December 20, 2013
Rocca seed funding has been assigned to for activities related to dynamic tissue modelling for surgery
December 2013. Rocca seed funding (MIT-Politecnico di Milano 2014-2015) has been assigned to for activities related to dynamic tissue modelling for surgery. Proff. Guido Baroni and Dava Newman (MIT, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics) are the Politecnico di Milano and MIT Principal Investigators.
December 17, 2013
CartCasLab at the INFN Workshop
December 17th-18th, 2013. CartCasLab at the INFN Workshop “Status and future perspectives of charged particle therapy”. Guido Baroni talk is titled: «4D Hadrontherapy».
November 30, 2013
CartCas Lab takes part to the event: Robotics@Polimi
Saturday November 30th, 2013, the CartCas Lab takes part to the event: Robotics@Polimi – Open Labs in the frame of the European Robotics Week. Check event agenda at http://robotics.polimi.it/index.php/Open_Labs_2013
November 1, 2013
Chiara Paganelli received the Best Poster Award at the 4D Treatment Planning Workshop
November 2013. Chiara Paganelli, PhD student at the CartCasLab, received the Best Poster Award at the 4D Treatment Planning Workshop held on November 28th-29th, at the Paul Scherrer Proton Therapy Center (PSI), Zurich, Switzerland. At the same Conference Guido Baroni proffered an invited lecture titled “Pros and cons of correlation models for tumor tracking”.
September 1, 2013
Guido Baroni appointed member of the Ethical Committee
September 2013: Guido Baroni appointed member of the Ethical Committee of the prestigious neurological research and clinical institute in Milano Istituto Neurologico Carlo Besta – I.R.C.C.S
February 1, 2013
The latest version of ENLIGHT HIGHLIGHTS
February 2013 – The latest version of ENLIGHT HIGHLIGHTS is now available at the following link:enlight-jan-2013-interactive_3.pdf CartCasLab specific contribution can be found at pages 26-27of the document
January 1, 2013
Virtual Physiological Human (VPH)
Guido Baroni has been appointed member of the Vitrtual Physiological Human (VPH) Institute.
July 1, 2012
CartCas delegation takes part to the 4D Treatment Planning Workshop
CartCas delegation takes part to the 4D Treatment Planning Workshop, which will tak place on December 12-13 in Erlangen, Germany. The workshop groups researchers from Europe, US and Japan to make the point on current research in time-resolved radiation oncology (planning and delivery) and to establish common future research activities.
June 1, 2012
The CartCas Laboratory takes part in the European Robotics Week
The CartCas Laboratory takes part in the European Robotics Week. On Saturday December 1st, the robotics laboratories of the Politecnico di Milano will be open to press, researchers, students, industries and families. The event program will start at 9,30 at Campus Bovisa and 14,00 at Campus Leonardo. Download the flyer.
May 1, 2012
CERN website announces
CERN website announces the first carbon-ion treatment performed at CNAO on November the 13th 2012.
April 1, 2012
Saturday December the 1st 2012, the CART-CAS Lab takes part to the event
Saturday December the 1st 2012, the CART-CAS Lab takes part to the event: Robotics@Polimi – Open Labs in the frame of the European Robotics Week. Check event agenda at http://robotics.polimi.it/index.php/Open_Labs_2012.
March 1, 2012
CartCas at ROBOTICA
CartCas at ROBOTICA: “Fiera Internazionale della Robotica Umanoide e di Servizio” Thursday November, 8th, Pietro Cerveri and Guido Baroni will present the lab activities regarding robotic applications in mini-invasive surgery and image-guided radiotherapy. Milan Fair Center, Hall 8, Asimov Room, session “Robot medicali e per l’assistenza alle persone meno abili”.
February 1, 2012
CartCas at Fondazione Ettore Majorana in Erice
CartCas at Fondazione Ettore Majorana in Erice (TP, Italy) for the “Technology Innovation and Development” Workshop promoted by the European Physics Society. On October, 23rd, there will be the invited speech titled “Imaging in therapy: Status and future perspectives” by G. Baroni.
January 1, 2012
A Review paper authored by Marco Riboldi
A Review paper authored by Marco Riboldi (CartCas-Lab), Roberto Orecchia (Division of Radiotherapy, IEO) and Guido Baroni (CartCas-Lab) titled “Real-time tumour tracking in particle therapy: technological developments and future perspectives” has been published on the prestigious scientific journal Lancet Oncology. With an impact factor of 22.59, the Lancet Oncology ranks fourth out of 194 oncology journals worldwide, is the leading clinical research journal in oncology, and is in the top 0.5% of all scientific journals, of any discipline, globally (2011 Journal Citation Reports®, ©Thomson Reuters 2012). Download from the journal webpage.
