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"