2016 AAPM Annual Meeting
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Session Title: Open Source Hardware in Medical Physics and its Potential to Accelerate Innovation
Question 1: The overall inventor’s profit always benefits from a patent protection?
Reference:Bessen J, Maskin E. Sequential innovation, patents, and imitation. RAND J Econ 2009;40(4:611-35);
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 2: What are the advantages of aggressive sharing for academics?
Reference:“Open Source Lab: How to build your own hardware and decrease research costs.”, Joshua Pearce, 1st edition, 2014, p.14.
Choice A:Massive peer-review in the development of background material and experimental design.
Choice B:Increased visibility, citations and public relations.
Choice C:Increased funding opportunities.
Choice D:A and B.
Choice E:A, B and C.
Question 3: What requirement is part of all of the different Creative Commons Licenses?
Reference:“Open Source Lab: How to build your own hardware and decrease research costs.”, Joshua Pearce, 1st edition, 2014, p.46. Website of Creative Commons Licenses, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Choice A:You can’t sell it.
Choice B:You have to give credit to previous work.
Choice C:You can’t change the terms of the license from the initial one.
Choice D:You can’t modify the design.
Choice E:You have to keep it open source.
Question 4: Under the Attribution-Share-Alike CC BY-SA license, the developed product can’t be sold.
Reference:“Open Source Lab: How to build your own hardware and decrease research costs.”, Joshua Pearce, 1st edition, 2014, p.46. Website of Creative Commons Licenses, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
Question 5: Which part is free in the binary micro MLC open-source project?
Reference:Website of the Open Source Hardware Association, http://www.oshwa.org/definition/
Choice A:CAD drawings of design.
Choice B:MLC leaves assembly.
Choice C:List of materials.
Choice D:A and B.
Choice E:A and C.
Choice F:A, B and C.
Question 6: Procedure exists to appropriately sterilize 3d-printed devices for the clinic.
Reference:Perez et al. Sterilization of FDM-manufactured parts. Presented at the Twenty-third Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium – An Additive Manufacturing Conference, 6-8 August 2011. Austin, TX
Choice A:True.
Choice B:False.
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