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1 Second Symposium on Precision Image-Guided Small Animal RadioTherapy, Vancouver, Canada, August Program: Second Symposium on Precision Image-Guided Small Animal RadioTherapy, Aug 11-13, 2014 Sunday August hr: Registration + Icebreaker reception

2 Monday August Registration Opening address: F Verhaegen, B Gill (Maastricht & Vancouver) KEYNOTE ADDRESS A van der Kogel - High precision small animal radiotherapy historic perspective and new opportunities Tumor/normal tissue models. Chair: XXX R Bütof - Establishment of orthotopic tumor models for small animal image guided radiotherapy S Krueger - Use of a small animal image-guided irradiator in the development of a rat model of radiation cystitis R Lieverse - A review of radiation effects in healthy lungs in preclinical models Coffee break INVITED: D Jaffray - XXX Research technology. Chair: XXX G Price - Optical surface sensing for rapid, accurate & repeatable X-ray free animal irradiation set-up & monitoring N Zarghami - Histological evaluation of targeting accuracy of 3D-printed immobilization device for mouse irradiation Discussion Session I- Moderator: XXX Lunch Precision radiotherapy. Chair: XXX INVITED: R Hill - Use of X-Rad 225Cx small animal irradiator/imager for fractionated radiation treatment of orthotopic models of cervix cancer M Dolera - Canine meningiomas: comparison of palliative therapy, surgery and VMAT stereotactic frameless radiosurgery L Court - Pre-clinical studies on the relationship between quantitative image features and tumor phenotype P Granton - Longitudinal evaluation of radiation induced lung fibrosis in mice using a dedicated small animal micro-irradiator Coffee break News from the manufacturers. Chair: XXX R Hase (Faxitron) - Advancements in Integrated Dose Control of a Fixed Cone Beam Biological Irradiator A Treverton (XSTRAHL) - XXX W McLauglin (PXi) - XXX F Verhaegen (SmART-Solutions) XXX [or others] Discussion Session II - Moderator: XXX Symposium Dinner

3 Tuesday August 12 Research Technology. Chair: XXX INVITED: J Wong - XXX A Rubinstein - Investigating magnetic field dose effects in mice: a Monte Carlo study G Delpon - Monte Carlo derived dose distributions for small animal radiotherapy: a Gate and EGS comparison M Belley - Overview of an inorganic nano-crystalline scintillator based fiber optic detector for real-time, in-vivo, small animal therapy dosimetry M Jermoumi - Comprehensive Quality Assurance phantom for the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform J Stewart - High-Precision Irradiation Targeting with On-line Radiation Field Positioning Uncertainty Corrections Coffee break Precision radiotherapy. Chair: XXX INVITED: J Lum - Radiation Medicine: Enhancing the immune-modulatory roles of radiation H Lee - Investigation into the abscopal effect in mouse models of breast cancer using image-guided small animal radiotherapy G Borst - Genetically engineered mouse models and high precision fractionated radiotherapy to unravel irradiation escape and design novel treatment strategies L Dubois - Preclinical Assessment of Efficacy of Radiation Dose Redistribution Based on Intratumoral FDG-PET Uptake Discussion Session III Moderator: XXX Lunch Imaging. Chair: XXX M Bazalova-Carter - Investigation of microct image quality for the SARRP, PXi, and Stanford conformal radiotherapy system J Salguero - Hounsfield unit robustness in small animal Cone Beam CT R Weersink - Targeting accuracy tests of bioluminescence imaging integrated with cone-beam CT for image-guided small animal irradiation F Giordano - Image-guided radiotherapy of orthotopically implanted glioblastoma multiforme using a modified standard micro-ct Coffee break New facilities. Chair XXX INVITED: E Ford - An Image-Guided Precision Proton Radiation Platform (PPRP) Benchmarked with Radiobiological Experiments T Yoshizumi - Small Animal Irradiator Physics Program at a Large Academic Medical Center M Manca - A CERN for radio-oncology? Background, design and roadmap of a biomedical experimental facility for particle therapy and related research at CERN Discussion Session IV - Moderator: XXX Free evening

4 Wednesday August 13 Imaging&Dosimetry. Chair: XXX INVITED: J Dorsey - Leveraging the Small Animal Radiation Research Platform (SARRP) to develop a new generation of theranostic radiomodifiers S Yahjahnejad - Accessing tumor response in orthotopic glioma model using a precision image-guided micro-irradiator L Malfassi - The use of Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy (MRS) in differential diagnosis of canine brain disease M Balvert - Automated beam-on-time optimization for small animal radiotherapy treatment planning Coffee break The final word. Chair: XXX INVITED: K Butterworth - Image guided small animal radiotherapy applications in translational radiobiology S van Hoof - Comparison of homogeneous MV and kv pre-clinical radiation treatments for rat flank tumors F Verhaegen The need for networking in small animal radiotherapy research Discussion session V Moderator: XXX B Gill, F Verhaegen Best Young Speaker Award & closing the Symposium

5 Posters 1. M Belley. Real-time verification of planned dose during treatment on a small animal image guided radiation therapy treatment system using a nano-scintillator fiber optic detector 2. P Granton. PlastiMouse 3. M Dolera. Stereotactic Radiotherapy in Canine Adrenal Tumors: 12 Cases 4. M Dolera - Adaptive hypofractionated volumetric modulated arc stereotactic radiotherapy (AHSR-VMAT) in rabbit s thymoma

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