Upstate New York Chapter of the AAPM
Fall Meeting
Oct 15, 2007
Zebro Room of Buffalo Health Science Complex at Roswell Park Cancer Institute Buffalo, NY 14263

11:00 – 12:15    Business Meeting

12:00 – 12:45     LUNCH - (Sponsored by IMPAC Medical Systems)

Proffered Paper Session

12:45 – 1:15      A Proposal for a Paradigm Shift in CT Dosimetry

                        Walter Huda
Dept. of Radiology, SUNY, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

1:15 – 1:30       Region of Interest (ROI) cone-beam CT using dual resolution, dual detector image acquisition

                        Ravi Chityala, Daniel R. Bednarek, Kenneth R. Hoffmann
Toshiba Stroke Research Center, University at Buffalo (SUNY), Buffalo, NY.

1:30 – 1:45       Investigation of skull scaling errors in Gamma Knife radiosurgery

George Cernica, Steven de Boer, Harish K Malhotra and Matthew Podgorsak
Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.

1:45 – 2:00       Investigation of overdosage / underdosage for curved structures in intra-operative high dose rate (IOHDR) brachytherapy

                        Moonseong Oh, Zhou Wang, Harish K. Malhotra, Wainwright Jaggernauth and Matthew B. Podgorsak
Department of Radiation Medicine, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY.

1:45 – 2:00       Packet-Level Quality Assurance of MLC Informatics

Daniel YJ Kim
SUNY, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.

2:00 – 2:30       (To Be Announced)
UNYAAPM Major Sponsor Presentation

2:30 - 3:00        BREAK (w/refreshments)

INVITED SPEAKER SESSION

3:00 – 4:00       Image-Guided Radiation Therapy: Clinical Experience and Implications for
                       Treatment Plan Optimization

                        Michael Sharpe, PhD FAAPM
                        Assistant Professor,
                        Princess Margaret Hospital, Canada.

4:30 – 5:00       Clinical Physics Experience with an Accuray Cyberknife

                        D Bassano, PhD
                        SUNY, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY.                   

5:00                 ADJOURN

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