PROGRAM
Days: Monday, April 11th Tuesday, April 12th Wednesday, April 13th
Monday, April 11th
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09:00-09:10 Session 1: Opening the conference (Verhaegen, Reniers, Enger)
Location: Presentations room
09:10-09:40 Session 2: keynote presentation
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Location: Presentations room
09:10 | Towards mechanistic modeling of the response of tissue to radiation (Invited) |
09:40-10:30 Session 3: Monte Carlo Codes and User Interfaces
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Location: Presentations room
09:40 | Features of TOPAS-nBio - release v1.0 |
09:50 | Update on the G4-Med project, a Geant4 benchmarking system for bio-medical physics applications developed by the Geant4 Medical Simulation Benchmarking Group PRESENTER: Miguel Antonio Cortes-Giraldo |
10:00 | PenMRT: A PENELOPE based high-resolution dose calculation engine for microbeam radiation therapy |
10:10 | PenG4: Implementation into Geant4 of the PENELOPE physics models and class-II transport algorithm |
10:20 | Design and validation of MaRSS: a Modular Radiation Simulation Software package |
11:00-12:30 Session 4: Photon and electron radiotherapy
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Location: Presentations room
11:00 | Accessible Accuracy: How Monte Carlo Could Transform Clinical Practice (Invited) |
11:20 | Varian Halcyon linac Monte Carlo model using CAD geometry implementation: Dose and IAEA-compliant phase space calculations |
11:30 | Auto-commissioning of an electron beam model for photon MLC shaped fields in electron radiotherapy |
11:40 | Probabilistic optimization of a CyberKnife Monte Carlo beam model and its impact on simulated dosimetric functions |
11:50 | A step towards treatment planning for microbeam radiation therapy: fast dose predictions with generative adversarial networks |
12:00 | A treatment planning framework for glioblastoma using Monte Carlo calculation of intraoperative radiotherapy dose distributions PRESENTER: David Santiago Ayala Alvarez |
12:10 | Determination of monitor chamber backscatter correction for Monte Carlo simulations of a TrueBeam 6 MV beam |
12:20 | Log files-based Quality Assurance of Mixed Electron-photon Beam Radiation Therapy |
12:30-13:45 Session 5: Posters
Location: Poster and Break areas
A Monte-Carlo supervised based deep learning model for fluence distribution predictions : first step to mechanic and patient-specific dose distribution prediction for external radiotherapy quality assurance |
EGS-SMS: EGS5-based Programming Shell for Medical Physics Simulations PRESENTER: Isaac Darras |
Dosimetric characterization of a dynamic collimation system for pencil beam scanning proton therapy: a Monte Carlo study |
Suite for In Silico Dosimetry: cloud Monte Carlo simulations for advanced ionizing radiation applications |
Impact of fluence interpolation during intensity modulation optimization in dynamic trajectory radiotherapy |
Escape corrections in a CZT pixellated spectroscopic X-ray detector |
Quasi Monte-Carlo Voxelized Source Sampling |
The AGATA platform for Virtual Clinical Trials x-ray breast imaging: Detector model and anatomical noise validation in 2D mammography |
177Lu-DOTATATE Microdosimetry with Geant4 Monte Carlo Simulations |
Recent developments in BDSIM for medical applications |
A self-consistent numerical evaluation of machine and shielding activation for medical accelerator systems |
Exploitation of HPC for realistic pediatric dosimetry simulations using GATE |
13:45-14:55 Session 6: Photon and electron therapy, continued
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Location: Presentations room
13:45 | Monte Carlo treatment planning process for dynamic trajectory radiotherapy including dynamic table translations applied to cranio-spinal irradiation PRESENTER: Gian Guyer |
13:55 | Monte Carlo based assessment of VMAT, HyperArc and dynamic trajectory radiotherapy plan robustness against systematic machine uncertainties |
14:05 | Accuracy of an independent Monte Carlo dose verification software |
14:15 | Exploiting robust optimized mixed photon and electron radiotherapy to avoid using a bolus |
14:25 | Use of the VirtualPatient 3D in ionizing radiation field |
14:35 | Haralick texture feature analysis of Monte Carlo generated dose distributions |
14:45 | A feasibility study of IORT-Flash using a GPU-based fast Monte Carlo (FRED) |
14:55-16:25 Session 7: Brachytherapy
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Location: Presentations room
14:55 | Applications of Monte Carlo simulations in brachytherapy (Invited) |
15:15 | Monte-Carlo Based Simulations of the Uncertainties in Clinical Water-Based Intravascular Brachytherapy Dosimetry PRESENTER: Jonathan Kalinowski |
15:25 | A Monte Carlo study on relative biological effectiveness of TG-253 surface electronic brachytherapy applicators |
15:35 | Verification of the high dose rate brachytherapy doses in a keloid scar treatment using an egs_brachy Monte Carlo code |
15:45 | Validation and deployment of the brachytherapy package for Monte Carlo simulations with TOPAS |
15:55 | New geometric models for improving Monte Carlo calculations of Ru/Rh asymmetric ophthalmic applicators. |
16:05 | Microdosimetric spectra of electronic brachytherapy skin treatment devices: a MC approach |
16:15 | A DICOM-compliant, automated Monte Carlo dose recalculation workflow for LDR prostate brachytherapy |
16:25-17:30 Session 8: News from the vendors
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Location: Presentations room
Tuesday, April 12th
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09:00-10:50 Session 9: Proton and ion beam radiotherapy
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Location: Presentations room
09:00 | Monte Carlo applications for light ion beam therapy (Invited) |
09:20 | Relative biological effectiveness in the spatial fractionation of hadron therapy beams. PRESENTER: Daniel Puerta Megías |
09:30 | Localization of anatomical changes in patients during proton therapy with in-beam PET monitoring: a Voxel-Based Morphometry approach exploiting Monte Carlo simulations |
09:40 | moqui: MOnte carlo code for QUIck proton dose calculation |
09:50 | Investigation of the impact of aperture and field size on the secondary radiation field in proton therapy using Monte Carlo simulations and measurements with a Timepix detector |
10:00 | Development of a GPU-accelerated Monte-Carlo (FRED) for carbon therapy dose recalculation using a data-driven fragmentation model |
10:10 | On the perturbation and beam quality correction in carbon ion beams |
10:20 | Prediction of out-of-field neutron doses for proton therapy patients by means of Monte Carlo simulations |
10:30 | Numerical simulations to optimize passive scattering eye treatment beamlines toward improved clinical performances |
10:40 | A Monte Carlo framework to evaluate the radiological properties of 3D-printable materials for proton therapy phantom development |
11:20-12:30 Session 10: Imaging & Image Guidance
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Location: Presentations room
11:20 | Monte Carlo simulation of a proton computed tomography scanner to optimize fluence modulated imaging (Invited) |
11:40 | Development and benchmark of a customizable Monte Carlo CT scanner model |
11:50 | Optical 3D body scanning for patient-specific dose estimates in CT PRESENTER: Francesca Saveria Maddaloni |
12:00 | Evaluation of the impact of a scanner prototype on proton CT and helium CT image quality and dose efficiency with Monte Carlo simulation |
12:10 | Fastcat: Rapid Hybrid Monte Carlo Simulation of Cone Beam CT (CBCT) |
12:20 | A fast GPU Monte Carlo code for Virtual Clinical trials in Breast Computed tomography PRESENTER: Antonio Sarno |
12:30-13:45 Session 11: Posters
Location: Poster and Break areas
13:45-14:25 Session 12: Imaging & Image Guidance, continued
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Location: Presentations room
14:15-15:25 Session 13: Monte Carlo and Artificial Intelligence
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Location: Presentations room
16:00-16:50 Session 14: Microdosimetry and Radiobiology
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Location: Presentations room
19:00-23:59 dinner & drinks at Horta
Horta restaurant, Hopland 2, 2000 Antwerp
https://www.grandcafehorta.be/
Wednesday, April 13th
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09:00-10:40 Session 15: Dosimetry
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Location: Presentations room
09:00 | Monte Carlo calculations for proton therapy dosimetry: detectors modelling and applications (Invited) |
09:20 | TOPAS for 90Y-microsphere radioembolization dosimetry |
09:30 | Monte Carlo calculation of electron fluence perturbations in seven commercial radiation detectors in MRgRT beams. |
09:40 | Using EGSnrc to split a photon beam into dose components for systematic investigations of dose-area-product. |
09:50 | Cylindrical ionization chamber response in dynamic high-energy photon beams |
10:00 | Evaluating mosaicking strategies for patch-based Monte Carlo simulations for internal dosimetry PRESENTER: Francesca De Benetti |
11:10-12:10 Session 16: Microdosimetry & Radiobiology, continued
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Location: Presentations room