Items of Note
Important notices, upcoming deadlines, and events happening in the Medical Physics community.
- 2023 AAPM Dues
AAPM dues became payable on the first day of January. If you pay before March 1st, you can avoid a lapse in membership and a $50 reinstatement fee.
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- AAPM Newsletter
January/February 2023 Edition
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- AAPM Grand Challenges
- Deep Generative Modeling for Learning Medical Image Statistics (DGM-Image Challenge)
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- Understanding Time-Activity Curve and Time Integrated Activity Variations in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Challenge (TACTIC) – An AAPM Grand Challenge
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- AAPM Publications
AAPM WGTG51 Report 374: Guidance for TG-51 Reference Dosimetry
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- MPLA Leadership Club (previously known as MPLA Journal Club)
Join the MPLA Leadership Club at 1pm ET on January 9 for a discussion on Change Catalyst and Management. All AAPM members are welcome regardless of previous leadership experience.
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- AAPM Webinars
- Topic: AAPM Webinar on Best Practices on Use of the AAPM Radiation and Medical Imaging Communications Guide
Synopsis: In 2022 AAPM completed its radiation risk communications guide "Radiation and Medical Imaging: Communicating Clear Answers to Top Questions". This webinar will provide members with useful tips and best practices for effectively making use of this important resource in their communications with the media, colleagues, patients, and the public. In addition, the webinar will feature live role playing involving scenarios medical physicists are likely to encounter and conclude with an interactive Q&A.
Speakers: Cynthia McCollough, Wendy Beatty, Frederic Fahey, Rebecca Milman
Tuesday, January 10, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
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- Webinar #17 |AAPM Webinar Series on MP3.0 Transformational Medical Physics
Topic: The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Multi-Modality Medical Imaging
Synopsis: This talk presents the major applications of artificial intelligence (AI) in multimodality medical imaging. It will inform the audience about a series of advanced development recently carried out at the PET instrumentation & Neuroimaging Lab of Geneva University Hospital and other active research groups. To this end, the promising applications of deep learning to six generic fields of active research, including imaging instrumentation design, image denoising (low-dose PET/SPECT and CT imaging), image segmentation, cross-modality image conversion, quantitative image reconstruction and computational modelling and radiation dosimetry will be discussed.
Speaker: Habib Zaidi
Thursday, January 19, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
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- Webinar #3 | AAPM Webinar Series on Spatially Fractionated Radiation Therapy (SFRT): Clinical Significance, Technical Approaches and Challenges
Topic: Advancing SFRT by Preclinical Research planned in conjunction with The Radiosurgery Society (RSS)
Synopsis: SFRT is an unconventional form of radiation therapy that has recaptured the attention of the field in recent years. Mounting evidence from clinical application and preclinical research has shown that SFRT is unequivocally different from conventional radiation therapy and has the potential of very high therapeutic ratio. Despite its potential, especially for patients whose cancers cannot be effectively controlled by conventional therapies, SFRT remains largely unused. This webinar series, planned in conjunction with The Radiosurgery Society (RSS), is intended to be a comprehensive overview of SFRT – the history, current status, the potentials, and the challenges.
Speakers: Sha Chang, Yolanda Prezado, Slavisa Tubin
Tuesday, January 31, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
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- Webinar #32 | AAPM Webinar Series on Advances in Medical Physics
Topic: Advances in Cardiac CT and CBCT Imaging
Synopsis: Cardiac CT and CBCT imaging techniques enable imaging hardware to ‘beat’ in sync with the patient, providing a pathway to increase the consistency in image quality between patients, reducing the overall imaging dose received by the patient and facilitating tailored imaging for specific clinical applications. Novel adaptive imaging solutions for applications during thoracic radiotherapy, cardiac radioablation and interventional cardiology and radiology will be discussed, highlighting current status and progress along the clinical translation pathway.
Speaker: Tess Reynolds
Thursday, February 9, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
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- AAPM Funding Opportunities
- 2023 DREAM - Diversity Recruitment Recruitment through Education and Mentoring Program
Deadline: February 2, 2023
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- 2023 Summer Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Deadline: February 2, 2023
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- 2023 ASTRO-AAPM Physics Resident/Post-Doctoral Fellow Seed Grant
Deadline: February 15, 2023
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- 2023 Research Seed Funding Grant
Deadline: April 12, 2023
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- 2023 AAPM / RSNA Doctoral and Masters Graduate Fellowships
Deadline: April 27, 2023
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- AAPM Mentorship Program
The AAPM Mentorship Program match process is now live! It is not too late to sign-up as a mentee or mentor, as the program is an on-demand service.
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- Confex
AAPM is excited to announce Confex, an abstract system which will now be used for all AAPM meeting program development. If you’re an author or submitter for any AAPM meeting program, please watch for and whitelist the email address aapm@confex.com.
- Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC)
AAPM members, please feel free to use this anonymous and confidential resource to inform the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Committee (EDIC) of any comments, questions or concerns you have regarding EDI within AAPM or your experience as a medical physicist.
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- AAPM Website
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