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First AFOMP On-line Symposium in Therapy Medical Physics

Symposium Announcement

Symposium Program

Instructions to Join the Sessions

Session Recordings and PDF of slides

Symposium Announcement :

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 ).

 

Prof KH Ng  -  Chair,  AFOMP
Prof MK Woo - Honorary Member,  AFOMP ETC

 

contacts :

milton.woo@sunnybrook.ca
kszehan2002@yahoo.com.sg

 

Symposium Program

(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

Deformable Image Registration

15

Sep 28 Wed 9-10am
(Florida Time :  Sep 27 Tue 9-10 pm)

Zuofeng Li
University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, FL, USA

The physics and techniques
of proton therapy (Part II)

16

Oct 6 Thu 3-4 pm

(Glasgow time : Oct 6 Thu 8-9 am)

Mark McJury
Radiotherapy Physics                 
Beatson WoS Cancer Centre , Glasgow       

4DCT for respiratory managed lung cancer patients

17

Oct 13 Thu 9-10 pm

(Toronto time : Oct 13 Thu 9-10 am)

Brian Keller
Department of Medical Physics, Odette Cancer Centre, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Permanent Breast Seed Implants

18

Oct 20 Thu 4-5pm

(Glasgow Oct 20 Thu 9-10am)

Lye Mun Tho

Institute of Cancer Sciences
University of Glasgow

Enhancing Radiation Effects - Molecular Considerations

 

Dec 13 Tue

(Tentative)

Jacob Van Dyk

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.

Join the meeting

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

3.         Patient Specific Quality Assurance for IMRT and VMAT 
Sou-Tung Chiu-Tsao - Quality MediPhys LLC, NJ, USA
Recording :       Patient Specific Quality Assurance for IMRT and VMAT
Slides  :            Patient Specific Quality Assurance for IMRT and VMAT.PDF

4.         Clinical Radiobiology I
Steve P. Lee  - Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, CA, USA
Recording :       Clinical Radiobiology I
Slides  :            Clinical Radiobiology I.PDF

5.         Clinical Brachytherapy with LDR and HDR
Jack Yang-  Saint Barnabas Health Care Systems,  Monmouth Medical Center, NJ, USA
Recording :       Clinical Brachytherapy with LDR and HDR
Slides  :            Clinical Brachytherapy with LDR and HDR.PDF

6.         Monte Carlo Methods for Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments
C-M Charlie Ma - Radiation Oncology Department,  Fox Chase Cancer Center, PA, USA
Recording :       Monte Carlo Methods for Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments
Slides  :            Monte Carlo Methods for Advanced Radiotherapy Treatments.PDF

7.         Basic Concepts in IMRT and VMAT
Louis Lee-  Medical Physics Unit,  Prince of Wales Hospital,  Hong Kong
Recording :       Basic Concepts in IMRT and VMAT
Slides  :            Basic Concepts in IMRT and VMAT.PDF

8.        SBRT:  Ready, Set, Go !
Min Leu-  Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA, CA, USA and Photon Physics Services, Inc., CA, USA

Recording :       SBRT:  Ready, Set, Go !
Slides  :            SBRT:  Ready, Set, Go !.PDF

9.        The physics and techniques of proton therapy

Zuofeng Li - University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, FL, USA

Recording :       The physics and techniques of proton therapy - Part I

The physics and techniques of proton therapy - Part Ia

Slides  :            The physics and techniques of proton therapy.PDF

10.        QA for frameless stereotactic treatments
May Whitaker and Anna Ralston -  Department of Radiation Oncology, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital,  Sydney,  Australia
Recording :       QA for frameless stereotactic treatments
Slides  :            QA for frameless stereotactic treatments-I.PDF ;QA for frameless stereotactic treatments-II.PDF

11.        The Importance of Out-of-Field Dose
Tomas Kron - Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Melbourne,  Australia
Recording :       The Importance of Out-of-Field Dose
Slides  :           The Importance of Out-of-Field Dose.PDF

12.        Real time 4D IMRT treatment planning based on a dynamic virtual patient model
Chengyu Shi - St. Vincent's Medical Center,  Bridgeport,  Connecticut, USA
Recording :       Real time 4D IMRT treatment planning based on a dynamic virtual patient model
Slides  :           Real time 4D IMRT treatment planning based on a dynamic virtual patient model.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

14.        Deformable Image Registration
Chen-Shou Chui
Department of Medical Physics,  Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center, Taiwan
Recording :       Deformable Image Registration
Slides  :          Deformable Image Registration.PDF

15.        The physics and techniques of proton therapy (Part II)
Zuofeng Li - University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute, FL, USA

Recording :       The physics and techniques of proton therapy - Part II
Slides  :         The physics and techniques of proton therapy - Part II.PDF