Teaching @ Physics Department Heidelberg University

COURSE START DATE November 3rd, 2020 
Online information for the course:

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Course starts 4.15pm, every Tuesday and Thursday Until end of February 2021.

January CT LESSONS ZOOM Link (Prof Kachelrieß)

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This course gives a comprehensive introduction to cancer therapy using charged particle radiation such as protons and carbon ions. Topics of the course are

• Basics in Radiation Therapy
• Units and Radiation Quantities
• Radiation Dosimetry
• Photon, Electron and Ion Interactions
• Charged Particle Equilibrium and Cavity Theory
• Dosimeters and In-vivo Dosimetry methods
• Radiation Chemistry
• "Target" or "Ballistic" Models
• Sub-Lesion and Repair Models
• LET/RBE variability with Radiation Types
• Internal Sources of Radiation and Radioactivity
• External Sources of Radiation – Linac, Cyclotron
• Beam Modulation Methods – MLC, Wedges
• Pencil Beam Scanning Methods for photons and ion beams
• Treatment Planning in General
• CT-Based Treatment Planning
• Dose Calculation Methods
• X-ray and CT Imaging

Literature:

1) Faiz Khan "The physics of radiation therapy"

2) Peter Metcalfe "The physics of radiotherapy X-rays and Electrons"

3) Ervin Podgorsak "Radiation Oncology Physics" IAEA Handbook

4) Frank Attix "Introduction to radiological physics and radiation dosimetry"

Lecture with exercises

Language English
Credit points 6
Workload 180 h

Numerical techniques for computational medical physics: (Nov-Dec)

• solving systems of linear equations
• interpolation and approximation, numerical integration
• linear time invariant systems
• optimization (local, global)
• solving differential equations
• Monte Carlo simulation
• Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Data Processing (Final week Dec)

• outlook for image analysis
• outlook inverse problems
• outlook volume visualization
• outlook simulation techniques in medicine

Applications of computational medical physics: (Jan-Feb)

• inverse treatment planning (IMRT, 3DCRT,etc)
• radiation biology modeling
• image reconstruction
• Monte Carlo application to Radiotherapy (MCBook Seco&Verhaegen)

COURSE START DATE April 19th, 2021

Zoom information for the ONLINE course:

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Course starts 4pm, every Monday Until end of July.

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 This course gives a comprehensive introduction to cancer therapy using charged particle radiation such as protons and carbon ions. Topics of the course are

• Basics of radiation therapy
• Production of therapeutic charged particle beams and beam application systems
• Interactions of charged particles with matter
• Dose calculation algorithms
• Radiobiology of charged particles
• Patient-specific optimization of charged particle therapy
• Clinical application and evidence

 Literature: DeLaney & Kooy: Proton and charged particle radiotherapy (this book is available online for the students)

 (COURSE LECTURES ARE PROVIDED FOR DOWNLOAD AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS WEBPAGE)

• 1 - Introduction Lecture to PCPT (PDF | 6,92 MB)
• 2a - Introduction to Particle Therapy (PDF | 15,15 MB)
• 2b - Introduction Quick Physics Review (PDF | 2,80 MB)
• 3a - Fundamentals of Interactions of particles in matter - Part 1 (PDF | 5,66 MB)
• 3b - Fundamentals of Interactions of particles in matter - Part 2 (PDF | 4,98 MB)
• 4 - Monte Carlo particle transport part I (PDF | 1,47 MB)
• 5 - Monte Carlo particle transport part II (PDF | 9,13 MB)
• 6 - Phenomenological interaction models in depth and lateral direction (PDF | 701,70 KB)
• 7 - Review of Radiobiology for Particles (PDF | 16,01 MB)
• 8 - Imaging and Motion in Particle Therapy (PDF | 3,59 MB)
• 9a - Review of Particle imaging technology (PDF | 6,50 MB)
• 9b - Application of Particle imaging technology (PDF | 5,05 MB)
• 10 - Radiobiology Models for Carbon Ion - LEM I and IV model (PDF | 2,93 MB)