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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Talk Proffered Program Room 118

Jul 22 · 12:00

Bayesian Optimization-Based Automatic Inverse Treatment Planning for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery for Patients with Multiple Brain Metastases

Gamma Knife (GK) radiosurgery is a specialized radiosurgery for brain metastases (BMs). GK plan quality depends strongly on target size and shape, making conventional plan metrics difficult to compare across patients. Dosimetric...

Zhen Tian

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Talk Proffered Program Room 220

Jul 19 · 17:31

Beam Angle Optimization and Dose Quantification for Tumor Tracking Using Kv Scattered X-Ray Imaging

Photon-counting detectors (PCD) exhibit high sensitivity for scattered photons, enabling kilovoltage (kV) scattered X-ray imaging with potential for real-time tumor tracking for lung cancer radiotherapy. The performance in this a...

Weikang Ai, MSE

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Poster Poster Program Exhibit Hall | Poster Lounge

Jul 19 · 15:15

Beam Characterization and QA Recommendations for 2.5 MV Imaging Beams In a Large Institution Network

Current AAPM guidelines (TG-104 and MPPG 2.b) primarily address kV or standard MV portal beams for imaging and are not well suited for low-dose-rate 2.5 MV imaging beams, particularly in establishing dose and image quality baseli...

Licheng Kuo, MS

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

Institutions

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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