Funded Projects
End-to-end testing for dosimetry audit at light ion beam therapy facilities (part of IPACS collaboration)
Principal Investigator:
Prof. Markus Stock, PhD (scientific coordinator at MedAustron, Austria)
Participating Institutions:
EBG MedAustron GmbH, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
PTC, Prague, Czech Republic
IFJ-COI, Krakow, Poland
Skandion Clinic, Uppsala, Sweden
Proton Therapy Center, Trento, Italy
Status:
Project completed;
Publication: Acta Oncologica, ISSN: 0284-186X (Print) 1651-226X (Online), Harmonization of proton treatment planning for head and neck cancer using pencil beam scanning: first report of the IPACS collaboration group
Heavy ion minibeam radiation therapy: dosimetry and a first proof of concept
Principal Investigator (Spokesperson):
Yolanda Prezado, PhD (scientific coordinator at IMNC, France)
Participating Institutions:
QST, National Institute of Radiological Science, Chiba , Japan
Charité Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germnany
IMNC, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
ALBA synchrotron, Cells, Spain
Orsay, Proton Therapy Center, Institute Curie, France
Status:
Project completed;
Publication: Cancers (Basel). 2021 Mar; 13(6): 1356. A Potential Renewed Use of Very Heavy Ions for Therapy: Neon Minibeam Radiation Therapy
Proof of Concept Evaluation of Helium Imaging for Range Uncertainty Reduction in Particle Therapy
Principal Investigators:
Prof. Reinhard Schulte, Prof. Joao Seco
Participating Institutions:
DKFZ, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg, Germany
U.S. pCT collaboration (Loma Linda University, University of California Santa Cruz, CA. and Baylor University, USA
Status:
Project completed;
Publication: Journal of Medical Physics, Experimental comparison of photon versus particle computed tomography to predict tissue relative stopping powers, https://aapm.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mp.15283
Individualizing and Optimizing Proton Therapy Consolidation in the Management of Lymphoma
Principal Investigator:
Dr. Raymond B. Mailhot Vega, Univ. of Florida, Jacksonville, FL., USA
Status:
Project ongoing
MECT-based SPR estimation in NN framework and calculation of range shift in the first carbon ion radiotherapy center in South Korea (part of IPACS collaboration)
Principal Investigator:
YeJin Kim, PhD
Status:
Project ongoing;
RADGESS: In silico study for RADioresistance GEnomic Signatures in Sinonasal cancers (SNCs) experimental models after particle therapy
Principal Investigator:
Barbara Vischioni, MD
CNAO, Italy
Status:
Project ongoing;
A workshop to showcase prediction models in patient selection and health economic evaluation for proton therapy among patients with head and neck cancer and discuss diversities in decision-making policies across Europe
Principal Investigator:
Lifang Liu, MD
European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC)
Status:
Project ongoing;