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An ICTP Meeting
We are pleased to announce that the Italian Association of Medical Physicists (AIFM) will host the 12th Alpe Adria Medical Physics Meeting, to be held from 22 to 24 May 2024 at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP). The meeting is organised in cooperation with the Medical Physics Societies of Austria, Croatia, Hungary, North Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia. A pre-meeting EFOMP School on New Technologies in Radiotherapy will be held on 21-22 May, free of admission for participants of the Alpe Adria meeting.
EFOMP SCHOOL: New Technologies in Radiotherapy (21-22 May 2025): New technologies in Medical Physics: FLASH, SFRT, Radionuclide Therapy and SBRT
May 21, Afternoon
Joao Seco (DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany) -Introduction to new technologies in Medical Physics: FLASH, SFRT and radionuclide therapy
Lidia Strigari (University Hospital of Bologna, Italy) - Molecular therapy (alpha and beta radionuclide therapy)
Joao Seco (DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany) - SBRT for FLASH
May 22, Morning
Eeva Boeman (Department of Oncology, Tampere University Hospital, Finland) - SBRT techniques and applications to clinical cases
Marco Esposito (ICTP, Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Trieste, Italy) - In vivo dosimetry for SBRT
Francesco Romano (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Catania, Italy) -FLASH dosimetry
12th AAMP Meeting: Invited Speakers
Andre Dekker – Honorary talk on AI in medical physics
Bozidar Casar – Challenges and developments in small field dosimetry
Milana Vezirovic – EURADOS survey on IGRT practices in European radiotherapy clinics
Piotr Andrzejewski – Workflows and Patient information systems in a particle therapy center
Renata Longo – Breast dosimetry for standard and contrast enhanced mammography and breast tomosynthesis
Paolo Cardarelli – Spectral imaging and photon counting
Lidia Strigari – Advancing Molecular Imaging with long axial field of view (LAFOV) PET/CT
Knežević Medija, Željka – Towards Safe, Optimized and Personalized Radiology and Radiotherapy procedures for pregnant patients (Sonora project)
Csilla Pesznyak – Radiation protection (title to be defined)
Tomislav Stankovski – Oscillatory Interactions and Coupling Functions in Medicine
A special issue of Physica Medica will be published featuring highlight papers from the conference
International Scientific Committee
Austria: Peter KUESS, Uwe WOLFF, Brigitte ZURL Croatia: Dea Dundara DEBELJUH, Slaven JURKOVIĆ, Ivana KRALIK Italy: Paola BREGANT, Luca BROMBAL, Marco ESPOSITO Hungary: Tibor MAJOR, Csilla PESZNYAK, Tamas POCZA North Macedonia: Dushko LUKARSKI, Tomislav STANKOVSKI Serbia: Borislava PETROVIC, Jelena SAMAC, Milana VEZIROVIC Slovenia: Bozidar CASAR, Manca PODVRATNIK, Petra TOMŠE
Abstract: Applicants wishing to present a poster or give a contributed talk are encouraged to submit an abstract. ICTP templates are available below for download.
The deadline for submitting an abstract is extended to 28 February 2025.
For applicants requesting financial and/or visasupport: 15 February 2025 For all other applicants: 15 May 2025
Organizers
Paola Bregant (Maggiore Hospital Cancer Center), Luca Brombal (University of Trieste), Renata Longo (University of Trieste, INFN), Renato Padovani (ICTP), Mara Severgnini (University Hospital of Trieste), Local Organiser: Marco Esposito (ICTP)