Conveners
Wednesday afternoon - Poster Presentations - Screen1
- Oleg Belyakov (IAEA)
Carrie Minnaar
(University of the Witwatersrand)
21/06/2017, 15:30
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy
Poster
INTRODUCTION: 5-year survival rates for cervical cancer can be as much as 50% lower in developing countries than in developed countries. The treatment of cervical cancer patients in State facilities in South Africa is complicated by the advanced stage of disease at presentation, limited resources in the facilities and high HIV incidence amongst patients. These challenges contribute to the...
Katsuyuki Karasawa
(Dept. of Radiology, Tokyo Metro. Cancer and Infectious Diseases Ctr. Komagome Hospital)
21/06/2017, 15:35
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy
Poster
Purpose / Objectives
Recently, stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) using dynamic tumor tracking (DTT) techniques has been increasingly used. DTT technique has been successful in reducing the size of the PTV and doses to the normal tissue. In our hospital, we have been performing two different DTT techniques, namely, robot arm-based DTT (RA-DTT; CyberKnife System) and gimbal-based DTT...
Hannah Wiedner
(BEV)
21/06/2017, 15:40
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy
Poster
In the last few years there has been an increase in Europe in the development and use of radiopharmaceuticals for treating cancer as well as an increase in the number of molecular radiotherapy (MRT) clinical trials that are expected to start in the near future. Currently, MRT provides a valuable treatment modality to around 50 000 to 100 000 cancer patients per year in Europe, including...
Peter Watson
(McGill University)
21/06/2017, 15:45
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy
Poster
## Introduction ##
In brachytherapy, miniature low-energy X-ray sources offer a number of advantages over traditional radioactive sources. These include their ease of portability, and reduced regulatory and shielding requirements. However, the dosimetry of these devices is challenging due to their steep dose gradients, soft X-ray spectra (< 100 kV) and influence of target spectral lines....
Ahmad Nobah
(King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre)
21/06/2017, 15:50
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy
Poster
Purpose: To investigate the feasibility of making a heterogeneous humanoid phantom from the CT DICOM image set of actual patient using a commercially available desktop 3D printer and cost effective materials that have radiological characteristics of human tissue and bone
Methods and Materials: gMAX 1.5XT+ Desktop 3D printer (gCreate, NY) was used to build a 3D model reconstructed from a...
Barbara Bencsik
(National Institute of Oncology)
21/06/2017, 15:55
New Technologies in Radiation Oncology/Radiotherapy
Poster
Introduction
Our IGRT protocol for external beam radiotherapy for low and intermediate-risk prostate cancer patients requires registration of internal fiducial gold markers implanted in the prostate. On the other hand, registration of images of the setup fields at high-risk prostate cancer patients are based on bony structures without using gold markers, which might require larger margin for...
