SUNDAY, July 27
10:00 - 12:00
Education Council Symposium:

Part I: Software Resources for Assisting in the Instruction of Medical Physics

Part II: Educational Activities of the AAPM and CAMPEP

Moderator:
Truebloold

Room: Plankinton Theater
Various committee and council meetings throughout the day
 
1:00 - 3:00
Professional Council Symposium

Medical Physics in the Twenty-First Century:
Educational and Credentialing Challenges
 
Moderator:
Ibbott

Room: Plankinton Theater
3:00 - 5:00
Young Investigator's Symposium

Moderator:

Gray

Room: Plankinton Theater
6:30 - 8:00
AAPM WELCOME FEST ICEBREAKER


MONDAY, July 28
Room:
East Octagon A
Room:
East Octagon B
Room:
West Octagon A
Room:
Juneau
Room:
Kilbourn
Room:
West Octagon B
Room:
Walker
A
7:30 - 8:30
NCRP 49 Rewrite-New Concepts in Shielding
Part I
Gray & Simpkin
   
Convolution/ superposition algorithm
Mackie
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Schell
 
Treatment Planning in Radionuclide Therapy
Macey
B
8:35 - 9:35
NCRP 49 Rewrite-New Concepts in Shielding
Part II
Archer, Dixon, & Hubbard
MRI - Latest Development's
Bernstein
 
Static Segmental Intensity Modulation Technique
Fraass
Prostate Implants
De Wyngaert
QA/QC for Hard-Copy Devices
Kofler
Treatment Planning in Radionuclide Therapy
Williams
9:30 -10:00
COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
C
10:00-12:00
President's Symposium
New Directions in X-Ray Detectors for Medical Imaging
Boone, Yaffee, Antonuk, Rowlands, Staab
Moderator: Thomas
Room: Plankinton Theater
12:00- 1:30
WORKS IN PROGRESS POSTER SESSION
D
1:30-3:30
Debate on the Linear No Threshold Model for Radiation Risk
Mossman, Nussbaum & Sinclair

Moderator:
Webster
MRI/MRS
Chair:

Sobol
Continuing Education Course:
Mammography Topics
Butler & Barnes

Moderator:
High
Photon Calculations & Verification

Chairs:
Lovelock &Palta
 
Ultrasound Phantoms for QA/QC

Chair:
Madsen
 
Room: Plankinton Theater
3:30 - 4:00
REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
E
4:00 - 5:30
Ultrasound QA/QC
Kimme-Smith
 
Continuing Education Course: Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Clinical Medical Physicists
Clarke & Sobol

Moderators:
Allison & Windham
"What they may not have told you about linear accelerator output factors"
Ten Haken, Sharpe, Lam & Heukelom

Moderator:
Ten Haken
   
Continuing Education Course:
Nuclear Medicine
Graham, & Noz

Moderator:
Yester
Room: Kilbourn
6:00 - 8:30
AAPM AWARDS CEREMONY AND RECEPTION
 
 
TUESDAY, July 29
 
 
Room:
East Octagon A
Room:
East Octagon B
Room:
West Octagon A
Room:
Juneau
Room:
Kilbourn
Room:
West Octagon B
Room:
Walker
A

7:30- 8:30

Radiation Management of the Pregnant Patient in Diagnostic Radiology
Wagner
Continuing Education Course: Technology Assessment in Diagnostic Radiology
Treatment Planning using a CT Simulator
Svennson
& Beard
Monte Carlo Doses Calculations for Radiation Treatment Planning
Mohan
Biologic Models in Radiotherapy
Schultheiss
 
 
 
A Hands-On Opportunity for Ultrasound QA/QC
 (8:00 am - 12:00 pm)
Treatment Planning in Radionuclide Therapy
Zasadny
B
8:35 - 9:35
Teaching Physics to Diagnostic Radiology Residents
McCollough & Zink
Langlotz & Herbert
 
Moderator:
Herbert
 
Dynamic Intensity Modulation Technique
Chui
 
GYN Implants
Erickson & Gillin
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Treatment Planning in Radionuclide Therapy
Johnson
 
9:30-10:00
COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
C
10:00-12:00
Dosimetry in Diagnostic Radiology
Chairs:
Barnes & Karellas
 
 
Continuing Education Course:
Mammography Topics
Newstead & High
Moderator:
Frey
Brachytherapy I: Intravascular Brachytherapy
Chairs:
Chiu-Tsao & Nath
IMRT I
 
 
Chairs:
Mackie &Wong
A Hands-On Opportunity for Ultrasound QA/QC
(cont.)
 
 
12:00 - 1:30
Diagnostic and Nuclear Medicine Poster Session and Electronic Posters
D
1:30 - 3:30
Digital Radiography
Chairs:
Balter & Dobbins
---
General and Health Physics plus Miscellaneous
Chair:
Bushong
 
 
Continuing Education Course:
Mammography Topics
Frey
 
 
 
Moderator:
High
Therapy Imaging I
 
 
 
 
 
 
Chairs:
Herman & Gilhuijs
Radiation Measurement and Instrumentation
 
 
 
 
Chairs:
Ibbott & Reinstein
Volume Estimation Using Ultrasound: Prostate Implant Placement
 
 
Chairs:
Carson & Fowlkes
 
 
3:30 - 4:00
REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
E
4:00 - 5:30
 
 
Radon Exposure and the Risk of Lung Cancer Cohen & Puskin
Moderator:
Kase
 
 
 
Electronic Communications
Laughlin, Bourland,Curran & Orton
Moderator:
Paliwal
Continuing Education Course: MRI for Clinical Medical Physicists
Hearshen
Moderators: Allison & Windham
 
 
Biological Modeling for Radiation Therapy: Dose-Volume Effects
Jackson, Moulder & Tucker
Moderator:
Schultheiss
 
 
 
 
 
 
Continuing Education Course:
Nuclear
Medicine
Fahey & Yester
Moderator:
Yester
Room:
Kilbourn
 
Room:
Plankinton Theater
 
 
 
6:00 - 10:30
NIGHT OUT
 
WEDNESDAY, July 30
 
 
Room:
East Octagon A
Room:
East Octagon B
Room:
West Octagon A
Room:
Juneau
Room:
Kilbourn
Room:
West Octagon B
Room:
Walker
A
7:30- 8:30
Teleradiology
Ernest & Hangiandreou
Optimizing Digital X-ray Image Quality
Sprawls
Continuing Education Course: Technology Assessment in Therapeutic Radiology
Inhomogeneity Calculations
Van Dyk
 
 
Portal Imaging: Technical Aspects
Jaffray
 
Ultrasono-
graphy Accreditation Zagzebski
 
 
Teaching Nuclear Medicine Physics
Madsen
B
8:35 - 9:35
Stereotaxic Breast Biopsy
Kimme-Smith, Williams & Pizzutiello
Contemporary
Legal Issues in Medical Physics
Bagne, Gooden & Shalek
Tepper & Herbert
 
Moderator:
Herbert
Enhanced Dynamic Wedge
Liu & Palta
Intravascular Brachytherapy
Nath
 
 
 
9:30- 10:00
COFFEE BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
C
10:00-12:00
Mammography - New Technology: Design, Development, and Evaluation
 
Chairs:
Andre & Maidment
 
 
 
Brachytherapy II
Calculations & Measurements
   
Chairs:
Fontenla & Thomadsen
Treatment Planning, Organ Motion, IMRT II
   
Chairs:
Chen & Jackson
Ultrasound
Tissue Characterization
   
Chair:
Fowlkes
 
Nuclear Medicine
 
  
  
Chairs:
Madsen & Yester
12:00-1:30
THERAPY POSTERS
D
1:30 - 3:30
Mammography - Evaluation of Conventional Systems and Screening
 
Chairs:
Seibert & Yaffe
 
 
 
 
Treatment
Delivery
 
  
Chairs:
Klein & Mohan
Radiation Imaging II
 
  
Chairs:
Van den Heuvel & Thomason
 
 
 
 
3:30 - 4:00
REFRESHMENT BREAK IN EXHIBIT HALL
E
4:00 - 5:30
CAD in Mammography
Clarke, Lo, Floyd & Chan
  
Moderator:
Chan
The AAPM:
An Introduction for New Members
 
AAPM officers, council chairs, and senior members of the Association
Continuing Education Course: Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Clinical Medical Physicists
Hearshen
Moderators:
Allison & Windham
Information Technology
Foley, Weinhous & Kijewski
  
Moderator:
Chen
Writing NIH Grants
Strudler
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
5:45 - 6:45
ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING
 
THURSDAY, July 31
 
 
 
Room:
East Octagon A
 
Room:
East Octagon B
 
Room:
West Octagon A
 
Room:
Juneau
 
Room:
Kilbourn
 
Room:
West Octagon B
 
Room:
Walker
A
7:30 - 8:30
How Much Information can an X Ray Carry? The Role of Information Theory in Image Assessment
Maidment
 
 
 
 
3-D Treatment Planning Systems
Harms
Portal Imaging: Clinical Aspects
Wong
 
 
 
 
B
8:35 - 9:35
Electronic Anatomic Atlases for Medical Imaging
Vannier
 
 
 
 
Peacock System
Grant
Eye Plaques
Chiu-Tsao
 
 
 
 
 
9:30 - 10:00
 
C
10:00-12:00
Computer Aided Diagnosis
 
Chairs:
Giger & Kimme-Smith
 
 
 
 
Stereotactic Radiosurgery
 
Chairs:
Bourland & Bova
Radiation Measurement II
 
Chairs:
Gillin & Kuchnir
Boron-Neutron Capture Therapy
Solares
Moderator:
Zamenhof
 
 
 
12:00-1:30
 
D
1:30 - 3:30
CT
 
  
 
Chairs:
Goodsitt & Flynn
 
Continuing Education Course: Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Clinical Medical Physicists
Jackson
Moderators:
Allison & Windham
Electron Calculations, Heavy Particles
 
 Chairs:
Hogstrom & Phillips
Treatment Planning
 
  
Chairs:
Ezzell & Stern