Jul 15 2010
The 52nd meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) convenes from July18 - 22, 2010 in Philadelphia, PA.
AAPM is the premier organization in medical physics, a broadly-based scientific and professional discipline encompassing physics principles and applications in medicine and biology. Its membership includes medical physicists who specialize in research that develops cutting-edge technologies and board-certified clinical medical physicists who apply these technologies in community hospitals, clinics, and academic medical centers.
Highlights of the meeting are listed below. Journalist registration information appears at the end of this release.
MEETING HIGHLIGHTS
- Nanocoated Gold Bullets Help Destroy Tumors, Improve Radiation Therapy
- Tumor Tracking with Smart Probing – A Stock Market Approach
- Six-Year Study Finds Few Permanent Side Effects After SBRT for Lung Cancer
- A Library of Lung Tumors
- Tactile Tumor-Imaging Device
- Making Tumors Glow Could Reveal Their Hiding Spots
- IMRT Safe and Effective for Treating Cancers of Paranasal Sinus
- New Nanotechnology Capsule Delivers Cancer Drug, Then Heat
- New Multisource X-Ray Imaging Technology
- Testing Proton Clusters
- Solid-State X-Ray Intensifiers
- To Treat Cancer, Subdivide and Conquer
- Red-Flagging Cancer
MORE MEETING INFORMATION
The presentations at the AAPM meeting will cover topics ranging from new ways of imaging the human body to the latest clinical developments on treating cancer with high energy X-rays and electrons from accelerators, brachytherapy with radioactive sources, and protons. Many of the talks and posters are focused on patient safety -- tailoring therapy to the specific needs of people undergoing treatment, such as shaping emissions to conform to tumors, or finding ways to image children safely at lower radiation exposures while maintaining good image quality.
Source: http://www.aip.org/