Course Content

1. Lectures on:

• IMRT/VMAT – physics aspects, clinical application and impact
• Stereotactic radiotherapy (cranial and extra-cranial)
• Rotational therapy (VMAT, helical tomotherapy)
• Particle therapy (electrons, protons, ions)
• Volumes in external beam radiotherapy Imaging for GTV definition
• Imaging for GTV definition
• Imaging for treatment preparation and planning
• PTV margin calculation
• IGRT (equipment for in-room imaging, set-up correction strategies, clinical examples)
• Adaptive radiotherapy
• Dose prescription and plan evaluation
• Field junctions (how, when, and alternatives)
• Commissioning and Quality Assurance/Control of equipment and software
• Brachytherapy
• Radiobiology in the clinic
• Implementing patient-specific dosimetric QA
• Radiation Protection and risk analysis
• Induction of secondary tumours.

Specific for clinicians:

• Basic radiation physics
• Dose calculation: principles and application in the TPS
• Radiotherapy equipment
• Physicas of advanced radiotherapy.

Specific for physicists:

• Reference and non-reference dosimetry
• Modern dose calculation algorithms
• QA for advanced delivery techniques
• Oncologic concepts.

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