AAPM 54th Annual Meeting Program Charlotte, North Carolina Key to Track Color Codes Professional Therapy Education Therapy Scientific Joint Imaging-Therapy Imaging Scientific Imaging Education Practical Medical Physics Other Sunday, July 29 Education Council Symposium A Medical Physics and Technology Education for Society: Adults, Teenagers, and Elementary Students AAPM 9:30 - 11:00 Moderator: M Fox Medical Physics Student Meeting P Sprawls, M Fox Room 211 Ballroom B Professional Council Symposium Practice Standards - Driv ing Forces, Benefits, Potential Pitfalls B Moderator: P Halvorsen 11:00 - 12:30 P Halvorsen, R Pizzutiello, M Pacella, J Hevezi Ballroom B 1:00 Exhibit Hall Opens Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B T herapy Short Oral Session T herapy Short Oral Session T herapy Short Oral Session C Treatment Planning for Clinical Dose Calculation Dosimetry: 1:30 - 2:15 External Beam Therapy Tools and Informatics Safety Procedures J Burmeister J Seuntjens E Klein Ballroom A Room 213CD Joint Imaging-T herapy Short Oral Session Biological Modeling and Outcome Modeling/Assessment Motion Assessment and Short Oral Session Management: CT, CBCT, IGRT: CBCT and Planar X-Ray & Fluoroscopy J Deasy D Jaffray T herapy Short Oral Session D Stereotactic Radiation Therapy S Dieterich T herapy Short Oral Session Brachytherapy O Craciunescu T herapy Short Oral Session Imaging Short Oral Session CT Imaging and QA Room 217A E Samei Imaging Short Oral Session Radiation Dose in X-Ray and CT Room 218 K Kanal Imaging Short Oral Session X-Ray and CT Imaging C Cagnon W D'Souza Joint Imaging-T herapy 2:15 - 3:00 Room 217BCD Joint Imaging-T herapy T herapy Short Oral Session Joint Imaging-T herapy Short Oral Session Off-line Dev ices and Short Oral Session Motion Assessment Detectors for Dosimetry Therapy Assessment and Management: J Cygler M Martel Nov el Modalities Joint Imaging-T herapy Short Oral Session Imaging Short Oral Session IGRT: CT Topics Nov el Modalities E Angel P Balter L Xing Imaging Short Oral Session Imaging Short Oral Session X-Ray, Nuclear, MRI, X-Ray and and PET Imaging Optical Imaging A Kirov M McNitt-Gray EXHIBIT HALL Refreshment Break, Posters, and Technical Exhibits 3:00 - 3:30 Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall E 3:00 - 6:00 3:00 - 6:00 GENERAL POSTER DISCUSSION 3:30 - 4:00 Education Best in Physics Imaging Poster T heatres and Discussion in the Exhibit Hall Joint Imaging- T herapy T herapy 4:00 - 6:00 F (Exhibit Hall OPEN until 6:00 pm) John R. Cameron Young Inv estigator Symposium 4:00 - 6:00 E Podgorsak, D Frey Ballroom B Monday, July 30 Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Room 217BCD Room 217A INT ERACT IVE SESSION A 8:00 - 8:55 Computed Tomography 1 R Popple T herapy Scientific Session Treatment Deliv ery and Verification: 3D Techniques J Palta T herapy Educational Course B Between CT Scanner T herapy Symposium Arc Therapy (VMAT) D Shepard 9:00 - 9:55 Translating Protocols SAM SESSION Volumetric Modulated INT ERACT IVE SESSION Room 218 Imaging Educational Course T herapy Educational Course Y Xiao Linac-Based IMRT/VMAT Commissioning and T herapy Educational Course INT ERACT IVE SESSION Implementation and Unsettled Issues in Precautions for the Radiobiology Unflattened Beam of EmergentTechnology: Radiotherapy Hypofractionation and H Chen PET-Guided Treatment Planning J T ing M Joiner J Bayouth R Jeraj C Liu Manufacturer and Model SAM SESSION Practical Medical Physics Imaging Symposium State of the Art in Quantitativ e Practical Medical Physics Imaging Educational Course Radiation Therapy CT QC Testing Nuclear Medicine 1 & 2 Contouring L Williams I Hsu Imaging in CT, PET and MRI P Kinahan S Kappadath E Jackson Imaging Educational Course Computed Tomography 2 Managing Pediatric S Bentzen QA Program Dev elopment R Pizzutiello J Wu D Pfeiffer M McNitt-Gray CT Patient Doses K Strauss T Pawlicki G Kim D Cao 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall President's Symposium The Future of Physics Research in Cancer Therapy and Imaging C Moderators: G Ezzell, H Paganetti, T Bortfeld 10:30 - 12:30 R Jeraj, D Wirtz, K Andriole Ballroom CD 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break + Visit the Technical Exhibits Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Professional Symposium T herapy Educational Course Medical Physics Ov erv iew of Clinical D Practice Guidelines 2:00 - 2:55 P Halvorsen SAM SESSION Interv entional Radiology in CT: Where are They Adv anced Angiographic Joint Imaging-T herapy Symposium Need That Image Quality? Dosimetry: and How Will We Know Imaging Techniques Personalizing Medicine: R Dixon Safety Procedures When We Get There? S Riederer Adapting to the Indiv idual D Follow ill M McNitt-Gray O Wieben K Brock K Langen F Noo M Griswold J Balter J Fessler C Mistretta P Kupelian Imaging Symposium O Zeidan T herapy Educational Course Proton Treatment ABR 2014: Limits of Dose Reduction Imaging Symposium T herapy Scientific Session Planning Issues Trained for Competence Suite: Do You Really M Joiner E Samei B Winey E Klein G Ibbott J Bayouth Room 218 Radiography/Fluoroscopy 1 Therapy Professional Symposium Room 217A Imaging Educational Course Assurance in Proton Professional Symposium J Hevezi E Room 217BCD Optimizing Dose In the Economic Topics 3:00 - 3:50 Room 213CD Dosimetry and Quality M Chan J Fontenot Ballroom A Imaging Educational Course Ultrasound 1 & 2 Ultrasound Image Quality Measurements and Performance Assessment P Carson Imaging Educational Course E Madsen Mammography 1 N Hangiandreou Contrast Enhanced J Adams Spectral Mammography X Zhu M Yaffe S Both 3:50 - 4:30 Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall T herapy Short Oral Session 4:30 - 5:15 Verification: 3D Techniques Professional Symposium J Palta Methods in Completing Y Xiao Joint Image-T herapy T herapy Short Oral Session Treatment Deliv ery and F Session is 4:30 - 5:45 Dose Calculation: Short Oral Session Monte Carlo Image Registration I Chetty K Brock INT ERACT IVE SESSION Imaging Scientific Session Imaging Symposium Improv ement (PQI) T herapy Educational Course General Dosimetry Assessment of Image J Johnson SBRT: Updates on M Martin Quality In The New CT K Brown QA and Safety C Lee J Siewerdsen Performance Quality T Pawlicki G G Ibbott T herapy Short Oral Session Treatment Deliv ery and Verification: Intensity-modulated 5:15 - 6:00 Professional Symposium Considerations Joint Image-T herapy Rosalyn Yalow: P Read Short Oral Session Contributions and Legacy, J Perks Magnetic Resonance 1 Establishing a 4D-MRI Program for Imaging Mov ing Tumors J Cai Y Hu E T ryggestad P Parikh Practical Medical Physics Ov erv iew of the ACR/ASTRO and ACRO Accreditation Programs P Conway T Miin M Kuettel C Sibata and Visualization J Humm P Keall K Myers Image Segmentation A Memorial Session Techniques J Fessler Imaging Educational Course M Kessler S Goldsmith 6:30 - 8:00 AAPM Awards Ceremony (Ballroom CD) and 8:00 - 9:00 Reception (Ballroom Foyer) Tuesday, July 31 Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Room 217BCD Room 217A Room 218 T herapy Educational Course Dosimetry for HDR Brachytherapy Present Status and A Future Direction 8:00 - 8:55 SAM SESSION Imaging Educational Course L DeWerd M Rivard R Price R Bell T herapy Educational Course Quality and Safety in Modern Brachytherapy B SAM SESSION J Seuntjens Magnetic Resonance 2 & 3 T herapy Scientific Session Joint Imaging-T herapy Imaging Scientific Session Imaging and Image Off-line Dev ices and Scientific Session Cone Beam CT 1 Processing for Adaptiv e Detectors for Dosimetry I IGRT: R Fahrig Radiotherapy Z Chang Nov el Modalities G Chen M Kessler L Archambault P Balter T herapy Educational Course SAM SESSION Imaging Educational Course Computed Tomography 3 & 4 D Bakalyar F Ranallo J Siewerdsen Imaging Educational Course Radiography/Fluoroscopy 2 & 3 Chest/Body Tomosynthesis M Flynn J Dobbins B Li Imaging Scientific Session Radiography/Fluoroscopy S Armato B Schueler J Sabol J Sonke J Reiff 9:00 - 9:55 D Schenderbeg S Richardson 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Room 217BCD C Implementation of Radiation Therapy I Das Professional Symposium Training P Halvorsen J Limmer B Clarke Professional Symposium How You Can Be the Speaker D 11:30 - 12:30 Joint Imaging-T herapy Predicting Complication T herapy Scientific Session Basic Radiation Biology Probabilities Beyond Initiating an and Animal Studies the Dose-Volume Histogram IGRT Program C Ma J Deasy J Sonke R Berbeco F Buettner T herapy Educational Course INT ERACT IVE SESSION T herapy Symposium SAM SESSION P Conway Practice Management Room 218 Dose/Risk 1 ACR Accreditation: 10:30 - 11:25 Room 217A Imaging Educational Course Professional Symposium Scientific Session Where Molecular Imaging is Taking Us L Mell J Kruse Imaging Symposium Motion Assessment and Management: CBCT The Joint Commission’s Practical Medical Physics Sentinel Ev ent Alert #47 Effectiv e Medical R Pizzutiello Physics Education P Sprawls G Ibbott J Burmeister P Keall W Weber J Moran P Kinahan Imaging Educational Course C Coffey R Jeraj Computed Tomography 5 M Salehpour and Communicator CTDI and Patient Dose: Ev eryone Wants You To Be A European Perspectiv e W Kalender J Collins 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break + Visit the Technical Exhibits Imaging Educational Course T herapy Educational Course Professional Symposium Image-Guidance for R Pizzutiello Breast Radiotherapy Establishing D Pfeiffer H Al-Hallaq Multidisciplinary DICOM and the QMP, Joint Imaging-T herapy Symposium T herapy Scientific Session J Sonke Assessment of Color Displays Image Guided Adaptiv e Imaging Scientific Session Joint Imaging-T herapy Brachytherapy (IGABT) In Memorium Research As a Stereotactic Radiation Scientific session for Cerv ical Cancer of Leonard Stanton Medical Physicist Therapy IGRT: CBCT and X-Ray J Cai Breast Imaging P Petti D Hristov O Craciunescu H Chan B Winey J Burmeister C Kirsitis I Sechopolous B Fraass E Ford L Xing F Informatics 1 The Emerging Role of JMPSLC Update Professional Symposium E 2:00 - 2:55 S Chang 3:00 - 3:50 T herapy Educational Course Professional Symposium Tolerance Lev els and A de Leeuw D Peck M Flynn Practical Medical Physics PET/CT QA and Acceptance Testing M Dahlbom Imaging Educational Course O Mawlawi Informatics 2 Workforce Surv ey Methodologies for Update IMRT Verification QA Dose Monitoring M Mills M Miften T Cook E Nickoloff A Olch O Christianson D Low 3:50 - 4:30 Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall INT ERACT IVE SESSION Professional Symposium G 4:30 - 6:00 New Member Symposium M Mills M Woodward Joint Imaging-T herapy Joint Imaging-T herapy Symposium Professional Symposium T herapy Symposium T herapy Scientific Session Scientific Session Risks and Realities of Controlling Your Stress Will Proton Therapy Treatment Plan Motion Assessment Radiation Dose in and Your Stuff Gradually Replace Optimization and Management: Medical Imaging D Jordan Photon Therapy? J Siebers Nov el Modalities W Hendee R Maughan H Keller B Fallone C McCollough L Cervino M O'Connor K Crenshaw H Paganetti Imaging Scientific Session CT Dosimetry 1 D Bakalyar T Mills Imaging Scientific Session Practical Medical Physics MRI 1 Accidents and E Jackson Misadministration K Farahani R Foster B Libby F Van den heuvel 6:30 - 10:00 AAPM Night Out Wednesday, August 1 Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Radiation-Related A Nuclear Medicine 3 SAM SESSION Second Cancers 8:00 - 8:55 Professional Symposium S Kry International Medical M do Carmo Lopes R Wu B Molecular imaging Real-time Volumetric of the Breast Soft Tissues Guidance Professional Symposium M O'Connor Medical Physics Technologies for External Brachytherapy Beam Radiotherapy and Implementation M Rivard B Fallone T herapy Educational Course K Yenice J Pouliot Source Modeling and P Petti F Verhaegen Beam Commissioning S Dieterich D Hristov for Clinical Monte Carlo 9:00 - 9:55 Room 217A Room 218 INT ERACT IVE SESSION Joint Imaging-T herapy Symposium T herapy Scientific Session State of the Art Technology Y Pipman A Shulman T herapy Educational Course Stereotactic Radiosurgery: Physics Symposium Room 217BCD Imaging Educational Course T herapy Educational Course S Mutic Joint Imaging-T herapy Ethics in Action Scientific Session W Hendee Therapy Assessment P Halvorsen P Kinahan Imaging Educational Course N Ozturk K Brock Radiography/Fluoroscopy 4 R Fahrig Fluoro in the OR D Frey M Rehani G Starkschall T Solberg C Ma Imaging Scientific Session CT Dosimetry 2 D Cody M Supanich S Balter I Chetty M Mahesh B Faddegon 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Room 217BCD Room 217A Preparing for the Ultrasound 3 ABR Therapy Exam Ultrasound Contrast Agents - S Becker 10:30 - 11:25 Professional Symposium B Chinsky International Medical R Flynn D Dose/Risk 2 & 3 T herapy Symposium Scientific Session A Critical Analysis of The John S. Laughlin - Decision Support Imaging Scientific Session Dose Calculation: Science Council for Radiation Therapy Multimodal/Molecular/ Radiation Risks in Monte Carlo Research Symposium F Yin Nuclear/Optical Diagnostic Radiology T Pawlicki H Paganetti Imaging for Therapy Y Ge M Williams C McCollough Professional Symposium S Huq I Popescu Assessment Y Xiao O Maw law i M O'Connor Preparing for the S Mutic P Kinahan Q Wu ABR Diagnostic Exam D Low R Jeraj M Rehani F Nuesslin Imaging Educational Course Joint Imaging-T herapy SAM SESSION Safety Initiativ es in Radiation Therapy Physics Physics Symposium A Boye Faye T herapy Educational Symposium T herapy Scientific Session D Vetter L Wagner R Pennell 11:30 - 12:30 Room 218 Imaging Educational Course Professional Symposium C Efficacy and Safety P Dayton J Streeter Imaging Educational Course Ultrasound 4 Adv ance Imaging Applications in Ultrasound M Supanich K T homenius S Leng 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break + Visit the Technical Exhibits NOTE: Exhibits Close at 2:00 pm Professional Symposium Please note this timeslot is Medical Physics in 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm E Federal and State Gov ernments 2:00 - 2:55 D Winter T herapy Educational Course SBRT Treatment Professional Symposium T Mills AAPM-SEFM-AMPR S Keith E Ford, D Yan, C Yu, A Medina, P Kazantsev, T Krylova, Professional Symposium The Ev olv ing Landscape F of Scientific Publishing Joint Imaging-T herapy L Hong 3:00 - 3:50 B Curran C Marshall W Hendee INT ERACT IVE SESSION P Bulychkin, T Willoughby, D Romanov, J Seibert, J Bourland ↓ ↓ INT ERACT IVE SESSION Planning Considerations L Brualla Gonzalez, J Rosella Ferrando, A Zvereva, Scientific Session T herapy Scientific Session Joint Imaging-T herapy Symposium Clinical Dose Calculation Treatment Assessment of Image Registration, Tools and Informatics Radiation Therapy Using Segmentation, and Visualization S Mutic MR Functional Imaging L Xing B Fraass Z Chang G Sharp T herapy Educational Course Y Cao Transitioning from 3D IMRT M Milosevic SAM SESSION Imaging Educational Course Mammography 2 & 3 Breast Imaging J Dobbins K Chakrabarti E Berns Imaging Symposium Practical Medical Physics CAD: Can We Get From Writing and Rev iewing Promise to Clinic? Papers in Medical Physics Z Huo B Sahiner W Hendee P Slattery N Petrick D Rogers R Summers A Karellas to 4D IMRT and Role of Image-Guidance P Balter P Xia 3:50 - 4:30 Refreshment Break - Ballroom Foyer (Exhibits close at 2pm) History Symposium Historical Aspects of G Cross-sectional Imaging 4:30 - 6:00 L Rothenberg G Clarke T herapy Scientific Session Education Session Treatment Planning for On-line Dev ices and Innov ations in Medical External Beam Therapy Detectors for Dosimetry Physics Education J Van Dyk J Burmeister S Beddar S Avery WE-E-213AB T herapy Scientific Session Professional Symposium R Mohan B Faddegon AAPM-SEFM-AMPR J Zagzebski Joint Imaging-T herapy Scientific Session Imaging Scientific Session Motion Assessment and Cone Beam CT 2 Management: Nov el Modalities J Siew erdsen E Ford J Boone Imaging Scientific Session MRI 2 P Spraw ls D Pickens Practical Medical Physics Implanted Cardiac Dev ices D Mihailidis C Reft C Hurkmans D Ruan 6:15 - 7:30 AAPM Annual Business Meeting / Town Hall Meeting - AAPM Board of Director Members Ballroom B Thursday, August 2 Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Room 217BCD Room 217A Room 218 Imaging Educational Course Imaging Educational Course Nuclear Medicine 4 Magnetic Resonance 4 INT ERACT IVE SESSION T herapy Educational Course A 8:00 - 8:55 Deformable Registration in the Clinic: From Commissioning to SAM SESSION Adv anced Applications E Schreibmann T herapy Scientific Session J Kim Treatment Plan INT ERACT IVE SESSION Optimization Electron Radiotherapy: J Deasy Past, Present, and Future A Trofimov J Antolak K Hogstrom T herapy Educational Course B 9:00 - 9:55 T herapy Educational Course T herapy Symposium Biophysical Modeling for High-Dose Joint Imaging-T herapy Imaging Scientific Session Hypofractionated Radiotherapy Scientific Session Nov el Imaging Sources/Modalities D Brenner Uncertainty Assessment A Karellas M Guerrero J Sonke M Goodsitt J Deasy L Court Image Gently: Clinical Ev aluation of Go with the Guidelines Image Quality F Fahey J Ma Imaging Educational Course Imaging Educational Course Imaging Scientific Session Breast Imaging/Spectral CT S Molloi L Yu M Dewhirst Nuclear Medicine 5 Computed Tomography 6 and Inclusion of Imaging Release of Iterativ e and Model-Based Dose in Radiation Therapy Radioactiv e Patients Reconstruction Treatment Planning R Wendt J Stayman Room 217A Room 218 Imaging Dose to Patients P Alaei G Ding 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break - Ballroom Foyer Room 211 Room 213AB Ballroom CD Ballroom B Ballroom A Room 213CD Room 217BCD INT ERACT IVE SESSION Imaging Educational Course T herapy Educational Course C Dose/Risk 4 Dosimetry of 10:30 - 11:25 Professional Symposium How To Be A Journal Referee B T homadsen J Boone C Orton G Starkshall Small Fields T herapy Scientific Session T herapy Scientific Session I Das Biological Modeling Treatment Deliv ery T Mackie and Outcome Techniques M Miften M Martel T herapy Educational Course TG-51 Rev iew D 11:30 - 12:30 and Verification: Intensity-modulated Modeling/Assessment P Alaei T herapy Symposium Joint Imaging-T herapy Accuracy of Proton Dose Scientific Session Computation Algorithms IGRT:CBCT and and Need for Improv ement Planar X-Ray R Mohan T Solberg H Paganetti U Oelfke R Berbeco D Yan M Soukup Update on Image Wisely Imaging Symposium S Bushong Practical Medical Physics Adv anced Imaging Multiv endor SBRT/IGRT Applications and D Mihailidis Contrast Agents in O Gayou Ultrasound Imaging K Nightengale C Deng Imaging Educational Course T Djemil Magnetic Resonance 5 and Updates New ACR MRI D Rogers Safety Guidelines M McEwen E Kanal 12:30 - 1:00 Box Lunch - Ballroom Foyer Imaging Educational Course T herapy Educational Course Professional Symposium Rev iew of Radiobiological E Economics of Light Principles of Radiotherapy 1:00 - 1:55 Ion Teletherapy and Radiation Protection M Moyers C Orton C Borrás T herapy Scientific Session F 2:00 - 2:50 Dose calculation: Non-Monte Carlo S Jiang H Paganetti Mammography 4 "MicroDose" Mammography: Physical Principles, T herapy Symposium Automatic Planning T herapy Scientific Session In Radiation Therapy Off-line Dev ices and D Craft Detectors for Dosimetry II T McNutt I Das T herapy Educational Course X Zhang B Arjomandy TG166: The Use and QA of P Kupelian Joint Imaging-T herapy Scientific Session Joint Imaging-T herapy Symposium Adv ances in Image-Guided IGRT: MR, PET, and Nov el Modalities T Stanescu S Mutic Biologically Related Models Oncologic Surgery K Farahani J Siewerdsen N Agar N Ramanujam Testing and QC Imaging Scientific Session M Danielsson Imaging Educational Course K Brock Informatics 3 I El Naqa Informatics Meets Quality Improv ement: Informatics for Treatment Planning Driv en Quality Initiativ es - A Li Using the Tools of Six Sigma E Yorke W Pavlicek CLOSE OF MEETING See you next year in Indianapolis! August 4 - 8, 2013 Scientific Session Imaging for Therapy K Boedeker J Hsieh Joint Imaging-therapy Innov ations In CT Image Quality