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

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Plastic scintillators in small-field dosimetry
Small-field radiotherapy has changed the demands placed on clinical dosimetry. Stereotactic radiosurgery, stereotactic body radiotherapy and miniature…
Evaluating Treatment Planning System Commissioning Data
Treatment planning system commissioning turns measured machine behaviour into a clinical calculation model. The quality of that model depends on far more than…
Advances in Kilovoltage Cone-Beam CT Image Quality
Kilovoltage cone-beam computed tomography (kV-CBCT) has become a valuable imaging tool for image-guided radiotherapy, adaptive workflows and treatment…
Reliable ion chamber calibration in high-energy beams
Ionisation chambers remain central to reference dosimetry for medical linear accelerators. In high-energy photon and electron beams, they provide a stable…
Making MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy Clinically Ready
Magnetic resonance-guided adaptive radiotherapy brings diagnostic-quality soft-tissue imaging into the treatment pathway. By combining MRI with a linear…
Risk Management For Medical Linear Accelerator Maintenance
A medical linear accelerator is a tightly integrated clinical system in which mechanical, electrical, software and radiation-producing components must work…
Building a Practical VMAT Patient-Specific QA Program
Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) can deliver highly conformal dose efficiently, but its complexity creates several opportunities for error. A…
Monte Carlo methods for brachytherapy dose calculation
Monte Carlo simulation methods for brachytherapy dose calculation offer a detailed way to model how radiation travels from an implanted or applicator-based…
Reading Abstracts on Gantry-Based Tomotherapy Systems
The archived 2014 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP) brought together clinical scientists, researchers,…
How to Arrange a Meeting with Your CCPM Examiner
A meeting with a CCPM examiner can clarify examination expectations, identify gaps in your preparation and turn a broad study plan into practical next steps.…