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European Medical Physics News ΙSSUE 01/2020 | SPRING The European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics Bulletin European Medical Physics News ΙSSUE 01/2020 | SPRING Medical Physicists informing the public through humour: The Czech Republic’s “AURORA Young Minds” team (page 56) contents.pdf 1 2/3/20 7:19 PM EFOMP NEWSLETTER EFOMP announcements mailing list Contents Editorial 3 Appreciation of outgoing CPCom Chair 5 EFOMP Individual Associate Membership 6 Upcoming: 3rd European Congress of Medical Physics 8 EFOMP website. Upcoming: ESMPE School on Statistics in Medical Physics 11 EFOMP Mentoring in Research programme 13 EDITORIAL BOARD Guidelines for RT equipment manufacturers 14 Report of EFOMP AGM and Council Meetings in Warsaw 15 Report of ESMPE School on Nuclear Medicine Technology 17 Lithuanian Medical Physicists’ Society Activities 18 Report on 50th Anniversary Congress of DGMP 20 Company Article: RTsafe Remote Dosimetry Services 25 Report on AIFM course on Big Data, Radiomics & AI in Healthcare 26 Report on EUTEMPE-RX module on Advanced QA Protocols 27 Company Article: Qaelum – ensuring standards in North Macedonia 29 Report on IAEA Workshop on Assuring Patient Safety & Dose Management 30 Company Article: Scandidos – Safety & Quality in Radiation Oncology 32 AIFM-WOW Exhibition on Superheroes & Radiation 33 Book Review: Advanced MR Neuroimaging by Tsougos 35 Company Article: RTI Group – CT Ion Chamber design for high precision and low uncertainty 37 European communication campaign on appropriate use of medical imaging 39 Upcoming: 3-day Nuclear Medicine School in Nantes 44 From Brazil to Italy – experiences of an Early-Career medical physicist 45 Research: Geant4-based application for X-ray breast imaging in-silico trial 46 K Research: Pattern of practice in adaptive & real-time radiation therapy 47 Company Article: Sun Nuclear – QA platform discussed at Belgian meeting 49 Company Article: Standard Imaging – Adaptivo patient dosimetry software 52 Medical Physicist’s Hobby: Astrophotography 53 Medical Physicist’s Hobby: Brooch making 54 Results of the 2nd EFOMP Photo Contest 55 Informing the public about radiation through comic strips – the Aurora project 56 https://www.efomp.org/ Medical Physics Events diary 58 Structure of EFOMP 60 /company/efomp/ EFOMP Company Members 61 @EFOMP_org /efompweb /EFOMP.org/ Cover page, top photo: Medical Physicists informing the public through humour: [email protected] The Czech Republic’s “AURORA Young Minds” team (page 56) 2 2 contents.pdf 1 2/3/20 7:19 PM SPRING 2020 Editorial am writing in my new role as Editor-in-Chief of European Med- A number of upcoming meetings are highlighted, among them the 3rd ical Physics News; I feel honoured to hold this position, which European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP), which will take place came as a result of my appointment in January 2020 as Chair in Turin in September 2020. In his role as Chair of the Congress, Mika of EFOMP’s Communications and Publications Committee Kortesniemi writes about the treats in store for medical physicists (CPCom). The last couple of months have been a steep learn- there. (Don’t forget the 10th-March abstract submission deadline!) Iing curve, but I have had the good fortune to have inherited the roles from my predecessor, Prof. Paolo Russo, who left both the Two fascinating articles have been contributed about on-going EFOMP announcements mailing list Committee and the Newsletter in perfect condition! In this issue, research in radiotherapy physics: Antonio Sarno tells us about you can read an appreciation of Prof. Russo’s Chairmanship of the “AGATA” breast imaging project, while members of a team CPCom, written by EFOMP President Marco Brambilla. working on Adaptive radiation therapy have written about their “POP-ART RT” study. Paolo was ably assisted by the former Secretary of the CPCom, Efi Koutsouveli, who has now moved on to be Assistant General EMP News’s popular feature on hobbies, “What Medical EFOMP website. Secretary of EFOMP (in addition to her Internet Manager role); I Physicists do in their Free Time”, continues in this issue, with would like to thank Efi for her excellent work and for helping me get extremely diverse topics! James Ross, from Scotland, writes EDITORIAL BOARD up to speed with my own new roles. The new Secretary of the CP- about his Astrophotography activities and shares two of his Com is Ivan Gencel; his quiet efficiency is already very evident and amazing images, while Serbian Medical Physicist Milana I know that we will have a very productive working relationship. Marjanovic tells us about her passion for brooch-making, with some of her beautiful creations illustrated in her article. This issue of EMP News contains an amazing range of interesting articles and features, confirming the knowledge, dedication and In this issue, you can find the results of the 2nd EFOMP Photo enthusiasm of Medical Physicists throughout Europe; there is not Contest. The theme was “Winter” and I am sure you will agree enough space here to mention all of them, but I will highlight a few. that the three winning entries interpreted the brief in high- ly-original and effective ways. Two exciting EFOMP initiatives are described in this issue, namely the official opening of EFOMP’s new membership Last, but certainly not least, this issue contains two articles category, “Individual Associate Membership” and the launch about the novel ways in which Medical Physicists are educating of EFOMP’s “Mentoring in Research” programme. the public about the benefits of radiation. As described by Enrico It is always interesting to read about conferences and meetings Menghi, he and a group of fellow Italian physicists have created that have taken place in recent months, and you can read about an exhibition entitled “Superheroes & Radiation”, comparing diverse events, including the 50th Anniversary Congress of DGMP radiation myths from superhero comics and films with the reality (congratulations to our German NMO colleagues!), the ESMPE and benefits of radiation, in a highly-visual manner. Meanwhile, a Nuclear Medicine edition in Prague, AIFM’s course on Big Data, team of talented early-career medical physicists from the Czech Radiomics and AI, and the recently-held EUTEMPE-RX module Republic, called “AURORA Young Minds”, have created a series on Advanced QA Protocols which took place in Leuven, Belgium. of comic strips to inform the public – especially children – that radiation can be beneficial and shouldn’t be feared. They have Another highlight of this Newsletter is an article summarising very kindly given permission for one of their cartoons to be K recent activities of EFOMP’s Lithuanian NMO, the Medical reproduced in EMP News and more will follow in future issues! Physicists’ Society of Lithuania. In addition, there is a very in- formative article from an early-career researcher, Cintia Ribei- I hope you will enjoy reading this issue of European Medical ro, about her Medical Physics “journey” which has taken her Physics News! from her native Brazil to Italy for studies and now for her career. Articles from EFOMP Company Members are always appreciated David Lurie and the Editorial Team by our readership; this time you can find articles from Qaelum, ([email protected]) RTsafe, RTI Group, Scandidos, Standard Imaging and Sun Nuclear. February 2020 https://www.efomp.org/ /company/efomp/ @EFOMP_org /efompweb David Lurie holds a Chair in Biomedical Physics at the University of Aberdeen, UK, where he has researched and taught MRI Physics since 1983. In 2017 he was awarded the Academic Gold Medal of IPEM. David Lurie is Chair of the Communications /EFOMP.org/ and Publications Committee of EFOMP and Vice Chair of the Course Accreditation Committee of IPEM. [email protected] 3 2 EFOMP NEWSLETTER Communications and Publications Committee To contact the Committee, send an email to [email protected]. David Lurie Paolo Russo Efi Koutsouveli Ivan Gencel Marco Brambilla UK Italy Greece Serbia Italy IPEM AIFM HAMP SAMP AIFM Chairperson Past-chair Ιnternet Manager Secretary EFOMP President EMP News editor-in-chief EMPNews editor EMPNews editor EMPNews editor EMPNews editor English language Company articles President’s message reviewer Markus Carmel J. Caruana Cesare Gori Emer Kenny Erato Stylianou Buchgeister Malta Italy Ireland Markidou Germany MAMP AIFM IAMP Cyprus DGMP EMPNews editor EMPNews editor EMPNews editor CAMPBE EMP News editor Hobbies & leadership PhD student articles EMPNews editor Book review English language PhD student articles reviewer Jaroslav Ptáček Borislava Petrović Veronica Rossetti Jurgita Laurikaitiené Petter Wilke Czech Republic Serbia Italy Lithuania Sweden CAMP SAMP AIFM LMFBIA SSFF EMPNews editor EMPNews editor EMPNews editor EMPNews editor EMPNews editor Photo contest 4 SPRING 2020 An Appreciation of the outgoing Chair of the Communications & Publications Committee, Paolo Russo ne of the most challenging duties of an EFOMP On the other hand, having had the priviledge of knowing him Officer is to identify the most suitable candidates for for many years, I knew that he was one who invariably under- vacant posts in the organization, that are going to be stands exactly what a project is all about from the outset, and Oopened for elections. how to get it done quickly and effectively. Therefore, I was very happy when eventually, he put his name forward and was then In 2017, the EFOMP Communications and Publications & Com- elected as the Chair of the CPCom of EFOMP. mittee (CPCom) was in a deep crisis: we had had two consecu- tive resignations from the post of Vice Chair and then from the After three years of intense shoulder-to-shoulder work, I have Chair of the Committee; the website was renovated but was frankly to admit that the results were far beyond my expectations! scoring low in all the metrics; the EMP News was more-or- The EFOMP website is now a dynamic forum of dissemination less surviving thanks to the efforts of a few volunteers, but with- of all the activities in the Medical Physics Field.
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