Scientific Calendar Event



Description An ICTP Meeting

The ICTP will organize, with the support of the International Organization for Medical Physics (IOMP), the European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics (EFOMP), the Federation of African Medical Physics Organizations (FAMPO) and the Italian Association of Medical Physics (AIFM), a two-week School on Medical Physics for Radiation Therapy.
 
The objective of the school is to contribute to the understanding of physics applied to radiation oncology and the development of competent medical physicists who can make a direct contribution to the improvement of health care in their countries through better radiation therapy. 
This will be achieved by providing participants with education and practical training to enhance their effectiveness as future disseminators of this knowledge, who can provide in turn educational and training opportunities to other medical physicists, professionals and students. 
The programme will introduce the physics applied to conventional and advanced therapy principle, methods and technology and will facilitate the creation of a network for the exchange of information on radiotherapy physics among scientists in developing and developed Member States.
 
Topics:
  • Radiobiology applied to radiation therapy  
  • Radiation dosimetry 
  • Therapy equipment 
  • Dosimetry algorithms 
  • 3D conformal, advanced (IMRT, VMAT, SBRT) treatment delivery and brachytherapy 
  • Treatment planning and its practical implementation 
  • Treatment verification 
  • Quality assurance 
  • Artificial intelligence in radiation therapy
  • Case studies


Applicants are encouraged to submit an abstract for a poster presentation. During the application please make sure to use our templates to format your abstract. Templates are available below for download.
 
Grants: A limited number of grants are available to support the attendance of selected participants, with priority given to participants from developing countries. There is no registration fee.

Go to day
  • Monday, 11 September 2023
    • 08:00 - 08:30 Registration
    • 08:30 - 17:30
      • 08:30 Welcome and participant’s introduction 50'
        Speaker: Renato PADOVANI (ICTP, Italy)
      • 09:20 Entry test 50'
      • 10:10 Present and future of radiation therapy in LMICs 50'
        Speaker: Christoph Jan TRAUERNICHT (Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Dosimetry: fundamentals I 50'
        Speaker: Renato PADOVANI (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 Dosimetry: fundamentals II 50'
        Speaker: Renato PADOVANI (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 1h20'
      • 14:30 Treatment machines : general understanding of treatment machines 50'
        Speaker: Christoph Jan TRAUERNICHT (Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 15:20 Relative dose measurements: output factors, profiles, and depth functions 50'
        Speaker: Mara SEVERGNINI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), Rossella VIDIMARI (Trieste Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 16:10 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:40 MU calculation for photon beams: theory 50'
        Speaker: Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
    • 18:00 - 19:00 Get-together drink
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Terrace
  • Tuesday, 12 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      • 08:30 Dosimetry: photon beams 50'
        Speaker: Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:20 Treatment machine: specification 50'
        Speaker: Christoph Jan TRAUERNICHT (Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa)
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Dosimetry: electron beams 50'
        Speaker: Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 TPS algorithms 1 50'
        Speaker: Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 Treatment machines commissioning 50'
        Speaker: Christoph Jan TRAUERNICHT (Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 1h20'
      • 14:30 IBA symposium: Patient QA for SBRT and SRS treatment with myQA SRS detector 20'
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 MU calculation for photon beam exercise 40' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:10 MU calculation for photon beam exercise 50' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
  • Wednesday, 13 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 19:30
      • 08:30 Treatment machines: special architectures (Tomo, CK, linac/MRI) 50'
        Speaker: Christoph Jan TRAUERNICHT (Groote Schuur Hospital, South Africa)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:20 Dosimetry of small MV photon beams (TRS 483) 50'
        Speaker: Božidar CASAR (Institute of Oncology Ljubljana, Slovenia)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:10 TPS algorithms 2 50'
        Speaker: Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Fundamental radiobiology 50'
        Speaker: Arun CHOUGULE (S.M.S. Medical College & Hospital, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, India)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 Introduction to hospital exercise 50'
        Speaker: Mara SEVERGNINI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), A.SULAI (Trieste Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 50'
      • 14:00 Time to reach Hospital 1h30'
      • 15:30 Group A: Linac 1: Small photon field dosimetry 2h0' ( Trieste Hospital )
        Speaker: Mara SEVERGNINI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), Rossella VIDIMARI (Trieste Hospital, Italy)
      • 17:30 Group B: Linac 1: Small photon field dosimetry 2h0' ( Trieste Hospital )
        Speaker: Mara SEVERGNINI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), Rossella VIDIMARI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), A. SULAI (Trieste Hospital, Italy)
  • Thursday, 14 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      • 08:30 Clinical aspects of precise radiotherapy 50'
        Speaker: Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:20 IGRT (EPID, CBCT, US, MRI) 50'
        Speaker: Carlo CAVEDON (Verona Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:10 Quantitative radiobiology for treatment planning 50'
        Speaker: Arun CHOUGULE (S.M.S. Medical College & Hospital, Rajasthan University of Health Sciences, India)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Setup verification 50'
        Speaker: Carlo CAVEDON (Verona Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 Multi-modal image integration and organ motion management 50'
        Speaker: Carlo CAVEDON (Verona Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 1h20'
      • 14:30 RaySearch Symposium: RayStation: advanced tools for ART 20'
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 Multi-modal image integration and organ motion management exercises 40' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Carlo CAVEDON (Verona Hospital, Italy), Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy), Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
        Material: Slides
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:10 Multi-modal image integration and organ motion management exercises 50' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Carlo CAVEDON (Verona Hospital, Italy), Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy), Pawel KUKOLOVICZ (Holycross Cancer Centre, Poland)
  • Friday, 15 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      • 08:30 QA programme 50'
        Speaker: Gabriele GUIDI (Modena Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:20 Motion and margins 50'
        Speaker: Tomas KRON (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia)
        Material: Slides
      • 10:10 QA tools (EPID, log files) 50'
        Speaker: Gabriele GUIDI (Modena Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Group photo & Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Uncertainties in RT 50'
        Speaker: Tomas KRON (Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 MPWB Session: Levelling the playing field: access to resources for medical physicists everywhere 50'
        Speaker: Basran PARMINDER (Cornell University, USA), Yakov Marcelo PIPMAN (MPWB, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 1h20'
      • 14:30 Introduction to conformal RT planning exercise 20'
        Speaker: Paola CHIOVATI (Aviano Oncology Centre, Italy)
      • 15:00 TPS exercises: conformal radiotherapy planning 40' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Paola CHIOVATI (Aviano Oncology Centre, Italy), Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:10 TPS exercises: conformal radiotherapy planning 50' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Paola CHIOVATI (Aviano Oncology Centre, Italy), Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
  • Monday, 18 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      • 08:30 IMRT/VMAT: Theory and definitions 50'
        Speaker: Anna ZAWADZKA (Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 09:20 IMRT/VMAT: Practical Treatment Planning 50'
        Speaker: Anna ZAWADZKA (Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland)
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Advanced techniques in RT: MR Linac 50'
        Speaker: William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Introduction to IMRT/VMAT planning exercises 50'
        Speaker: Anna ZAWADZKA (Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland), Victoria GUTIERREZ (Modena Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 Poster session & Lunch Break 2h10'
        Material: Booklet
      • 14:30 PTW symposium: Octavius 4D – New features and future outlook 30'
        Material: Video
      • 15:00 IMRT/VMAT planning exercises 40' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Anna ZAWADZKA (Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland), Victoria GUTIERREZ (Modena Hospital, Italy), Golam ZAKARIA (University of Cologne, Germany), Gianfranco LOI (Novara Hospital, Italy)
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:10 IMRT/VMAT planning exercises 50' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Anna ZAWADZKA (Maria Skłodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology, Poland), Victoria GUTIERREZ (Modena Hospital, Italy), Golam ZAKARIA (University of Cologne, Germany), Gianfranco LOI (Novara Hospital, Italy)
    • 19:00 - 20:00 Welcome reception
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Terrace
  • Tuesday, 19 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 19:30
      • 08:30 IMRT/VMAT: Quality assurance and pre-treatment verification 50'
        Speaker: Golam ZAKARIA (University of Cologne, Germany)
        Material: Slides
      • 09:20 IMRT/VMAT: Commissioning 50'
        Speaker: Gianfranco LOI (Novara Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:10 Artificial intelligence introduction 50'
        Speaker: Michele AVANZO (Aviano Oncology Centre, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Artificial intelligence in radiation therapy 50'
        Speaker: Michele AVANZO (Aviano Oncology Centre, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 12:20 Introduction to IMRT/VMAT hospital exercise 50'
        Speaker: Rossella VIDIMARI (Trieste Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 50'
      • 14:00 Time to reach Hospital 1h30'
      • 15:30 Group A: IMRT/VMAT pre-treatment verification exercise 2h0' ( Trieste Hospital )
        Speaker: Rossella VIDIMARI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), Golam ZAKARIA (University of Cologne, Germany)
      • 17:30 Group B: IMRT/VMAT pre-treatment verification exercise 2h0' ( Trieste Hospital )
        Speaker: Rossella VIDIMARI (Trieste Hospital, Italy), Golam ZAKARIA (University of Cologne, Germany)
  • Wednesday, 20 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 19:00
      • 08:30 Brachytherapy – Introduction & Physics Background 50'
        Speaker: William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 09:20 Brachytherapy – Radiobiology, EQD2 Concept, LDR & HDR, Combining Treatments, TCP/NTCP (W Song) 50'
        Speaker: William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 10:10 Brachytherapy – Clinical Applications & QA I: GYN, Prostate HDR (B Ghedi), Breast HDR (W Song), LDR (F Ziglio) 50'
        Speaker: Barbara GHEDI (Brescia Hospital, Italy), William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Francesco ZIGLIO (Trento Hospital S.Chiara, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Brachytherapy – Clinical Applications & QA II: GYN, Prostate HDR (B Ghedi), Breast HDR (W Song), LDR (F Ziglio) 50'
        Speaker: Barbara GHEDI (Brescia Hospital, Italy), William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Francesco ZIGLIO (Trento Hospital S.Chiara, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 Introduction to brachytherapy hospital exercise 50'
        Speaker: Francesco ZIGLIO (Trento Hospital S.Chiara, Italy), Barbara GHEDI (Brescia Hospital, Italy), William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 50'
      • 14:00 Time to reach Hospital 1h0'
      • 15:00 Group A: HDR brachytherapy exercise … 2h0' ( Trieste Hospital )
        Speaker: Barbara GHEDI (Brescia Hospital, Italy), William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Francesco ZIGLIO (Trento Hospital S.Chiara, Italy), CUPARDO, Ren KAISER
      • 17:00 Group B: HDR brachytherapy exercise … 2h0' ( Trieste Hospital )
        Speaker: Barbara GHEDI (Brescia Hospital, Italy), William SONG (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Francesco ZIGLIO (Trento Hospital S.Chiara, Italy), CUPARDO, Ren KAISER
  • Thursday, 21 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 17:00
      • 08:30 SBRT: Terminology and general overview 50'
        Speaker: Pietro MANCOSU (HUMANITAS Cancer Center, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 09:20 SBRT: radiobiology rationale 50'
        Speaker: Lidia STRIGARI (Bologna Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 10:10 SBRT: Management of respiratory motion 50'
        Speaker: Pietro MANCOSU (HUMANITAS Cancer Center, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 SBRT: prescription, planning, and delivery 50'
        Speaker: Pietro MANCOSU (HUMANITAS Cancer Center, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 SBRT: In vivo verification 50'
        Speaker: Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
        Material: Slides Video
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 1h20'
      • 14:30 Introduction to SBRT exercises 30'
        Speaker: Pietro MANCOSU (HUMANITAS Cancer Center, Italy), Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy)
      • 15:00 SBRT planning exercises 40' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy), Pietro MANCOSU (HUMANITAS Cancer Center, Italy), Victoria GUTIERREZ (Modena Hospital, Italy)
      • 15:40 Coffee Break 30'
      • 16:10 SBRT planning exercises 50' ( Informatics Laboratory )
        Speaker: Marco ESPOSITO (ICTP, Italy), Pietro MANCOSU (HUMANITAS Cancer Center, Italy), Victoria GUTIERREZ (Modena Hospital, Italy)
  • Friday, 22 September 2023
    • 08:30 - 15:50
      • 08:30 Incidents in RT 50'
        Speaker: Yakov Marcelo PIPMAN (MPWB, USA)
        Material: Video
      • 09:20 Prevention of incidents in radiotherapy (prospective and retrospective FMEA) 50'
        Speaker: Yakov Marcelo PIPMAN (MPWB, USA)
      • 10:10 Audit 1 50'
        Speaker: Serenella RUSSO (Florence Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 11:00 Coffee Break 30'
      • 11:30 Audit 2 50'
        Speaker: Serenella RUSSO (Florence Hospital, Italy)
        Material: Video
      • 12:20 Poster presentation 50'
      • 13:10 Lunch Break 1h20'
      • 14:30 Course evaluation & final test 30'
      • 15:00 Final discussion 20'
      • 15:20 Best poster presentation Award, Certificates and Closing 30'