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On Sunday afternoon, head over to the convention centre to check out the AAPM’s annual Young Investigator competition. Ten finalists - chosen by the abstract reviewers - will present their research at a special symposium, held in honour of University of Wisconsin Professor Emeritus John R. Cameron.
This year sees presentation themes ranging from a study of proton therapy collimators made from carbon foam, a material that should produce fewer neutrons and be more affordable to manufacture, to research on low-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy with intra-operative post-implant dose evaluation.
The Young Investigators Symposium will be held from 4.00 until 6.00 in Auditorium C of the George R. Brown Convention Center. Following the symposium, the best three presentations will be chosen and the researchers recognized during the AAPM Awards and Honors Ceremony on Monday evening. The full line up is as follows:
- Empirical investigation of flat-panel imagers incorporating high-efficiency, segmented BGO and CsI:Tl detectors for radiotherapy imaging Y Wang et al.
- Carbon Foam Collimators for Proton Therapy Y Charara et al.
- Machine Learning Tools for Predicting Clinical Complications in a Multi-Plan IMRT framework H Zhang et al.
- Improved Lesion Conspicuity in Dual-Energy Imaging of the Chest: From NEQ to Observer Performance S Richard and J Siewerdsen
- Low dose rate prostate brachytherapy: a tomosynthesis-based intra-operative post-implant dose evaluation M Brunet-Benkhoucha et al.
- A Novel Approach to Multi-Parametric Dynamic Chemical Shift Imaging B Taylor et al.
- Classification of Breast Carcinoma Subtypes using Computer-Extracted Morphological and Kinetic Features in DCE-MRI N Bhooshan et al.
- Spatial Weighted Mutual Information for Image Registration in Image Guided Radiation Therapy S Park et al.
- Bioanatomic MR Imaging for Characterization of Brain Tumor and Radiation Response in the Rat Brain T Atwood et al.
- The imaging and dosimetric capabilities of a novel CT/MR-suitable, anatomically adaptive, shielded HDR/PDR intracavitary brachytherapy applicator for the treatment of cervical cancer M Price et al.
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