A talk by OMA Fellow at the Workshop on Innovative Delivery Systems in Particle Therapy
EuCard-2 Workshop on Innovative Delivery Systems in Particle Therapy took place at Molecular Biotechnology Centre in Torino, Italy, between 23rd and 25th of February 2017.
The workshop covered multiple subjects and was split into sessions related to current status of dose delivery systems and new challenges in the field, dose verification, organ motion strategies or new accelerators for particle therapy. It was also an academia-industry matching event and thus a few commercial representatives were invited, i.e. Hitachi, Toshiba, Mevion, IBA etc. On the last day of workshop, a guided tour to the CNAO centre in Pavia took place.
Our fellow, Ewa Oponowicz (based at the Cockcroft Institute/University of Manchester) gave a talk on research activities carried out in the field of proton therapy in the U.K. The speech focused mainly on the research on high energy proton beams (330-350 MeV) for proton computed tomography. It also covered update on the new NHS proton therapy centres being built in England, at the Christie Hospital in Manchester and at the University College London Hospital that will be made available for patients in 2018 and 2019 relatively.