Content of the course:

• Clinical indications adult (CNS, GI, Head & Neck, Skull base)
• Pediatrics and AYA
• Basic physics of proton therapy
• Radiation biology
• Delivery & treatment planning
• Therapy workflow
• Uncertainty & motion
• Specification, commissioning & Q.A.
• New directions in proton therapy

Aim of course:

To provide detailed knowledge on the clinical, physics and technological aspects of proton therapy using pencil beam scanning

Target audience:

Radiation oncologists, medical physicists, physicists, engineers, radiation technologists and dosimetrists. No previous knowledge of proton therapy is necessary.