| Plenary Sessions |
Speaker |
Institution |
Country |
| Harmful Tissue Effects: Is there always a Dose Threshold? |
Jolyon Hendry |
Gray Institute for Radiation Oncologyand Biology, University of Oxford |
UK |
| Novel Dosimetry Concepts based on Nanodosimetry |
Hans Rabus |
Physikalisch-TechnischeBundesanstalt (PTB) |
Germany |
| Clinical Implementation of Volumetric Modulated Arc for Conventionally Fractionated and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy |
Vitali Moiseenko |
Vancouver Cancer Center |
Canada |
| Cell Tracking and In Vivo Single Cell Imaging using MRI and Nanotechnology |
Brian Rutt |
Stanford University |
USA |
| Medical Physicists International Certification: an IOMP Initiative |
Raymond Wu |
Barrow Neurological Institute |
USA |
| Keynote Lectures |
Speaker |
Institution |
Country |
| GENERAL MEDICAL PHYSICS |
| Assessment of New Technologies in Radiation Medicine: Diagnostic and Therapy |
William R. Hendee |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
USA |
| Laser Uses in Medicine |
Elisabeth Mateus Yoshimura |
Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo |
Brazil |
| RADIATION DOSIMETRY |
| Traceability to International Dosimetry Standards |
Penelope Allisy-Roberts(1) and Cari Borrás(2) |
(1)Bureau International des Poids et Mesures; (2)Federal University of Pernambuco |
(1)France; (2)Brazil |
| 3-D Dosimetry for Radiation Therapy |
Geoffrey Ibbot |
Radiation Physics, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
USA |
| Brachytherapy Dosimetry |
Larry DeWerd |
Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin |
USA |
| Computational Dosimetry based on Human Phantoms |
Richard Kramer |
Department of Nuclear Energy, Federal University of Pernambuco |
Brazil |
| Future Trends of EPR in Medical Applications |
Oswaldo Baffa |
Department of Physics and Mathematics, University of Sao Paulo |
USA |
| RADIATION THERAPY |
| Improving and Expanding Radiotherapy in Low Resource Countries |
Graeme Morgan |
Dept Radiation Oncology, Royal North Shore Hospital |
Australia |
| Alpha Therapy: Treatment Planning Challenges |
Barry Allen |
International Union for Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine |
Australia |
| Current Challenges in Proton and Light Ion Therapy |
Harald Paganetti |
Massachusetts General Hospital, Proton Therapy Center |
USA |
| IMRT Commissioning: how close is close enough? |
Patrick F. Cadman |
Medical Physics Department, Saskatoon Cancer Centre |
Canada |
| Molecular PET-CT Imaging-guided Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning |
Habib Zaidi |
Division of Nuclear Medicine, Geneva University Hospital |
Switzerland |
| Quality and Safety in Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: More Can be Done |
Timothy D. Solberg |
Radiation Oncology, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical Center |
USA |
| The Challenges of Treatment Planning Systems using the New Radiation Therapy Technologies |
Milan Tomsej |
University Hospital CHU of Charleroi |
Belgium |
| Image Fusion or Adaptive Radiation Therapy |
Tomas Kron |
Peter McCallum Cancer Centre |
Australia |
| The Role of Phantoms in Quality Assurance Programs: The Radiological Physics Center Experience |
David S. Followill |
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
USA |
| Inverse Planning in Brachytherapy |
Victor Bourel |
Favaloro University |
Argentina |
| MEDICAL IMAGING |
| Will DR replace CR? |
Kwan Hoong Ng |
University of Malaya Medical Centre |
Malaysia |
| Assessment of Image Quality in Computed Tomography |
John Boone |
UC Davis Medical Center |
USA |
| The Role of Tomosynthesis in Routine Clinical Applications |
Anders Tingberg |
Malmo University Hospital |
Sweden |
| Dosimetric Quantities and Methods in Diagnostic and Therapeutic Nuclear Medicine |
Michael G. Stabin |
Vanderbilt University Medical Center |
USA |
| Quantitative Emission Tomography |
Cecil Chow Robilotta |
Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo |
Brazil |
| Nanoparticles Contrast Agents in MRI |
Bashar Issa |
University of United Arab Emirates |
UAE |
| Frontiers in Biomedical Imaging with Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields |
Kamil Ugurbil |
University of Minnesota Medical School |
USA |
| Innovations in Biological Imaging and the Clinical Impact |
Fridtjof Nuesslin |
University of Muenchen |
Germany |
| Ultrasound Imaging for Diagnosis and Guidance of Treatment of Breast Cancer |
Paul Carson |
The University of Michigan Health System |
USA |
| RADIATION PROTECTION |
| Setting up a Programme for Patient Dose Management |
Colin John Martin |
Gartnavel Royal Hospital |
United Kingdom |
| Effect of Noise Reduction Algorithms on Patient Dose |
J. Anthony Seibert |
Davis Medical Center |
USA |
| Diagnostic Reference Levels for Digital and Interventional Radiology |
Anna Benini |
University Hospital |
Denmark |
| Biological Effects of Non Ionizing Radiation |
Emico Okuno |
Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo |
Brazil |
| Professional Sessions |
Speaker |
Institution |
Country |
| Radiation Safety in Pediatric radiology: what we can do as a Medical Physicist? |
Charles Willis |
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center |
USA |
| Innovations in Medical Physics Education |
William R. Hendee |
Medical College of Wisconsin |
USA |
| Status and Future Development of Education and Training in Medical Physics/Engineering |
Slavik Tabakov (chair) |
King's College London |
UK |
| Professional status of the medical physicists in Latin America and the Caribbean |
Simone Kodlulovich(chair) |
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center |
USA |
| Interfacing matters between IRPA and IOMP |
Paulo Costa (chair) |
Institute of Physics, University of Sao Paulo |
Brazil |
