ESTRO 2023 - Abstract Book

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Sunday 14 May 2023

ESTRO 2023

dominated by a simplified hands-on treatment planning session using the graphical user interface of the open-source treatment planning toolkit matRad, supported by a scripted workflow to guide students (Figure 1).

The Masterclass concludes with a discussion which may be (partially) held as videoconference with other parallel Masterclasses. An example schedule is shown in the table below: 9:00 Welcome & Registration 9:15 Introduction: Radiobiology and Particle Therapy 10:00 Break 10:15 Treatment Planning: How to locate and irradiate a tumor 11:00 Lab / Machine visit & Lunch Break 13:15 Hands-on Treatment Planning with matRad (inc. flexible breaks) 16:00 Discussion / Videoconference 17:00 End Results A first successful pilot of the Particle Therapy Masterclass ran in spring 2019 by inviting pupils to three institutes (DKFZ with its Life Science Lab Heidelberg, GSI, and CERN). Over the following years, the Masterclass was expanded (as pure online course with virtual lab visits due to the pandemic) – in spring 2022, more than 40 individual Masterclasses were distributed across six dates in 22 countries (with particularly high Interest in developing countries, see Figure 2).