Belgian Hospital Physicists Association

Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of Ben Mijnheer, Jelle Scheurleer and myself, I give you more information on the hands-on course Quality Assurance in Advanced Radiation Therapy (QAART) that will be given by Inholland University of Applied Sciences coming April. This hands-on course is designed for medical physicists (in training), medical engineers and specialised radiation therapy technologists (RTTs), working in RT departments. Physicists, engineers or RTTs working for companies that develop RT products may also benefit from this course. The course will take place from Tuesday 12 April to Saturday 16 April 2011 and will be given in English.


This hands-on course is directed primarily to professionals with a physics-technical background and assumes some prior theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of quality assurance. The most important parts of this course are the practical exercises in using various types of QA equipment. These sessions will be supported by a four  companies and include the analysis of film dosimetry data, the performance of independent dose calculations, the use of various software packages for IMRT verification and the clinical application of equipment for 2D and 3D verification of various IMRT techniques including VMAT and RapidArc.
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The course is meant as an addition to existing courses and focuses on the practical aspects of QA of advanced radiotherapy techniques. Detailed information on the course can be found in the attached flyer and programme. If you need additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us. The registration for the course is open up to 15-MAR-11. The registration form is also attached; please send this to alexandra [dot] vanzutphen [at] inholland [dot] nl<mailto:alexandra [dot] vanzutphen [at] inholland [dot] nl> and in copy to jelle [dot] scheurleer [at] inholland [dot] nl<mailto:jelle [dot] scheurleer [at] inholland [dot] nl>

Please also forward this information to your colleagues and (project-) collaborators. Thank you very much.

Kind regards,

Iain Bruinvis