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Thursday 19^th November 2009

09:00 - 10:00	Registration and Welcome Coffee
10:00 - 10:20	Welcome and Opening of the Meeting - Luca Cozzi (President of SSRMP) - Grusswort des Regierungsrates Basel-Stadt, überbracht durch PD Dr. Philipp Hübner, Kantonschemiker Basel-Stadt - Hans W. Roser (Conference President)
10:20 - 12:00	Session 1 Chairpersons: Anja Stüssi (Bern), Wolf Seelentag (St. Gallen)
10:20 - 10:50	Invited Talk Role change in Medical Physics: Medical Physicists in Diagnostic Radiology and Nuclear Medicine W Zeller Abteilung Strahlenschutz, Bundesamt für Gesundheit, Bern
	Topic: Radiation Protection and Dosimetry
10:50 - 11:00	Shielding of Multi-Detector CT rooms: comparison of DIN, NCRP and BIR approaches F R Verdun1, A Aroua1, S Baechler1, P R Trueb2, F Bochud1 1University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV -UNIL, Lausanne; 2Federal Office for Public Health, Radiological Protection Division, Bern
11:00 - 11:10	Diagnostic Reference Levels (DRLs) in projection radiography (full paper) Th Theiler, R Treier, Ph R Trueb Federal Office of Public Health, Bern
11:10 - 10:20	Clinical Audits - a concept for their implementation in Switzerland (full paper) R Treier, W Zeller, Ph R Trueb Federal Office of Public Health, Bern
11:20 - 11:30	Quality Assurance of X-Ray Protection Clothing at the University Hospital Basel (full paper) D Oppliger-Schäfer, H W Roser Radiological Physics, University Hospital Basel
11:30 - 11:40	Radiation therapy dosimetry in Switzerland D Twerenbold Bundesamt für Metrologie METAS
11:40 - 11:50	The first IMRT dosimetry intercomparison of the SGSMP using a thorax phantom with inhomogeneities (full paper submitted to Medical Physics) H Schiefer1, G Nicolini2, A Fogliata2, W W Seelentag1, M K Fix3 1Klinik für Radio-Onkologie, Kantonsspital St.Gallen, St.Gallen; 2Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Medical Physics, Bellinzona; 3Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, and University of Bern
11:50 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 13:30	Lunch and Industrial Exhibition
13:30 - 15:30	Session 2 Chairpersons: Ulrike Melnyk (Basel), Peter Manser (Bern)
13:30 - 14:00	Invited Talk Transcranial MR-guided High Intensity Focused Ultrasound for Non-Invasive Functional Neurosurgery B Werner MR-Zentrum, Universitäts-Kinderkliniken Zürich
	Topic: The Scope of Medical Physicist's Activities - from Magnetic Resonance to Antiprotons
14:00 - 14:10	Passive Tracking of the Devices during MR-guided Interventions S Patil, O Bieri, K Scheffler Division of Radiological Physics, University of Basel Hospital, Basel
14:10 - 14:20	Assessing Extracranial Tumors using Diffusion-Weighted Whole-Body MRI (full paper submitted to Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik) C Lenz1, M Klarhöfer1, K Scheffler1, L Winter2, G Sommer2 1Division of Radiological Physics, University of Basel Hospital, Basel; 2Department of Radiology, University of Basel Hospital, Basel
14:20 - 14:30	What is the Benefit of an Adaptive Statistical Iterative Reconstruction Method over Conventional CT Reconstruction Approaches? F Miéville1, E Rizzo2, F Gudinchet2, F Bochud1, F R Verdun1 1University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 2Radiology Department, CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne
14:30 - 14:40	Mathematical observers applied to breast tomosynthesis I Diaz1, P Timberg2, C Abbey3, M Eckstein3, F R Verdun1, C Castella1, F O Bochud1 1University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 2Department of Medical Radiation Physics, Lund University, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden; 3Dept. of Psychology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
14:40 - 14:50	A novel calibration approach to clinical PET/CT imaging T Weitzel1, T Beyer2, F Corminboeuf1, T Krause1 1University Clinic for Nuclear Medicine, Inselspital Bern University Hospital, 3010 Bern; 2cmi-experts GmbH, Pestalozzistr. 3, 8032 Zürich
14:50 - 15:00	The influence of the bow tie filtration on the dose and image quality for the Elekta XVI coneBeam CT L Wissmann1, S Peters2, W W Seelentag2 1Department of Physics, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, 2Klinik für Radio-Onkologie, Kantonsspital St.Gallen, St.Gallen
15:00 - 15:10	Recurrence landscapes of uterine cervix carcinoma - A 3-D analysis of topography and spatial frequency distribution U-D Braumann1, J Einenkel2, N Manthey2, U Wolf3, G Hildebrandt3, A Liebmann3, M Höckel2 1Interdisziplinäres Zentrum für Bioinformatik, Universität Leipzig, Germany; 2Universitätsfrauenklinik (Triersches Institut), Universität Leipzig, Germany; 3Klinik und Poliklinik für Strahlentherapie, Universität Leipzig, Germany
15:10 - 15:20	AD-4 / ACE: Antiproton Cell Experiment P Weber1,2 1Service de radiothérapie du DPO, Hôpital neuchâtelois HNE, 2300 La Chaux-de-Fonds; 2PH Division, CERN, Geneva
15:20 - 15:30	Discussion
15:30 - 16:00	Coffee Break and Industrial Exhibition
16:00 - 17:15	Annual General Assembly SSRPM
17:15 - 18:00	SSRMP - SPAMP Joint Session
18:30 - 19:30	Visit to Pharmazie-Historisches Museum Basel
20:00	Social Evening and Dinner (at "Job Factory")

 Friday 20^th November 2009
 

09:00 - 10:20	Session 3 Chairpersons: Regina Müller (Villigen PSI), Raphaël Moeckli (Lausanne)
9:00 - 9:30	Invited Talk Speedy vs. conformal: Multi-objective tradeoffs in IMRT and VMAT Thomas Bortfeld Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA
	Topic: IMRT, Electrons and Monte Carlo Simulation
9:30 - 9:40	Independent 2D dose calculation of IMRT fields using MapCALC A-C Schulte, M Fix, P Manser, R Mini, D Terribilini, D Vetterli, D Frauchiger Abteilung für Medizinische Strahlenphysik, Inselspital Bern
9:40 - 9:50	Influence of an Air Gap between Bolus and Patient Skin on Electron Beam Dose Characteristics G Kohler Radioonkologie, Universitätsspital Basel (USB)
9:50 - 10:00	Low energy electron beam dose calculation using eMC (full paper) M K Fix1, D Frei1, W Volken1, H Neuenschwander2, E J Born1, P Manser1 1Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Inselspital - University of Berne; 2Clinic for Radiation-Oncology, Lindenhofspital Berne
10:00 - 10:10	Monte Carlo Dose Calculation on Deforming Anatomy (full paper to be submitted to Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik) M Peterhans1, P Manser2, D Frei2, M K Fix2 1Institute for Surgical Technology and Biomechanics ISTB, University of Bern; 2Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Inselspital and University of Bern
10:10 - 10:20	Discussion
10:20 - 10:50	Coffee Break and Industrial Exhibition
10:50 - 12:00	Session 4 Chairpersons: Jatta Berberat (Aarau), Ernst Born (Bern)
10:50 - 11:20	Invited Talk Molecular Imaging: State of the Art and Future Directions J Prior, Service de Médecine Nucléaire, CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne
	Topic: Monte Carlo Simulation (continued)
11:20 - 11:30	Dose Calculation for Orthovoltage Radiotherapy using Swiss Monte Carlo Plan (full paper) D Frauchiger, D Terribilini, B Isaak, P Manser, D Frei, W Volken and M K Fix Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Inselspital and University of Berne, Switzerland
11:30 - 11:40	Investigation of 6 MV static beams within the Swiss Monte Carlo Plan V Magaddino1,2, P Manser2, D Frei2, W Volken2, D Schmidhalter2, L Hirschi2, M K Fix2 1University of Naples "Federico II", and INFN, Naples, Italy; 2Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Inselspital - University of Berne
11:40 - 11:50	Validation of a Monte Carlo model for peripheral dosimetry and dose calculations in a full-body voxelised phantom with regards to secondary cancers A Joosten1, F Levi2, S Baechler1, O Matzinger3, W Jeanneret-Sozzi3, R-O Mirimanoff3, F Bochud1, R Moeckli1 1University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 2Cancer Epidemiology Unit and Cancer Registries of Vaud and Neuchâtel, Institute of Social and Preventive Medecine, CHUV, Lausanne; 3Department of Radiation Oncology, CHUV, Lausanne
11:50 - 12:00	Discussion
12:00 - 13:15	Annual General Assembly SPAMP
13:15 - 13:50	Lunch (sponsored by SPAMP) and Industrial Exhibition
13:50 - 14:50	Session 5: Poster Presentations Chairpersons: Shelley Bulling (Genève), Roman Menz (Basel)
13:50 - 13:55	Interventional radiology: management of high patient dose procedures E T Samara1, A Aroua1, P Bize2, S Binaghi2, F R Verdun1 1University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 2Department of Radiology, CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne
13:55 - 14:00	Exposure of the Swiss population from radiological examinations: a propective study to estimate the examination frequency R Le Coultre1, R Schnyder2, S Coendoz3, E Samara2, A Aroua2, F Bochud2, F R Verdun2 1School of Health Sciences - Technique in medical radiology, HES-SO / University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland, Lausanne; 2University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 3Department of Radiology, CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne
14:00 - 14:05	Comparison of image quality between a digital panorama X-ray unit with a CdTe-CMOS detector and panorama X-ray units with other types of digital detectors (full paper) S Scheidegger Centre for Applied Mathematics and Physics, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Winterthur
14:05 - 14:10	Qualification of PET-CT scanners for use in SAKK 56/07 multicentre trial F Camus1,2, J O Prior2, G Allenbach2, L Modolo1,2, T Hany4, J Müller5, J Coulot6, A Bischof Delaloye2, S Leyvraz3, M Montemurro3, F R Verdun1 1University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 2Nuclear Medicine, CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 3Lausanne Cancer Centre, CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne; 4Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsspital Zürich; 5Nuklearmedizin, Kantonsspital St.Gallen 6Médecine Nucléaire, Institut de Cancérologie Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France
14:10 - 14:15	Understanding tumour dynamics in vivo: The potential of kinetic models in radio-oncology (full paper) S Scheidegger1, G Lutters2, S Bodis2 1Centre for Applied Mathematics and Physics, ZHAW; 2Institut für Radio-Onkologie, Kantonsspital Aarau
14:15 - 14:20	Volumetric modulated arc therapy in stereotactic body radiation therapy for metastases to abdominal lymph-nodes L Cozzi2, M Bignardi1, A Fogliata2, G Nicolini2, E Vanetti2, A Clivio2, M Scorsetti1 1Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Rozzano (Milan), Italy; 2Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona
14:20 - 14:25	First year of clinical rapidarc treatments at iosi: status report A Fogliata, G Nicolini, E Vanetti, A Clivio, A Richetti, L Cozzi Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona
14:25 - 14:30	Hippocampal avoidance with rapid arc and helical tomotherapy for base of skull tumors A Clivio1, S Yartsev2, A Fogliata1, E Vanetti1, G Nicolini1, L Cozzi1 1Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland , Bellinzona; 2London Regional Cancer Program, London, Canada
14:30 - 14:35	Pre-treatment verification of RapidArc treatment plans: comparison between Epiqa and Seven29 2D ion chamber array with Octavius phantom J Hrbacek, M Zamburlini, J Krayenbühl, S Klöck Klinik für Radio-Onkologie, UniversitätsSpital Zürich
14:35 - 14:40	QA for rapid arc treatment using the SGSMP IMRT - dose intercomparison facility K Loewenich1, J Hrbacek1, H Schiefer2, T Streller1, J Krayenbühl1, S Klöck1 1Abteilung für Medizinphysik, Klinik für Radio-Onkologie, Universitätsspital Zürich; 2Abteilung für Medizinphysik, Klinik für Radio - Onkologie, Kantonsspital St. Gallen
14:40 - 14:50	Discussion
14:50 - 16:40	Session 6 Chairpersons: Maria M. Aspradakis (Chur), Daniel Vetterli (Biel)
14:50 - 15:20	Invited Talk Modern QA in Radiation Therapy G Lutters, Institut für Radioonkologie, Kantonsspital Aarau
	Topic: Treatment Planning, RapidArc, Tomotherapy and Quality Assurance
15:20 - 15:30	Absorption measurements for a carbon fibre couch top and its modelling in a treatment planning system (full paper) G Kunz, F Hasenbalg, P Pemler Klinik für Radio-Onkologie und Nuklearmedizin, Stadtspital Triemli Zürich
15:30 - 15:40	On the impact of treatment couch modeling on rapidarc E Vanetti, A Clivio, A Fogliata, G Nicolini, L Cozzi Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Medical Physics Unit, Bellinzona
15:40 - 15:50	Implementing RapidArc on the Novalis Tx P Manser1, E J Born1, D Schmidhalter1, D Aebersold2, R Mini1, M K Fix1 1Division of Medical Radiation Physics, Inselspital and University of Berne; 2University Clinic for Radio-Oncology, Inselspital and University of Berne
15:50 - 16:00	Quality assurance of RapidArc treatments with portal dosimetry: multicentric clinical practice experience G Nicolini1, A Clivio1, E Vanetti1, A Fogliata1, G Urso2, P Fenoglietto3, E Parietti4, J Hrbacek5, S Kloeck5, L Cozzi1 1Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Medical Physics Unit, Bellinzona; 2Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Radiation Oncology, Rozzano, Italy; 3CRLC Val d’Aurelle-Paul Lamarque Montpellier, France; 4Istituti Ospedalieri di Cremona, Italy; 5Radiation Oncology Dept., University Hospital Zuerich
16:00 - 16:10	Reliability and use of the HiArt detector for 3D dose reconstruction in tomotherapy K Schombourg, F O Bochud, R Moeckli University Institute for Radiation Physics (IRA), CHUV - UNIL, Lausanne
16:10 - 16:20	How sensitive is the collapsed plan? (full paper to be submitted to Zeitschrift für Medizinische Physik) J Hrbacek1, J Bocanek2, T Dossenbach1, G Nicolini3, A Fogliata3, S Klöck1 1Klinik für Radio-Onkologie, UniversitätsSpital Zürich; 2Varian Medical Systems, Zug; 3Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, Bellinzona
16:20 - 16:30	Improving the QA for geometric accuracy for stereotactic radiotherapy with a Linac H Petermann Institut für Radio-Onkologie,Universitätsspital Basel
16:30 - 16:40	Discussion
16:40	End of Meeting
	Guided Tours to Radiation Oncology or Radiological Physics (after official end of conference - if you are interested and have not indicated your interest on the registration form, please, contact the registration desk - choose either of the two tours)