Ljubljanica river and Cankar quay (B.Kladnik)

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Scientific Programme

General information:

Check-in will be open until Friday 21st May at 13h. On-site registration is not possible, participants should register online until April 30th, 2010.

Technical exhibition will be organized within the frame of the meeting.

Works presented at the meeting will be available for download from the website during the event. For this to be possible, until Monday 17th May every oral and poster presentation should be sent by email as a PDF file to: info@aiscmp2010.com

Instructions for poster and oral presentations:

Poster presentations: size of posters should be at most 105 cm (height) x 90 cm (width), portrait orientation. Size of available panels will be 110 cm x 95 cm. Poster set-up will be on Thursday afternoon, 20th May. Until Monday 17th May, every poster presentation should be sent by email as a PDF file to: info@aiscmp2010.com

Oral presentations: there is a limitation of 12 minutes (10 minutes for presentation and 2 minutes for discussion). Default format for presentations will be PowerPoint files. If the speaker is planning to use any other format should contact with info@aiscmp2010.com until Monday 17th May. Works to be presented on Friday must be delivered to the conference organizers until Thursday afternoon, 20th May. Works to be presented on Saturday must be delivered until Friday 21st May at 13h. Until Monday 17th May, a backup copy of every oral presentation should be sent by email as a PDF file to: info@aiscmp2010.com

Programme:

Download the scientific programme: programme.pdf

Thursday, 20th May:
14.00 - 19.00	Check-in and poster set up
16.00 - 19.00	Welcome reception
Friday, 21st May:
8.00 - 8.30	Opening
	Minister Boštjan Žekš (Government's Office for Slovenians Abroad)
	Presidents of Austrian, Italian, Slovenian and Croatian Medical Physics Societies
8.30 - 9.20	Honorary lecture by Ervin B. Podgorsak:
	"Medical Physics: An Exciting Science and Rewarding Profession"
9.20 - 10.50	1st session IGRT
	Chairpersons: Peter Winkler, Maria Rosa Malisan
	RECONSTRUCTION IMAGE QUALITY CARACTERIZATION OF AN IGRT SYSTEM. Alberto Mari, Paolo Morichetti, Stefania Maggi VERFICATION OF QUALITY PARAMETERS FOR PORTAL IMAGES IN RADIOTHERAPY. Csilla Pesznyak, Istvan Polgar, Csaba Weisz, Reka Kiraly, Pal Zarand IMAGE-GUIDED ADAPTIVE THERAPY WITH TOMOTHERAPY AT CRO HOSPITAL IN AVIANO. A. Roggio, M. Trovò, A. Drigo, A. Dassie, E. Capra, M.G. Trovò. ASSESSMENT OF INTEROBSERVER AND INTERMODALITY VARIABILITY FOR LUNG CANCER SBRT-CBCT CONTOURING BENCHMARKED AGAINST CT. Irina Fotina, Carola Lütgendorf-Caucig, Gabriela Altorjai, Dietmar Georg, Karin Dieckmann. FIRST EXPERIENCE IN HUNGARY WITH IMAGE GUIDED RADIATION THERAPY PERFORMED WITH MEGAVOLTAGE CONE BEAM CT. Tibor Major, Peter Agoston, Csaba Polgar. ANALYSIS OF INTRA-FRACTION MOVEMENTS IN THE TREATMENT OF RECTAL CARCINOMA USING IGRT BASED ON BONY ANATOMY. Peter Winkler, Carmen Döller, Petra Howischer, Karin Kapp. PROSTATE PATIENT POSITIONING: COMPARISON OF GOLDMARKERS AND ULTRASOUND. Werner F O Schmidt, Johanna Hackl.
10.50 - 11.20	Coffee break
11.20 - 12.30	2nd session RADIATION IMAGING
	Chairpersons: Renato Padovani, Urban Zdešar
	DOSIMETRIC EVALUATION FOR A 320 DETECTOR ROW CT SCANNER UNIT. Mario de Denaro, Paola Bregant. DIGITAL TOMOSYNTHESIS. Paola Bregant, Mario de Denaro, Salvatore Pittera. X-RAY SPECTRA CALCULATION OF THE MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEM WITH TUNGSTEN TARGET BY MCNPX CODE. Paola Bregant , Mario de Denaro, Ali Asghar Mowlavi , Angelo Taibi. THE MAMMOGRAPHY CLINICAL STUDY AT ELETTRA SYNCHROTRON LIGHT SOURCE. Renata Longo, Fulvia Arfelli, Luigi Rigon, Diego Dreossi, Elisa Quai, Giuliana Tromba, Maura Tonutti, Fabrizio Zanconati, Daniela Sanabor, Maria Cova, Edoardo Castelli. DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY: DQE VERSUS OPTIMIZED IMAGE QUALITY IN CLINICAL ENVIRONMENT - AN ON SITE STUDY. Nadia Oberhofer, Alessandro Fracchetti, Margareth Springeth, Ehrenfried Moroder.
12.30 - 14.00	Poster viewing and exhibition
14.00 - 15.30	3rd session DOSIMETRY AND SPECIAL TECHNIQUES
	Chairpersons: Werner Schmidt, Ignasi Mendez Carot
	CLINICAL APPLICATION OF DIODES AND OPTICALLY STIMULATED LUMINESCENCE DETECTORS FOR IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY IN CO-60 BEAMS. Bokulić T., Mrčela I., Budanec M., Fröbe A., Soldić Ž., Kusić Z. THE PROTON THERAPY PROJECT IN TRENTO: MEDICAL PHYSICS ASPECTS. Marco Schwarz, Carlo Algranati, Lamberto Widesott. QUALITY ASSURANCE IN GAMMA KNIFE RADIOSURGERY:VERIFYING A FILM DOSIMETER POSITION IN STEREOTACTIC SPACE. Hrvoje Hrsak, Nenad Kovacevic, Juraj Bibic. FLATTENING FILTER FREE BEAMS IN SBRT AND IMRT: DOSIMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF PERIPHERAL DOSES. G. Kragl, F. Baier, S. Lutz, D. Albrich, M. Lind, B. Kroupa, T. Wiezorek, T. Knöös, D. Georg. HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY AS A MODALITY IN TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION. K.-U. Kasch, O. Neumann, U. Jahn, V. Budach. MEASURING SMALL PHOTON BEAMS OUTPUT FACTORS - APPLICATION OF LINEAR CORRECTION FACTORS. Ignasi Méndez Carot, Attila Šarvari, Rihard Hudej, Vlado Robar, Božidar Casar. DOSIMETRIC VERIFICATION OF iPLAN RT DOSE TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM FOR NOVALIS TX LINEAR ACCELERATOR. Attila Šarvari, Božidar Casar, Ignasi Méndez Carot.
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 17.30	4th session NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND RADIATION PROTECTION
	Chairpersons: Gregor Omahen, Tomislav Bokulič
	IMPACT OF EC DIRECTIVES AND NATIONAL LEGISLATION ON THE POSITION OF MEDICAL PHYSICIST. Advan Drljevic, Svjetlana Sunjic, Adnan Beganovic, Amra Skopljak-Beganovic, Senada Halilovic-Atic, Branka Metlic, Maja Gazdic-Santic. REDUCING SPECT ACQUISITION TIME USING ADVANCED ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION METHODS -A PHANTOM STUDY. Peter Knoll, Gunnar Köchle, Siroos Mirzaei, Helmar Bergmann. A CRITERIA FOR RISK ASSESSMENT BY EXTERNAL EXPOSURE TO WHICH WORKERS ARE EXPOSED IN THE HEALTH SECTOR. Maria Pia Leogrande. THYROID VOLUME'S INFLUENCE ON ENERGY DEPOSITION FROM 131I CALCULATED BY MC SIMULATION. Ali Asghar Mowlavi , Maria Rosa Fornasier, Mario de Denaro. FACTORS AFFECTING PATIENT DOSE DURING INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES ON THE LIVER. Annalisa Trianni , Alessandro Vit, Daniele Gasparini, Viviana Radici, Renato Padovani. SILICON PHOTOMULTIPLIERS AS PHOTON SENSORS FOR PET. Rok Pestotnik, Rok Dolenec, Peter Križan, Samo Korpar, Ruben Verheyden, Aleš Stanovnik. RESULTS OF A MULTI-CENTRE STUDY OF PATIENT DOSES IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY IN SLOVENIA. Dejan Žontar, Urban Zdešar, Vojko Kanič, Damijan Škrk, Dimitrij Kuhelj.
18.15	Departure for conference dinner
19.00 - 22.00	Conference dinner at the Ljubljana's Castle
Saturday, 22nd May:
8.30 - 10.00	5th session EFOMP SESSION
	Chairpersons: Stelios Christofides, Božidar Casar
	EFOMP Evolution. Stelios Christofides. European Medical ALARA Network Project. Renato Padovani. EU-MPE and IAEA Medical Physics Projects. Stelios Christofides. EFOMP PROJECT: BIOMEDICAL PHYSICS EDUCATION FOR THE MEDICAL / HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONS - AN UPDATE FOR AISCMP2010. C.J. Caruana, M. Wasilewska-Radwanska, A. Aurengo, P.P. Dendy, V. Karenauskaite, M.R. Malisan, J.H. Meijer, D. Mihov, V. Mornstein, E. Rokita, E. Vano, M. Weckstrom, M. Wucherer.
10.00 - 11.00	Coffee break, poster viewing and exhibition
11.00 - 12.20	6th session IMRT AND PLANNING
	Chairpersons: Marco Schwarz, Rihard Hudej
	PATIENT-SPECIFIC QA OF IMRT PLANS USING EPID AND A DOSE PREDICTION ALGORITHM. Eugenia Moretti, Maria Rosa Malisan, Margherita Crespi, Claudio Foti, Renato Padovani. [18F]-FDG PET /CT CONTOUR-BASED IMRT FOR HEAD AND NECK CANCER. EVALUATION OF SEGMENTATION METHODS ON DOSE DISTRIBUTION AND DOSE ESCALATED PLAN. Paiusco Marta, Botti Andrea, Cagni Elisabetta, D'Errico Vincenzo, Iori Mauro, Iotti Cinzia. HIGH DOSE RATE (HDR) ENDOBRONCHIAL BRACHYTHERAPY. OPERATING PROCEDURE AND DOSE DISTRIBUTION OPTIMIZATION. THE EXPERIENCE OF TRIESTE. Bolidi Laura, Cupardo Fabrizio , Milan Vittorino , Vassallo Fabio. EVALUATION OF ALPHA/BETA FOR PROSTATE CANCER USING RADIOBIOLOGY MODELS. A. Terlizzi, D. Mola, N. Perna, G. Laterza, A. R. Marsella, M. Soloperto, G. Silvano DOSIMETRIC AND RADIOBIOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF TREATMENT PLANNING FOR PELVIC IMRT WITH HYPOFRACTIONATED SIMULTANEOUS INTEGRATED BOOST TO PROSTATE. Maria Rosa Malisan, Claudio Foti, Eugenia Moretti, Alessandro Magli. FORWARD INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY (F-IMRT) FOR PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION (PBI) CONFERS HIGH DOSE HOMOGENEITY AND CONFORMATION TO THE TARGET VOLUME. Marco Trovo, Giovanna Sartor, Paola Chiovati, Mario Roncadin, Mauro Arcicasa, Samuele Massarut, Elvia Micheli, Giuseppina Caria, Antonietta Poppa, Elvira Capra, Mauro G. Trovo.
12.30 - 13.00	Conference closing