Linac Guts

Siemens Primus

Just a couple of shots with the cover off. I love these, I think I need to brush up my photography skills, or keep the Nikon camera with me. This is an older machine and Siemens has exited the radiotherapy business so you won't see them around much longer. Had to replace a serial cable.

Good overview article on motion management in radiation therapy

http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/57/23/R161/pdf/0031-9155_57_23_R161.pdf

FSCK -y

It always seem like such an obscene command, but it is quite useful.

http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2012/08/fsck-command-examples/

Fellow TGP'er, nice guitar based blog

Stumbled across this blog from a fellow TGP member, pretty nice guitar based blog.

Alex Doyle

Brain rules for Baby Practical tips

John Medina has two excellent books, Brain Rules and Brain Rules for Baby. Here are some practical tips from Brain Rules for Baby, for anyone who is expecting, or already has young children.

Brain Rules Practical Tips

Daily calorie requirement estimator

http://bwsimulator.niddk.nih.gov/

Music uploads

I am going to upload some music clips, mostly of courses I'm working on as well as little music clips demoing gear and ideas for songs I have.

There are many sites I could upload this to. One of the most popular sites to upload to is Soundcloud.
I have an account at David Roeseners Sound Cloud

I also noticed tonight that Tumblr blogs easily allow music integration, so here is my tumblr blog.
davidroesener.tumblr.com

MLC Leaf width and plans

http://www.aapm.org/meetings/amos2/pdf/59-14909-99229-745.pdf

Quick summary of findings

Surprisingly, we noticed no difference in TV coverage and sparing of OARs. Furthermore, the isodose distributions and DVHs for the RPC and TG-119 phantoms show no major dosimetric gains for the smaller MLC widths, the cord for the RPC phantom received lower doses with the 1cm MLC system (our benchmark reference), for the same TV coverage across the systems. For the clinical cases, all systems gave comparable TV coverage and sparing of the OARs, with the Primus MLC system again, to provide slightly better conformity (lower CI). This better dose conformity is the reason that the dose fall-off within the "Ring" structure is higher, for the Primus system.

Conclusions:
This study is the first that comprehensively compares the majority of today’s MLC systems and has shown no significant indication that smaller MLC widths can lead to optimal plans, when multi-field IMRT techniques are used for planning.

3 day monk

I love this post and many others from Leo Babauta
http://zenhabits.net/3-day-monk/

ACR related

For later review
http://www.acr.org/Quality-Safety/Appropriateness-Criteria/Oncology

Another physicist/musician blog.

Looking forward to hearing some of his music, his early composition work looks promising. I think he has inspired me to start working on recording some compositions of my own. I do this off and on but haven't released anything for public consumption yet.

markstuartramsay.blogspot.co.uk

Link to Google Drive folder on Guitar

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bwt0HVuAI74IZklFd1N5MGJWMkU&usp=sharing

Neoclassical Guitar

Back in the 80's i had one of Dave Celentanos books, for neoclassical guitar. He has a great youtube video where he plays Pachabel Canon.

http://www.davecelentano.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Pachelbels-Canon-taps-part-1.pdf

Canadian Medical Physics

http://www.medphys.ca/content.php?doc=281

Proton center tour@IU

 

This all looks good, weekend is pretty booked up so far.

 

Particle Beam Therapy Symposium

Symposium
$10
ticket required
Saturday, August 3 • 8:00am - 3:45pm
Room 103, Indiana Convention Center

Tour
$5
separate ticket required; limited to the first 150 registrants due to limited space
Saturday, August 3 • 4:00pm - 9:00pm
(inclusive of bus ride to Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center, Bloomington)
Depart from Indiana Convention Center
Moderators: Indra Das and Lei Dong

Schedule
8:00am - 8:30am	An Overview of Proton Beam Therapy: Clinical PerspectiveHerman Suit: Massachusetts General Hospital
8:30am - 10:00am	Particle Beam Technology and Delivery This session will focus on the pros and cons of different methods of beam production; cyclotron, synchrotron, synchrocyclotron and newer devices in the context of technology, beam energy, treatment delivery options, reliability, and throughput. It will focus on science with big picture and a neutral view. Moderator: Jay Flantz Speakers: Jay Flanz: Synchrotron Vladimir Derenchuk: Cyclotron Rock Mackie: unconventional acceleration (laser, dielectric etc)
10:00am - 10:15am	Break
10:15am - 12:00pm	Proton Center Specific Configuration and Clinical Implementations Machine type, delivery system, patient load, morning QA, monthly QA, patient QA, calibration protocol and innovative approaches Moderators: Ron Zhu and Chee-Wai Cheng MGH: Hsiao-Ming Lu Loma Linda: Baldev Patyal IUHPTC: Chee-Wai Cheng MD Anderson: Narayan Sahoo University of Florida: Roelf Slopsema ProCure: Niek Schreuder University of Pennsylvania: James McDonough Washington University: Eric Klein Scripps: Anthony Mascia
12:00pm - 12:30pm	Boxed Lunch Pick Up
12:30pm - 2:15pm	Vendor-Specific Technology and Beam Delivery Techniques Vendors provide 15-minute presentations with Q&A during lunch. Moderators:  Indra Das and Lei Dong IBA: Yves Jongen Varian: Jan Timmer Hitachi: Masumi Umezawa Mevion: Lionel Bouchet ProNova: Joe Matteo Sumitomo: Yukio Kumata
2:15pm - 3:45pm	Treatment Planning, Outcome, and Economics of Proton Therapy Proton-specific treatment planning, plan evaluation, relative biological effectiveness, outcome, work flow, and reimbursement Moderator:  Radhe Mohan Treatment planning: Tony Lomax RBE, Neutron, Outcome: Harald Paganetti Economics: Peter Johnstone
4:00pm - 5:30pm	Travel to Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center, Bloomington
5:30pm - 8:00pm	Tours and Dinner
8:00pm - 9:30pm	Return to Indiana Convention Center