15

LUNCH

EPID-Based In-Vivo Dosimetry

13:15

AAPM Task Group Report 307: Use of EPIDs for Patient-Specific IMRT and VMAT QA

Kyle Padgett, Ph.D., University of Miami Medical School, United States

13:45

IPEM Topical Report Guidance for the Clinical Implementation of Online Treatment Monitoring Solutions for IMRT/ VMAT

Simon Stevens, M.Sci., M.Sc., CSci, CMgr, DiplPEM, MIPEM, MInstP, ARCS, The London Clinic, UK

14:15

Validation and Quality Assurance of EPID Transit Dosimetry Algorithms

Marco Esposito, Ph.D., The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Italy

14:45

Assessing the Impact of Adaptations to the Clinical Workflow and Identifying Head and Neck Cancer Patients Needing Adaptive Radiotherapy Using Transit In-Vivo Dosimetry

Evy Bossuyt, M.Sc., Iridium Netwerk, Belgium

15:15

BREAK

15:45

A Method for Monitoring Single Fraction Stereotactic Treatments with the EPID

Paul Doolan, Ph.D., German Oncology Center, Cyprus

16:00

Assessing In-Vivo 2D Image Analysis Sensitivity in Breast Cancer Treatments Using PerFRACTION

Maria do Carmo Lopes, Ph.D., IPO Coimbra, Portugal

16:15

Testing PerFRACTION Transit In-Vivo Dosimetry Ability to Detect Delivery Errors on a Clinical Spine SBRT Case

Fátima María Leo Martínez, M.Sc., Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain

16:30

Panel Discussion

Moderators: Jennifer Hamilton, M.E., DABR and Mary Coffey, RTT

18:00

Networking Reception

Scale Bar & Terrace


2024 Agenda

Day 2 - 17 February 2024

The Era of AI & Innovation

8:00

Al applications and QA of Al in Radiotherapy - Contouring, Pre-T QA and QA of FLASH

Michaël Claessens, Ph.D., Iridium Netwerk, Belgium

8:30

Looking to the Future of AI: How MDs Could Use AI to Write More Personalized Prescriptions/Carepaths

David Lindsay, Ph.D., Oncora Medical, Inc., United States

9:00

A Clinical Evaluation of the Performance of Five Commercial Artificial Intelligence Contouring Systems for Radiotherapy

Efstratios Karagiannis, M.D., Ph.D., KSGR, Switzerland

9:30

BREAK

10:00

Artificial Intelligence and RT Workflows

Pauline Maury, Ph.D., Gustave Roussy, France

10:30

Panel Discussion

Moderators: Greg Robinson, M.Sc., CMD, RTT and Michael Tallhammer, M.Sc., DABR

QA & Dosimetry for New Treatment Modalities

11:00

Clinical Application of Theranostics and How to Approach Patient QA

Robert Francois Hobbs, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University, United States

11:30

Moving from CT-Sim to MR-Sim

Teo Stanescu, Ph.D., MCCPM, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, Canada

12:00

Latest Developments and Novel Clinical Uses for SGRT

Michael Tallhamer, M.Sc., DABR, AdventHealth Parker, United States

12:30

LUNCH

13:15

A Novel Platform for the QA of Synchrony Real-time Tumor Tracking Radiotherapy Systems

Roland Teboh Forbang, M.S., Ph.D., DABR, John Theurer Cancer Center, Hackensack Meridian Health, United States

13:45

Comprehensive QA Program in a MRI-LINAC System Using Sun Nuclear Tools

Matteo Galetto, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS, Italy

14:15

Panel Discussion

Moderators: Jie Shi, Ph.D. and Nuria Jornet, Ph.D.

14:45

BREAK

Novel QA Methods for SRS/SBRT and SIMT

15:00

Understanding Solid State Dosimeters and Their Increasing Role in Medical Physics Quality Assurance Measurements

Wesley Culberson, Ph.D., DABR, University of Wisconsin – Madison, United States

15:30

A Hybrid Method for Patient Specific QA for SRS and SBRT Cases Utilizing 3D Secondary Dose Verification as a Screening Tool

Remy Manigold, DMP, DABR, Scripps, United States

16:00

Systematic Evaluation of Spatial Resolution and Gamma Criteria for Quality Assurance with Detector Arrays in Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Mark Chofor, Ph.D., Sun Nuclear, a Mirion Medical Company, United States

16:15

Novel Multi-Isocenter Accuracy Testing and Patient Specific QA for Gyroscopic Radiosurgery System

Carlos Rodrigues, M.Sc., Mercurius Health, Portugal

16:45

Individual Target Dose Evaluation for SIMT Using SRS MapCHECK and Independent Monte Carlo

Justus Adamson, Ph.D., DABR, Duke University, United States