Updated: 2025-09-10
PRE CONFERENCE – Monday September 8
Train R31 or RE30 from Oslo Central Station to Kjelsås stasjon, check departures with the ”Ruter #” app.
14.30 Your arrival at Norsk Teknisk Museum, Address: Kjelsåsveien 143, 0491 Oslo
14.40 Welcome by NAAE & the Norwegian Radium Hospital
14.45 Guided tour of the technical museum, including both an electronic and medical department
15.45 Coffee/Tea (+ late arrivals)
16.15 (1) Electrostatic discharge (ESD) Safety for Accelerators, Tim Maas_Total ESD Solutions
17.15 (2) SF6- & cooling water procedures, Ian Stone, Sf6 Recovery Ltd
17.45 (3) Repair of broken terminals on Klystron / ”How to save a million Danish kroner”, Martin Skov & Kasper Vestergaard Hylkjær, Aarhus University Hospital
18.15 (4) Working methods for soldering surface-mounted devices (SMD), Henrik Cederfjord, Central Hospital Växjö & Dan Johansson, Technologia Sweden AB, Jönköping
19.00 Pizza time
20.00 End of Pre Conference
Public transport back to Oslo city center by train or tram, check departures with the ”Ruter #” app.
MAIN CONFERENCE – Tuesday September 9
08.15 NAAE buses are waiting outside Clarion Hotel the Hub entrance, Biskop Gunnerus gate 3, Jernbanetorget – please arrive at the bus around 08:00 – Bus transport to the Research building.
08.45 Registration at ”Forskningsbygget” (the Research building), Address: Ullernchausseen 70, 0379 Oslo
09.00 Welcome by NAAE & the Norwegian Radium Hospital
09.10-09.35 (5) The Norwegian Radium Hospital, Torje Vegar Pedersen, Radium Hospital Oslo
09.35-10.00 (6) Function & service for the Proton facility at Norwegian Radium Hospital, Morten Saeheim, Varian Medical Systems (Siemens)
10.05 Coffee/Tea/Quiz
10.35-11.00 (7)Rethinking the role of AI in Radiotherapy, Prof. Raj Jena, University of Cambridge
11.05-11.30 (8) Boosting Linac uptime, Torsten Liebig, Royal Devon University Healthcare Trust, Exeter
11.35-11.55 (9) Daily QA an a MRIdian system: A technical approach, Dennis Kistemaker, Amsterdam UMC
12.00-12.25 (10) The results of a survey regarding quality controls & maintenance in various hospitals, Richard Tiggelaar, Amsterdam UMC
12.30 Lunch buffet
13.30 Workshop: Technical discussions
14.40 Coffee/Tea/Quiz
15.15-15.40 (11) Evaluating Various Applications of the IC PROFILER™-MR, Martijn Simons, Amsterdam UMC
15.45-16.10 (12) SGRT Anatomical Phantom Platform to provide motion scenarios, Rhodri Williams, The Christie NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester
16.15 Evaluation form, Henrik Cederfjord_NAAE
Instructions for the study visit to the Radiation Therapy Department
16.30 Joint walk to the therapy department
16.45-18.45 Tour of the Radiation Therapy Department (protons)
19.00 NAAE-bus to the conference restaurant
19.30 Conference Dinner at Frognerseteren
22.30 NAAE-bus back to Oslo city center (drop off at Clarion Hotel The Hub)
If you want to return to your hotel earlier, you can take the T-bane (LINE 1) climbing down the mountain (departs every 15 minutes) a very nice 35 minute mountain train journey with view over Oslo city. When you leave the restaurant you will find a walkway from the street to the right and up the mountain, it takes about 5 minutes to walk to the T-bane station.
MAIN CONFERENCE – Wednesday September 10
08.15 Your arrival at Clarion Hotel the Hub, Conference room ”Central Park” at entrance floor, Address: Biskop Gunnerus gate. 3, 0155 Oslo
08.25 Welcome by NAAE & the Norwegian Radium Hospital
08.30-08.50 Company speed presentations, product news etc. (7 companies, alphabetic order):
AEP Products & Systems BV, Elekta Instrument AB, LAP GmbH Laser Applikationen, Scanflex Medical AB, Siemens Healthcare, Vision RT, Yourrad AB
08.55-09.15 (13) Advanced Diagnostics for Improved System Uptime, Almo Dietz, Elekta Instrument AB
09.20-09.40 (14) Automated QA flow in everyday clinical practice, Suhela Abubakar, Yourrad AB
09.45-11.00Exhibition at room ”Ueno Park” / Coffee, Tea & Refreshments will be served
11.00-11.25 (15) MapRT and DoseRT solutions, Jonathan Rosser, Vision RT
11.30-11.55 (16) Cyberknife, 20 years of experience with robotic radiation therapy, Kay van Nielen, Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam
12.00-12.25 (17) Maximizing Radixact Uptime – A Field Service Engineer’s Eye View!, Shahab Mazaheri, Leicester Royal Infirmary
12.30 Lunch buffet
13.45-14.30 NAAE Annual Member Meeting
including discussion of ideas and deciding on future activities
14.30-15.00 Coffee/tea and a wrap to eat on site or take with you on the trip home
15.00 End of Conference