Radiation Therapy

Radiotherapy and its technologies will be explained during this course, as well as the clinical indications.

The following topics will be covered in depth:

• Physics of ionizing radiation

• Technology of radiotherapy

• Target delineation and multi-modality imaging

• Dose calculation using analytical and Monte Carlo schemes

• Treatment planning: dose shaping and plan optimization

• Modalities: IMRT, VMAT, Cyber-Knife, Proton therapy

• Role of radiotherapy in oncology

• Main clinical treatment sites: aims, approaches, outcome

• Clinical outcome: tumor control, risk of complication

• Dose-effect modelling

• Radiobiology

• Research and challenges in radiotherapy