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41st Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
July 25-29, 1999 Nashville, Tennessee

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All Sessions Session Information

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Thursday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM  

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Thursday 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM  

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Thursday 6:00 PM - 10:30 PM  

Education Council Symposium
Internet Tools for Education
Sunday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Pearl

Professional Council Symposium
CRCPD Overview and Malpractice Insurance Issues
Sunday 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Room: Pearl

Symposium
Harold Johns Memorial Symposium
Sunday 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Room: Pearl

Electronic Poster Displays
Electronic Poster Session
Monday - Room: Ryman Exhibit Hall

Poster Presentations: Therapy Posters
Therapy Poster Session
Monday - Room: Ryman Exhibit Hall

Continuing Education Course
CE: Ultrasound - 1: US Principles and Problems: Communicating with Physicians
Monday 7:30 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Browning A

Continuing Education Course
CE: IMRT-1 IMRT Optimization
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Mississippi

Continuing Education Course
CE: Special Dosimetry Measurements - 1: The AAPM's TG-51 Protocol for Clinical Reference Dosimetry of High-Energy Beams
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Sewanee

Continuing Education Course
CE: MRI - 1: Overview of the ACR MRI Accreditation Process
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Taylor

Refresher Course
The Basics of MTF, Wiener spectra, and DQE
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
TG-64 Prostate Implants - Technique and Dosimetry Review
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Pearl

Continuing Education Course
CE: IMRT - 2: Serial Tomotherapy
Monday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Mississippi

Continuing Education Course
CE: MRI - 2: Test Objects/Equipment for Acceptance Testing, Quality Assurance and Compliance Testing
Monday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Taylor

Refresher Course
Understanding Imaging-System Performance: Quantum Sinks and the Detective Quantum Efficiency
Monday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
Gamma Knife Dosimetry and Treatment Planning
Monday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Pearl

Refresher Course
Navigating the Bay of Funding
Monday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Sewanee

President's Symposium
President's Symposium: Intravascular Brachytherapy: An Emerging Role for Medical Physicist
Monday 10:15 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Pearl

Symposium
Advancements in Breast Imaging
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:31 PM Room: Carroll

Young Investigators Symposium
Young Investigator's Symposium
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:31 PM Room: Pearl

Scientific Session
Breast Imaging
Monday 4:15 PM - 5:32 PM Room: Carroll

Scientific Session
Radiotherapy Instrumentation I
Monday 4:15 PM - 5:32 PM Room: Mississippi

Scientific Session
Stereotactic Radiotherapy
Monday 4:15 PM - 5:32 PM Room: Pearl

Symposia
Dose-Volume Specification for Radiation Oncology
Monday 4:15 PM - 5:32 PM Room: Sewanee

Poster Presentations: Diagnostic Imaging
Diagnostic Imaging Poster Session
Tuesday - Room: Ryman Exhibit Hall

Continuing Education Course
CE: Nuclear Medicine - 1: New Scintillators & New Detectors for PET
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Browning A

Continuing Education Course
CE: IMRT - 3: IMRT with Conventional MLC's
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Mississippi

Continuing Education Course
CE: Special Dosimetry Measurements - 2: Dosimetric Pitfall for Relative Dosimetry in Electron Disequilibrium Region
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Sewanee

Refresher Course
Computed Radiography Physics
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
Manpower Issues for Radiation Oncology
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Pearl

Refresher Course
Physical Principles of Phase-contrast, Time-of-flight, and Contrast-enhanced MR Angiography
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Taylor

Continuing Education Course
CE: Ultrasound - 2: Intravascular Ultrasound: Today and Beyond
Tuesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Browning A

Continuing Education Course
CE: IMRT - 4: Clinical Implementation of IMRT
Tuesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Mississippi

Refresher Course
Patient Dosimetry in Radiography & Fluoroscopy
Tuesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
Revised U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission 10 CFR 35 Regulations for Medical Use of Byproduct Material in Radiationy
Tuesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Pearl

Refresher Course
Fast Imaging Methods in MRI
Tuesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Taylor

5K Run/Walk
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Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM  

Continuing Education Course
CE: MRI - 3: Acceptance Testing of MRI Systems
Tuesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Taylor

Scientific Session
Computer-Aided Diagnosis/PACS
Tuesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Carroll

Scientific Session
IMRT Optimization
Tuesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Mississippi

Scientific Session
Brachytherapy
Tuesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Pearl

Symposia
CIRMS Measurements for Radiation Therapy Applications
Tuesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Sewanee

Continuing Education Course
CE: MRI - 4: Quality Assurance of MRI Systems
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Taylor

Scientific Session
Digital Mammography/Digital Radiography Systems
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Carroll

Scientific Session
IMRT Delivery
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Mississippi

Scientific Session
Calculations - Treatment Planning
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Pearl

Symposia
Imaging Tumor Physiology
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Carroll

Symposia
Analysis of IMRT Planning and Delivery Strategies
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Mississippi

Symposia
Recent Developments in Clinical Dosimetry of Low-Energy Interstitial Brachytherapy Sources
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Pearl

Symposia
CIRMS Measurements for Diagnostic Radiology Applications
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Sewanee

Paper Presentations
Mon-Wed (7 am to 11 pm) Thurs (7 am to 12 pm)
Therapy Paper Presentations
Wednesday - Room: Ryman Exhibit Hall

Continuing Education Course
CE: Ultrasound - 3: Hands On Ultrasound Quality Control Workshop
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Browning A

Continuing Education Course
CE: Special Dosimetry Measurements - 3: Two Dimensional Radiation Field Mapping using Radiochromic Film
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Sewanee

Continuing Education Course
CE: MRI - 5: Annual Compliance Testing
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Taylor

Refresher Course
Spiral CT: Single and Multiple Detector Systems
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
The Current Status of the Clinical Use of Electronic Portal Imaging Devices
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Mississippi

Refresher Course
The Multileaf Collimator: Past, Present and Future
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Pearl

Continuing Education Course
CE: MRI - 6: MRI in Stereotactic Procedures
Wednesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Taylor

Refresher Course
Tomographic Image Reconstruction
Wednesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
Information Systems and Networks in Radiation Oncology
Wednesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Mississippi

Refresher Course
Mini and Micro Multileaf Collimators
Wednesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Pearl

Refresher Course
How to Prepare & Deliver Electronic Presentations
Wednesday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Sewanee

5K Run/Walk
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Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM  

Continuing Education Course
CE: Mammography 1 - The New NCRP Report on Mammography (NCRP 85 Rewrite)
Wednesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Taylor

Continuing Education Course
CE: Mammography - 2: The New MQSA Rules & New ACR Recommendations
Wednesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Taylor

Scientific Session
Computer-Aided Diagnosis (General; Mulitmodality)
Wednesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Carroll

Scientific Session
Treatment Planning Optimization
Wednesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Mississippi

Scientific Session
Radiotherapy Delivery Systems and Techniques
Wednesday 10:15 AM - 12:05 PM Room: Pearl

Poster Session: Works In Progress Poster Presentation
Therapy Works In Progress Poster Session
Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Room: Ryman Exhibit Hall

Poster Session: Works In Progress Poster Presentation
Diagnostic Imaging and General Physics Works In Progress Poster Session
Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM Room: Ryman Exhibit Hall

Continuing Education Course
CE: Mammography - 4: Current Clinical Status of Full-field Digital Mammography
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Carroll

Continuing Education Course
CE: Mammography - 3: The Design of Full-field Digital Mammography Systems
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Taylor

Scientific Session
Imaging and Feedback Radiotherapy
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Mississippi

Scientific Session
Radiotherapy Measurements
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Pearl

Scientific Session
Diagnostic Imaging: Ultrasound, MRI, & Nuclear Medicine
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Sewanee

Scientific Session
Diagnostic Image Quality and Quality Assurance
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: Taylor

Symposia
Advancements in Visualization
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Carroll

Symposia
Feedback Radiotherapy
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Mississippi

Symposia
Monte Carlo Methods in Radiation Treatment Planning:
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Pearl

Symposia
Guide to the AAPM: An Introduction for New Members
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Sewanee

Symposia
Evaluation of Perfusion by MRI
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Taylor

Paper Presentations
Mon-Wed (7 am to 11 pm) Thurs (7 am to 12 pm)
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Thursday -  

Continuing Education Course
CE: Nuclear Medicine - 2: Radiation Safety Audits In Nuclear Medicine
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Browning A

Continuing Education Course
CE: Special Dosimetry Measurements - 4: Three Dimensional BANG Polymer Gel Dosimeters
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Sewanee

Refresher Course
Quality Assurance of Teleradiology
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
Modern Day Linac Acceptance Testing and Commissioning
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:30 AM Room: Pearl

Continuing Education Course
CE: Nuclear Medicine - 3: Quality Control of Scintillation Cameras (Planar and SPECT)
Thursday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Browning A

Continuing Education Course
CE: Mammography - 5: Digital Stereo Breast Biopsy Systems: Design and Testing
Thursday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Taylor

Refresher Course
PACS, CAD and Informatics Standards
Thursday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Carroll

Refresher Course
Biological Indicies in Treatment Planning
Thursday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Mississippi

Refresher Course
Clinical Implementation of Non-physical Wedges
Thursday 8:35 AM - 9:35 AM Room: Pearl

Scientific Session
Radiation Protection, Health Physics, & Dosimetry
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:01 PM Room: Carroll

Scientific Session
Radiotherapy Dose Calculations
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:01 PM Room: Mississippi

Scientific Session
Radiotherapy Instrumention II
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:01 PM Room: Pearl