G4NAMU at the AAPM 52nd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia

The meeting was held on Sunday, July 18th, 6-7:30PM, with refreshments and casual discussions until 9:30.

Location was Salon I of the Marriott Hotel (the AAPM Headquarters hotel across the street from the Conference Center).

Some Photos of the Event were provided by Yongjun Zhai.

Thanks to Colin Huang of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital for putting together this year's list of Geant4-Related presentations (link below), to Chris Ainsley of Penn for doing the shopping and to Karen MacFarland of the AAPM staff for arranging our meeting space.

Agenda

Introduction to G4NAMU (including the 3 minute version of Intro to Geant4) - Joseph Perl (8 Minutes)

Review of Geant4-Related Presentations at this Year's AAPM - Colin Huang (30 Minutes)

Colin will have prepared slides that each contain the titles of 4 or 5 abstracts, plus their author lists.

He will show these slides, and for each talk will ask the authors to speak for just one or two minutes about the work (in the process introducing themselves and any of their co-authors who are present).

Authors do not show slides, hence this doesn't become a poster session, but instead just a way to introduce ourselves.

Additional Introductions - All (10 Minutes)

Those who were not introduced already at this point are asked to introduce themselves and briefly describe their work or interests in Geant4

A View from Australia - Brad Oborn (10 minutes) - (talk will be uploaded by Aug 2)

Brad will tell us a little about current activities/interests in Australia

How? Geant4 Pointers for Medical Physicists, a bunch of links to resources - Joseph Perl (10 minutes)

Point out some key resources available on the web that answer critical questions for medical physicists using Geant4, such as talks of particular tutorial value.

A Role for G4NAMU to Drive Improvements in Geant4 - Joseph Perl and Steve Feng (10 minutes)

We propose that the G4NAMU community develop a set of tests of Geant4's quality for medical physics.

Geant4 could provide the resources to automatically run such tests for every development release.

Would be incumbent on the G4NAMU community to evaluate the results of these automated tests.

This may tie in to AAPM Task Group 195 (Steve Feng can tell us a bit about this).

Will G4NAMU step up to this? (There was general agreement, with follow up to be done over the G4NAMU mailing list)

Call for Feedback for the Geant4 Developers - Bruce Faddegon (5 minutes)

What is G4NAMU's message to Geant4? What do we want? What do we need?

Members are free to communicate requests directly to the Geant4 developers, but Bruce is also happy to serve as a conduit for information

Discussions over Refreshments

Stick around a while. Get acquainted. Network. Find out who shares your interests, issues. Etc. Etc.

Just please don't run off too fast.

This is the most important part of the G4NAMU meeting.

It is why we time the G4NAMU event for the beginning of the AAPM week.

We want you to meet each other and to start private discussions here that you will continue throughout the week. (Refreshments were a big success with many members staying as long as two more hours)

List of Attendees (51 total, ask Joseph if you need help getting in contact with any of these colleagues):

Colin Huang, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Joseph Perl, SLAC

Steve Si Jia Feng, Georgia Tech

Luis Perles, MDACC

Chris Beltran, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Jan Schuemann, Massachusetts General Hospital

Shirin Enger, ULaval

Stephen Avery , UPenn

Hossein Afsharpour, ULaval

Daren Sawkey, UCSF

Brad Oborn, University of Wollongong

Anuj Kapadia, Duke

Gabriel Sawakuchi, Carleton

Michael Holzscheiter, Max Planck Institut

Louis Archambault, MDACC

Yong Chen, Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Harald Paganetti, Massachusetts General Hospital

Bruce Faddegon, UCSF

Jungwook Shin, UCSF

Samuel España, Massachusetts General Hospital

Junfang Gao, Central Cancer Care Center

Jerimy Polf, MDACC

Chris Ainsley, UPenn

Nicholas Remmes, Mayo Clinic

Yongjun Zhai, Yale

Roy Keyes, Univeristy of New Mexico

Yingcui Jia, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Lilie Wang, MDACC

Jennifer Wei Zou, UPenn

Ishtiaq Hussain, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Paul Gueye, Jefferson Lab and Hampton University

Lei Zhu, Georgia Tech

Shuang Luan, Univeristy of New Mexico

Yunfeng Cui, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital

Danielle Nicholson, Hampton Univ / South Carolina State Univ

Yuriy Prilepskiy, Hampton Univ

Stefan Sellner, Max Planck Institut

Aditya Panchal, Midwestern University

Nanda Govindarajan, Hampton University

Miguel Cortés, Universidad de Sevilla

Xudong Wang, UTHSCSA

Bryan Bednarz, Massachusetts General Hospital

Maryam Moteabbed, Massachusetts General Hospital

Alejandro Cárabe, Massachusetts General Hospital

Joao Seco, Massachusetts General Hospital

Robert Drenkhahn, Massachusetts General Hospital

Nicolas Depauw, Massachusetts General Hospital

Maura Kirk, UPenn

Derek Dolney, UPenn

Tianye Niu, Georgia Tech

Clarissa Freeman, UPENN / University of Michigan