Opening, program overview, logistics

Medipix application in advanced brachytherapy dosimetry

• Thuy Linh Tran

TimePix pixel detectors for particle identification and dosimetry

• Stanislav Pospisil (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague)

An overview of proton therapy

• Martin Grossmann (Paul Scherrer Institut)

The use of proton beams for radiotherapy has been proposed in the 1940s and patients have been treated with this modality since the 1960s. With the advent of more powerful computers for therapy planning and fast electronics for sophisticated controls in the 1990s it became possible to even better exploit the therapeutic advantage of protons by employing magnetic pencil beam scanning. While pioneering work was carried out in physics research laboratories therapy facilities have now become commercially available by a number of vendors. Technology-driven research is ongoing to further improve the quality of protontherapy and make it available to a larger number of patients. The talk will give an overview of the development of protontherapy and illustrate how therapeutic innovations have been driven by technological progress. Current research topics like ultra-high dose rate beam delivery (“FLASH”) and approaches to compensate the effect of organ motion will be presented.

Introduction to the EasyPET exercise

• Martin Grossmann (Paul Scherrer Institut)

Overview of advanced semiconductor dosimetry

• Thuy Linh Tran

Introduction to nuclear Medical Physics (remote presentation)

• Patrick Le Dû

The main objective of this introductory lecture would be to present the basic of medical nuclear medicine seen from an experimental particle physicist. It is particularly designed as a basic educating lectures. The outlines are: - What is medical Physics? – A little bit of history from the 1900’s origin – A refreshing presentation of Radiation units (Curie, Becquerel, Gray’s , Sievert ..) and their effects on the human body. – The basic of Radiology (from standard exam to the Computed Tomography) – Fighting again cancer with modern tools and techniques : a short overview from past, present and future. – Introduction to Nuclear medicine, with details about dosimetry and production of tracers.

Production and Quality Control of Radiopharmaceuticals

• Nguyen Tan Chau

Advanced semiconductor dosimetry in particle therapy: mini and micro dosimetry

• Thuy Linh Tran

Exercises TimePix - MediPix / AI in Medical Imaging / EasyPET

Protons do play dice - Monte Carlo calculations for proton therapy (remote presentation)

• Carla Winterhalter

An Introduction to Medical Imaging Devices (remote presentation)

• Martin Lothar Purschke (Brookhaven National Laboratory (US))

More information about the PET-MRI breast cancer trail in Taiwan: http://www.phenix.bnl.gov/~purschke/Bosky_thesis.pdf

Linear accelerators for medical applications

• Francis Gagnon-Moisan

Exercise AI / EasyPET - Group 2

Exercise TimePix - Group 2 (start)

Applications of artificial intelligence (machine learning / deep learning) in medical physics

• Hoàng Thị Kiều Trang (University of Science, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)

Treatment planning of stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) for patients with brain metastasis

• Ngo Trung Nghia

AI in nuclear medical imaging context (remote presentation)

• Dimitris Visvikis

The evolution of machine learning approaches with the introduction of deep learning techniques, has led to an exponential increase in the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in a variety of application areas, including the healthcare field. Within this context, AI has been introduced at different steps of medical imaging, covering the simulation of imaging devices, image formation including tomographic reconstruction and image related corrections to image processing for the subsequent exploitation of reconstructed images. The latest advances in the field of medical image formation and processing will be covered during this presentation including an insight on the potential interest of AI from a clinical perspective.

Radiation measurements around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant

• MASAHARU NOMACHI

Dosimetry

• Francis Gagnon-Moisan

Quality Assurance in radiotherapy

• Francis Gagnon-Moisan

Logfile-based 4D dose reconstruction (remote presentation)

• Ye Zhang

Silicon detectors for space research

• Stanislav Pospisil (Institute of Experimental and Applied Physics, Czech Technical University in Prague)