7:30–8:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast (free)

8:00–8:10 am

Welcome, Introductions and Announcements Vendor Introduction and News (10 min)

8:10–9:50 am

Morning Scientific Session 1 (1 hr 40 min)

8:10    Luke McLemore

Advancing Safety (40 min)

8:50    Ed Bender

10 answers for 1 question: The self-consistency problem with deformable image registration     (30 min)

9:20    Sherrie, Flaherty

New MN State Regulations (30 min)

9:50–10:20 am

Coffee Break - Vendor display area (30 min)

10:20–12:00 am

Morning Scientific Session 2 (1hr 40 min)

10:20  John Wochos

LDR Prostate Medical Event Definition (40 min)

11:00  Bill Hendee

AAPM Technology Assessment Institute (40 min)

11:40  Chuck Mayo

Outcomes Database Efforts (20 min)

12:00–12:30 pm

Lunch Break (30 min), free lunch

12:30–1:15 pm

NCCAAPM Business Meeting (45 min)

1:15–1:55 pm

Afternoon Scientific Session (40 min)

1:15 Dharanipathy Rangaraj

Challenges of implementing Industrial process improvement tools in community clinics  (40 min)

1:55–4:40 pm

Young Investigator Presentations (2 hr 15 min)

1:55    Deanna Pafundi

A pilot study of utility of ¹⁸F-FDOPA-PET for neurosurgical planning and radiotherapy target delineation in glioma patients.

2:10    Shane Edlund

Breathing motion effects on the chestwall position and the resulting dose error

2:25    Ligyun Chen

Targeted region of interest scan for radiation dose reduction in multislice-CT: a feasibility study

2:40    Dan Mundy

Compton Scatter Dose Reconstruction for Radiation Therapy

2:55–3:25 pm

Coffee Break (Vendor display area - 30 min)

3:25  Joshua Stoker

4D Considerations for Active-Scanning Proton Beams

3:40  Luke Arentsen

Dual energy CT scan assessing treatment induced changes in bone and marrow in cancer survivors

3:55  Juan Ramirez Giraldo

Low-dose myocardial perfusion imaging using multidetector computed tomography

4:10  Kathleen Coghill

Murine model to study the influence of therapeutic radiation doses on bone marrow damage

4:25  Laura Bartol

Measurement of a Cobalt-60 Teletherapy Irradiator

 Spectrum Using a Compton Spectrometer

4:40 pm

Meeting Conclusion & Student Awards