The fourth edition of the "International Masterclasses – Particle Therapy" will take place on February 12.
This is a training event promoted by the IPPOG (International Particle Physics Outreach Group) modeled after the International Masterclasses in Particle Physics.
The aim is to introduce students to physics applied to medicine through the development of treatment plans for cancer using both conventional radiotherapy and hadrontherapy. The objective is to show them the importance of fundamental research and its direct impact on society. This branch of science uses the knowledge acquired on the properties of particles, the techniques for accelerating them and the mechanisms of interaction of directly and indirectly ionizing radiation with matter, applying them to human health.
In Italy, this initiative, which began in 2021 thanks to the involvement of the two INFN pilot offices in Milan and the Department of Physics of the University of Milan and the associated group of the INFN of Frascati in Cosenza and the University of Cosenza, aroused much interest and over the years has expanded to other INFN sections in collaboration with the respective universities.
In Milan, the initiative will involve 24 students of the last year of secondary school from selected schools in the Lombardy Region, preferably participating in the third mission project RADIOLAB and ISOradioLAB, who will be welcomed at the Computation Laboratory of the Physics Department of UNIMI.
In the morning the students will attend the introductory seminars and a virtual visit to the Hadrontherapy Center - CNAO of Pavia,
In the afternoon they will be involved, under the supervision of students of the Health Physics Course as tutors, in the creation of a treatment plan based on traditional radiotherapy with photon beams and on hadrontherapy, using the professional research software, matRad, developed by the German Cancer Research Center DKFZ in Heidelberg, Germany and adapted to this experience.
The day will end with the virtual meeting at CERN of all the students from other institutes and/or universities from the various foreign countries where the event takes place on the same day.
It will be possible to follow part of the morning lectures online:
https://fisica-unimi.zoom.us/my/aula.lasa?pwd=ZEs3QkFNT1RUY1JtVUY5MXl3SU1hZz09
More information and all the details can be found on the site:
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