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44th AAPM Annual Meeting Logo
July 14 - 18, 2002
Palais des Congrès de Montréal
   
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Symposium
Education Council Symposium: Maintenance of Competence - National and International Perspectives
Sunday 8:00 AM - 9:30 AM Room: 517 A

Symposium
Professional Council Symposium: Review of the ASTRO/ACR Joint Economics Committee Radiation Oncology Coding User's Guide 2001
Sunday 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM Room: 517 D

Symposium
AAPM Young Investigators Symposium
Sunday 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM Room: 517 A

AAPM Annual Business Meeting
Exhibit Hall Opens
Sunday 1:00 PM - Room: Exhibit Hall

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Box Lunch/Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Sunday 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Poster Session
Diagnostic Imaging Poster Session: MRI/MRS/MRA; CT; PACS in Diagnostic Radiology; Visualization Techniques
Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Poster Session
Therapy Poster Session: Calibration & Quality Assurance; Dose Calculations; Dosimetry Instrumentation; Improvements in Conventional Treatment Planning; Treatment Delivery Systems; Treatment Techniques
Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Works in Progress Poster Session
Diagnostic Imaging Works In Progress Poster Session: MRI/MRS/MRA; CT; PACS in Diagnostic Radiology; Visualization Techniques
Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Works in Progress Poster Session
Therapy Works In Progress Poster Session: Calibration & Quality Assurance; Dose Calculations; Dosimetry Instrumentation; Improvements in Conventional Treatment Planning; Treatment Delivery Systems; Treatment Techniques
Sunday 1:30 PM - 2:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Poster Session
Diagnostic Imaging Poster Session: Mammography; Digital Radiography; General Radiography
Sunday 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Poster Session
Therapy Poster Session: Image Guided Therapy; Imaging Techniques & Tools; Particle Based Radiation Therapy; Radiobiology; Stereotactic
Sunday 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Works in Progress Poster Session
Therapy Works In Progress Poster Session: Image Guided Therapy; Imaging Techniques & Tools; Particle Based Radiation Therapy; Radiobiology; Stereotactic
Sunday 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Works in Progress Poster Session
Diagnostic Imaging Works In ProgressPoster Session: Mammography; Digital Radiography; General Radiography
Sunday 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Poster Session
Therapy Poster Session: Brachytherapy; Monte Carlo; General; Therapy-Other; IMRT Delivery; IMRT Optimization; IMRT Verification/Validation
Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Poster Session
Diagnostic Imaging Poster Session: Nuclear Medicine/SPECT/PET; Radiation Protection;Instrumentation; Diagnostic - Other
Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Works in Progress Poster Session
Therapy Works In Progress Poster Session: Brachytherapy; Monte Carlo; General; Therapy-Other; IMRT Delivery; IMRT Optimization; IMRT Verification/Validation
Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Works in Progress Poster Session
Diagnostic Imaging Works In Progress Poster Session: Nuclear Medicine/SPECT/PET; Radiation Protection;Instrumentation; Diagnostic - Other
Sunday 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

CCPM Annual Business Meeting
CCPM Annual Business Meeting
Sunday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 519

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Sunday 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

COMP Annual Business Meeting
COMP Annual Business Meeting
Sunday 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM Room: 519

Continuing Education Course
CE – Treatment Delivery Systems 1: The Theory & Operation of Computer-controlled Medical Linear Accelerator
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE - Full Field Digital Mammography : Digital Mammography - Detectors, Clinical Evaluation and Applications
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE – Imaging in Radiation Oncology 1: Use of CT & PET in Radiation Therapy
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 D

Continuing Education Course
CE - MRI 1: MR Safety for the New Millennium: The New ACR Guidelines
Monday 7:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 518

Continuing Education Course
CE - Angiography 1: 3D Xray Angiography
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 519

Refresher Course
Approaches to Inverse Planning
Monday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 B

Continuing Education Course
CE - Full Field Digital Mammography 2: Digital Mammography - Overview of Commercial Systems, FDA Approval and MQSA Requirements
Monday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 - C

Continuing Education Course
CE – Clinical Issues for IMRT 1: Quality Assurance of IMRT Delivery Systems
Monday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE - Angiography 2: Angiographic PACS
Monday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 519

Refresher Course
Film Dosimetry
Monday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 B

Refresher Course
Cancer Biology - How a Cell Responds to DNA Damage
Monday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 D

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Monday 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Exhibit Hall

Symposium
President’s Symposium: Perspectives on Radiation Effects
Monday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 A

Lunch Break
Lunch Break
Monday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM  

Continuing Education Course
CE - PACS 1: Advances In PACS
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 - C

Continuing Education Course
CE - Ultrasound 1
Monday 1:30 PM - 2:25 PM Room: 519

Scientific Session
IMRT Optimization 1
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 A

Scientific Session
Treatment Techniques and Delivery Systems
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Dose Calculations
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 D

Scientific Session
Applications of MRI
Monday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 518

Scientific Session
Ultrasound
Monday 2:25 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 519

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Monday 3:20 PM - 4:00 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Scientific Session
Radiobiology
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Monte Carlo 1
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 D

Symposium
Treatment and Treatment Planning with Gene Therapy
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 A

Symposium
COMP Symposium on Canadian Synchrotron Light Source
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 C

Symposium
Multislice CT vs. Radiography Debate
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 518

Symposium
CE - Angiography 3: Panel Discussion
Monday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 519

AAPM Awards Ceremony and Reception
AAPM Awards Ceremony and Reception
Monday 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM Room: The Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth Hotel

Continuing Education Course
CE – Treatment Delivery Systems 2: Field Shaping; Design Characteristics & Dosimetry Issues
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE - Full Field Digital Mammography 3: The GE 2000D FFDM System
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE – Imaging in Radiation Oncology 2: Use of MR & MRS in Radiation Therapy
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 D

Continuing Education Course
CE - MRI 2: Can Exposure to a MRI Procedure Elicit Non-Thermal, Non-Stochastic Biological Effects?
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 518

Continuing Education Course
CE - Ultrasound 2: IVUS
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 519

Refresher Course
Approaches to Inverse Planning II
Tuesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 B

Continuing Education Course
CE – Clinical Issues for IMRT 2: Patient-Based Quality Assurance for IMRT
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE - Full Field Digital Mammography 4: The Fischer Senoscan FFDM System
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE - MRI 3: FDA Guidelines for Magnetic Resonance Equipment Safety
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 518

Continuing Education Course
CE- Ultrasound 3: Basic Physics
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 519

Refresher Course
Monte Carlo Techniques
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 B

Refresher Course
Electrons, TG25 and TG70
Tuesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 D

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Tuesday 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Exhibit Hall

Scientific Session
IMRT Delivery 1
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 A

Scientific Session
Mammography
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 C

Scientific Session
Image Guided Therapy
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 D

Scientific Session
MRI
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 518

Symposium
CE - Ultrasound 4: Hands-On Ultrasound Physics and Quality Control Workshop
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM Room: 515 B

Symposium
The Jack Krohmer Memorial Professional Course
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 B

Symposium
CCPM/COMP Symposium on Gel Dosimetry
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 519

Lunch Break
Lunch Break
Tuesday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM  

Continuing Education Course
CE – PACS 2: PACS Quality Control
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 C

Scientific Session
IMRT Validation/ Verification 1
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 A

Scientific Session
High Dose Rate and Intravascular Brachytherapy
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Calibration and QA
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 D

Scientific Session
Computed Tomography
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 518

Symposium
CCPM/COMP Symposium on Image-guided Radiotherapy
Tuesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 519

Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall
Tuesday 3:20 PM - 4:00 PM Room: Exhibit Hall

Continuing Education Course
CE - Full Field Digital Mammography 5
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 C

Scientific Session
Therapy - Other
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Particle Based Therapy
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 D

Symposium
Molecular Imaging In Oncology
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 A

Symposium
The Role of the Physicist in PACS - Panel Discussion
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 518

Symposium
Ultrasound Research Symposium
Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 519

AAPM Night Out
AAPM Night Out
Tuesday 6:30 PM - 10:30 PM Room: Notre Dame Basilica in Old Montreal/Palais des Con

Continuing Education Course
CE – Treatment Delivery Systems 3: Field Compensation; Dosimetric Aspects of Dynamic Delivery with Independent Collimators & MLC
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE – Full Field Digital Mammography 6: What a Practicing Medical Physicist Needs to Know for Testing Full-Field Digital Mammography Systems
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE – Imaging in Radiation Oncology 3: On-line Imaging for Position & Dose Verification
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 D

Continuing Education Course
CE - CT 1: Fundamentals of Single and Multiple Detector CT
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 518

Refresher Course
NCI Priorities and Funding
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 B

Refresher Course
Multiple-reader, Multiple-case (MRMC) ROC Analysis in Diagnostic Imaging, Computer-aided Diagnosis, and Statistical Pattern Recognition
Wednesday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 519

Continuing Education Course
CE – Clinical Issues for IMRT 3: Role of Imaging for IMRT
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE – Screen-Film Mammography 1: What a Medical Physicists Needs to Know about Clinical Mammography
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE - CT 2: Quality Control in CT
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 518

Continuing Education Course
CE – Nuclear Medicine, PETand Dosimetry 1: Site Planning and Radiation Safety
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 519

Refresher Course
Practical Implementation of TG-51
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 B

Refresher Course
Head Scatter
Wednesday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 D

Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall
Wednesday 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM Room: Exhibit Hall

Continuing Education Course
CE- Intravascular Brachytherapy 1
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 C

Scientific Session
IMRT Optimization 2
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 A

Scientific Session
Improvements in Conventional Planning
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Imaging Techniques and Tools
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 D

Scientific Session
Digital Radiography
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 518

Scientific Session
CT Dosimetry
Wednesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 519

Lunch Break
Lunch Break
Wednesday 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM  

Continuing Education Course
CE – Nuclear Medicine, PETand Dosimetry 2
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 519

Scientific Session
IMRT Delivery 2
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 A

Scientific Session
General Brachytherapy
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Monte Carlo 2
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 D

Scientific Session
Angiography
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 518

Symposium
NRCP 49 Update
Wednesday 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM Room: 517 C

AAPM New Member Symposium
AAPM New Member Symposium
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 B

Continuing Education Course
CE - Full Field Digital Mammography 7
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 C

Scientific Session
Prostate Implants
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 D

Symposium
The Lawrence Lanzl Memorial Therapy Lecture: Verification in External Beam Treatment Delivery
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 517 A

Symposium
CT Dose Reduction
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 518

Symposium
Debate: From CAD to CD-- Will Computers Replace Radiologists as the Primary Reader
Wednesday 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM Room: 519

AAPM Annual Business Meeting
AAPM Annual Business Meeting
Wednesday 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM Room: 517 B

Continuing Education Course
CE – Treatment Delivery Systems 4: Acceptance Testing, Commissioning & Quality Assurance of Medical Linear Accelerators
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE - Screen-Film Mammography 2: NCRP Mammography Update
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE – Imaging in Radiation Oncology 4: Image Registration & Data Fusion in Radiation Therapy
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 D

Continuing Education Course
CE – CT 3: CT Image Reconstruction
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 518

Continuing Education Course
CE – Nuclear Medicine, PET, Dosimetry 3: Dosimetry of Internal Radioactive Emitters
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 519

Refresher Course
NSF Funding and Initiatives
Thursday 7:30 AM - 8:25 AM Room: 517 B

Continuing Education Course
CE – Clinical Issues for IMRT 4: Measurement & analysis techniques for IMRT
Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 A

Continuing Education Course
CE - Screen-Film Mammography 3: Technical Aspects
Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 C

Continuing Education Course
CE - CT 4: Adult and Pediatric Doses in CT
Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 518

Refresher Course
Practical Implementation of TG-61
Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 B

Refresher Course
Radiation Oncology Information Systems
Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 517 D

Refresher Course
Reference Values
Thursday 8:30 AM - 9:25 AM Room: 519

Continuing Education Course
CE - Screen-Film Mammography 4
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 C

Scientific Session
IMRT Validation/ Verification 2
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 A

Scientific Session
Stereotactic
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 B

Scientific Session
Dosimetry Instrumentation
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 517 D

Scientific Session
Dosimetry, Radiation Protection & Diagnostic Quality Assurance
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 518

Scientific Session
Nuclear Medicine (SPECT & PET)
Thursday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: 519

AAPM Awards Ceremony and Reception
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Friday 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM  

   
 

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