Clinical Pre-conference teaching course

Radiosurgery and stereotactic body radiotherapy

Course directors: E. Lartigau (FR) and D. Verellen (BE)

08.45-09.00	Welcome and general introduction
	Session 1: The basis of stereotactic treatments
09.00-09.20	Overview of 50 years stereotactic radiosurgery and SBRT - R. Lewensohn (SE)
09.20-09.40	Imaging: autosegmentation, fiber tracking, CT/PET/MRI - S. Engelholm (DK)
09.40-10.00	Small field dosimetry, QA and lessons learned  - H. Palmans (UK)
10.00-10.30	Discussion
10.30-11.00	Coffee Break
	Session 2: From intra-cranial to extra-cranial
11.00-11.20	From frame-based to frameless - M. Guckenberger (DE)
11.20-11.40	How to deal with moving targets? - C. Cavedon (IT)
11.40-12.00	Dose calculation and Monte Carlo algorithms - N. Reynaert (FR)
12.00-12.30	Discussion
12.30-14.00	Lunch
	Session 3: Extra cranial clinical indications
14.00-14.20	Role of SBRT in NCSLC - B. Slotman (NL)
14.20-14.40	Role of SBRT in liver metastases - T Schefter (USA)
14.40-15.00	Building a prostate SBRT programme - N. Van AS (UK)
15.00-15.15	Discussion
15.15-15.45	Coffee Break
15.45-16.05	Evidence based therapeutic ratio in SBRT - M. Høyer (DK)
16.05-16.25	Radiosurgery or hypofractionated stereotactic radiotherapy (where’s the radiobilogy?) - M. Baumman (DE)
16.25-16.45	SBRT guidelines (AAPM TG 101)  - S. Benedict (USA)
16.45-17.15	Discussion and end of the course

 

 This course is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Accuray