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

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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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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-685 Poster Program Exhibit Hall | Poster Lounge

Jul 19 · 15:15

Volumetric Dose Enhancement Due to Time-Dependent Diffusion of Gold Nanoparticles Eluted from Loaded Spacers In Nanoparticle-Aided Brachytherapy

To investigate the time dependent distribution of gold nanoparticles released from a loaded brachytherapy spacer and the impact on the concomitant dose distribution in Iodine-125 low dose rate brachytherapy treatment.

Benjamin MacConnell

Therapy Physics 0 people interested

Poster GPD-T-180 Poster Program Exhibit Hall | Poster Lounge

Jul 19 · 15:15

Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy Machine Parameter Optimization for Localized Prostate Cancer Using Tandem Reinforcement Learning Networks

Volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT) machine parameter optimization (MPO) is a high-dimensional problem traditionally reliant on computationally expensive inverse planning. While machine learning techniques have been developed...

Nathan Shaffer

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Poster GPD-T-863 Poster Program Exhibit Hall | Poster Lounge

Jul 19 · 15:15

Vorain-Gan: Volumetric Attention Gan Trained with Calibrated MVCT for Kvct Synthesis In Head and Neck Cancer of Tomotherapy

During radiotherapy, anatomical changes may impact the suitability of the initial treatment plan, necessitating the application of adaptive radiation therapy (ART). The MVCT serves as the patient positioning image, enabling dose...

Tie Lv, Ph.D.

Therapy Physics 0 people interested

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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

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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