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REMINDERS: 2003 Annual Meeting Home
  • No Icebreaker - Plan to join your colleagues during the 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM beer and refreshment break in the exhibit hall.
  • Residents now qualify for Student registration fees. See details under Student Registration.
  • Single LCD projection will be the ONLY presentation method available for oral presentations.
  • Remember.... sessions & exhibits all now begin on Sunday.

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Wednesday, August 13, 2003 Session Information
Scientific Session
Treatment Planning: Calculations and Improvements
Wednesday 1:30:00 PM - 3:20:00 PM  Room: Ballroom 20B

Chair 1: Marc R. Sontag, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, US

Chair 2: John Gibbons, Palmetto-Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, SC

1:30 PM
WE-D20B-1
A Deformable Model Approach to Near-Automatic Segmentation of Normal Tissue Structures On CT Images with Application to the Spinal Canal - S. Burnett*, G. Starkschall, C. Stevens
1:40 PM
WE-D20B-2
Mapping of the Prostate in Endorectal Coil-Based MRI/MRSI and CT: A Deformable Registration and Validation Study - J. Lian*, S. Hunjan, B. Daniel, A. Lo, J. Levin, C. Cardenas, C. Dumoulin, R. Watkins, K. Rohling, R. Giaquinto, A. Boyer, L. Xing
1:50 PM
WE-D20B-3
Building a Deformable Model of the Lung Using Thin Plate Splines - M. Coselmon*, J. Balter, D. McShan, R. Kashani, K. Brock, M. Kessler
2:00 PM
WE-D20B-4
Accounting for Variable Anatomy in Radiation Therapy Dose Distributions - B. Schaly*, J. Kempe, G. Bauman, J. Van Dyk, J. Battista
2:10 PM
WE-D20B-5
The Impact of Organ Motion On Dose Distributions - E. Rietzel*, J. Jackson, J. Adams, T. Harris, G. Chen
2:20 PM
WE-D20B-6
Convolution/Superposition Using Random Sampling of Photons, Kernels, and Field Segments - S. Naqvi*, M. Earl, D. Shepard
2:30 PM
WE-D20B-7
A Mono-Energetic Component Approach for Photon Spectrum Modeling of a Convolution/superposition Based Treatment Planning System Using Monte Carlo Simulated Energy Spectrum - J. Yang*, W. Grant
2:40 PM
WE-D20B-8
Fully Automated Planning for 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy - Z. Jiang*, D. Shepard, M. Earl, J. Lim, S. Naqvi, M. Ferris
3:00 PM
WE-D20B-10
A Novel Approach to Evaluate Competing Normal Tissue Dose Volume Histograms - M. Su*, M. Miften
3:10 PM
WE-D20B-11
Automatic Generation of Standard Uptake Value (SUV) Isolines for Treatment Planning - S. Mahan*, C. Ramsey


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