Metrology for Brachytherapy

This workshop aims to define future challenges and directions within the scope of metrology for brachytherapy.

The workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of information, ideas and expertise in the field of brachytherapy in the community with experts from metrology, medical physics, radiation oncology, radiobiology as well as vendors.

The current status of brachytherapy in clinics and hospitals, quality assurance, calibration services and the current and future potentials of technological improvements and medical physics innovations will be reviewed in the light of future demands on metrology and calibration services.

• current reference dosimetry in brachytherapy
• clinical dosimetry and dose verification
• dosimetry parameters: MC calculation and experimental verification
• model based dose calculation algorithms (MBDCA)
• experimental verification of the 3D dose distribution
• detectors in brachytherapy
• in-vivo dosimetry
• electronic brachytherapy and intraoperative radiation therapy (IORT)
• new sources
• directional LDR brachytherapy sources
• eye plaque brachytherapy
• image guided brachytherapy (IGBT)
• radiobiological effects: detectors, micro- and nanodosimetry 

The conference will be held at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB).

The PTB is the national metrology institute of Germany providing scientific and technical services. PTB measures with the highest accuracy and reliability - metrology as the core competence.

Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
Seminarzentrum A
Bundesallee 100
D-38116 Braunschweig, Germany

Detailed information including web links to the public transport systems can be obtained from the following web page: here

Attendees may give a presentation related to the overall workshop topic. An Abstract can be submitted via the Registration form or via e-mail to Brachytherapy@ptb.de, if you are already registered. Deadline is the 29^th of March 2017. There will be no specific abstract format. The length can be freely chosen as well as the number of figures. Please make sure that the uploaded file has a common PDF format. Notification of outcome of abstract submission will be sent by e-mail on the 31^st of March 2017.

The conference language is English.

• Abstract submission:                                    29^th of March 2017
• Notification of acceptance of presentations: 31^st of March 2017

The number of participants is limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.*

All interested participants are kindly requested to register online:

• Registration form
  
  
• Registration fee*:
  Early (30^th April): 150€
  Late  (26^th May):  250€
  Desk**:                   300€

*date of the fee being credited to our account
**no credit cards accepted

Email: Brachytherapy@ptb.de

Metrology for Brachytherapy:
State-of-the-art and beyond

International Workshop

Tuesday, 30 May 2017

Time	Speaker	Title
13:00 - 13:10		Opening of the Workshop
13:10 - 13:25	Jörn Stenger	Welcome at PTB
13:25 - 13:35	Anette Röttger	An introduction to "Radiation protection dosimetry" at PTB
13:35 - 14:15	Frank-Andre Siebert	Recent proceedings in Brachytherapy Physics
14:15 - 14:55	Thorsten Sander	Air kerma and absorbed dose standards for reference   dosimetry in brachytherapy   (List of reference)
14:55 - 15:40		Coffee/workshop-photo
15:40 - 16:20	Jose Perez-Calatayud	Societal guidelines in high energy and skin brachytherapy
16:20 - 17:00	Frank Verhaegen	Improving clinical brachytherapy: dosimetry & verification
17:00 - 17:20	Thorsten Schneider	Towards reference dosimetry of electronic brachytherapy   sources
17:20 - 17:40	Marion Bug	Relevance of low-energy electron transport for dosimetry   and RBE-estimation of Brachytherapy sources
17:40 - 18:00		Discussion
19:30 - 22:30		Workshop dinner

 Wednesday, 31 May 2017

Time	Speaker	Title
08:50 - 09:00		Welcome back, organisational matters
09:00 - 09:40	Frank Hensley	Dose measurement at short distances from radiation sources
09:40 - 10:00	Melanie Ebenau	Energy dependent response of plastic scintillation detectors to   photon radiation of low to medium energy
10:00 - 10:20	Andreas Schönfeld	In-phantom dosimetry near a 192Ir brachytherapy source
10:20 - 10:40		Discussion
10:40 - 11:20		Coffee/poster session
11:20 - 11:40	Jacob Johansen	Source tracking using real-time in vivo dosimetry
11:40 - 12:00	Loys Gindraux	Architecture and performance of an instrumented phantom   real time HDR-BT QA and QC
12:00 - 12:20		Discussion
12:20 - 12:30		Closing of the workshop
		Lunch
13:30 - 15:00		Lab tour
15:00 - 18:00	Frank Hensley	DIN 6803-3

 Workshop program (pdf-file)

• Flyer
  
  
  
• The workshop-dinner will take place at the hotel "Deutsches Haus" close to the castle of Brunswick (http://www.deutscheshaus24.de/).
  
  
• Poster display dimensions: (1.18 m x 1.48 m (w x h) maximum usable surface)
  DIN A0-format (84.1 cm x 118.9 cm) is recommended.
  
  
• Interested participants of this workshop are invited to attend the meeting of DIN 6803-3 Working Group which will take place after the PTB workshop on Wednesday 31.05.17 from 15:30h to 18:00h. The Working Group is committed to the analysis of factors influencing experimental dosimetry, evaluation of the connected uncertainties and the development of a standardized form of dose determination at short distances from photon sources. The results are to be published in the projected standard DIN 6803-3. After the PTB workshop the group will discuss the results of the meeting in respect to the DIN project and plan future steps. Interested workshop participants are invited to join in the discussion.