AAPM | COMP Joint Meeting · Vancouver · July 19-22

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Abstracts 2869 +453 (+18.8%) 2416 in 2025 Sessions 229 -50 (-17.9%) 279 in 2025 Authors 7751 +1533 (+24.7%) 6218 in 2025 Prolific authors 1396 +232 (+19.9%) 1164 in 2025 Institution hubs 643 +66 (+11.4%) 577 in 2025 Countries 68 -14 (-17.1%) 82 in 2025

Institution movement

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1BC Cancer+84 2UT Southwestern Medical Center+42 3Stanford University+36 4Shandong First Medical University and Shandong Academy of Medical Sciences+33 5University of British Columbia+29 6Mayo Clinic+28
Poster Program 1942 Invited Program 657 Proffered Program 492 General Events 7

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67% poster-heavy
1928posters to browse 941talk abstracts 100%scheduled on calendar
Poster Program 1942 Invited Program 657 Proffered Program 492 General Events 7

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1897 Therapy Physics 501 Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Physics 205 Radiopharmaceuticals, Theranostics, and Nuclear Medicine 151 Professional 39 Clinical Trials Specialty Program 27 Education (Innovation in Medical Physics: Arthur Boyer Award) 13 Keynote Events 8 TH- Brachytherapy

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Poster GPD-T-523 Poster Program Exhibit Hall | Poster Lounge
Jul 19 · 15:15
Introducing a New Spot-Scanning Proton Arc Optimization Algorithm with a Variable Tolerance Window to Improve Plan Quality for Bilateral Breast Cancer

This study aims to introduce a new SPArc algorithm with a variable tolerance window (SPArc-variable) to further improve plan quality for patients receiving bilateral breast and regional nodal irradiation, by allowing extra energy...

Xiaoda Cong
Therapy Physics 0 people interested
Poster GPD-D-116 Poster Program Exhibit Hall | Poster Lounge
Jul 19 · 15:15
Introduction of a Pixel-Specific Model Observer to Accommodate Spatially Complex Clinical Devices As Test Objects

Existing spatial domain implementations of Hotelling observers used to assess imaging system performance provide a single SNR figure of merit associated with a symmetric test object. The purpose of this work was to develop and va...

Kenneth A. Fetterly, PhD
Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology Physics 0 people interested

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Topic momentum

clinical trials 15 education 15 artificial intelligence (AI) 15 brachytherapy 11 radiation therapy 8 dosimetry 8 breast 7 protons 6 MRI 6 adaptive radiotherapy 6 quality control 6 quality assurance 6

Institutions

Output leaders

643 hubs · 1523 normalized affiliations · 68 countries
1The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center161 2UT Southwestern Medical Center151 3Mayo Clinic120 4Stanford University100 5BC Cancer95 6University of Wisconsin-Madison93 7Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center87 8Emory University77