REGISTRATION OPEN
Dear Colleague,
We are inviting you to register for the 4th European Congress of Medical Physics, which will be held in Dublin, Ireland on 17-20 August 2022.
The theme of ECMP 2022 is Multiple Energies, Single Patient Focus. This represents the many strands of medical physics, which all operate at different energies and strengths and how, when they come together, they maximise the benefit to every patient. Ireland is an island nation with a strong history of sharing knowledge and connecting people. Here, we are all well aware of the importance of science without borders. The idea of the 2022 Congress is to reflect this connectivity between physicists and the sense of community.
EFOMP represents more than 9000 medical physicists and clinical engineers working in the field of medical physics. Through ECMP we hope to connect these physicists and those from other nations.
IMPORTANT DATES:
Abstract Submission Close: Midnight CET 11 March 2022
Abstract Acceptance Notifications: from 27April 2022
Early Bird Registration Close: 24 May 2022
Conference Dates: 17 – 20 August 2022
ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS
All accepted abstracts will be published in a supplement of EFOMP’s journal, the European Journal of Medical Physics (EJMP), at the end of July/early August 2022 before the Congress.
For the ECMP 2022, EJMP will publish a Focus Issue with up to 40 full papers selected from the conference contributions. The contributions will be selected by the Focus Issue’s Guest Editors which will be nominated by EJMP’s Editor-in-Chief.
The final manuscripts will then undergo a full peer-review process. The Focus Issue will be published online in April 2023, with deadline for submission of papers on 31 December 2022. The papers of this Focus Issue will be free to download from the EJMP’s journal website throughout 2023.
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Refresher Courses during ECMP 2022 – Dublin
The draft program for the Refresher courses has been published on ECMP 2022 website. Overall, there will be 12 RCs in four parallel sessions from 8.00-9.00 each day of the congress. The topics selected will cover all the spectrum of medical physics activities
Radiotherapy Track
Open source TPS software for radiotherapy research, development and use in medical physics – Thursday 18 August
Radiotherapy Track
Monte Carlo use in radiation therapy: from research tool to clinical applications– Friday 19 August
Radiotherapy Track
Particle therapy: protons and carbon ions – Saturday 20 August
Confirmed Lecturers:
Stefan Both (Groningen University Medical Center, The Netherlands), Issam El Naqa (Moffit Cancer, Institute Miami, USA) Micael Fix (Inselspital, Universitätsspital, Bern, Swizterland), Mike Grams (Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA), Oliver Jäkel (DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany), Jacob Öden (Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden), Kristoffer Petersson (Department of Oncology, Oxford University, UK) Niklas Whal (DKFZ, Heidelberg, Germany)
Nuclear Medicine Track
Improvement in time resolution of TOF and use of SiPM. Technological advances in SPECT and PET. Thursday 18 August
Nuclear Medicine Track
Radioprotection optimization in radionuclide therapy – Waste management and errors in administration – Friday 19 August
Confirmed Lecturers:
Stefan Vanderberghe (Institute of Biomedical engineering and technology, Ghent University, Belgium), Mario Marengo (University of Bologna, Italy), Ana Milian (Medical Physics Consultant, Zaragoza, Spain)
Diagnostic Radiology Track
Photon counting CT. State of the art and specific QC tasks for the medical physicists– Thursday 18 August
Diagnostic Radiology Track
MRI. Very low and very high field MRI– Friday 19 August
Diagnostic Radiology Track
Fundamentals on Artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence across medical physics– Saturday 20 August
Multiple energies Single patient focus Track
Technology underlying CBCT and the challenges in dosimetry. CBCT in diagnostic modalities and the role of CBCT in radiotherapy – Thursday 18 August
Multiple energies Single patient focus Track
Foetal exposure for external radiation in diagnostic imaging and dose estimation from administration of radionuclides – Saturday 20 August
Confirmed Lecturers:
Aoife Gallagher (University Hospital Limerick, Ireland), David Grimes (Dublin City University, Ireland) (Osvaldo Rampado (Citta’ della Salute e della Scienza, Torino, Italy), Nathalya Saltybaeva (University of Zurich, Switzerland), Sigrid Leide Svegborn (Lund University, Sweden)
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact: ecmp2022@abbey.ie