NPL PPRIG Proton Therapy Physics Workshop 2014

12 – 13 March 2014

NPL organised and hosted a two-day PPRIG workshop on Proton Therapy Physics on 12 – 13 March 2014 as part of the NPL Cancer Therapies Campaign.

Approximately 90 delegates attended this extremely successful event. The workshop aims were to initiate discussions between experts in the field; develop links and collaborations; as well as to inform relative newcomers to the field, providing access to a network of experts.

Invited talks given by Professors Phil Evans, Marco Durante, Stuart Green, Uwe Oelfke, Harald Paganetti and Dr Hugo Palmans covered areas such as:

• Relative and Absolute Dosimetry of Proton Beams
• Detector Instrumentation
• QA and Delivery Verification
• Proton Imaging
• Treatment Planning;
• Monte Carlo for Proton Therapy Physics
• Radiobiology

In addition, approximately 20 proffered talks were given.

Meeting Agenda
Book of Abstracts

Presentations

Session 1

Absolute and Relative Dosimetry of Proton Beams – Hugo Palmans

Dosimetry and radiobiology research on the Birmingham MC40 cyclotron – Prof Stuart Green

Dosimetric Characterisation of Glass Bead TLDs in Proton Beams – Shakar Jafari

Targeted cell irradiation at the Surrey Vertical Beam – Dr Mike Merchant

Session 2

Detector instrumentation – Prof Ken Peach

Graphite Calorimetry in Scanned Proton Beams – Lauren Petrie

First direct comparison between a graphite calorimeter and a water calorimeter in a 60 MeV proton beam – Dr Séverine Rossomme

Session 3

Proton Beam Therapy: QA & Delivery Verification – Dr Richard Amos

Cerenkov light production during proton therapy: simulation and experiment – Yusuf Helo

Developing an Accurate Beam Model for a Proton Therapy Spot Scanning Monte-Carlo Verification System – Dr Jenny Richardson

Water & tissue equivalent phantom materials for clinical proton beam dosimetry – Ana Monica Lourenco

Session 4

Issues and Challenges for Imaging in Proton Radiotherapy – Prof Phil Evans

Proton-counting imaging for proton radiotherapy using CMOS APS detectors – Dr Gavin Poludniowski

Proton Gantry Mounted CBCT Development at Massachusetts General Hospital – Prof Brian Winey

Investigation of dual energy CT tissue characterization methods for particle beam dose calculation – Dr Hugo Bouchard

Session 5

Treatment Planning and Optimisation of Hadron Therapy – Uwe Oelfke

Effects of Patient Setup Uncertainty on Proton SRS Treatment Planning – Prof Brian Winey

Incorporating and Managing Uncertainties in PBT – Stacey McGowan

Dose remapping and summation for head and neck adaptive radiotherapy applications – Catarina Veiga

Session 6

Monte Carlo simulations for research as well as clinical support in proton therapy – Prof Harald Paganetti

Collimation of spot scanned proton therapy beams to sharpen the lateral edge of uniform dose volumes – Dr Frances Charlwood

Fluence correction factors for graphite calorimetry in clinical proton beams using Geant4 – David Shipley

Session 7

Radiobiology - Prof Marco Durante

Radiobiology at Surrey's Ion Beam Centre – Dr Charlie Jeynes

RBE variation along monoenergetic and modulated Bragg peaks of a 62 MeV therapeutic proton beams – Dr Pankaj Chaudhary

Developing a fluorescence microscopy method of cell cycle phase determination, compatible with targeted irradiation protocols – Miriam Barry

Radiosensitisation by nanoparticles in Proton therapy – Reem Ahmad