Today is Medical Physics day! AKA the birth date of Marie Sklodowska-Curie, who on this day in 1867 was born in Warsaw, Poland. She is most famous for her contributions to medical physics: her discovery of polonium and radium in 1898; and her subsequent Nobel Prizes in 1903 and 1911. That makes today Medical Physics day!
It also means that EPSM, the annual Australasian medical physics conference, is about to convene. The conference will kick off with a welcome reception tomorrow at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. Looking at the programme schedule, it appears we have 12 speakers from the Queensland state branch this year!
Monday, 9th November
| Time |
Speaker |
Presentation |
|---|
| 14:15 |
Scott Crowe |
Initiatives of the ACPSEM Queensland branch |
| 16:00 |
Catherine Jones |
Optimisation of EBT3 dosimetry for quality assurance of SRS and hypo-fractionated VMAT radiotherapy treatments |
| 16:30 |
Scott Crowe |
Women in medical physics: numbers in Australasia |
| 17:15 |
Millicent Chan |
Commissioning of the electron module in the Pinnacle3 treatment planning system |
Tuesday, 10th November
| Time |
Speaker |
Presentation |
|---|
| 11:00 |
Scott Crowe |
3D printing of air slab caps for correction free small field dosimetry |
| 11:15 |
Tanya Kairn |
Use of 3D printing to produce radiologically robust phantoms |
| 14:30 |
Salma Ibrahim |
Very small field dosimetry for Elekta Infinity with Agility MLC: diode design and field size reporting |
| 17:00 |
Scott Crowe |
On the selecton of gamma criteria |
| 17:15 |
Catherine Jones |
A phantom based study of the effect of intra-fraction motion on EPID dosimetry |
Wednesday, 11th November
| Time |
Speaker |
Presentation |
|---|
| 10:15 |
Ian Smith |
Evaluating the influence of radiographers on radiation use in cardiac angiography procedures |
| 13:45 |
Sarah-Ellyana Aliuddin |
Comparison of paediatric CT doses for common examinations in Queensland, Australia |
Thursday, 12th November
| Time |
Speaker |
Presentation |
|---|
| 11:00 |
Tanya Kairn |
Achievable dose gradients in spinal radiotherapy treatments delivered via Tomotherapy |
