Medical Physics and Technology for Radiooncologists Content

From imaging and treatment planning to treatment techniques, the course Medical Physics and Technology for Radiooncologists provides physicians with the physical and technical foundations. In addition, treatment techniques are presented both from the physicists’ physical perspective and the physicians’ medical perspective.

ONLINE PHASE (recorded video lectures, 14 teaching units)

• Imaging: an overview
• Segmentation and registration
• Dosimetry
• Optimisation
• Dose calculation
• Biological treatment planning (introduction / LQ model / application of the LQ model)
• From Linac to Cyberknife
• Brachytherapy
• Tomotherapy
• Cyberknife
• MR-guided radiotherapy
• Image-guided and adaptive radiotherapy
• Particle therapy

The lectures are available as video files and can be accessed at any time and multiple times.

ONLINE TEST

The online phase concludes with an online test.

ON SITE PHASE (10 teaching units)

• AI in segmentation and registration
• MR-guided radiotherapy
• Helical IMRT
• Image-guided and adaptive radiotherapy
• Brachytherapy
• Cyberknife
• Biological treatment planning (advanced models)
• Dosimetry of small fields
• Rotational therapies
• Particle therapy
• Final discussion