North Central Chapter
Autumn Meeting
October,20, 2023.
MEETING CALL TO ACTION: Meeting announcements and call for speakers here for Oct 20, 2023
Supporting Documentation
Meeting Location & AccomModations
45 Hillman Road, Wisconsin Dells, WI. 53965
Accommodations
Glacier Canyon Lodge
Room rate: $109
Rates are subject to applicable state and local taxes (currently 12.25%) in effect at the time of
check in, and a taxable $29.95 nightly Resort fee, or current prevailing fee if changed.
To get the special room rate, call 1-800-867-9453 and book with: Leader#A00952
This rate is guaranteed until September 19 and is not available through online booking.
Join us Night Out
October 19, 2023 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location:
511 E Adams St, Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965
608.253.1400
info@fieldsatthewilderness.com
Corporate Sponsors
We appreciate the generous support of our sponsors for our scientific meeting and would be grateful for any additional support for our night out.
Sponsorship Tiers
GOLD – $400 – Name featured on poster, Opportunity to address attendees at night out
SILVER $250 – Name featured on poster
Night Out Sponsorship can be submitted when registering for the meeting. Alternatively, you can contact ncc.aapm@gmail.com
Meeting Agenda & Presentations
7:15 Registration and continental breakfast (45 min)
8:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements (15 min)
Click here to view Dr. Ehsan Samei’s address to the NCC.
8:15 Morning Session I – “Celebrating the Past”
Bruce Thomadsen – “History of the North Central Chapter and Radiotherapy from our Founding to Now” (30 min)
Larry DeWerd – “AAPM involvement in secondary laboratory calibrations at the start of NCC AAPM” (30 min)
Michael Speidel – “’Medical imaging for diagnosis and intervention: celebrating 50 years of progress” (30 min)
9:45 Morning break and vendor interactions (30 min)
10:15 Morning Session II – “Then and Now”
Dimitris Mihailidis – “How to manage dental CBCT testing and beyond: AAPM Task Group 261” (30 min)
Ashley Tao– “50 years of CT in North America” (45 min)
Jim Kofler– “CT Dose and Risk” (30 min)
12:00 NCC-AAPM Business Meeting (30 min)
12:30 Lunch break/Vendor interactions (60 min)
13:30 Early Career Investigator Competition (90 min: each talk 6 minutes and 1 minute for questions)
Andrew White – “TLDs for Absorbed Dose Measurements in Alpha Emitting Radionuclides”
Chase Ruff – “Don’t Miss a Beat: Cardiac and Respiratory Motion Evaluation with 5D MRI”
Jeremy Hallett – “Noise & Mottle Suppression Methods for Cumulative Cherenkov Images of Radiation Therapy Delivery”
Yuhao Yan – “Mind over Matter: Synthesizing Brain CT for Low-field MRgRT using Deep Learning”
Aubrey Parks – “Monte Carlo verification of Cherenkov imaging in tissue for effects from beam energy, type, incidence, and camera choices”
Nicholas Summerfield – “Cardiac Mask-erade: Low Field MR and Deep Learning’s Reveal”
Grace Hutchinson – “Chronic Renal Toxicity Dose Response Model for Pediatric Myeloablative Bone Marrow Transplant Conditioning Regimen Using Total Body Irradiation”
Autumn Walter -“Development of a ring-based compensator system for intensity modulated small animal irradiations”
Sean Jollota – “A proposed dosimetry formalism for diffusing alpha-emitters radiation therapy (DaRT) brachytherapy seeds”
Alexander Niver – “Non-Contact Scintillator Dosimetry for Total Body Irradiation”
Steve Blum – “Dosimetric impact of interfraction adaptive template-based interstitial brachytherapy for gynecological malignancies”
15:00 Afternoon break and vendor interactions (30 min)
15:30 Afternoon Session – “Looking to the Future”
Dimitris Mihailidis– “The focus of the AAPM Task Group #359 (Flash /ultra-high dose rate radiation dosimetry): Why do we need this TG guidance?” (45 min)
Diego Hernando – “Machine Learning for Medical Imaging” (30 min)
16:45 Closing remarks, Awards, and Adjourn (15 min)
This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for 6.5 hours of MPCEC.