Dose 2016

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME

Teaching Course on Dose Modelling and Verification for External Beam Radiotherapy

Day 1

Sunday 6 March Introduction

09:00 – 09:30

Introduction to course and faculty + Participant Survey

TK/BMcC

09:30 - 10:30

Basic concepts, definitions, convolution, superposition ray trace, fluence and the Boltzmann transport equation etc

BMcC

10 :30 –11:00

Coffee

Input Data

11:00 – 12:00

Linac head design

TK

NJ

12:00 – 12:45

Dose measurements: Part 1 Relative dose away from reference conditions

12:45 – 13:45

Lunch

13:45 – 14:30

Patient characterisation

BMcC

14:30 – 15:00

Phantoms

MMA

15:00 – 15:30

Coffee

Verification 1

Dose measurements; Part 2 The best detector for different jobs – point detectors.

NJ

15:30 – 16:15

Day 2

Monday 7 March Modelling 1

9:00 – 9:30 9:30 – 10:00

Pencil kernels

MMA

Out of field dose modelling

BMcC

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee

10:30 – 11:15

Multisource models

AA

11:15 – 12:00

TK

Electron Modelling

12:00 – 12:45

Point Kernels

AA

12.45 -13.45 13:45 - 14:15 14:15 – 15:00

Lunch

Grid Based approaches Small fields: Measurement

AA

MMA

15:00- 15:30

Coffee

15:30 – 16:00

Small fields: Modelling

MMA