Events:2011-08-02-AAPM-Slicer-Users-Group-Meeting

Introduction

Deformable Registration and Dose Warping. Click here for tutorial

Dose Volume Histograms in Slicer. Click here for more information

ProstateNav - Verification of prostate biopsy needle insertion. Click here for more information

3D Slicer, is a free, open source software package for visualization and image analysis. 3D Slicer is natively designed to be available on multiple platforms, including Windows, Linux and Mac Os X.

The goal of the user group meeting is to bring together current and prospective 3D Slicer users and developers to discuss of 3D Slicer's present and future as a radiation therapy software application.

Logistics

• Date: Tuesday, August 2, 2011
• Time: 12:30PM-2:00PM
• Location: Pan Pacific Hotel, room Pacific Rim 1 (Restaurant Level), at the 2011 Joint AAPM/COMP Meeting, Vancouver, BC

Organizers

• Gregory C Sharp, Ph.D., Assistant Radiation Physicist, Massachusetts General Hospital
• Andras Lasso, Senior Software Engineer, Queen's University

Preliminary program (subject to change)

• 12:30-12:45 Room setup and pre-meeting networking
• 12:45-1:00 Introduction to 3D Slicer for radiation therapy (Greg Sharp)
• 1:00-1:15 3D Slicer for clinical use, for radiotherapy research, and for your research work (slides) (Andras Lasso)
• 1:15-1:30 Interactive deformable registration with landmarks (Nadya Shusharina)
• 1:30-1:45 NTCP investigation with deformable registration and dose warping (Ziad Saleh)
• 1:45-2:00 Open discussion - 3D Slicer development roadmap for radiation therapy
• Discussion:
  • Experiences with 3D Slicer
  • Needed improvements and new functionalities

Registration

If you plan to attend the meeting please click here to register.