PRIMO Workshop

Workshop on the Monte Carlo radiotherapy system PRIMO

Dosimetry and treatment planning research problems

Monte Carlo simulation is the state-of-the-art for the study of radiation transport problems in radiotherapy, in particular for modeling medical linear accelerators (linacs). PRIMO is a software system based on the Monte Carlo method that simulates linacs and absorbed dose distributions in external beam radiotherapy patients. The software is being used in the clinical practice, in dosimetry, and for educational and research applications. The aim of this workshop was to gather the advances in the aforementioned areas that have been achieved using PRIMO.

Scientific Committee

  • President: Lorenzo Brualla (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Pedro Andreo (Karolinska Institutet, Sweden)
  • Luca Cozzi (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Italy)
  • Michael Fix (Inselspital, Switzerland)
  • Nuria Jornet (Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Spain)
  • Antonio Lallena (Universidad de Granada, Spain)
  • Nick Reynaert (Centre Oscar Lambret, France)
  • Miguel Rodriguez (Hospital Paitilla, Panama)
  • Wolfgang Sauerwein (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Josep Sempau (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  • Virginia Tsapaki (Konstantopoulio General Hospital, Greece)
  • Andrea Wittig (Universitätsklinikum Marburg, Germany)

Organizing Committee

  • President:   Wolfgang Sauerwein (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Lorenzo Brualla     (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Luca Cozzi     (Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Italy)
  • Gundula Franz     (Universitätsklinikum Essen, Germany)
  • Miguel Rodriguez     (Hospital Paitilla, Panama)
  • Josep Sempau     (Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya, Spain)
  • Erdin Tokmak     (Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
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Location and date

Wednesday 20th – Friday 22nd September, 2017

Universitätsklinikum Essen. Operatives Zentrum II, Auditorium

Hufelandstraße 55
45147 Essen. Germany

 

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

WORKSHOP SUPPORTED BY THE
DEUTSCHE FORSCHUNGSGEMEINSCHAF

ESTRO ENDORSED EVENT