Program - Small Animal RT Symp

Second Symposium on Precision Image-Guided Small Animal RadioTherapy,
Vancouver, Canada, August 11-13 2014
Program: Second Symposium on Precision Image-Guided Small Animal RadioTherapy, Aug 11-13, 2014
Sunday August 10
18-21 hr: Registration + Icebreaker reception
Monday August 11
8.00-9.00
9.00-9.10
9.10-9.55
Registration
Opening address: F Verhaegen, B Gill (Maastricht & Vancouver)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
A van der Kogel - High precision small animal radiotherapy – historic perspective and new opportunities
Tumor/normal tissue models. Chair: XXX
9.55-10.10
10.10-10.25
10.25-10.40
R Bütof - Establishment of orthotopic tumor models for small animal image guided radiotherapy
S Krueger - Use of a small animal image-guided irradiator in the development of a rat model of radiation cystitis
R Lieverse - A review of radiation effects in healthy lungs in preclinical models
10.40-11.10
Coffee break
11.10-11.40
INVITED: D Jaffray - XXX
11.40-11.55
G Price - Optical surface sensing for rapid, accurate & repeatable X-ray free animal irradiation set-up & monitoring
11.55-12.10
12.10-12.40
N Zarghami - Histological evaluation of targeting accuracy of 3D-printed immobilization device for mouse irradiation
Discussion Session I- Moderator: XXX
12.40-13.50
Lunch
Research technology. Chair: XXX
14.20-14.35
14.35-14.50
Precision radiotherapy. Chair: XXX
INVITED: R Hill - Use of X-Rad 225Cx small animal irradiator/imager for fractionated radiation treatment of orthotopic models of
cervix cancer
M Dolera - Canine meningiomas: comparison of palliative therapy, surgery and VMAT stereotactic frameless radiosurgery
L Court - Pre-clinical studies on the relationship between quantitative image features and tumor phenotype
14.50-15.05
P Granton - Longitudinal evaluation of radiation induced lung fibrosis in mice using a dedicated small animal micro-irradiator
15.05-15.35
Coffee break
15.35-15.50
R Hase (Faxitron) -
15.50-16.05
A Treverton (XSTRAHL) - XXX
16.05-16.20
16.20-16.35
16.35-17.05
19.00
W McLauglin (PXi) - XXX
F Verhaegen (SmART-Solutions) – XXX [or others]
Discussion Session II - Moderator: XXX
Symposium Dinner
13.50-14.20
News from the manufacturers. Chair: XXX
Advancements in Integrated Dose Control of a Fixed Cone Beam Biological Irradiator
Tuesday August 12
9.00-9.30
9.30-9.45
9.45-10.00
10.00-10.15
Research Technology. Chair: XXX
INVITED: J Wong - XXX
A Rubinstein - Investigating magnetic field dose effects in mice: a Monte Carlo study
G Delpon - Monte Carlo derived dose distributions for small animal radiotherapy: a Gate and EGS comparison
10.15-10.30
10.30-10.45
10.45-11.15
M Belley - Overview of an inorganic nano-crystalline scintillator based fiber optic detector for real-time, in-vivo, small animal
therapy dosimetry
M Jermoumi - Comprehensive Quality Assurance phantom for the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform
J Stewart - High-Precision Irradiation Targeting with On-line Radiation Field Positioning Uncertainty Corrections
Coffee break
11.15-11.45
11.45-12.00
Precision radiotherapy. Chair: XXX
INVITED: J Lum - Radiation Medicine: Enhancing the immune-modulatory roles of radiation
H Lee - Investigation into the abscopal effect in mouse models of breast cancer using image-guided small animal radiotherapy
12.00-12.15
12.15-12.30
12.30-13.00
13.00-14.10
G Borst - Genetically engineered mouse models and high precision fractionated radiotherapy to unravel irradiation escape and
design novel treatment strategies
L Dubois - Preclinical Assessment of Efficacy of Radiation Dose Redistribution Based on Intratumoral FDG-PET Uptake
Discussion Session III – Moderator: XXX
Lunch
14.10-14.25
14.25-14.40
Imaging. Chair: XXX
M Bazalova-Carter - Investigation of microCT image quality for the SARRP, PXi, and Stanford conformal radiotherapy system
J Salguero - Hounsfield unit robustness in small animal Cone Beam CT
14.40-14.55
14.55-15.10
R Weersink - Targeting accuracy tests of bioluminescence imaging integrated with cone-beam CT for image-guided small animal
irradiation
F Giordano - Image-guided radiotherapy of orthotopically implanted glioblastoma multiforme using a modified standard micro-CT
15.10-15.30
Coffee break
New facilities. Chair XXX
15.30-16.00
INVITED: E Ford - An Image-Guided Precision Proton Radiation Platform (PPRP) Benchmarked with Radiobiological Experiments
16.00-16.20
T Yoshizumi - Small Animal Irradiator Physics Program at a Large Academic Medical Center
16.20-16.40
M Manca - A CERN for radio-oncology? Background, design and roadmap of a biomedical experimental facility for particle therapy
and related research at CERN
Discussion Session IV - Moderator: XXX
Free evening
16.40-17.10
Wednesday August 13
Imaging&Dosimetry. Chair: XXX
9.00-9.30
9.30-9.45
9.45-10.00
INVITED: J Dorsey - Leveraging the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) to develop a new generation of theranostic
radiomodifiers
S Yahjahnejad - Accessing tumor response in orthotopic glioma model using a precision image-guided micro-irradiator
L Malfassi - The use of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) in differential diagnosis of canine brain disease
10.00-10.15
M Balvert - Automated beam-on-time optimization for small animal radiotherapy treatment planning
10.15-10.45
Coffee break
10.45-11.15
11.15-11.30
The final word. Chair: XXX
INVITED: K Butterworth - Image guided small animal radiotherapy applications in translational radiobiology
S van Hoof - Comparison of homogeneous MV and kV pre-clinical radiation treatments for rat flank tumors
11.30-11.45
F Verhaegen – The need for networking in small animal radiotherapy research
11.45-12.15
Discussion session V – Moderator: XXX
12.15-12.25
B Gill, F Verhaegen – Best Young Speaker Award & closing the Symposium
Posters
1. M Belley. Real-time verification of planned dose during treatment on a small animal image guided radiation therapy treatment system
using a nano-scintillator fiber optic detector
2. P Granton. PlastiMouse
3. M Dolera. Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Canine Adrenal Tumors: 12 Cases
4. M Dolera - Adaptive hypofractionated volumetric modulated arc stereotactic radiotherapy (AHSR-VMAT) in rabbit’s thymoma