VHEE23
The use of Very High Energy (50-250 MeV) Electron (VHEE) beams for Radiotherapy, and furthermore involving ultra-high dose rate (>=100 Gy/s) delivery or FLASH radiotherapy (FLASH-RT) is at present a consolidated R&D topic in many laboratories around the world. A lot of progress has been made since the VHEE20 (https://indico.cern.ch/event/939012/), it is timely to have a VHEE23.
This time the meeting we will be in person at DESY-Hamburg where a new electron linac ARES (https://ares.desy.de/) is being prepared for “in vivo” experiments at high-energy. Hybrid zoom participation will also be possible.
The list of topics to be explored are:
- Current State of the Art
- Treatment Planning, Modelling and Imaging
- Current conventional facilities at intermediate (ELBE, PITZ, Flastron IC , Antwarpen..) and high (CLEAR, CLARA, ARES, ..) energies
- Current and future non-conventional facilities LPA (DRACO, CALA, LOA, KALDERA)
- Planned future facilities (DEFT, FRIDA,...)
- Accelerators R&D and Technologies: distributed coupling, cryogenic copper,
millimetric waves or THz sources... - Interest from Industries
PhD students and young researchers are invited to submit abstracts to be presented during a dedicated poster session. Best posters will have the possibility to present their work in a short oral presentation.
Industries are also welcome to participate in a special industrial session.
The linear accelerator ARES (Accelerator Research Experiment at SINBAD) is an essential component of the new, long-term accelerator research facility SINBAD (Short Innovative Bunches and Accelerators at DESY) in the heart of DESY´s Hamburg campus in the former DORIS ring.
Experimental area in air
Irradiation of lung and prostate cancer cells
