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Items of Note
Important notices, upcoming deadlines, and events happening in the Medical Physics community.
- AAPM Newsletter
May/June 2023 Issue Available.
Read the Issue
- 2023 Board of Directors Election Information
Members-At-Large Slate Announced & Additional Nominees Requested
Learn More 
- AAPM Publications
- AAPM Task Group Report 306: Quality Control and Assurance for Tomotherapy: An Update to Task Group Report 148
View AAPM Report 306
- AAPM Task Group Report 275.S: Survey Strategy and Results on Plan Review and Chart Check Practices in US and Canada
View AAPM Report 275.S
- AAPM Task Group Report 305: Guidance for Standardization of Vendor-Neutral Reject Analysis in Radiography
View AAPM Report 305
- AAPM President’s Monthly Minute
Please take a few moments to view the President’s Monthly Minute, Dr. Ehsan Samei’s brief video highlighting notable May events to members of the Association.
View the Video
- AAPM Grand Challenges
- 2023 Call for Grand Challenge Proposals!
Let the AAPM’s Working Group on Grand Challenges (WGGC) assist you and your colleagues in conducting a Grand Challenge, an exciting and fun way to solve an important scientific problem while engaging with AAPM membership and the medical community at-large! The WGGC is now accepting proposals from groups that wish to host a Challenge in advance of the 2024 Annual Meeting.
Deadline: July 19, 2023
Learn More and Submit a Proposal
- Deep Generative Modeling for Learning Medical Image Statistics (DGM-Image Challenge)
Learn More & Participate
- Understanding Time-Activity Curve and Time Integrated Activity Variations in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Challenge (TACTIC) – An AAPM Grand Challenge
Learn More & Participate
- New in the AAPM Member Profile
Global Volunteer Information Section added.
Update Your Member Profile
- AAPM Webinars
- Episode #18 | AAPM Webinar Series on MP3.0 Transformational Medical Physics
Topic: Envisioning the Future of Medical Physics Education
Synopsis: Just as medical physicists must adapt to the continually evolving healthcare landscape, so must medical physics educators adapt to changes in available technologies, new generations of learners, and expanding demands on their curriculum. MedPhys 3.0 is a movement that emphasizes forward-thinking strategic planning to find new ways physicists can bring value to healthcare, but how does this idea relate to education? In this webinar, we aim to explain this relationship, introducing and addressing some difficult questions about adaptability and change in all levels of medical physics education. This will include highlighting some examples of teaching innovation and excellence that can inspire educators and drive our field forward.
Speakers: Ashley Cetnar and Megan Hyun
Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
Register Now
- Call for Task Group Proposals
The AAPM Working Group on Task Group Creation (WGTGC) invites proposals for task groups related to adaptive radiation therapy (ART).
Deadline: June 30, 2023
Learn More & Submit a Proposal
- Medical Imaging and Data Resource Center (MIDRC)
- MIDRC mRALE Mastermind Grand Challenge: Developing AI to Predict COVID Severity on Chest Radiographs. Registration is open!
Sign Up and Learn More
- Register now for the next OPEN and FREE Medical Imaging and Resource Center (MIDRC) Monthly Seminar happening Tuesday, May 16 at 3pm ET. In this month’s seminar, AAPM members and MIDRC Investigators Dr. Heather Whitney (UChicago) and Dr. Weijie Chen (US FDA) discuss interoperability with N3C and BioData Catalyst for multi-modal discovery, and answer your questions in a live Q&A!
Register for the Seminar
- AAPM Funding Opportunities
- Confex
AAPM is excited to announce Confex, an abstract system which will now be used for all AAPM meeting program development. If you’re an author or submitter for any AAPM meeting program, please watch for and whitelist the email address aapm@confex.com.
- AAPM Mentorship Program
Sign-up as a mentee or mentor at any time, as the program is an on-demand service.
Become a Mentor or a Mentee
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC)
AAPM members, please feel free to use this anonymous and confidential resource to inform the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) of any comments, questions or concerns you have regarding EDI within AAPM or your experience as a medical physicist.
Learn More & Send Feedback
- AAPM Website
Is something on the website not working as it should? Please send an email to helpdesk@aapm.org - the AAPM IS Team
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AAPM Meetings
Don't miss these important meetings and deadlines.
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2023 Spring Clinical Meeting
April 1 - 4, 2023 | Orlando, FL
Meeting Website
Online Evaluation Closes: May 16
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2023 Summer School
Radiopharmaceutical Therapy & Dosimetry
June 2 - 7, 2023 | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Meeting Website
Meeting Program
Registration
Deadline to Cancel Registration/Receive Refund: May 17
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Corgi Phantom:
The Corgi Phantom is designed to evaluate cone beam CT systems. The modular phantom can be configured for different scan sizes, providing tests for multi-axis high resolution, sensitometry, cone beam artifacts, and uniformity. Additionally, the phantom includes holes for measuring dose. |
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Liver Phantom:
The Liver Phantom combines the advantages of objective test objects and anthropomorphic elements for evaluation of advanced iterative processing. The phantom includes low contrast test objects designed both for ROC tests along with conventional patterns, metal artifact inserts, and beads for MTF calculations. |
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