November 30 – SGRT in Action Agenda
SGRT in ACTION features practical workshops covering everything from the basics of SGRT to advanced workflows. This course will be delivered collaboratively by experienced SGRT users as well as Vision RT clinical applications specialists, combining how-to knowledge with real-world clinical experience.
13:30 – 14:00
SGRT in Action Registration & Refreshments
14:00 – 14:30
SGRT in Action Welcome Sessions
14:00 – 14:10 Welcome and open
Wesley Naidoo
Regional Manager, Clinical Applications, Vision RT
14:10 – 14:30 The SGRT portfolio from Vision RT
Ben Waghorn, PhD, DABR
VP, Product Management and Clinical Operations
SGRT in Action Group 1
Physicists: Choosing an SGRT system, getting started and clinical benefits
14:30 – 15:00 Getting started and choosing an SGRT system
Adi Robinson,
Medical Physicist, Avent Health, USA
15:05 – 15:35 Q&A session with our expert panel
SGRT in Action Group 2
RTTs: Choosing an SGRT system, getting started and clinical benefits
14.30 – 14.45 A multiple disciplinary perspective into the implementation of AlignRT
Aine Leonard
Medical Physicist, Galway Clinic, Ireland
14.45 – 15.00 Successful implementation of DIBH and tattooless SGRT
Ben Allen
Consultant Breast Radiographer, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham
15:05 – 15:35 Q&A session with our expert panel
SGRT in Action Group 3
Physicists (current SGRT users)
14.30 – 15.00 Increasing utilisation, driving efficiency, and improving patient satisfaction with SGRT – physics perspective
Mike Tallhamer
Chief Physicist, Advent Health, USA
15:05 – 15:35 Q&A with our expert panel
SGRT in Action Group 4
RTTs (current SGRT users)
14.30 – 15.00 Increasing utilisation, driving efficiency, and improving patient satisfaction with SGRT –RTT’s perspective
Robyn Stirton
Advance Imaging Radiographer
Raigmore Hospital, NHS Highland, UK
15:05 – 15:35 Q&A with our expert panel
15:35 – 15:55 Short break
Groups 1 & 2
16:00 – 16:25 AlignRT & DoseRT demonstrations
Vision RT Clinical Application Specialists
16:30 – 16:55 Learning from our mistakes – how to optimise your use of SimRT
Trevor Newbold
Clinical Scientist
University Hospitals Dorset, UK
16:55 – 17:20 MapRT demonstrations
Vision RT Clinical Application Specialists
Groups 3 & 4
16:00 – 16:25 MapRT demonstrations
Vision RT Clinical Application Specialists
16:30 – 16:55 DoseRT demonstrations
Vision RT Clinical Application Specialists
16:55- 17:20 Frequently-asked questions and optimising your use of SGRT
Vision RT Clinical Application Specialists
17:20
SGRT in Action finishes
19:00
SGRT Evening Event
All SGRT Europe participants are invited to join us for an evening of food, drinks, networking, and fun at the Green Room, a lovely and lively restaurant that is only a five-minute walk from our venue.
December 1, SGRT Europe: A new view of SGRT
08:00 – 08:30
Registration and refreshments
08:30 – 08:35
Welcome & Introduction
MEETING CHAIR:
Professor Heidi Probst PhD, MA, BSc(HONS), DCR(T), FCR, Hon.FIPEM
Professor of Radiotherapy and Oncology
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
08:35 – 08:45
The positive impact of SGRT – The Berkshire Cancer Centre experience
Victoria Hammond-Turner
Technical and Development Lead Therapeutic Radiographer
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, UK
08:45 – 09:05
Successful implementation of SGRT: patient benefits and staff satisfaction from a radiographer’s perspective
Lisa Laws
Principal Radiographer
Rosemere Cancer Centre, UK
Lisa Telford
Team Lead
Rosemere Cancer Centre, UK
09:05 – 09:25
Patient movement and millimetre accurate positioning with SGRT
Rayk Nachtigall
Medical Physicist
Strahlenzentrum Hamburg MVZ, Germany
09:25 – 09:45
Big data analysis for setup margin personalization derived from intra-fraction motion: a proof of concept
Mathieu Gonod
Medical Physicist
Centre G. F. Leclerc, France
09:45 – 10:00
Feasibility of frameless and maskless stereotactic cerebral radiotherapy with AlignRT InBore guidance on HALCYON v3.0: preliminary results
Daniel Nguyen
Medical Physicist
Orlam Group, France
10:00 – 10:30
Short Break
10:30 – 10:50
Improving efficiencies with MapRT
David Parsons, PhD
Associate Director of Medical Physics Residency Program, University of Texas Southwestern, Dallas, Texas, USA
10:50 – 11:10
Use of MapRT to optimise noncoplanar planning for head and neck patients
Helen Convery
Senior Dosimetrist (Development and Clinical Trials)
Raigmore Hospital Inverness, UK
11:10 – 11:30
Dosimetric planning advantages of surface guided planning
Adi Robinson, Ph.D DABR
Medical Physicist
Advent Health Celebration, USA
11:30 – 11:45
Refreshment Break
CHOOSE 1 OF 4 STREAMS
Head and neck (Stream 1)
11:45 – 12:45
The feasibility of maskless radiation therapy for head and neck cancer by using surface guided radiation therapy (SGRT)
Abbey Adams
Radiation Therapy Treatment Unit Leader
Genesis Care North Shore/Mater, Australia
Introducing AlignRT for head and neck IMRT treatments
Samantha Ryan
Radiation Therapy Research Fellow and Clinical Specialist Radiation Therapist
St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Ireland
Comparison of patients treated with conventional head and neck mask versus open mask using SGRT setup
Ragul T
Medical Physicist
Kalyan Singh Super Specialty Cancer Institue, Lucknow, India
Head and neck SGRT: our experiences at Lincoln
Jacob Curran
IGRT Specialist Radiographer
Lincoln County Hospital, UK
Ryan Fry
Senior Radiographer
Lincoln County Hospital, UK
Breast (Stream 2)
11:45 – 12:45
Surface guided deep inspiration breath hold (SG-DIBH) in ultra-hypofractionated radiotherapy for early stage left breast cancer (BC): a single-centre analysis
Cynthia Aristei
Professor
University of Perugia and Perugia General Hospital, Italy
Implementing a novel breast workflow utilising 6DoF through AlignRT surface guidance radiotherapy
Alya Qadi
Radiation Therapist
Genesiscare Northshore & The Mater Hospital, Australia
Clinical implementation of tattooless treatment for breast cancer patients using SGRT
Kimm Fremeijer
RTT
Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands
Metastatic Treatments (Stream 3)
11:45 – 12:45
Clinical implementation of Surface Guided Radiotherapy (SGRT) for palliative patients
Jack Hannant
Senior Radiographer
The Christie at Oldham NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Helen Squibbs
Superintendent Radiographer
The Christie at Oldham NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Breath-hold for hearing-impaired patients
Yasmine Tate
Lead Therapy Radiographer
GenesisCare, Cambridge, UK
Utilizing SGRT in the treatment of oligometastatic hypopharyngeal cancer: case study of a complete remission
Grzegorz Chmielewski, MD
Radiation Oncology Resident
Holycross Cancer Center, Poland
Using SGRT for faster, safer and accurate extremity patient positioning
Magnolia Rincón Pérez
Físico Adjunto
Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Spain
SRS (Stream 4)
11:45 – 12:45
Surface Imaging for SRS: Insights from St Louis Radiotherapy Center
Gunther Rucka
Medical Physicist
Croix-Rouge Française / Centre de Radiothérapie St Louis, France
Surface image monitoring for automated stereotactic radiosurgery treatment: efficiency, accuracy, and patient comfort
Edward Clouser, Jr., M.S.
Medical physicist
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, USA
Comparison of SGRT to MV isocentre position for two SGRT systems for use with SRS
Mark Wanklyn
Senior Medical Physics Specialist
GenesisCare NSW, Australia
Introducing setup of SRS treatment of patients with open-face mask using SGRT and head adjuster in our clinic
Marlon van den Broek
RTT
Radboudumc, Netherlands
12:45 – 13:45
Lunch break
STREAMS REPEAT AFTER LUNCH BREAK
CHOOSE 1 OF 4 STREAMS
Head and neck (Stream 1)
13:45 – 14:45
The feasibility of maskless radiation therapy for head and neck cancer by using surface guided radiation therapy (SGRT)
Abbey Adams
Radiation Therapy Treatment Unit Leader
Genesis Care North Shore/Mater, Australia
Introducing AlignRT for head and neck IMRT treatments
Samantha Ryan
Radiation Therapy Research Fellow and Clinical Specialist Radiation Therapist
St Luke’s Radiation Oncology Network, Ireland
Comparison of patients treated with conventional head and neck mask versus open mask using SGRT setup
Ragul T
Medical Physicist
Kalyan Singh Super Specialty Cancer Institue, Lucknow, India
Head and neck SGRT: our experiences at Lincoln
Jacob Curran
IGRT Specialist Radiographer
Lincoln County Hospital, UK
Ryan Fry
Senior Radiographer
Lincoln County Hospital, UK
Breast (Stream 2)
13:45 – 14:45
Surface guided deep inspiration breath hold (SG-DIBH) in ultra-hypofractionated radiotherapy for early stage left breast cancer (BC): a single-centre analysis
Cynthia Aristei
Professor
University of Perugia and Perugia General Hospital, Italy
Implementing a novel breast workflow utilising 6DoF through AlignRT surface guidance radiotherapy
Alya Qadi
Radiation Therapist
Genesiscare Northshore & The Mater Hospital, Australia
Clinical implementation of tattooless treatment for breast cancer patients using SGRT
Kimm Fremeijer
RTT
Erasmus MC Rotterdam, Netherlands
Metastatic Treatments (Stream 3)
13:45 – 14:45
Clinical implementation of Surface Guided Radiotherapy (SGRT) for palliative patients
Jack Hannant
Senior Radiographer
The Christie at Oldham NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Helen Squibbs
Superintendent Radiographer
The Christie at Oldham NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Breath-hold for hearing-impaired patients
Yasmine Tate
Lead Therapy Radiographer
GenesisCare, Cambridge, UK
Utilizing SGRT in the treatment of oligometastatic hypopharyngeal cancer: case study of a complete remission
Grzegorz Chmielewski, MD
Radiation Oncology Resident
Holycross Cancer Center, Poland
Using SGRT for faster, safer and accurate extremity patient positioning
Magnolia Rincón Pérez
Físico Adjunto
Fundación Jiménez Díaz, Spain
SRS (Stream 4)
13:45 – 14:45
Surface Imaging for SRS: Insights from St Louis Radiotherapy Center
Gunther Rucka
Medical Physicist
Croix-Rouge Française / Centre de Radiothérapie St Louis, France
Surface image monitoring for automated stereotactic radiosurgery treatment: efficiency, accuracy, and patient comfort
Edward Clouser, Jr., M.S.
Medical physicist
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, USA
Comparison of SGRT to MV isocentre position for two SGRT systems for use with SRS
Mark Wanklyn
Senior Medical Physics Specialist
GenesisCare NSW, Australia
Introducing setup of SRS treatment of patients with open-face mask using SGRT and head adjuster in our clinic
Marlon van den Broek
RTT
Radboudumc, Netherlands
14:45 – 15:00
Refreshment Break
15:00 – 15:20
SG-SFRT: The use of surface imaging for spatially fractionated radiotherapy
Yi Rong, PhD, DABR, FAAPM
Professor and Photon Lead Physicist
Mayo Clinic in Arizona, USA
15:20 – 15:35
Correlation between surface motion and heart-breast distance for breast cancer patients treated in DIBH
Lisa Dietrich, MSc
Medical physicist in training and PhD candidate
Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Germany
15:35 – 15:50
Patient-specific bolus positioning with AlignRT
Laurence Delombaerde, PhD
Medical Physicist
University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
15:50 – 16:10
Quantification of beam latency using AlignRT
Philip Yeo
Radiotherapy Engineer
University Hospital Southampton, UK
Rachel Barlow
Deputy Head of Radiotherapy Physics
University Hospital Southampton, UK
16:10 – 16:30
First experiences with DoseRT
Mike Tallhamer
Chief Physics
Advent Health, Colorado, USA
16:30 – 16:45
Wrap up – best presentation vote
16:45