Review Courses
Saturday, July 26 • 8:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, July 27 • 8:00am - Noon
$195
$100 for students with student I.D.
Two courses will be offered; see course outlines below:
Diagnostic Physics will take place in Room 330, George R. Brown Convention Center
Radiation Therapy Physics will take place in Room 351, George R. Brown Convention Center
The courses provide a good review of medical physics for physicists entering the specialty, those preparing for board certification, physicists in need of continuing education credits, and physicists who would benefit from a refresher course taught by experts in the field. Course notebooks are provided to registrants. The courses will be held concurrently on Saturday and Sunday.
Access Registration Information/System
Diagnostic Review Course, Room 330, Convention Center
Course Director: George David |
| Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
| 7:30am - 8:00am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Physics and Quality Characteristics of X-Ray Images |
Perry Sprawls |
| 9:00am - 9:30am |
Digital Radiography Principles and Quality Characteristics |
Perry Sprawls |
| 9:30am - 9:45am |
Morning Break |
| 9:45am - 10:45am |
Medical Physics Issues in Mammography |
Jerry Allison |
| 10:45am – 12:15am |
MRI Resonance Imaging Principles and Quality Characteristics |
Perry Sprawls |
| 12:15am - 1:30pm |
Lunch on your own |
| 1:30pm – 2:30pm |
Diagnostic Radiation Shielding Design |
Doug Simpkin |
| 2:30pm – 3:30pm |
Hospital Radiation Protection |
Doug Simpkin |
| 3:30pm - 3:45pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 3:45pm - 4:45pm |
Estimation of Absorbed Dose to the Conceptus |
Louis Wagner |
| 4:45pm - 5:45pm |
Diagnostic X-Ray Equipment Testing |
George David |
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
| 7:30am - 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am - 9:00am |
Fluoroscopic Image Quality
|
Beth Schueler
|
| 9:00am - 10:00am |
Ultrasound Physics & Technology |
Nick Hangiandreou |
| 10:00am - 10:15am |
Morning Break |
| 10:15am - 11:15am |
CT Technology & Dosimetry |
James Kofler |
| 11:15am - 12:15pm |
Digital Technologies for Radiography & Mammography |
Andrew Karellas |
Therapy Review Course, Room 351, Convention Center
Course Director: Gary Luxton |
| Saturday, July 26, 2008 |
| 7:30am - 8:00am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am - 8:50am |
Radiation Protection in Radiotherapy |
Arthur Boyer |
| 8:50am - 9:50am |
Anatomy and Imaging for 3-D Treatment Planning |
Arthur Boyer |
| 9:50am - 10:10am |
Morning Break |
| 10:10am – 11:00am |
Electron and Photon Interactions in Water and Tissue |
Paul DeLuca |
| 11:00am – 11:50am |
Nuclear Particles in Radiotherapy: Radioactivity and Hadron Beam Therapy |
Gary Luxton |
| 11:50 am - 1:15pm |
Lunch on your own |
| 1:15pm – 2:05pm |
Radiation Generators for External Beam Radiotherapy |
Peter Biggs |
| 2:05pm - 2:55pm |
Radiation Measurement in Radiation Therapy |
C-M Charlie Ma |
| 2:55pm - 3:05pm |
Afternoon Break |
| 3:05pm - 3:55pm |
Brachytherapy Sources: Dosimetry and Source Strength Specifications |
Jeffrey Williamson |
| 3:55pm - 4:45pm |
Shielding for Megavoltage Therapy Machines |
Peter Biggs |
| 4:45pm - 5:00pm |
Afternoon Break |
|
| 5:00pm - 5:50pm |
Computer-Controlled Delivery of External Beam Radiotherapy |
Benedick Fraass |
| Sunday, July 27, 2008 |
| 7:30am - 8:00am |
Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am - 8:50am |
Treatment Planning with Clinical X-Rays: Fundamentals |
Colin Orton |
| 8:50am - 9:40am |
Treatment Planning with Clinical X-Rays: Dose-volume and Radiobiological Modeling Considerations |
Colin Orton |
| 9:40am - 10:10am |
Morning Break |
| 10:10am - 11:00am |
Treatment Planning: Clinical Electrons |
John Antolak |
| 11:00am - Noon |
Brachytherapy Treatment Planning |
Bruce Thomadsen |
