North Central Chapter
Spring Meeting 2024
april 4-5, 2024
rochester, MN
Supporting Documentation
Meeting Location & AccomModations
Mayo Clinic
Siebens Building – Leighton Auditorium
100 Second St SW, Rochester, MN 55902
Accommodations
The Kahler Grand Hotel
20 2nd Ave SW
Rochester, MN 55902
We have a room block for $125 per night (Only King beds available as there is a sports event blocking the double beds). Rooms are guaranteed until Thursday March 14. Click here to reserve a room or call 1-800-533-1655 and request the North Central Chapter -AAPM group rate.
Note to sponsors: Vendor items can not be shipped to this address. If you are staying at the Grand Kahler, you may ship items to:
Vendor Name & On-site contact Box # of __
20 2nd Ave, SW
Rochester, MN 55902
Access to the Siebens building is controlled, but entrance to the building from the subway (basement) level is open (see red arrow). The subway can be reached through the clinic buildings and other public buildings. The easiest point of entry will be through the Kahler Grand Hotel and going down to the subway level, walking over to the Siebens and taking the elevator to the 2nd floor to the auditorium. The arrowhead can also be reached from the Rochester Marriot Hotel.
Click here for Mayo parking information and here for public parking in Rochester information.
Join us Night Out
April 4, 2024 - 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
220 Broadway Ave S.
Rochester, MN 55904
Food and drinks provided
Corporate Sponsors
We thank the following sponsors for supporting the Night Out:
Meeting Agenda & Presentations
Thursday 4th April, NCC-AAPM Theranostics Symposium
12:15 Registration
13:00 Introduction (15 min)
13:15 Session I
Tyler Bradshaw, PhD – “SPECT Imaging in the Era of Radiopharmaceutical Therapy” (30 min)
Carrie Hruska, PhD – “First experience with Veriton and Starguide scanners” (30 min)
Matthew Thorpe, MD, PhD – “Radiopharmaceutical Therapy: A Physician’s Perspective” (30 min)
14:45 Break, light refreshments and vendor interactions (15 min)
15:00 Session II
Stephen Graves, PhD – “Maintaining NIST traceability in the clinical practice of RPT” (30 min)
Abby Besemer, PhD – “Commissioning a RPT treatment planning system and initial experience performing Pluvicto dosimetry” (30 min)
Bryan Bednarz, PhD – “Designing and Implementing a Clinical RPT Dosimetry Program from the Ground Up” (30 min)
16:30 Closing remarks and adjourn (15 min)
This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for 3.5 hours of MPCEC.
Friday 5th April, NCC-AAPM Spring Meeting
7:15 Registration and continental breakfast (45 min)
8:00 Welcome, Introductions, and Announcements (15 min)
8:15 Morning Session I
9:45 Morning break and vendor interactions (30 min)
10:15 Morning Session II
11:30 Lunch break (60 min)
12:30 NCC-AAPM Business Meeting (30 min)
13:00 Early Career Investigator Competition (90 min total, each entry 8 minutes with 2 minutes for questions)
Kevin Zhang – Deep Learning-based Distortion Correction of Diffusion-weighted Imaging
Karsten Wake – Evaluating Techniques for Creating More Efficient Collimated Proton Arc Therapy Plans
Kevin Treb – RF-Heating of Neurophysiological Monitoring Electrodes during MRI-Guided Procedures
Brandon Nguyen – Modeling Time Activity Curves
Emily Koons – Coronary Artery Stenosis Quantification in Patients with Dense Calcifications using Ultra-High-Resolution Photon-Counting-Detector CT
Grace Hutchinson – Automated SPECT Bars Analysis Across Manufacturers
Pierce Ellingson – A Solution to the Prony Problem and Applications in Nuclear Medicine
Shaojie Chang – Improving Stenosis Assessment in Energy Integrating Detector CT via Learned Monoenergetic Imaging Capability.
14:30 Afternoon break and vendor interactions (30 min)
15:00 Afternoon Session
Daniel Gomez Cardona, PhD – “Implementation of CPT Code 76145: Dose evaluation for radiation exposure that exceeds institutional review threshold” (30 min)
Dan Pavord, MS, FAAPM– “Implementation of MPPGs” (30 min)
16:00 Closing remarks, Awards, and Adjourn (15 min)
This meeting has applied to CAMPEP for 5.75 hours of MPCEC.