Selected Presentations
*PLEASE NOTE: Session changes may occur. Not all presentations may be available due to speaker releases, AV problems or program changes.
Presentations to be digitally captured at the 59th Annual Meeting & Exhibition:
Sunday, July 30
- Professional Council Symposium: Communicating with Patients: A Vital Skill for a Medical Physicist
- Joint Council Symposium: New Opportunities for Medical Physics
- Education Council Symposium: Future Trends in Medical Physics Education
Monday, July 31
- President's Symposium: Connecting Our Pathways. Unifying Our Profession.
- Personalized Electron Beam Therapy Using Custom Treatment Devices
- Advanced Training of Medical Physicists beyond North America
- Machine Learning in Medical Physics
- Clinical Implementation of Pencil Beam Scanning (PBS) Proton Therapy
- Multi-modality 4D Imaging: From Principles to Applications
- Tailoring CT Protocols to the Patient's Age, Size, and Clinical Scenario
- In Memoriam of Michael Sharpe: The Future of Precision in RT
- Recent Medical Physics Practice Guidelines and Your Delivery Path
- HDR Brachytherapy: Interstitial Treatments for GYN Panel Discussion
- HDR Brachytherapy: Treatment Verification Methods
- WMIS/AAPM Joint Symposium: Imaging Hypoxia
- Deep Learning and Applications in Medical Imaging
- MR in RT: MR Pulse Sequences and Image Acquisition (Including Radiation Therapy Applications)
- US Guidance for RT Interventions
- Recent Changes to the ABR MOC Process
- MR in RT: MR Image Processing, Registration and Planning in Radiation Therapy
- Machine Learning Role in Radiomics and Radiogenomics
- FUTURE: Provocative Questions in Medical Physics
- Hands-on Workshop for Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging Quality Control, High Intensity Focused Ultrasound Therapy and Ultrasound-guided Therapy
- 2017 ICRU Gray Medal: Presentation of the Medal and Lectures by the Pioneers
- EI DI Oh! Implementation and interpretation of the Exposure Indicator for Digital Radiography
- Statistical Failings that Keep Us in the Dark & Practical Statistics
- US Guided Systems for Brachytherapy
Tuesday, August 1
- Microscopic Monte Carlo Simulations for Radiobiology Modeling: Advances and Challenges
- Code of Ethics: Practicing Our Values
- MR in RT: Professional Requirements for Physicists in MRI Guided Radiation Therapy
- Inverse Optimization Meets High Performance Computing
- QA for Modern Radiation Therapy
- Big Data 1: Current Big Data Resources and Technology in Radiation Oncology
- Big Data 2: New and Emerging Big Data Strategies in Radiation Oncology
- Design for Care
- A Concise Introduction to MRI
- Good, Bad and Ugly of Patient Exposure and Dose Tracking
- Identifying Image Artifacts, Their Causes, and Solutions
- Therapeutic Ultrasound and Immunotherapy: A Primer
- HIFU in Oncology
- What to Do: Medical Physicist Assistants
- Developments in Clinical Reference Dosimetry
- Roles of In-vivo Dose Verification in Radiation Therapy
- Best Practices in Pediatric Imaging
- MR in RT: Implementation in RT Planning and Delivery
- Advanced Novel Technologies & Delivery Strategies in HIFU
- Leading From the Middle (Ticketed Event)
- Anne and Donald Herbert Distinguished Lectureship in Modern Statistical Modeling
- MR-guided Radiotherapy
- Photon Counting Detectors and Their Applications in Medical Imaging
- Compliance with AAPM, ACR, TJC Guidelines on CT Clinical Practice
- DBT Quality Assurance: Medical Physicists Role, From Equipment Evaluation to Soft Copy Image Display
- Therapeutic Strategies and Image Guidance in HIFU
- Radiomics for Lung Cancer
- New Member Symposium
- Electronic Charting in Radiation Oncology and Integration with Hospital EMR
- Joint Scientific Symposium with ESTRO: From Bench to Bedside Via Veterinary Radiation Oncology
- Non-conventional Multi-source X-Ray Imaging: Cardiac, Breast Imaging and Cone Beam CT
- 90Y-Microsphere Therapy: Emerging Trends and Future Directions
- An Interactive Safety Session for New Brachytherapy Practitioners
- HIFU Treatment Planning, Modeling, and Dose
- The Future of Medical Physics in Relation to Low Dose Radiation Effects
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Wednesday, August 2
- Physicists' Roles and Workload for NCTN (National Clinical Trials Network) Clinical Trials
- In Memoriam of Ann Wright: Panel Discussion: Promoting Diversity Through Active Mentoring
- In Memoriam of Bob Gorson: Radiation Programs in Medical Centers
- The Role of Physics in Long Term Epidemiological Studies of Pediatric Radiotherapy Patients
- Optical Image-guided Surgery
- Advanced Breast Imaging: Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Updates and Contrast Enhanced Spectral Mammography
- Intra-Operative Radiotherapy (IORT): Breast and Beyond
- From the Trenches: Implementing the Changes of the New MR QA Manual
- Perspectives in MRI Safety for Medical Physicists
- Performance Evaluation of Ultrasound Systems: Advanced Methods and Applications
- The Carson/Zagzebski Distinguished Lecture on Medical Ultrasound
- Overview of Imaging's Role in Clinical Trial (Session 1 of the Certificate Course Series)
- Recent Advancement of Imaging Guidance in Clinical Trial (Session 2 of the Certificate Course Series)
- The Roles and Task of Medical Physicists in Clinical Trial (Session 4 of the Certificate Course Series)
- Professional Liability and Legal Considerations
- Intellectual Property Law for the Medical Physicist
- Economic Issues in Medical Physics
- Medical Physics 3.0 in Design
- Medical Physics 3.0 in Practice
- In Memoriam of Michael Goitein: Milestones in Treatment Planning, Biophysical Modeling, and Delivery of Proton Therapy
- Quantitative Imaging Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy
- Recent Advances in Brachytherapy
- Research Funding
- In Memoriam of John "Jack" F. Fowler: The Mathematics of Dose-fractionation Effects
- ROC: A New Method in Radiotherapy QA
- Emerging and New Generation PET: Instrumentation, Technology, Characteristics and Clinical Practice
- Low Dose CT: Where Do We Stand Now?
- Implementation of the 2016 ACR Digital Mammography Quality Control Manual
- Strategies for Quality Improvement Based On RO-ILS Information
- Quantitative Multi-Energy Computed Tomography: Imaging and Therapy Advancements
- Improving Dose Prescriptions for Safety, Reporting, and Clinical Guideline Consistency
- Management of Radiotherapy Patients with Cardiac Implantable Electronic Devices
- Advances in Ultrasound Contrast Agents and Elastography
- Advances in Ultrasound Imaging Technology
- History Symposium: Radionuclide Therapy: Dr. Saul Hertz to Present
- Ultrasound in Monitoring Treatment and Response
Thursday, August 3
- Clinical IGRT: In-Room Imaging Technologies and Image Processing for Patient Alignment
- Clinical IGRT: Treatment Site Uncertainties, IGRT Protocol Design and Informed Margins
- Question Writer Workshop
- Advancements in MRI and MR-Guided Interventions
- Update on Task Group 270: Display Quality Assurance
- Panel Discussion: Mentor and Mentee Roles
- Session in Memory of Alex Turner: Medical Physics Journal Workshop: An Update On the Journal's Improvement Activities and Guidance On Writing and Reviewing Papers
- Auto-segmentation for Thoracic Radiation Treatment Planning: A Grand Challenge
- Joint Symposium of AAPM and ASTRO: Normal Tissue Dose-Volume Effects of Head/Neck and Liver/GI SBRT
- Nanoparticles for Imaging and Therapy
- Changing Paradigms for Linac QA Using EPIDS
- Computed Tomography Imaging: From the Order to Dose Monitoring and Review
- SRS/SBRT: Clinical Implementation and Small Volume Dose Limits in Brain/Spine
- Diagnostic Workforce Study Report
- Adult Learning (Andragogy) Techniques for Medical Physics
- Best Practices for Physics Plan and Chart Review: Report of AAPM Task Group 275
- Contour Quality Assurance and Decision Support: Implications, Issues, and the State-of-the-Art
- How to Select and Evaluate a PET Auto-segmentation Tool - Insights from AAPM TG211
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