Curso Superior Universitario en Diseño y Gestión de Centros de Protonterapia

Technology and management of proton therapy facilities

1. Where we come from (Hª of proton therapy)
2. starting staff
3. Strategy
4. Design project and Business plan
5. Schedule
6. Civil work
7. Choice of PT equipment and additional
8. contracts
9. licenses
10. radiation protection
11. Quality Guarantee Program
12. Rigging and building operation
13. Main team acceptance
14. Auxiliary equipment
15. dosimetric equipment
16. commissioning
17. Training human team/Team

The proton therapy patient

1. Clinical protocols with PT: a clinical perspective.
2. Radiobiology workflow preparation
3. Cost-benefit of proton therapy
4. Upcoming indications: H&N clinical evidence
5. Lymphopenia and immunomodulation
6. Workflow, branch circuits, and BackUp
7. Indications accepted (SEOR, Europe, rest of the world)
8. Future directions: SEOR forecasts
9. Clinical trials/ Model-based
10. Lines of clinical research
11. Logistics associated with indications
12. First patient. adaptive workflow
13. Causes of rejection. Treatment dropouts
14. ramp up
15. Nursing
16. Pediatric Oncology
17. Anesthesia

Practical cases

1. Introduction to the Proton Therapy Center
2. workflow
3. treatment room
4. CT and calculus
5. Building and workflow
6. Proton Therapy Tumor Committee
7. patient preparation
8. Technicians, nursing, admission
9. Physicists, doctors, dosimetrists
10. Dosimetry review
11. adaptive plans

Seminar 1

Image in PT and artificial intelligence

seminar 2

New trends: Flash, Minibeams, rotational

The Higher University Course in Design and Management of Proton Therapy Centers provides comprehensive training in the specialized field of proton therapy center design and management, and it offers 4 ECTS credits upon successful completion.