AAPM - 2003 Summer School - Tuesday Scientific Program Schedule

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Scientific Program Schedule Day 3, Tuesday, June 24, 2003
Time	Topic & Faculty	Objectives
8:00 – 8:45 AM	Commissioning and Quality Assurance for IMRT Treatment Planning Michael Sharpe PDF Presentation (2.29 MB)	Describe the elements of commissioning for an inverse treatment planning system. Review the periodic quality assurance parameters and test procedures.
8:45 – 9:30 AM	Clinical Implementation of IMRT Treatment Planning Gary Ezzell PDF Presentation (602 KB)	Describe the elements of clinical implementation of IMRT. Discuss how to dosimetrically validate the treatment planning system and learn to use it well.
9:30 – 10:00 AM	DISCUSSION
10:00 – 10:15 AM	BREAK
10:15 – 11:00 AM	Patient Specific QA Ping Xia PDF Presentation (755 KB)	Describe the rationale for patient specific QA for IMRT procedures. Outline the QA test-procedure. Review the acceptance criteria for a treatment plan.
11:00 – 11:45 AM	Monitor Unit Calculations Lei Xing PDF Presentation (851 KB)	Describe the methodology for the MU calculation of IMRT fields. Review the influence of focal and extra-focal radiation on the radiation output of small field segments used to modulate the radiation intensity. Review the schemes for monitor unit back calculations.
11:45 – 12:15 PM	DISCUSSION
12:15 – 2:00 PM	LUNCH
2:00 – 2:45 PM	Use of Monte Carlo for IMRT Radhe Mohan and Jeff Seibers PDF Presentation (1.97 MB)	Describe the limitations of current treatment planning dose calculation algorithms. Discuss the application of Monte Carlo techniques in treatment planning and optimization of IMRT to improve the overall accuracy of dose delivery.
2:45 – 3:30 PM	IMRT Delivery System QA Tom LoSasso PDF Presentation (1.09 MB)	Describe the rationale and elements of IMRT delivery system QA. Review the QA for procedures for the LMC that are specific to IMRT delivery.
3:30 – 4:00 PM	DISCUSSION
4:00 – 4:15 PM	BREAK
4:15 – 5:15 PM	Tolerance Limits and Action Levels for Planning and Delivery of IMRT Jatinder Palta PDF Presentation (1016 KB)	Describe the rationale and elements of IMRT delivery system QA. Review the QA for procedures for the MLC that are specific to IMRT delivery. Review the tolerance limits and action levels for each critical QA test of the IMRT delivery system.

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