NCCAAPM 2007 Fall Meeting Agenda*

Deer Valley Lodge; 401 W. Industrial Drive – Barneveld, WI  53708

Friday, September 28, 2007

 

NCC Fall Symposium 2007*

 

7:30–8:00 am         Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:00–8:15 am         Welcome, Introductions and Announcements (15 min)

Vendor Introduction and News

8:15–9:30 am         Morning Session (1 hr 15 min)

Jason Rownd – Image Guided HDR Brachytherapy (15 min)

Emilie Soisson – Tomotherapy Physics (15 min)

Walter Tang – Of Corporations and Contracts (30 min)

Jeff Limmer – Update on Licensure (15 min)

9:30–10:00 am        Coffee Break (Vendor display area – 30 min)

10:00–11:30 am       Morning Session continued – (1 hr 30 min)

                                    Lynne Fairobent, AAPM’s Manager of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs                  

                                    – CARE Bill and Licensure

Morning Follow-up Questions/Answers

11:30–12:30 pm       Lunch Break (1 hour)

12:30–1:30 pm        NCC AAPM Business Meeting (1 hour)

1:30–2:15 pm         Afternoon Presentations (45 min)

William Geisler – Digital Detectors for Interventional Fluoroscopic Imaging (15 min)

Eric Hendee – Update on the State Panel for Radiation Emergencies (15 min)

Larry DeWerd – Calibration of Multiple LDR Sources (15 min)

2:15-2:45 pm         Young Investigator Presentations Part 1 (30 minutes)


Rishik Saxena –  Evaluation of a simple calculational method for checking monitor units 
when heterogeneities are included in the Pinnacle planning system.
Steve Davis  –  Well-type ionization chamber measurements and 
 simulations with an electronic brachytherapy source

2:45–3:15 pm         Coffee Break (Vendor display area - 30 min)

3:15–4:15 pm         Young Investigator Presentations Part 2 (1 hr)

Adam Paxton –  Primary calibration of coiled Pd-103 brachytherapy sources

                                    Namratta Sehgal – Determination of the physical effect of voids with Mammosite

                                    Dan McDonald - Calculation of the dosimetric effect of voids with Mammosite

                                    Follow-up Questions/Answers for Students

4:15–4:30 pm         Final Presentation (15 min)

Bruce Thomadsen, PhD – The Future of Medical Physics Training.

4:30 pm                        Student Awards and Afternoon Follow-up  Questions/Answers

4:45 pm                        Meeting Conclusion

 

*CAMPEP Credits have been applied for.