Very High Energy Electron Radiotherapy Conference (VHEE23)

11 Jul 2023, 03:00 → 13 Jul 2023, 19:30 Europe/Berlin

SINBAD (Bldg. 30) (DESY Hamburg)

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

 

 

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Tuesday 11 July

13:00 → 14:00 Registration

14:00 → 14:10 Welcome: From VHEE2017 (NOT 2020) to VHEE2023

14:00 Welcome

Speaker: Sabine Brock (DESY)

14:10 → 14:50 Settingup the scene for VHEE

14:10 Current state of VHEE

Speaker: Angeles / Manjit / Roger

VHEE2023_AFG.pptx

14:30 Summary of FRPT event sincluding clinical

Speaker: Marie Caterine Vozenin

VozeninFRPT2022.pdf

14:50 → 16:30 Dosimetry & Detectors (Roberto Corsini)

14:50 Recent developments in dosimetry for radiotherapy using electron beams with ultra-high pulse dose rates

Speaker: Andreas Schueller

Schueller_VHEE2023_v07_(indico).pdf

15:10 Graphite calorimeter UHDR online dosimetry - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Sam Flynn

VHEE2023 Flynn Calorimetry Presentation.pptx

15:30 Scintillating and Optical Fibres for UHDR Real-Time Dosimetry with VHEE

Speaker: Joseph Bateman

VHEE23_Fibre_Dosimetry_JBateman_new.pdf

15:50 2D real time dosimetry in electron UHDR - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Luana de Freitas Nascimento

VHEE 2D real time dosimetry in electron UHDR public.pdf

16:10 ElectroFlash experience (intermediate-energies) and transition isues to VHEE

Speaker: Sophie Heinrich

VHEE23_SH.pptx

16:30 → 16:50 Tea Break

16:50 → 17:10 VHEE conventional facilities I (operational) (Florian Burkart)

16:50 ARES - overview - VHEE experiments at 155 MeV

Speaker: Florian Burkart (MPY1 (MPY Fachgruppe 1))

ARES_VHEE2023_FB_publication_out.pptx

17:10 → 18:10 ARES visit & Young researchers Poster session

2023 - VHEE23-Kroll-WIP.pdf

2023 - VHEE-Schilz.pdf

poster_VHEE_2023_Giuliano.pdf

Poster_VHEE_2023_Senador.pdf

poster_VHEE23_Avella.pdf

Poster_VHEE23_Kunz.pdf

Poster-VHEE23-Riemer.pdf

VHEE23_GIACCAGLIA_POSTER.pdf

VHEE_23_Poster_Bateman.pdf

VHEE poster 2023 robin.pdf

18:10 → 18:30 Welcome Barbecue

Wednesday 12 July

08:30 → 11:10 VHEE conventional facilities I (plannend)(Florian Burkart)

Convener: Florian Burkart (MPY1 (MPY Fachgruppe 1))

08:30 First results from UHEE cell irradiation with short 1.2 GeV electron pulses at ELSA in Bonn

Speaker: Klaus Desch

20230712_VHEE23_Desch_public.pdf

08:50 FLASHlab@PITZ Commissioning, first steps, results and further planning

Speaker: Xiangkun Li

20230712 VHEE 23_FLASHlab@PITZ_XiangkunLi_published.pdf

09:10 Ultra-high dose rate radiobiology with electrons at ELBE and laser accelerators using small animals

Speaker: Jörk Pawelke

VHEE23_Pawelke_230712_publishable.pdf

09:30 Updates, Status and Experiments of CLEAR, the CERN Linear Electron Accelerator for Research User Facility

Speaker: Pierre Korysko

VHEE2023_CLEAR.pdf

09:50 CLARA - overview - potential for VHEE experiments at 250 MeV

Speaker: Deepa Angal-Kalinin

VHEE23_CLARA.pptx

10:10 VHEE Tsinghua activities - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Jiaru Shi

VHEE Tsinghua activities_v2.pptx

10:30 Opportunity of studying Flash therapy effects at the Argonne National Laboratory - [Zoom presentation]

Speakers: Chenguang Liu, Chunguang Jing

AWA_VHEE23_Jing-Liu (3).pptx

10:50 Pulsed Energetic Electrons for Research (PEER) - VHEE activities at ANSTO - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Eugene Tan

Pulsed Energetic Electrons for Research (PEER) at ANSTO's Australian Synchrotron - VHEE23 - publish.pdf

11:10 → 11:30 Coffee Break

11:30 → 12:10 VHEE conventional facilities II (Marie-Catherine Vozenin)

11:30 DEFT for the future of FLASH VHEE radiation therapy

Speaker: Philippe Liger

Slide Deck Hamburg VHEE - THERYQ-CERN v5.pptx

11:50 SAFEST (SApienza Flash Electron Source for radio-Therapy)

Speaker: Luigi Palumbo

VHEE2023-SAFEST-(LP).pdf

12:10 → 13:30 Accelerators R&D and Technologies for medical (Frank Stephan)

Convener: Frank Stephan (DESY)

12:10 Kicker technology for quickly distributing short electron bunches over the treatment area

Speaker: Gregor Loisch (MIN (MIN Fachgruppe 1))

230712_Kicker_Systems_Bunch Distribution_GLoisch_corrected.pdf

12:30 VHEE R&D at SLAC

Speaker: Sami Tantawi

12:50 VHEE Beam dynamics simulations issues at SAFEST

Speaker: Luigi Faillace

VHEE2023-DESY-Faillace - vF.pptx

13:10 High-gradient RF systems for compact accelerators

Speaker: Walter Wuensch

wuensch VHEE technology final2.pptx

13:30 → 14:15 Lunch

14:15 → 14:30 Conference Photo

2023-07-12Very_High_Energy_Electron_Radiotherapy_Conference_VHEE23_MM-5999.jpg

14:30 → 16:10 Industries for medical technologies (Sami Tantawi)

Conveners: Gerardo D'Auria (Elettra - Sincrotrone Trieste), S. Tantawi

14:30 Thales portfolio and roadmap to serve future scientific and medical compact accelerators

Speaker: Térence Schuermans

14:50 Upright Patient Positioning a Platform for Innovation - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Stephen Towe

Leo Cancer Care - VHEE.pptx

15:10 CPI Kystrons for medical applications (VHEE)

Speaker: Peter Kolda

20230711 VHEE CPI Developments in High Power High Efficiency Klystrons.pptx

15:30 Very High Energy Electrons: Clinical Perspective and Constraints

Speaker: Giuseppe Felici

VHEE2023_DESY_GFelici.pdf

16:10 → 16:30 Tea break

16:30 → 17:30 Round Table "Requirements of in vivo irradiations" (introductory talks)

16:30 There are some hurdles to take if one wants to also do in vivo experiments

Speaker: Marie Caterine Vozenin

Vozenin_biologicalmodels.pptx

16:40 Experience collected and lessons learned during planning and preparation of bioloabs at Hamburg and Zeuthen

Speaker: Michael Köpke

16:50 Discussion

19:00 → 21:00 Banquet on Boat

Thursday 13 July

08:30 → 10:30 VHEE non conventional (Deepa Angal-Kalinin)

Convener: Deepa Angal-Kalinin

08:30 DESY perspectives for using laser plasma acceleration for VHEE

Speaker: Andreas Maier (MLS (Laser fuer Plasmabeschleunigung))

VHEE_20230712.pdf

08:50 DRACO comparing this to laser exps and FLASH with protons

Speaker: Josefine Metzkes-Ng

VHEE_Metzkes-Ng_publish.pdf

09:10 Laser-driven electron acceleration for medical applications at LOA

Speaker: Alessandro Flacco

Flacco-VHEE23.pptx

09:30 VHEE activities

Speaker: Arnaud Courvoisier

arnaud_courvoisier_desy_2023_public.pptx

09:50 Laser driven VHEE activities in INO-Pisa - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Leonida Antonio Gizzi

Gizzi_VHEE_2023_Final.pdf

10:10 TWAC: a novel dielectric acceleration project for ultra-high dose rate applications

Speaker: G. Martinet

VHEE_20230713_Twac_martinet_pub.pdf

10:30 → 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 → 12:30 Treatment Planning, Modelling and Imaging (Roger Jones)

Convener: Roger Jones

10:50 Imaging challenges for VHEE - [Zoom presentation]

Speaker: Stefan Both

11:10 Image guidance for VHEE radiotherapy and Focused dose delivery with VHEE Beams

Speaker: Lucy Whitmore

11:30 Treatment planning for VHEE and FLASH

Speaker: James Bedford

Bedford_VHEE2023_redacted.pptx

11:50 Towards ElectronCT - Medical Imaging studies at ARES

Speaker: Paul Schuetze (DESY)

2023-07-eCT-VHEE (2).pdf

12:10 VHEE simulations and treatment planning

Speaker: Giacomo Traini

12:30 → 13:40 Lunch

13:40 → 16:40 Young Research session (Manjit Dosanjh)

13:40 Dosimetric experiments at high and low dose rates at FLASHlab@PITZ

Speaker: Felix Riemer (Z_DET (Detektorentwicklung))

VHEE23_FelixRiemer (2).pptx

13:55 Radiation biology at FLASHlab@PITZ

Speaker: Anna Grebinyk (Z_PITZ (Technologie))

Grebinyk_VHEE 2023 fo online.pdf

14:10 Development of Real-Time VHEE Dosimetry at UHDR Using Beam Instrumentation

Speaker: Vilde Rieker

VHEE23_v3.pdf

14:25 Installation and initial tests of optimised dual-scattering systems for VHEE studies at CLEAR

Speaker: Cameron Robertson

14:40 VHEE Plasmid Irradiation and RBE Studies at CLEAR-CERN

Speaker: Kristina Small

14:55 VHEE RF C-band developments

Speaker: Lucia Giuliano

VHEE2023_LGiuliano.pptx

15:10 Experimental resuts at LOA

Speaker: Camilla Giaccaglia

VHEE23_Giaccaglia_Presentation.pdf

15:25 Treatment planning with VHEE Scanned Beams

Speaker: Fabio D'Andrea

15:40 Exploration of the biological effect of VHEE and VHEE FLASH by evaluation of DNA damage and cell survival with facilities at the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), CERN and the Cockcroft Institute

Speaker: Hanna Wanstall

15:55 Diamond-detectors for beam monitoring at ultra-high dose rate

Speaker: Robin Molle

VHEE_molle.pdf

16:10 Impact of VHEE beam parameters on G(H2O2) and zebrafish embryos morphogenesis after UHDR and conventional irradiation

Speaker: Kacem Houda

16:25 Moskintm dosimetry in a synchrotron flash radiation environment using Very High Energy Electrons

Speaker: James Cayley

16:40 → 16:55 Tea Break

16:55 → 17:15 Concluding remarks