Past Meetings

 

Date :          Wednesday December 7, 6:00 P.M.

Place :          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth, NJ 07033

                        Exit138 Garden State Parkway 

                        Boulevard and South 31st. St.

                         (908) 241-3030

                       http://www.kenilworthinn.com/

                  

First Speaker:       Benjamin E. Nelms, Ph.D.

Title:          "The Evolution of Dose QA Metrics for Highly Conformal Plans"       

Second Speaker:       Jingdong Li, Ph.D.

Title:          "Quantification of the impact of system errors: HN IMRT case studies"        

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Date :          Tuesday February 15, 6:00 P.M.

Place :          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth, NJ 07033

                        Exit138 Garden State Parkway 

                        Boulevard and South 31st. St.

                         (908) 241-3030

                       http://www.kenilworthinn.com/

                  

Speaker:       Dr. John Adler

Title:          "Less is More: Why Hyperfractionation is the Future of Therapeutic Radiation"        

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Date :         Wednesday November 18, 6:00-9:00pm, dinner included

Place :          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth, NJ 07033

                        Exit138 Garden State Parkway 

                        Boulevard and South 31st. St.

                         (908) 241-3030

                       http://www.kenilworthinn.com/               

Copporate Sponsor:          Landauer                                

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Date :          Wednesday March 25 2009, 6:30-9pm, dinner included

Place :          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth, NJ

First Speaker:       Martha Matuszak, Ph.D ,Beaumont Med Ctr.

Title:           Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy: Introduction and Application to Stereotactic Body Radiosurgery

Corporate Sponsor:  ELEKTA

Second Speaker:       Jim Ernsberger, Sun Nuclear

Title:           Rotational IMRT QA - Today and the Future

Corporate Sponsor: Sun Nuclear

There will be two talks at this meeting, continuing a series of talks on new technologies with IMRT delivery and Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT).

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Date :          May 28, 2008

Title:           “Real - time HDR Planning for Prostates using Varian Variseed 2.0.

Speaker      John Morrison

                   Varian Brachytherapy Application Specialist

Sponsored By: Varian Medical Systems

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February 20, 2008

Title:           “RapidArc Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy

Speaker      Corey Zankowski, Ph.D.

Sponsored By: Varian Medical Systems 

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Place :          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth, NJ

Title:           Recent development of radiochromic film dosimetry and its clinical applications

Speaker:       Sou-Tung Chiu-Tsao, Ph.D.

The presentation will review the characteristics of various models of radiochromic films, in comparison with conventional AgBr based x-ray films. The talk will also describe the applications of radiochromic film dosimetry in radiation oncology and diagnostic radiology, including in-phantom dosimetry, quality assurance, and clinical in-vivo dosimetry.

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Date :          Wednesday April 25, 2007, 6:30-9pm, dinner included

Title:           "Clinical Experience using 4DCT, CBCT, and Gated Treatments"

Speaker:       Dr. Jingdong Li, Faculty Member of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at Basking Ridge, NJ.

The presentation will discuss technical concepts and practical procedures including physics QA, along with clinical examples of different disease sites treated with these new technologies.

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Date :          June 14th 2006

Place:          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth

Title:           “Calypso 4D Localization System

Speaker:       Lisa Levine, Ph.D.

Sponsored By: Calypso Medical Technologies

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March 1st, 2006

Place:          Kenilworth Inn, Kenilworth

Title:           "Miniature X-Ray Sources for Electronic Brachytherapy"

Speaker:       Mark Rivard, Ph.D.

Sponsored By: Xoft, Inc.

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Date:               September 22, 2004

Title:          1. "IGRT (Image Guided Radiation Therapy)"

Speaker      George Chen, Ph.D.

                  Professor of Radiation Oncology

                      Department of Radiation Oncology

                      Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

                  2.  "IGRT at MGH: on-board x-ray imaging for patient setup and real-time tumor tracking"

Speaker:      Steve B. Jiang, Ph.D.

                  Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology

                      Department of Radiation Oncology

                      Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School

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Date :          March 31st, 2004

Title:           "Tomotherapy integrates treatment planning, patient positioning and IMRT treatment     in one system using helical radiation treatment delivery"

Speaker:       Thomas Rockwell "Rock" Mackie, Ph.D.

                  Co-founder, Chairman of the Board, Director of Research, TomoTherapy Inc, Madison,Wisconsin

Sponsored By:  TomoTherapy Inc

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Date :          December 10, 2003

Title:           "Cyberknife and its applications"

Speaker:       Cihat Ozhasoglu, Ph.D.

                   Assistant Professor

                       UPMC - Shadyside Hospital

                       Radiosurgery Center

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Date :          September 3, 2003

Title:           "IMRT Patient QA"

Agenda:      

                       1. RIT film based IMRT QA - Dr. Alex Kapulsky, Hackensack University Hospital

                       2. Monmouth Medical Center Hospital

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Date :          June 4, 2003

Title:           "IMRT Planning"

Agenda:      

                       1. IMRT - Prostate Planning - Dr. Chen, Beth Israel

                       2. IMRT - Head and Neck Planning - Scott Murphy, MS, Monmouth

                       3. IMRT - Breast Planning - Dr. Jack Yang, Monmouth

                       4. Discussing - Dr. Mark Kao, Barnabas

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Date :          April 2, 2003

Title:           "Experience with Real Time PSI and HDR Systems"