Target Volume Determination – From Imaging to Margins

Target Volume Determination – From Imaging to Margins. 24-27 mayo 2020. Bruselas (Bélgica).

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course participants should be able to:

  • Have a comprehensive understanding of all parts of the planning process and also plan evaluation for intensity modulated radiotherapy (both stepand-shoot IMRT and VMAT)
  • Increase accuracy as well as effectiveness in the planning process
  • Understand the basis for comparing different plans for the same case
  • Understand the problem of competing priorities in planning
  • Appreciate the concept of plan optimisation.

Course Content

  • Broadening the therapeutic band width
  • Dose calculation algorithms and their differences in clinical impact
  • Applying ICRU in treatment planning
  • Non-IMRT planning – from simple to complex
  • Relationships between 3D dose distributions and clinical toxicities, chest, head and neck, pelvis
  • Rationale behind IMRT Practical guidelines for both step-and-shoot
  • IMRT and VMAT planning
  • Physical and biological optimisation
  • Pareto fronts in clinical practice
  • Geometric uncertainties and how to deal with them
  • Molecular imaging in treatment planning
  • Adaptive planning strategies
  • Library planning, dose painting planning, robust and probabilistic planning.

TP Systems

Monaco, Pinnacle3, RayStation, Eclipse and TomoTherapy

Prerequisites

Before commencing this course participants should:

  • Have at least two years experience of radiotherapy planning
  • Understand the ICRU definitions of GTV, CTV and PTV
  • Understand the relationship between target dose and organs at risk.

Teaching Methods

  • 19 hours of lectures
  • 9 hours of practical workshops
  • 4 hours of case discussions.

Methods of Assessment

  • MCQ
  • Evaluation form.