We are going to have plenary sessions for 3.0 days. We will be having the International Workshop in IMRT/IGRT and the III International Workshop in PD/PDT. During coffee breaks there will be ample opportunity for the attendees to visit the expositor booths. We are planning to invite 12 international speakers for this event (6 for each workshop). Each speaker will be giving one or two lectures in their area of expertise. There will be also local speakers, who will be sharing their clinical and research experience in IGRT and PDT.

A poster session will be available for radiation oncology issues and for PDT, to be held in the second day of the workshop, where the authors of the posters will be available to discuss their work.

A website will be available to advertise the meeting with all the relevant information. New information will be added as it becomes available.

FINAL PROGRAM

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

Tuesday, February 21, 2006

I. WELCOME 8:15-9:00
Chair: Laura Natal Rodrigues, PhD
Luiz Antonio Santini Rodrigues da Silva, Claudio Sibata, Vanderlei Bagnato, Carlos E. De Almeida, Renato di Prinzio, Neiro Mota

II. OVERVIEW OF IGRT
Chair: Neiro Mota, MD
Speaker: George Chen, PhD
Overall process of IGRT:
Characteristics of different types of IGRT 9:00-10:00

Break 10:00-10:20

III. OVERVIEW OF PHOTODIAGNOSIS 10:20-11:10
Chair: Jose Carlos Cruz
Speaker: Vanderlei S. Bagnato, PhD
Concepts and Present Status

IV. PRESENT STATUS OF PDT 11:10-12:00
Chair: Cacilda S. Souza, MD
Speaker: Ron R. Allison, MD
Current techniques in PDT

Lunch on your own 12:00-13:00

V. IGRT STRATEGIES 13:00-14:30
Chair: Laura Natal Rodrigues, PhD
[20 minutes each with 10 minutes discussion at the end]
Speaker: George Chen, PhD
4D CT and models
Speaker: Timothy Zhu, PhD
Fusion
Speaker: James Balter, PhD
Breathing Management
Speaker: Cedric Yu, PhD
Intra Fraction Management

VI. TOMOTHERAPY APPROACH 14:30-15:30
Chair: Carlos Manoel de Araujo, MD/PhD
Speaker: Gustavo Olivera, PhD

Break 15:30-15:50

VII. IGRT Clinical Experience I 15:50-17:00
Chair: Carlos Roberto Monti, MD
[20 minutes each and 10 minutes for discussion at the end]
Speaker: Ron R. Allison, MD
East Carolina University
Speaker: Bhudatt Paliwal, PhD
UW-Madison
Speaker: Ben Heijmen, PhD
Erasmus MC – Daniel den Hoed Cancer Center
Speaker: Ivaldo Ferreira, PhD
Institute Gustave Roussy

Image-Guided Radiotherapy with "Synergy": Present and Future 18:30-19:30
Speaker: Alvaro Martinez, MD
Cocktail 19:30-21:00
Courtesy of Elekta Oncology Systems

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

VIII. PDT Research
Chair: Gisele Pereira, MS
Speaker: Timothy Zhu, PhD
Dosimetry for prostate PDT 8:30-9:20
Speaker: Janice R. Perussi, PhD 9:20-10:00
Assessing PDT efficiency of photosensitizers by
Photooxidation of BSA, uric acid and erithrocyte membrane

Break 10:00-10:20

IX. PD RESEARCH
Chair: Juliana Ferreira, MS
Speaker: Cristina Kurachi, DDS, PhD
Fluorescence diagnosis: from spectra to tissue
detection 10:20-11:00
Speaker: Ajith Kumar Sankarankutty, PhD
Fluorescence and PDT in liver applications 11:00-11:40
Speaker: (to be confirmed)
Non-malignant PDT clinical applications 11:40-12:20

Lunch on your own 12:20-13:20

X. IGRT Clinical Experience II 13:20-14:30
Chair: Robison Ferrigno, MD
[20 minutes each with 10 minutes at the end]
Speaker: Cedric Yu, PhD
University of Maryland
Speaker: George Chen, PhD
MGH
Speaker: James Balter, PhD
University of Michigan

XI. IMRT/IGRT QA 14:30-15:30
Chair: Delano Batista
[30 minutes each]
Speaker: Ben Heijmen, PhD
EPID for high precision dosimetric QA of IMRT
Speaker: Francis Tang, MS
Accurate Dose Calculations for IMRT of Head and Neck Cancers

Break 15:30-15:50

XII. BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCE WITH IMRT 15:50-17:50
Chair: Carlos E. de Almeida, PhD
[20 minutes each and 10 minutes for discussion at the end]
Speakers Carlos Manoel de Araujo, MD/PhD and Delano Batista, BS
INCA-Rio de Janeiro
Speakers: João Luis Fernandes da Silva, MD and Cecilia Haddad, MS
Hospital Sirio Libanes-São Paulo
Speakers: Rodrigo de Morais Hanriot, MD and Jose Carlos da Cruz, MS
Hospital Albert Einstein-São Paulo
Speaker: Carlos Roberto Monti, MD and Pedro Lazarini, BS
Instituto do Radium de Campinas-Campinas
Speakers: Robison Ferrigno, MD and Gisele Pereira, MS
Hospital AC Camargo-São Paulo

Dinner (anybody can join approximately $30/person) 19:30

Thursday, February 23, 2006

XIII. PDT CLINICAL I
Chair: Cristina Kurachi, DDS, PhD
Speaker: Rosa Cuenca, MD
Clinical issues in PDT planning 8:30-9:20
Speaker: Gordon Downie, MD
Tumor Ablation through SEMS for Airway Neoplasm:
The Dosimetry and Efficacy of PDT 9:20-10:00

Break 10:00-10:20

XIV. PDT CLINICAL II
Chair: Renato di Prinzio, MS
Speaker: Timothy Zhu, PhD
Calibration of isotropic detectors for
in-vivo light dosimetry 10:20-11:00
Speaker: Cacilda S. Souza, MD
Cutaneous PDT in Brazil 11:00-11:40
Speaker: Gordon H Downie, MD
Clinical Variations in Airway PDT 11:40-12:20

Lunch on your own 12:20-13:20

XV. IMRT/IGRT TREATMENT PLANNING ISSUES 13:20-14:50
Chair: Rodrigo Morais Hanriot, MD
[20 minutes each and 10 minutes discussion at the end]
Speaker: Jose Luis Dumont, BS
Optimization Algorithm
Speaker: Timothy Zhu, PhD
Real time Calculation for photon beams
Speaker: Cedric Yu, PhD
Aperture based optimization
Speaker: Ben Heijmen, PhD
Cycle: an algorithm for beam orientation optimization

Break 14:50-15:10

XVI. PRACTICAL ASPECTS – HANDS ON
Chair: V.S. Bagnato, PhD
C. Sibata, PhD; C. Kurachi, PhD and J. Ferreira, MS 15:10-16:10

XVII. CLOSING 16:10
Chair: Laura Natal Rodrigues, PhD
Claudio Sibata, Vanderlei Bagnato, Carlos E. De Almeida, Renato di Prinzio, Neiro Mota

 

POSTER SESSIONS
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE: Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Posters are to be hung on February 20 and left until February 23 in the Coffee Break area where posters stands will be available.
Authors should be available for presentation of their poster during the session below:

IMRT/IGRT posters 10:00-11:00
PDT posters 13:30-14:30

 


Organizers:

Claudio Sibata,
Helvecio Mota,
Vanderlei S. Bagnato,
Carlos E. de Almeida,
Renato Di Prinzio