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Items of Note
Important notices, upcoming deadlines, and events happening in the Medical Physics community.
- AAPM Newsletter
March/April 2023 Edition
Read the Newsletter
- AAPM Publications
- AAPM Task Group Report 273: Recommendations on Best Practices for AI and Machine Learning for Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Medical Imaging
View AAPM Report 273
- AAPM BTSC Report 377: Physicist Brachytherapy Training in 2021 - A Survey of Therapeutic Medical Physics Residency Program Directors
View AAPM Report 377
- Conference of Radiation Control Program Directors, Inc. (CRCPD) Publications
CRCPD announces the release of the revised Suggested State Regulation Part X “Medical Therapy”.
View the Regulation
- AAPM Webinars
- Topic: Basics of CT Pediatric Protocoling: How to Optimize the Hardware
Synopsis: While implementing or reviewing and updating CT protocols are an excellent way to ensure that pediatric patients are imaged in a mindful and responsible way, this can be a daunting task. This webinar will discuss available resources for medical physicists, such as the recently updated Image Gently RSNA modules, as well as provide practical implementation tips. The discussion will include recent experiences towards optimization of photon counting technology for the pediatric population. The session will close with sharing some initial operational experiences navigating pediatric protocols by our resident member. Speakers include two former chairs of the Pediatric Imaging Subcommittee (PISC) as well as the Chair of Image Gently.
Speakers: Sam Brady, Keith Strauss, Don Frush, Caleb Stallcup
Thursday, March 9, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
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- Topic: Innovations in Medical Physics Education
Synopsis: In 2022, the Arthur Boyer Innovations in Medical Physics Education Award was presented to Joseph Schulz for work for the development of an affordable platform for virtual reality-based patient education in radiation therapy. As an encore presentation for Dr. Schulz’s project, this webinar will provide an opportunity to learn more about this innovative work and how you can participate in the upcoming Innovations in Medical Physics Education session in 2023.
Speaker: Joseph Schulz
Thursday, March 23, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
Register Now
- Topic: Synthetic CT: A New Paradigm in Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
Synopsis: There is growing interest in MRI-only treatment planning and online adaptive radiation therapy under the guidance of on-board CBCT or MRI. Synthetic CT generation plays a critical role in these procedures as it provides need information for dose calculation (e.g., electron density) and patient set up (e.g., digitally reconstructed radiograph or simulated fiducial markers for non-MRI-Linac). This webinar will inform the audience of: 1) state-of-the-art developments on synthetic CT generation from MRI, CBCT and PET; 2) current clinical applications of synthetic CT for different scenarios such as MRI only for treatment planning for photon or proton therapy, and online adaptive radiation therapy using MRI-Linac or Non-MRI-Linac; 3) challenges and future developments of synthetic CT. Time will be allotted for Q&A.
Speakers: Steve Jiang, Neelam Tyagi, Jing Wang, Xiaofeng Yang, Kuang Gong
Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 12:00 PM ET
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- AAPM Grand Challenges
- Deep Generative Modeling for Learning Medical Image Statistics (DGM-Image Challenge)
Learn More & Participate
- Understanding Time-Activity Curve and Time Integrated Activity Variations in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Challenge (TACTIC) – An AAPM Grand Challenge
Learn More & Participate
- AAPM Funding Opportunities
- 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.
- 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.
Become a Mentor or a Mentee
- 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.
Learn More & Send Feedback
- AAPM Website
Is something on the website not working as it should? Please send an email to helpdesk@aapm.org - the AAPM IS Team
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AAPM Meetings
Don't miss these important meetings and deadlines.
Mark your calendar now! |
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2023 Summer School
Radiopharmaceutical Therapy & Dosimetry
June 2 - 7, 2023 | University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Meeting Website
Deadline to submit for scholarship: March 15
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64th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
July 10 - 14, 2022 | Washington, DC Post-Meeting Access
65th Annual Meeting & Exhibition
July 23 - 27, 2023 | Houston, TX
Meeting Website
Meeting Housing and Registration Available Online: March 22
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Corgi Phantom:
The Corgi Phantom is designed to evaluate cone beam CT systems. The modular phantom can be configured for different scan sizes, providing tests for multi-axis high resolution, sensitometry, cone beam artifacts, and uniformity. Additionally, the phantom includes holes for measuring dose. |
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Liver Phantom:
The Liver Phantom combines the advantages of objective test objects and anthropomorphic elements for evaluation of advanced iterative processing. The phantom includes low contrast test objects designed both for ROC tests along with conventional patterns, metal artifact inserts, and beads for MTF calculations. |
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Chapter Meetings
2023 NEAAPM Combined Winter Meeting, Peter Neurath Early-Career Symposium and SLAM competition
March 10, 2023 | Somerville, MA |
DVC AAPM Young Investigators Symposium 2023
March 31, 2023 | Virtual via Zoom |
2023 FLAAPM Spring Meeting
April 27-29, 2023 | Orlando, FL |
2023 NCC-AAPM Spring Meeting
April 28, 2023 | Bloomington MN |
NWAAPM 2023 Spring Meeting, including YIS & SLAM
April 28, 2023 | Portland, Oregon |
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Endorsed | Sponsored Meetings
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