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Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists — July 9–12, 2014, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, Canada

Stories

Photographing the Rocky Mountains During Your Conference Stay
A professional conference in Banff offers an unusual advantage for photographers: the scenery begins almost outside the meeting venue. Between scientific…
The Role of the Medical Physicist in Hospital Accreditation Audits
Medical physicists working in Australian hospitals occupy a unique position during accreditation audits, serving as the technical experts who translate…
Recovering from speech nerves during Q&A sessions
A question-and-answer session can feel more intimidating than the formal presentation itself. You may have explained a carefully tested model, dose…
Choosing Beam Energy Wisely for Stereotactic Radiosurgery
Stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) demands a level of precision that makes beam energy selection a clinical and engineering decision, rather than a default…
Turning Conference Contacts Into Productive Vendor Conversations
A scientific meeting can end with a pocket full of business cards, a crowded inbox and several promising conversations that have not yet become useful…
Navigating the Banff Conference Centre Layout and Poster Hall
Attending the 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists meant working within a conference campus rather than a single…
Efficient note-taking for multi-track scientific programs
A multi-track scientific meeting can produce a frustrating pile of half-finished notes. One presentation may contain a clinically useful workflow, the next may…
Comparing flattened and unflattened beams in radiotherapy
Comparing Dosimetric Characteristics of New Flattened Versus Unflattened Beams requires more than checking whether two plans deliver the same prescribed dose.…
Touring Banff’s Hot Springs After a Full Day of Talks
A scientific meeting can fill the mind long before it fills the diary. At the 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists…
Deformable Image Registration For Adaptive Replanning
Radiotherapy is planned from an image acquired at a particular moment, while the patient’s anatomy changes throughout treatment. Tumours may shrink, organs can…