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Review Courses

Saturday, July 26 • 8:00am - 6:00pm
Sunday, July 27 • 8:00am - Noon
$195
$100 for students with student I.D.

Two courses will be offered; see course outlines below:
Diagnostic Physics will take place in Room 330, George R. Brown Convention Center
Radiation Therapy Physics will take place in Room 351, George R. Brown Convention Center

The courses provide a good review of medical physics for physicists entering the specialty, those preparing for board certification, physicists in need of continuing education credits, and physicists who would benefit from a refresher course taught by experts in the field. Course notebooks are provided to registrants. The courses will be held concurrently on Saturday and Sunday.

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Diagnostic Review Course, Room 330, Convention Center
Course Director: George David

Saturday, July 26, 2008
7:30am - 8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 9:00am Physics and Quality Characteristics of X-Ray Images Perry Sprawls
9:00am - 9:30am Digital Radiography Principles and Quality Characteristics Perry Sprawls
9:30am - 9:45am Morning Break
9:45am - 10:45am Medical Physics Issues in Mammography Jerry Allison
10:45am – 12:15am MRI Resonance Imaging Principles and Quality Characteristics Perry Sprawls
12:15am - 1:30pm Lunch on your own
1:30pm – 2:30pm Diagnostic Radiation Shielding Design Doug Simpkin
2:30pm – 3:30pm Hospital Radiation Protection Doug Simpkin
3:30pm - 3:45pm Afternoon Break
3:45pm - 4:45pm Estimation of Absorbed Dose to the Conceptus Louis Wagner
4:45pm - 5:45pm Diagnostic X-Ray Equipment Testing George David
Sunday, July 27, 2008
7:30am - 8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 9:00am

Fluoroscopic Image Quality

Beth Schueler

9:00am - 10:00am Ultrasound Physics & Technology Nick Hangiandreou
10:00am - 10:15am Morning Break
10:15am - 11:15am CT Technology & Dosimetry James Kofler
11:15am - 12:15pm Digital Technologies for Radiography & Mammography Andrew Karellas

 

Therapy Review Course, Room 351, Convention Center
Course Director: Gary Luxton

Saturday, July 26, 2008
7:30am - 8:00am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:50am Radiation Protection in Radiotherapy Arthur Boyer
8:50am - 9:50am Anatomy and Imaging for 3-D Treatment Planning Arthur Boyer
9:50am - 10:10am Morning Break
10:10am – 11:00am Electron and Photon Interactions in Water and Tissue Paul DeLuca
11:00am – 11:50am Nuclear Particles in Radiotherapy: Radioactivity and Hadron Beam Therapy Gary Luxton
11:50 am - 1:15pm Lunch on your own
1:15pm – 2:05pm Radiation Generators for External Beam Radiotherapy Peter Biggs
2:05pm - 2:55pm Radiation Measurement in Radiation Therapy C-M Charlie Ma
2:55pm - 3:05pm Afternoon Break
3:05pm - 3:55pm Brachytherapy Sources: Dosimetry and Source Strength Specifications Jeffrey Williamson
3:55pm - 4:45pm Shielding for Megavoltage Therapy Machines Peter Biggs
4:45pm - 5:00pm Afternoon Break  
5:00pm - 5:50pm Computer-Controlled Delivery of External Beam Radiotherapy Benedick Fraass
Sunday, July 27, 2008
7:30am - 8:00am Continental Breakfast
8:00am - 8:50am Treatment Planning with Clinical X-Rays: Fundamentals Colin Orton
8:50am - 9:40am Treatment Planning with Clinical X-Rays: Dose-volume and Radiobiological Modeling Considerations Colin Orton
9:40am - 10:10am Morning Break
10:10am - 11:00am Treatment Planning: Clinical Electrons John Antolak
11:00am - Noon Brachytherapy Treatment Planning Bruce Thomadsen