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Radiotherapy Imaging User Group
Second Annual Meeting – Friday 19th February 2010
Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford
09:00 Registration – Tea & Coffee
09:45 Welcome & introduction
Andrew Reilly & Louise Drummond, Oxford Cancer Centre
Session 1: Pre-Treatment Imaging
10:00 Implementation of 3D imaging using MRI and CT for HDR brachytherapy
Gary Liney, Queens Centre for Oncology, Hull
10:20 Multi-modality image fusion for target delineation and re-planning
Sam Gardner, Oxford Cancer Centre
10:40 Preliminary study of functional MR methods for radiotherapy planning in the prostate
Geoffrey Payne, Institute for Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital
11:00 Break – Tea & Coffee
Session 2: On Treatment Imaging
11:30 Radiotherapy imaging at NNUH
Mark Gilham, Colney Centre, Norwich
11:50 2D planar imaging versus 3D cone-beam CT for image-guided head and neck radiotherapy
Ros Perry, Ipswich
12.10 Implementation of evidence-based best practice for imaging in a new radiotherapy department
Jeanette Bowes-Cavanagh, The Beacon Centre, Taunton
12:30 Imaging for lung SBRT
Helen Summers, St James Institute for Oncology, Leeds
12:50 An audit of frequency and causes of radiotherapy plan adaptation as a result of X-ray volumetric imaging
Sheena Chauhan, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
13:10 Lunch
14:00 Automatic extraction and analysis of patient set-up errors
Andrew Reilly, Oxford Cancer Centre
14:20 Quality assurance of kilovoltage imaging on a linear accelerator
Gary Liney, Queens Centre for Oncology, Hull
14:40 A new daily check device for electronic portal imaging
Andrew Reilly, Oxford Cancer Centre
15:00 Investigating image registration with cone-beam CT in radiotherapy
Frances Orrell, University Hospital Birmingham
15:20 Break – Tea & Coffee
Session 4: Emerging and Novel RT Imaging
15:50 Pre-clinical functional imaging
Kate Vallis, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford
16:10 Functional MRI
Cynthia Eccles, Gray Institute for Radiation Oncology and Biology, Oxford
16:30 4DUS tracking of abdominal organ motion during therapy
Emma Harris, Institute of Cancer Research and Royal Marsden Hospital
16:50 Close




