Progress in proton therapy

Tuesday 25 Mar 2025, 11:00 → 21:00 Europe/Warsaw

Aula (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

Paweł Olko (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej PAN), Renata Kopeć (Instytyt Fizyki Jądrowej PAN)

The seminar is co-financed by the project of the Minister of Education and Science.

Meeting under the honorary patronage of the Krakow branch of the Polish Society of Medical Physics (PTFM).

 

12:00 → 13:00 Working lunch (all participants): Why proton therapy?

Why proton therapy?

13:00 → 13:05 Opening of the seminar

13:05 → 13:50 A Case for Upright Radiotherapy

Speaker: Rock Mackie

13:50 → 14:00 Application of Proton Beams for the Treatment of Moving Targets

Speaker: Renata Kopeć

14:00 → 14:10 New ICRU report on proton therapy

Speaker: Paweł Olko (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej PAN)

14:10 → 14:20 Experience with Proton Therapy for Ocular Treatment

Speaker: Bożena Romanowska-Dixon

14:20 → 14:30 Development of proton therapy lines for eye treatment in Kraków

Speaker: Jan Swakoń (IFJ PAN)

14:30 → 14:40 Innovative PET for range determination in proton therapy

Speaker: Paweł Moskal (Jagiellonian University)

14:40 → 14:50 From dose to cluster dose: recent insights into nanodosimetry

Speaker: Antoni Rucinski (Institute of Nuclear Physics PAN)

14:50 → 15:00 Physical properties of lithium fluorite after ultra-high dose-rate proton irradiations

Speaker: Aleksandra Jung (AGH University of Science and Technology)

19:00 → 21:00 Working Dinner of the Scientific Commitee

Conveners: Paweł Olko (Instytut Fizyki Jadrowej PAN), Renata Kopeć