The Education and Training Committee (ETC) of Asian-Oceania Federation of Organizations in Medical Physics ( AFOMP ) is happy to announce the First On-line Symposium in Medical Physics.
The Symposium is a pilot project initiated by the ETC to promote the concept of Remote Real-time education in the AFOMP region. It is hoped that this will serve as a model for future series of seminars as well as other modes of remote education, such as workshops, refresher courses, basic Medical Physics curriculum, etc.
The special characteristics of the Symposium series is its real-time nature, where all the lectures will be conducted in real-time over the Internet. Audience who have pre-registered will be able to participate in the lectures in a totally interactive way in lectures given by invited speakers, usually directly from their offices or homes. We are very lucky to have many renowned experts in the field agreeing to provide lectures for the series. We want to prove the concept that this is a very cost-effective way to provide high quality education and training to a wide audience.
The first series of Symposium consists of about 10 lectures in Therapy Radiation Physics. Future series will cover various other topics. The accompanying program shows the tentative topics and dates/times of the lectures. The lectures will occur about once a week, but the day / times are quite variable in order to accommodate the availability of the lecturers.
There is no cost for the audience to participate in the Symposium, but because of its pilot nature, it is mainly targeted to AFOMP countries. However, audiences are encouraged to pass on this announcement to anyone who may be interested. (Updated July 13 : It is simple to join the lectures. If you get an email from your colleagues that contains the logon information, simply click on the link in the email. Otherwise you can email one of the contacts below). The computer system requirement is simple : a Windows system with speaker, microphone (optional) and webcam (optional). A fast direct connection ( instead of wireless ) is highly desirable. The software system we use is Microsoft LiveMeeting. We will assist you in downloading and installing and testing the software ( it is a free software ).
(Times shown are Local time for cities with (GMT + 8, e.g. : Taipei, Kuala Lumpar, or HK- GMT + 8. e.g. if you are in Toronto (GMT - 4 ) then June 14 Tue 9 am China time for Lecture 1 would be June 13 Mon 9 pm Toronto time )
Date (Note : duration : 1 hr)
Speaker
Topic
1
June 14 Tue 9-10am
Kwan-Hoong Ng
Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Malaysia Milton K Woo
Department of Medical Physics, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Welcome and Orientation
2
June 23 Thu 9-10pm
(Note : evening)
Chen-Shou Chui
Department of Medical Physics, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan
Rigid-body Image Registration
3
June 28 Tue 9-10am
(New Jersey time : June 27 Mon 9-10pm)
Sou-Tung Chiu-Tsao
Quality MediPhys LLC, NJ, USA
Patient Specific Quality Assurance for IMRT and VMAT
4
July 6 Wed 9-10am
(LA Time : July 5 Tue 6-7 pm)
Steve P. Lee
Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, CA, USA
Quantitative Modelling in Clinical Radiobiology - I
5
July 12 Tue 9-10am
(New Jersey time : July 11 Mon 9-10pm)
Jack Yang
Saint Barnabas Health Care Systems,
Monmouth Medical Center, NJ, USA
Clinical Brachytherapy with LDR and HDR
6
July 21 Thu 9-10am
(Philadelphia time : July 20 Wed 9-10pm)
C-M Charlie Ma
Radiation Oncology Department, Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA, USA
Monte Carlo Methods for
Advanced Radiotherapy
Treatments
7
July 26 Tue 10-11am
Louis Lee
Medical Physics Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong
Basic Concepts in IMRT and VMAT
8
Aug 2 Tue 9-10am
(LA Time : Aug 1 Mon 6-7pm)
Min Leu
Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, CA, USA
Photon Physics Services, Inc., CA, USA
SBRT: Ready, Set, Go !
9
Aug 9 Tue 9-10am
(Florida Time : Aug 8 Mon 9-10 pm)
Zuofeng Li
University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, FL, USA
The physics and techniques
of proton therapy
10
Aug 16 Tue 9-10am
(Sydney Australia - 11am - noon )
May Whitaker and Anna Ralston
Department of Radiation Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Sydney, Australia
QA for frameless stereotactic treatments
11
Aug 23 Tue 9-10am
(Melbourne Australia - 11am - noon )
Tomas Kron
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre,
Melbourne, Australia
The Importance of Out-of-Field Dose
12
Aug 30 Tue 9-10am
(Connecticut Time - Aug 29 Mon 9-10pm)
Chengyu Shi
St. Vincent's Medical Center, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
Real time 4D IMRT treatment planning based on a dynamic virtual patient model
13
Sep 9 Fri 9-10 am
(LA Time :
Sep 8 Thu 6-7 pm)
Steve P. Lee
Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, CA, USA
Quantitative Modelling in Clinical Radiobiology - II
14
Sep 17 Sat 9-10am
Chen-Shou Chui
Department of Medical Physics, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan
Cancer Knows No Borders: The Activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Support of Effective and Safe Radiation Therapy
Instructions to Join the Sessions
To join the meeting, simply click on the link below. For first-time installations, you will be asked to allow Microsoft to download the LiveMeeting software onto your computer (do not use the web-based software, which does not support computer audio). The program should run and then ask you to put in your name. Please enter your name in the following format : First Name, Last Name (country) (e.g. Milton Woo (Canada)). Leave the Meeting ID as AFOMP 2011 and the Entry Code blank. This should take you into the LiveMeeting environment. On some systems you would have to manually run the downloaded program.
Some further instructions on participating in the sessions :
Audio testing : Audio quality is most important. You can check the speaker and microphone under the "Voice and Video" tab, and the (>>) button to bring up the option to test the audio. This however only tests the speaker and microphone locally. A good way to test the connection over the Internet is to have a colleague connect up in a second computer.
Session Recordings and PDF of slides :
(Note : To view the recordings, simply click on the link, enter your name, and leave the recording key field blank. In the next screen, click on the color symbol for the High-Fidelity recording. Downloading of the video is not available.
Please use discretion if you download the PDF of the slides, and give proper acknowledgement if you re-use them. )
1. Welcome and Orientation Milton K Woo - Department of Medical Physics, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Kwan-Hoong Ng - Department of Biomedical Imaging, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Recording : Not Available
Slides : Welcome and Orientation. PDF
2. Rigid-body Image Registration Chen-Shou Chui - Department of Medical Physics, Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan
Recording : Not Available
Slides : Rigid-body Image Registration. PDF
13. Clinical Radiobiology II Steve P. Lee - Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, CA, USA
Recording : Clinical Radiobiology II
Slides : same as Clinical Radiobiology I
