AAPM Southern California Chapter Midwinter Workshop
Sheraton Universal Hotel, Starview Room
Friday, January 27, 2012

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Eric Klein, Washington University School of Medicine, “TG-40 + TG-100 = TG-142” - Click Here for PDF
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Jean Pouliot, UC San Francisco School of Medicine, “Rigid and Deformed Realities of IGRT”

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Wolfram Laub, Oregon Health Sciences, “EPID Portal Dosimetry” - Click Here for PDF

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Dan Low, UCLA Medical Center, "ViewRay: Simultaneous MRI and IMRT”

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Shirish Jani, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, “Adverse Effects of Lung SBRT and Important Implementation of Quality Assurance Techniques” - Click Here for PDF
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AAPM President Elect John Hazle, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, "Future Directions in Cancer Research: New Opportunities for Medical Physicists" - Click Here for PDF
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Michael McNitt-Gray, UCLA Medical Center, “Resources to Assist in Reporting and Auditing CT Dose” and Anthony Seibert, UC Davis - Click Here for PDF
Information Notice Regarding Senate Bill (SB) 1237, California Health and Safety (H&S) Code Section 115113 -Click Here for PDF

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Bette Blankenship, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, “Implementation of California SB 1237 CT Dose Regulations in a Community Hospital” - Click Here for PDF

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Mary Fox, Minneapolis Radiation Oncology, “Is there a female in Medical Physics: Lessons Learned” - Click Her for PDF
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Dick Fraass, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, “What Have We Learned About Errors and Safety in Radiation Oncology” - Click Here for PDF

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2011 Norm Baily Graduate Student Award winners: 

Michael Klopfer (10 minute oral presentation)
PDF pending

Chunjoo Park (10 minute oral presentation)
PDF pending


Muqing Lin - ePoster
A New Intensity Inhomogeneity Correction Method for Improved Segmentation of
Breast Density on MRI

Matthew Webster - ePoster
Dynamic Shielding for HDR Brachytherapy of Rectal Carcinoma Concept and Design

Maryam Khatonabadi - ePoster
The Ability of CTDI vol to Estimate Organ Doses from Typical Tube Current Modulated Abdomen Pelvis CT Scans

Shanshan Xu - ePoster
PDF pending

2011 Norm Baily Postdoctoral/Resident Award winners:

Yun Liang (10 minute oral presentation)
Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Based Total Marrow Irradiation and Dosimetry Verification

Xujun Gu - ePoster
A GPU-based Finite-size Pencil Beam Algorithm with 3D-density correction for Radiation Therapy

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2011 Midwinter Symposium - January 28, 2011

Patient Safety and New Methodologies in Radiation Therapy along with an Overview of New State and Federal Regulations

Bette W. Blankenship -Adoption and Implementation of 10CFR35 in California

Brent D. Murphy - Lets Not Miss the Party. New Methods to Teach Medical Physicists

Gary A. Ezzel - AAPM 2011 and Beyond - Major Initiatives

George W. Sherouse - When a treatment error is not a talk

Nancy G. Leveson - Why (Radiation) Accidents Occur

Nzhde Agazaryan - Quality Management in Radiation Therapy with Emphasis on SBRT