The Treatment Planning MasterClass, on 21 Ocober 2024, builds upon the gathered informations and gained knowledge from the preceeding specialised sessions and activities of the Hadron Therapy Symposium and highlights the underlying requirements imposed on the accelerating and beam delivery systems. Adequate time is foreseen for hands-on experiences that ehnance the input provided by the specialised lectures. For that, the matRad open-source toolkit is used which was developed by DKFZ, tailored to research and education   requirements in Treatment Planning.

The aim is to acquaint participants with the main principles of Treatment Planning and give them a hands-on experience with the matRad toolkit so that they are able to use it for their research and educational activities. Indeed, the ambition is to provide the participants with the necessary background to become tutors themselves (train-the-trainer); thus enabling them to contribute to the particle therapy masterclasses that are organized every year worldwide.