Course Aim

COURSE AIM:

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The course will be a combination of didactic lectures and interactive clinical sessions

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The overall aim of this course is to explore how new technologies can be best used for patient benefit, with a focus on scientific evidence. 

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• The lectures aim to provide multidisciplinary knowledge and understanding of: 

• The clinical rationale for the use of advanced technologies in radiation therapy

• Errors and uncertainties and how multimodality imaging, respiratory motion management, MR linacs, surface guidance and adaptive radiotherapy are used to mitigate these.

• IMRT delivery techniques and plan evaluation

• Principles and applications of stereotactic (body) radiotherapy, and particle therapy, use of automation and artificial intelligence in radiation oncology contouring and planning

• An outlook to possible future new technologies, like FLASH, heavy ions and grid therapy

Complimentary to the lectures, this course has interactive clinical sessions where expert oncologists, physicists and radiographers will discuss developing protocols for the clinical implementation of advanced technologies, including IGRT, adaptive RT, cranial SRS and SBRT.​

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