Image-Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice: Including SABR Topics

Image-Guided Radiotherapy in Clinical Practice: Including SABR Topics is organized by The Institute of Cancer Research (ICR), The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and will be held from Feb 07 - 09, 2019 at The Royal Marsden School, London, England, United Kingdom. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of AMA PRA Category 19 CPD Credits.

Course overview
This course is designed to help clinicians, physicists and radiographers to develop comprehensive programmes for the clinical implementation of image guided radiotherapy. The course has been awarded 19 RCR Category I CPD credits under The Royal College of Radiologists CPD scheme.

The curriculum covers many practical aspects and includes hands-on practical sessions, image matching, QA and dosimetry. It is recommended that a team of oncologist, physicist and radiographer from the same centre attend together. 

The course is for three days and included in the cost are a set of lecture notes, a digital copy of the actual presentations, lunches, refreshments, cheese and wine and a course dinner on the evening of Thursday 7 February 2019.

Day one: Introduces multi-modality and functional imaging for the delivery of complex radiotherapy, discusses future developments as well as an introduction to the principles of IGRT, and clinical site implementation.

Day two: Lectures on head and neck, breast, prostate and lung clinical trials, SABR and image verification. FFF and small field dosimetry and QA with SABR.

Day three: Practical hands-on sessions on the use of Image Guidance protocols, QA, Dosimetry, and a journey through the patient pathway.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.