G4NAMU at AAPM Anaheim
(revised 24 July, 9:30pm pacific)
Time: Sunday, 6-7:30 PM
Location: Anaheim Marriott
(the conference headquarters hotel next to the convention center)
Salon A
We had 37 attendees from 22 institutions (detailed list below)
Meeting Objectives:
Have everyone learn who is doing what in Geant4 Medical applications.
Get everyone up to date on latest improvements and best practices.
(05 min): Welcome (Joseph)
(30 min): Introductions (All)
- Go around the room, introduce ourselves, option to show one or two slides each about our work.
- Send slides to Joseph in advance of the meeting (or bring them to him just before the meeting if you absolutely must).
- Joseph will run the slide show and keep things moving briskly.
- No long lectures, just enough to tell people what you're involved in, so that they can seek you out over the week for detailed discussions.
(25 min): News, Updates and Best Practices for Geant4 Applications in Medical Physics (Joseph)
- G4GeneralParticleSource
- Import of CAD Designs through GDML
- NIST Materials Database
- EM Physics
- Hadronic Physics
- Nano-scale Effects (DNA and RBE)
- PENELOPE interface
- DICOM Navigation
- Smart Particle Stack
- Scoring
- Visualization (G4VisExecutive and gMocren)
- Key Geant4 Examples for Medical Physics (Hadron Therapy, DICOM, RE02, etc.)
- Geant4 Medical Activities in Europe and Asia
- Communication Tools (G4EMU, Medical Wiki, Medical Apps Hypernews)
- Summary of what was new in Release 4.9.1
- Summary of what was new in Release 4.9.2
- Summary of what was new in Release 4.9.3beta1 (and Why a Beta?)
- Geant4 release schedule
- Improved funding outlook for Geant4 central support
- Upcoming Geant4 tutorials
- Upcoming Geant4 User Workshop in Catania
(10 min): The Geant4-DNA Project and its Applications
- One of us will present slides from Sebastien Incerti on behalf of the Geant4-DNA Collaboration
(20 min): General Discussion (All)
- G4NAMU organization
- Form working groups as needed
- Schedule next meetings
- Parallel session requests for Geant4 Workshop in Catania, Oct 15-17th
- Issues/concerns for Joseph to bring to Geant4 Steering Board
We had 37 attendees from 22 institutions:
(email address omitted from this list to protect from spam, contact Joseph if you need the list with email addresses)
- Stephen Avery, Penn
- James Durgin, Penn
- Jennifer Wei Zou, Penn
- Clarissa Freeman, Penn
- Chris Ainsley, Penn
- Derek Dolney, Penn
- Basit Athar, MGH
- Harald Paganetti, MGH
- Bryan Bednarz, MGH
- Ben Clasie, MGH
- Yong Chen, Univ Oklahoma HSC
- Jungwook Shin, NCC, Korea
- Roy Keyes, UNM
- Michael Holzscheiter, UNM
- Adam Hecht, UNM
- Sean Fournier, UNM
- Luc Beaulieu, Laval/CHUQ
- Hossein Afsharpour, Laval/CHUQ
- Louis Archambault, CHUQ/MDACC
- Gabriel Sawakuchi, MDACC
- Jerimey Polf, MDACC
- Nicholas Remmes, Mayo Clinic
- Magda Constantin, Stanford
- Matt Noll, Stanford
- Erik Traneus, Nucletron, Sweden
- Hee-Joung Kim, Yonsei Univ, Korea
- Xudong Wang, UTHSCSA
- Yongjun Zhai, UTHSCSA
- Nathan Nelson, Dartmouth-Hitchcock
- Andrew Wroe, Loma Linda
- Bruce Faddegon, UCSF
- Ioannis Sechopoulos, Emory
- Chris Beltran, St. Jude
- Jose Perez-Calatayud, Hila Fe Velencia, Spain
- Facundo Ballester, Univ of Valencia, Spain
- Martin Gauthier, Universite de Montreal
- Joseph Perl, SLAC