Radiotherapy Dosimetry: Current Status and Future Developments
Thursday 26 February 2009 - Middlesex


Draft Programme and Call for Papers

Are dynamic treatments, small fields, in vivo dose verification or brachytherapy seeds giving you dosimetry headaches? This one day meeting will provide the opportunity to review the current state of clinical radiotherapy dosimetry and to learm about recent developments in the field.

Presentations are invited on all aspects of radiotherapy dosimetry, including:
IMRT, IMAT, Tomotherapy, Radionuclide, Brachytherapy, 3D, in vivo and small-field dosimetry.

The deadline for submission of abstracts is Friday 5 December 2008. Abstracts should be emailed to Dr McLellan at . Proffered speakers will have free registration for the meeting.

This meeting is kindly support by the NPL.


Provisional Programme

09:00	Registration and coffee
09:50	Welcome and introduction
	Session 1: In vivo dosimetry
10:00	Current status/developments in in vivo dosimetry
	Dr Alan McKenzie, University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Bristol
10:20	Proffered papers and discussion
11:00	Coffee break
	Session 2: IMRT and 3D Dosimetry
11:30	Practical IMRT dose verification: Reducing the physics Workload
	Dr Andrew Williams, Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital NHS Trust, Norwich
11:50	3-D Dosimetry: Current state-of-the-art
	Dr Simon Doran, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, Surrey
12:10	Proffered papers
12:30	Lunch
	Session 3: Advances in Dosimetry
13:30	Current status/developments in unsealed source/radionuclide dosimetry
	Dr Glenn Flux, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Surrey
13:50	Current status/developments in ion beam dosimetry
	Dr Hugo Palmans, National Physical Laboratory, Middlesex
14:10	Proffered papers
14:30	Coffee break
	Session 4: Dosimetry Standards and Audit
15:00	Current status/developments in radiotherapy audits and intercomparisons
	Prof Andrew Nisbet, The Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust, Surrey
15:20	Updating BJR Supplement 25 for the modern radiotherapy world
	Mr Tom Jordan, The Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Trust, Surrey
15:40	Proffered papers
16:00	Discussion and close

For more information or to book for the meeting, please call +44 (0)207 307 1411

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