| PROGRAM |
| Friday, March 21 |
| 8:30 |
Opening Remarks |
NIRS / MDACC |
Tsujii / Cox |
| Session 1 |
Clinical Experience at NIRS (Chairpersons : Tsujii, Cox) |
| 8:50 |
Overview |
NIRS |
Hirohiko Tsujii |
| 9:10 |
Head & Neck |
NIRS |
Jun-etsu Mizoe |
| 9:20 |
Hepatoma |
NIRS |
Hirotoshi Kato |
| 9:30 |
Bone & Soft Tissue Sarcoma |
NIRS |
Tadashi Kamada |
| 9:40 |
Lung |
NIRS |
Toshio Sugane |
| 9:50 |
Uterine Cervix |
NIRS |
Shingo Kato |
| 10:00 |
Rectum |
NIRS |
Shigeru Yamada |
| 10:10 |
Discussions |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 2 |
Clinical Experience at MDACC (Chairpersons : Cox, Tsujii) |
| 11:00 |
Prostate |
MDACC |
Andrew Lee |
| 11:10 |
Lung |
MDACC |
James D. Cox |
| 11:20 |
Pediatric |
MDACC |
Shiao Woo |
| 11:30-13:00 |
Lunch |
| Session 3 |
Treatment Strategies for Prostate, Lung and Skull Base
(Chairpersons : Kamada, Woo) |
| 13:00 |
Prostate |
NIRS |
Hiroshi Tsuji |
| 13:20 |
Prostate |
MDACC |
Andrew Lee |
| 13:40 |
Lung |
NIRS |
Masayuki Baba |
| 14:00 |
Lung |
MDACC |
Ritsuko Komaki |
| 14:20 |
Skull Base |
NIRS |
Azusa Hasegawa |
| 14:40 |
Skull Base |
MDACC |
Anita Mahajan |
| 15:00-15:30 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 4 |
Eevaluation / comparison of Clinical Results : Protons and Carbon Ions
(Chairperson : Komaki) |
| 15:30 |
Japanese Way |
NIRS |
Tadashi Kamada |
| 15:45 |
MDACC Way |
MDACC |
James D. Cox |
| 16:00 |
Discussions |
| 16:15 |
End |
| Saturday, March 22 |
| Session 5 |
Physics (1) Scanning Techniques (Chairpersons : Kanai, Al Smith) |
| 8:30 |
Overview of NIRS Accelerator Activity |
NIRS |
Koji Noda |
| 8:50 |
Treatment Planning for Carbon Beam |
NIRS |
Taku Inaniwa |
| 9:10 |
NIRS Scanning |
NIRS |
Takuji Furukawa |
| 9:30 |
Treatment Planning for Proton Beam |
MDACC |
Ronald Zhu, Chirs Amos |
| 9:50 |
MDACC Scanning |
MDACC |
Al Smith, Michael Gillin |
| 10:10-10:40 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 6 |
Physics (2) (Chairpersons : Kanai, Gillin) |
| 10:40 |
Treatment of Moving Target at NIRS |
NIRS |
Shinichiro Mori |
| 11:00 |
Treatment of Moving Target at MDACC |
MDACC |
Peter Balter |
| 11:20 |
Neutron Exposure during the Treatments |
NIRS |
Naruhiro Matsufuji |
| 11:40 |
Neutron Exposures during Proton Irradiation for Pediatric CNS Tumors |
MDACC |
M. Salehpour |
| 12:00 |
Dosimetry and RBE for Carbon Ion Therapy |
NIRS |
Tatsuaki Kanai |
| 12:20-13:30 |
Lunch |
| Session 7 |
Invited Talks (Chairperson : Mohan) |
| 13:30 |
Neutrons secondary to proton therapy: problems and solutions |
|
Eric Hall |
| 14:15 |
The finite range: blessing and curse |
|
Thomas Bortfeld |
| 15:00 |
Molecular imaging perspectives for radiation oncology |
|
Cliff Chao |
| 15:45 |
Discussion |
| 16:00-16:30 |
Coffee Break |
| Session 8 |
Biology (Chairpersons : Okayasu, Meyn) |
| 16:30 |
LET and Biological Effectiveness to Heavy-ion Beams |
NIRS |
Yoshiya Furusawa |
| 16:50 |
Radiobiological considerations for combining molecularly targeted agents with proton radiotherapy |
MDACC |
Raymond Meyn |
| 17:10 |
Radiobiology for Heavy-ion Radiotherapy |
NIRS |
Ryuichi Okayasu |
| 17:30 |
Genetic Variation and Radiosensitivity :
towards an Individualized Radiation Therapy |
NIRS |
Mayumi Iwakawa |
| 17:50 |
Genetic Variation and Radiosensitivity :
towards an Individualized Radiation Therapy |
MDACC |
Thomas Buchholz |
| 18:10 |
Closing Remarks |
NIRS / MDACC |
Tsujii / Cox |