Seminars in Medical Physics (MEDPHY 251)                           — Fall 2009 —

Our flagship course, MEDPHY 251 Seminars in Medical Physics, is a weekly seminar where program faculty and students gather. The course is co-instructed by Joseph Lo, Mark Oldham, and Paul Segars. Please see the current and past seminar schedules by selecting the semester links in the navigation bar above.

Our diverse programming includes cutting edge research, debates on hot topics, special topics not covered in core courses (e.g., biostatistics, biophotonics), national conference previews, and workshops on professional skills. Our speakers are comprised of researchers, physicians, clinical physicists, and notable visiting faculty including many prestigious chairs and directors.

Students: For permission codes, please contact program coordinator Olga Baranova PhD and identify your department and grad/prof student status. Per registrar policies, undergraduates may not register for such partial credit courses. Regardless of that, we have a large auditorium, so everybody is welcome!

Thursdays 2:50-4:00 PM, Hock Plaza Auditorium unless otherwise noted
(followed by Med Phys Program happy hour 4-5 PM)

Date	Speaker	Topic
Aug 27	Justin Roper, Vorakarn Chanyavanich PhD Students, Duke Med Phys Program	Doctoral Research Showcase (entering class of 2006) Roper: On-board SPECT for localizing functional & molecular targets Chanyavanich: Knowledge-Based Optimization for IMRT Treatment Planning (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Sep 3	Ehsan Samei, Max Amurao, Robert Ike, Travis Greene Duke Radiology	Clinical Imaging Physics: Rationale, Perspective, and Opportunities
Sep 10	Mark Oldham PhD (moderator), Jim Chang, Sua Yoo, Quiwen Wu, & Andrew Thomas Duke Radiation Oncology	American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2009 Annual  Meeting - Reprise of Duke Presentations Chang: Imaging Guided Frameless Stereotactic RadioSurgery Using CBCT 6D Image Registration and 6D Couch On Novalis Tx System Yoo: Radiotherapy Treatment Plans with RapidArc for Head-And-Neck Cancer Wu: Is Offline Adaptive Planning Necessary for Online Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer? Thomas: A 3D Solution for Advanced Photon Arc Therapy Quality Assurance
Sep 17	Ronald Jaszczak PhD Duke Radiology (Nuc Med)	Molecular Imaging Instrumentation: Gamma Cameras and SPECT
Sep 24	Rendon Nelson MD Duke Radiology	Use of MOSFET Technology in Clinical Radiology Research (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Oct 1	G. Allan Johnson PhD Duke Radiology	Small Animal Imaging
Oct 8	Timothy Turkington PhD Duke Radiology (Nuc Med)	Time-of-Flight PET and the Reduction of Attenuation Artifacts
Oct 15	Jeffrey Siewerdsen PhD Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University	Open House Guest Speaker From DQE to TRE: Taking Image Science to Task in Image-Guided  Interventions (Special Location: Social Sciences Bldg rm 139)
Oct 22	Georgia Tourassi PhD Duke Radiology	Biomedical Informatics Will Lead the Path to Predictive,  Personalized, Preventive, and Participatory Health Care (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Oct 29	Shiva Das PhD Duke Radiation Oncology	Optimization in IMRT
Nov 5	Melissa Skala PhD Duke Biomedical Engineering	Optical Coherence Tomography
Nov 12	Adam Brooks, Kelly McGrady, Michael Pierquet, Scott Senick MS Students, Duke Med Phys Program	Summer Research Scholarship Presentations: Brooks: Application of RapidArc Technique to Cervical Spine  Stereotactic Treatment McGrady: The Detection of Lung Nodules on Chest Tomosynthesis  in Comparison to Conventional and Dual-Energy Radiography Pierquet: Characterization of a Reusable Presage Formulation Senick: Using Image Guided Portal Dosimetry to Evaluate  Volumetric Changes in Head and Neck Cancer patients During External  Beam Radiation Therapy
Nov 19	David Kirsch MD PhD Duke Radiation Oncology	Intra-operative molecular imaging of soft tissue sarcomas (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)

updated 11/3/2009