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9th National Congress of the Associazione Italiana di Fisica Medica
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Editors Board
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Contents
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New Scenarios in Radiotherapy
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A.01 DOSIMETRIC COMPARISON OF 3D-CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY AND VOLUMETRICMODULATED ARC THERAPY FOR UPPER ABDOMINAL TUMORS
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A.02 DOSIMETRY IN TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION: A MEASUREMENT SET TO CHARACTERIZE THE TREATMENT TECHNIQUE
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A.03 REPRODUCIBILITY AND SENSITIVITY OF IQM: A REAL-TIME MONITORING DEVICE FOR COMPLEX RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENTS
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A.04 IN VIVO DOSIMETRY WITH DIODE AND SETUP VERIFICATION THROUGH GAF CHROMIC RTQA IN IORT FOR BREAST IRRADIATION
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A.05 A DOSE-VOLUME PARAMETER ANALYSIS OF THE BLADDER IN THREEDIMENSIONAL CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY FOR LOCALIZED PROSTATE CANCER
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A.06 LOCAL NTCP TO PREDICT LUNG TISSUE DENSITY CHANGES ON FOLLOWUP CT AFTER LUNG CANCER IMRT
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A.07 FLATTENING FILTER FREE (FFF) RAPID ARC FOR SINGLE FRACTION SBRT OF THE LUNG REDUCES TREATMENT TIME AND IS DOSIMETRICALLY EQUIVALENT TO FLATTENING FILTER VMAT
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A.08 A COMPARISON BETWEEN DIFFERENT PATIENT QA DEVICES FOR IMRT TREATMENTS ON VERO SYSTEM
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A.09 FDG-PET POSITIVE LYMPH NODE VARIATIONS DURING IMAGE-GUIDED IMRT FOR HEAD AND NECK CANCER IDENTIFY NON-RESPONDING PATIENTS
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A.10 DEVELOPMENT OF AN ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY METHOD USING PORTAL IMAGING AND CBCT
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A.11 SBRT OF PROSTATE AND SEMINAL VESICLES WITH TOMOTHERAPY: FEASIBILITY AND DOSIMETRIC RESULTS
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A.12 RADIOTHERAPY INTER-FRACTION BLADDER SETUP VARIATIONS FOR CERVICAL CANCER PATIENTS ASSESSED WITH A CBCT
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A.13 DOSIMETRICAL EVALUATIONS BY CALCULATING EQD2, EUD AND NTCP IN IMAGE GUIDED VAGINAL HDR BRACHYTHERAPY
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A.14 BONE TEXTURE ANALYSIS AS PREDICTIVE FACTOR OF RADIATIONINDUCED DAMAGE IN PELVIC RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT
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A.15 HIFU GENERATED FAST HYPERTHERMIA AS A NEW OPTION FOR GLIOBLASTOMA TREATMENT
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A.16 COMPARISON OF STATIC AND ROTATIONAL IMRT TECHNIQUES IN THREE DOSE LEVEL PLANS FOR HEAD AND NECK CANCER
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A.17 TOWARDS ADAPTIVE TOMOTHERAPY: ASSESSMENT OF PLANNING CT TO MVCT DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION RELIABILITY FOR “DOSE OF THE DAY” CALCULATION IN HEAD AND NECK
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A.18 CHARACTERIZATION AND COMPARISON OF TWO EPID-BASED SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS FOR IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY OF VMAT TREATMENTS
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A.19 STEREOTACTIC RADIOTHERAPY IN THE RETREATMENT OF RECURRENT CERVICAL CANCERS
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A.20 THREE-ISOCENTER JAGGED-JUNCTION IMRT OF CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION: TREATMENT PLANNING AND PRE-TREATMENT VERIFICATIONS
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A.21 IMRT PRE-TREATMENT VERIFICATION, 2D VS 4D: PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH THE COUCH ATTENUATION
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A.22 VALIDATION OF A DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM FOR RADIOTHERAPY APPLICATIONS
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A.23 ELEKTA ONCENTRA 4.3 AND MONACO 5.0 COMPARISON FOR 3DCRT DOSE CALCULATION ALGORITHMS
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A.24 RE-IRRADIATION (RE-RT) OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER (HNC): DOSE ACCUMULATION USING DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION (DIR) AND COMPARISON WITH RIGID REGISTRATION (RIR)
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A.25 RAPIDPLAN MODELS BASED ON HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY (HT) PROSTATE PLANS FOR VMAT OPTIMIZATION
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A.26 SMALL FIELD CHARACTERIZATION OF TRUEBEAM FFF BEAMS WITH A NEW STEREOTACTIC DIODE: A MULTICENTER STUDY
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A.27 QUALITY ASSURANCE OF RAPIDARC RADIOTHERAPY DELIVERY SYSTEM: RA-COMMISSIONING TEST RESULTS
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A.28 ACCURACY OF A DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION ALGORITHM
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A.29 INNOVATIVE APPROACHES IN THE DOSIMETRY OF LASER-DRIVEN PROTON BEAMS FOR FUTURE HADRONTHERAPY APPLICATIONS
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A.30 PATIENT-SPECIFIC PLAN QA IN ACTIVE PENCIL BEAM SCANNING WITH PROTON AND CARBON ION BEAMS: A NEW SOFTWARE SOLUTION TO SUPPORT TREATMENT PLANNING WORKFLOW
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A.31 DEVELOPMENT AND APPLICATION OF A TRANS-RECTAL US PROBE INTEGRATED WITH MOSKIN DOSIMETERS: IN VIVO RECTAL WALL MEASUREMENTS DURING HDR PROSTATE BRACHYTHERAPY
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A.32 COMPARISON OF FOUR DIODES FOR BASIC DOSIMETRY: OUTPUT FACTORS, PERCENTAGE DEPTH DOSE CURVES AND PROFILES FOR FIELD SIZES FROM 0.8 TO 10.4 CM
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A.33 LINAC COUCH TOP ATTENUATION IN ROTATIONAL RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENTS: CLINICAL CONSEQUENCES
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A.34 CHARACTERIZATION OF THE ENERGY DEPENDENT RESPONSE OF EBT3 RADIOCHROMIC FILM TO PROTON AND CARBON ION BEAMS
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A.35 SBRT PRE-TREATMENT QA
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A.36 THE ROLE OF PINNACLE3 SCRIPTING IN STREAMLINING IMRT AND 3D-CRT TREATMENT PLANNING
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A.37 CLEAR AND FILL IN MONACO 5.0: IS IT FEASIBLE TO DELIVER HIGH DOSE WITH LOW MONITOR UNITS IN STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY (SBRT) FOR LUNG CANCER?
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A.38 IMPLEMENTATION OF A QUALITY ASSURANCE METHOD FOR VMAT TECHNIQUES ON AN ELEKTA SYNERGY LINAC USING AN IN-HOUSE DEVELOPED SOFTWARE AND A ROTATIONAL PHANTOM
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A.39 DOSE ACCUMULATION AND REPLANNING IN H&N PATIENT: A STEP TOWARD IMPLEMENTATION OF ART IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
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A.40 MODELLING SEVERE LATE RECTAL BLEEDING: RESULTS ON A LARGE POOLED POPULATION OF PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS
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A.41 AN INNOVATIVE TOOL FOR IMAGE GUIDED INTRA-OPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY (IGIORT): THE VALIDATION PROCESS OF A DEDICATED TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM
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A.42 REFERENCE DOSIMETRY FOR IOERT DEDICATED MOBILE LINACS: HOW DO WE APPLY INTERNATIONAL DOSIMETRIC PROTOCOLS?
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A.43 USING STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC) FOR PATIENT-SPECIFIC VMAT QUALITY ASSURANCE: A SIX-YEAR RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS ON 1200 PATIENTS
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A.44 OPTIMAL DOSE PRESCRIPTION IN LINAC-BASED STEREOTACTIC EXTRACRANIAL RADIOTHERAPY (SBRT) WITH VMAT TECHNIQUE: AN INVESTIGATION USING “PARETO FRONTS”
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A.45 EPID-BASED IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY FOR VMAT TREATMENT DOSE VERIFICATION: INITIAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
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A.46 COMMISSIONING OF THE 4-D TREATMENT DELIVERY SYSTEM FOR ORGAN MOTION MANAGEMENT IN SCANNING PARTICLE BEAMS
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A.47 USE OF RADIOCHROMIC FILMS IN HDR IR-192 BRACHYTHERAPY DOSIMETRY
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A.48 POTENTIAL RADIATION-INDUCED MESOTHELIOMA AMONGST LONGTERM SOLID CANCER SURVIVORS
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A.49 CELL IRRADIATION TO INVESTIGATE MARKERS OF IONIZING RADIATIONINDUCED DNA DAMAGE
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A.50 TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION: A TRADITIONAL TECHNIQUE RECONSIDERED IN THE LIGHT OF TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM
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A.51 COMBINED RT AND EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR INHIBITOR MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY-MOAB-EGFR TREATMENT OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER (HNC): RADIOBIOLOGICAL MODEL FOR FAMOSO
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A.52 INTEGRATION OF FMRI AND MEG FUNCTIONAL MAPS INTO A CYBERKNIFE PLANNING SYSTEM: FEASIBILITY STUDY FOR MOTOR ACTIVITY LOCALIZATION AND DOSE PLANNING
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A.53 SUM SIGNAL FILM DOSIMETRY: A NOVEL APPROACH FOR HIGH DOSE PATIENT SPECIFIC QUALITY ASSURANCE WITH GAFCHROMIC EBT3
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A.54 EXRADIN A26 MICROCHAMBER CHARACTERIZATION FOR SMALL FIELD DOSIMETRY
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A.55 FIELD-IN-FIELD VERSUS 3D-DYNAMIC WEDGE TECHNIQUES FOR PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
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A.56 AAA VERSUS PBC ALGORITHM FOR LUNG CANCER TREATMENT PLANNING: DOSIMETRIC ANALYSIS FOR TARGET VOLUME AND ORGAN AT RISK
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A.57 GEL DOSIMETERS FOR RADIOTHERAPY APPLICATIONS: RESULTS OF A “RESEARCH PROJECT OF NATIONAL INTEREST” (PRIN)
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A.58 EXPLOITING THE MACHINE LOG FILES FOR VMAT AND IMRT TREATMENT VERIFICATION
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A.59 WEB-INTERFACEDMONTE CARLO SIMULATION FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIATION THERAPY
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A.60 A SIMPLIFIED INTENSITY-MODULATED RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUE FOR THE BREAST TO REDUCE POSTERIOR PART OF THE AXILLA IRRADIATION
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A.61 RADIOTHERAPY IN ASSOCIATIONWITHHYPERTHERMIA: OUTCOME AND TOXICITY IN THE TREATMENT OF SUPERFICIAL RECURRENT/METASTATIC TUMORS
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A.62 SR-EBRT: SYNCHROTRON RADIATION EXTERNAL BEAM ROTATIONAL RADIOTHERAPY FOR BREAST CANCER TREATMENT
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A.63 A MULTIMODALITY RADIOTHERAPY TESTED NETWORK PLATFORM FOR REVIEW OF ULTRASOUND IMAGES
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A.64 RADIOTHERAPY IN BREAST CANCER WITH VOLUNTARY DEEPINSPIRATION BREATH-HOLD USING BRAINLAB EXACTRAC
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A.65 EVALUATION OF DELIVERY ACCURACY OF HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY WITH CONSTANT DOSE RATE VMAT
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A.66 VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY FOR DELIVERY OF HEAD AND NECK RADIOTHERAPY: COMPARISON BETWEEN CONSTANT AND VARIABLE DOSE RATE
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A.67 A COMPARATIVE PLAN ANALYSIS: CONSTANT DOSE RATE VMAT AND STEP-AND-SHOOT IMRT IN HEAD AND NECK CANCER
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A.68 EVALUATION OF SUPERFICIAL DOSE IN TOMOTHERAPY: A PHANTOM STUDY
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A.69 THE NEUTRON CONTAMINATION IN RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENTS WITH PHOTON AND ELECTRON BEAMS: DY ACTIVATION MEASUREMENTS
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A.70 LOCAL IMPLEMENTATION OF TSEI: PHYSICAL ASPECTS
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A.71 CHARACTERIZATION OF OSLD DETECTORS FOR DOSIMETRIC CHECKS ON CLINICAL PHOTON BEAM
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A.72 CHARACTERIZATION OF A COMMERCIAL EPID 3D SOFTWARE FOR VMAT VERIFICATIONS
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A.73 CHARACTERIZATION OF HIGH-DOSE-PER-PULSE INTRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY ELECTRON BEAMS BY USING A MICRODIAMOND DOSIMETER
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A.74 COMPARISON BETWEEN 2D AND 3D IMRT PRE-TREATMENT VERIFICATION
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A.75 PATIENT SPECIFIC CBCT CALIBRATION FOR DOSIMETRIC EVALUATION OF HYBRID RT-PLAN
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A.76 IMPROVING THE QUALITY OF PROTONTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANS AND THEIR VERIFICATION WITH MONTE CARLO METHODS
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A.77 A NEW PHANTOM FOR DAILY QA IN PROTONTHERAPY: A FAST, RELIABLE AND INEXPENSIVE SOLUTION
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A.78 PATIENT QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR HD TOMOTHERAPY®: A 3-YEAR REVIEW OF PRE-TREATMENT IN-PHANTOM DOSIMETRY
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A.79 YOURELASTICSOLUTION GROUP: MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL STUDY TO EVALUATE DIR ALGORITHMS FOR STRUCTURE DELINEATION VIA COMPUTATIONAL PHANTOMS
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A.80 IMPACT OF IMAGE QUALITY ON DEFORMABLE IMAGE REGISTRATION PERFORMANCES IN PELVIS PATIENTS
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A.81 ROBUST VMAT OPTIMIZATION IN LUNG SBRT WITH A COMMERCIAL SYSTEM
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A.82 QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF AUTOMATIC PLANNING SYSTEM: COMPARISON WITH DIFFERENT MANUAL PLANNING FOR LIVER SBRT TREATMENTS
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A.83 PHENOL COMPOUNDS AS NEW MATERIALS FOR ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE DOSIMETRY IN RADIOTHERAPY
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A.84 LONG PERIOD ACCURACY AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF MLC LEAVES POSITION ACQUIRED IN A DAILY QA PROGRAM USING EPID IMAGES
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A.85 AUTOMATIC TOOL FOR MLC LEAVES POSITION AND COLLIMATOR ROTATION DETECTION USING EPID IMAGES
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A.86 IMPACT OF AUTO BEAM-OFF AND 4D MODEL AUTOMATIC UPDATE ON TRACKING ACCURACY OF THE VERO SYSTEM
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A.87 COMPARISON OF FIELD-IN-FIELD TANGENTIAL TREATMENT VERSUS THE CONVENTIONAL TREATMENT
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A.88 IMPACT OF THE MLC DELIVERY ERRORS ON PATIENT DOSE FOR IMRT TREATMENTS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN PLANNED DVH AND RECONSTRUCTED DVH BASED ON MLC LOG FILE (DYNALOG)
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A.89 VERIFICATION OF DOSE DISTRIBUTION FROM CCX RU-106 EYE-PLAQUES BY USING A MICRODIAMOND DOSIMETER
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A.90 ACTIVE BREATHING CONTROL (ABC) APPLIED TO LEFT BREAST CANCER (LBC): DOSIMETRIC RESULTS AFTER 50 PATIENTS AT SPEDALI CIVILI OF BRESCIA
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A.91 A TOOL TO CHECK BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENT TIME: A STATISTICAL APPROACH
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A.92 EPID-BASED IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY FOR PROSTATE CANCER TREATED BY VOLUMETRIC ARC THERAPY: PRELIMINARY CLINICAL RESULTS
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A.93 PATIENT’S BREATHING DURING PROSTATE RADIOTHERAPY SESSIONS: IS IT REALLY A SECOND ORDER EFFECT?
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A.94 DOSIMETRIC IMPACT OF CONTOURING VARIABILITY FOR PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS UNDERGOING COMBINED CARBON IONS/PHOTONS TREATMENT (AIRC-IG 14300)
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A.95 CLINICAL IMPLEMENTATION OF BREAST IMRT
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A.96 LUNG SABR: A LARGE-SCALE MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL DOSIMETRIC AND RADIOBIOLOGICAL PLANNING COMPARISON
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A.97 IGRT CONE BEAM CT: A METHOD TO EVALUATE PATIENT DOSE
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A.98 PREDICTIVE MODELS FOR RADIO-INDUCED EFFECTS AFTER SRS FOR UVEAL MELANOMA: A MONO-INSTITUTIONAL ANALYSIS
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A.99 QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE DIFFERENCES IN MULTIPLE HDR BRACHYTHERAPY APPLICATION TO LOCALLY ADVANCED CERVICAL CANCER
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A.100 IN VIVO DOSIMETRY IN 3D CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY FOR PROSTATE CANCER WITH GAFCHROMIC® EBT3 FILMS: A FEASIBILITY STUDY
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A.101 OUTPUT FACTORS FOR A LINAC EQUIPPED WITH CIRCULAR CONES: CORRECTION FACTORS DETERMINATION FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVE DETECTORS COMPARED TO GAFCHROMIC FILMS
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A.102 A GEOMETRICAL ANALYSIS OF ACCURACY IMPROVEMENT USING A COUCH 6-DEGREE OF FREEDOM IN SBRT
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A.103 THE ORGAN EQUIVALENT DOSE TO QUANTIFY SECONDARY CANCER INDUCTION IN BREAST AFTER VMAT TREATMENTS
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A.104 A MACHINE LEARNING TOOL FOR RE-PLANNING AND ADAPTIVE RT: A MULTICENTER COHORT INVESTIGATION
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A.105 NEW ERA FOR QA AND VMAT: REAL-TIME MONITOR SYSTEM IN CLINICAL PRACTICE
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A.106 NAL PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION AND REDUCTION OF SYSTEMATIC ERRORS IN PATIENT SETUP DURING RADIATION THERAPY
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A.107 CATALYST SYSTEM IN BREAST CANCER RADIATION THERAPY: FEASIBILITY STUDY AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
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A.108 DOSIMETRIC COMPARISON BETWEEN FOUR IRRADIATION TECHNIQUES FOR BREAST CANCER
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A.109 PRE-TREATMENT DQA USING ARCCHECK FOR CRANIOSPINAL IRRADIATION WITH HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY
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A.110 CLINICAL IMPLICATIONS AFTER A CHANGE IN THE DOSE CALCULATION ALGORITHM IN VMAT TREATMENTS OF NASOPHARYNGEAL TUMORS
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A.111 BLADDER DOSE-SURFACE MAPS CORRELATE WITH ACUTE URINARY TOXICITY AFTER RADIOTHERAPY FOR PROSTATE CANCER: FINAL RESULTS OF A MULTICENTRIC STUDY
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A.112 DOSIMETRIC COMPARISON OF 3D CONFORMAL VS VOLUMETRIC ARC RADIATION THERAPY VS HYBRID 3D/B-VMAT FOR MEDIASTINAL TUMOR
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A.113 DOSE PAINTING BY NUMBERS (DPBN) GUIDED BY DIFFUSION-WEIGHTED MRI APPLIED TO RECURRENT GLIOBLASTOMA (GBM): AN EXPERIMENTAL PROTOCOL OF PHASE I/II
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A.114 PARAMETER INCIDENCE ON GAMMA INDEX FOR IMRT-VMAT PROSTATE TREATMENT PLANS: THE INFLUENCE OF MU AND PTV SHAPE
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A.115 MEDICAL PHYSICIST AND HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT: ADDED VALUE IN A CASE OF IORT EVALUATION
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A.116 DOSIMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A LASER-DRIVEN ACCELERATION SYSTEM
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A.117 OPTIMIZATION OF BIOLOGICAL DOSE AFTER NOT PLANNED INTERRUPTION IN PATIENTS WITH HEAD AND NECK SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMAS (HNSCC) TREATED BY EBRT
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A.118 EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF AN IBEAM® EVO ELEKTA COUCH MODEL IN PHILIPS PINNACLE3 TPS
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A.119 EVALUATION OF PLANNING TARGET VOLUME MARGINS BY ANALYZING INTRA-FRACTION PATIENT MOVEMENTS DURING STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY (SBRT) OF LUNG LESIONS
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A.120 EVALUATION OF A COMMERCIAL AUTOMATED INVERSE PLANNING SYSTEM FOR H&N TREATMENTS
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A.121 FILM DOSIMETRY WITH MULTICHANNEL APPROACH FOR PROTON THERAPY PATIENT-SPECIFIC QA
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A.122 VALIDATION OF A METHOD FOR IN-VIVO PROTON RANGE VERIFICATION IN THE TREATMENT OF PEDIATRIC MEDULLOBLASTOMA
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A.123 IN VIVO DOSIMETRY ON 428 PATIENTS WITH BREAST CANCER TREATED WITH INTRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY IN PRESENCE OF DIFFERENT INTERNAL SHIELDING MATERIALS
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A.124 A PROACTIVE STUDY OF RISK APPLIED TO THE PLANNING PROCESS FOR IMRT/VMAT TREATMENTS
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A.125 FEASIBILITY OF INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY WITH ELECTRONS IN BREAST CANCER PATIENTS WITH CARDIAC DEVICES
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A.126 AN EPID BASED QUALITY ASSURANCE METHOD OF FFF BEAMS ON CONVENTIONAL LINAC
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A.127 VERIFICATION OF A PORT FILM GRATICULE FOR DAILY QUALITY ASSURANCE
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A.128 FORECASTING ALGORITHM TO PREDICT RE-PLANNING IN TOMOTHERAPY: FOLLOW-UP TOXICITY CORRELATION
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A.129 INTRA-FRACTION MOTION IN IMRT, VMAT AND HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY: IN VIVO DOSIMETRY USING TLD AND LEGO PHANTOM
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A.130 SUSCEPTIBLE-INFECTED-SUSCEPTIBLE MODEL APPLIED TO RT TO PREDICT PAROTID GLANDS SHRINKAGE DURING 6 WEEKS OF THERAPY
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A.131 EVALUATION OF DOSE COMING FROM RADIOLOGICAL MONITOR IMAGES TO PACEMAKER IN PATIENT UNDERGOING CYBERKNIFE® TREATMENT
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A.132 IS THE OUTCOME OF PROSTATE CANCER PATIENTS TREATED WITH 3D CONFORMAL RADIOTHERAPY INFLUENCED BY RECTAL/BLADDER PREPARATION?
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A.133 DOSIMETRIC COMPARISON OF EXTERNAL BEAM RADIOTHERAPY WITH 3DCRT, FORWARD-PLANNING IMRT AND VOLUMETRIC ARC THERAPY (VMAT) IN PANCREATIC CANCER
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A.134 MULTICENTER EVALUATION OF THE DOSIMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF LINAC SMALL BEAMS USING A PLASTIC SCINTILLATOR DETECTOR
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A.135 STUDY ON THE DOSIMETRY OF LASER ACCELERATED BEAMS FOR FUTURE CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
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A.136 EVALUATION OF SCATTERED RADIATION FROM ELECTRON APPLICATORS IN PATIENT WITH IMPLANTED ELECTRONIC DEVICES
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A.137 PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION OF TOTAL MARROW IRRADIATION (TMI) PLUS TOTAL LYMPHOID IRRADIATION (TLI) USING HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY (HT)
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A.138 USING CONE BEAM CT (CBCT) TO DOSE TRACKING
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A.139 DIFFUSION AND SENSITIVITY CHARACTERISTICS OF A CHEMICALLY CROSS-LINKED PVA-FRICKE GEL DOSIMETER
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A.140 ALANINE/ESR DOSIMETRY FOR TOTAL BODY IRRADIATION USING AN ANTHROPOMORPHIC PHANTOM
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A.141 NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE RELAXOMETRY AND IMAGING FOR DOSIMETRY WITH AGAROSE FRICKE GEL
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A.142 DOSE VERIFICATION OF VMAT HYPOFRACTIONATED LUNG TREATMENTS IN MOVING PHANTOM
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A.143 INITIAL EXPERIENCE WITH AN ACTIVE BREATHING COORDINATOR DEVICE FOR BREATH HOLD RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT OF BREAST
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A.144 EVALUATION OF AN INTEGRAL QUALITY MONITOR DEVICE FOR MONITORING REAL-TIME DELIVERY
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A.145 CYBERKNIFE BEAM OUTPUT FACTOR MEASUREMENTS: A MULTI-SITE, MULTI-DETECTOR STUDY
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A.146 VERIFICATION OF THE GEOMETRIC AND DOSIMETRIC ACCURACY OF THE CYBERKNIFE SYNCHRONY SYSTEM
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A.147 DELIVERY QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR CYBERKNIFE TUMOR-TRACKING TREATMENTS
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A.148 QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTS FOR BRACHYTHERAPY TREATMENTS USING LEIPZIG APPLICATORS
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A.149 STUDY OF DOSIMETRIC IMPROVEMENT IN LUNG SBRT USING A 6-DEGREE OF FREEDOM COUCH IN IGRT
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A.150 PROSTATE MOVEMENTS ANALYSIS DURING RADIOTHERAPY USING VOLUMETRIC INTRAPROSTATIC GOLD COILS INFORMATION
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A.151 DOSIMETRIC AND PRECLINICAL RESULTS OF SMALL ANIMAL IRRADIATION BY USING TOMOTHERAPY
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A.152 INNOVATIVE SOLUTION FOR IORT BREAST TREATMENT: AN ON-LINE IN VIVO DOSIMETER INTEGRATED IN THE RADIATION PROTECTION DISC
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A.153 BOLUS IN VMAT BREAST TREATMENT
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A.154 ANALYSIS OF SETUP UNCERTAINTIES AND CHOICE OF WIDTH OF GATING WINDOW FOR LEFT-SIDED BREAST TREATMENT DURING DEEP INSPIRATION BREATH-HOLD (DIBH)
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A.155 INFRARED-GUIDED PATIENT SETUP FOR BREAST CANCER PATIENTS: COMPARISON WITH CBCT
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A.156 TOWARD THE DEFINITION OF A DOSIMETER RELATED GAMMA METRIC TO IDENTIFY UNACCEPTABLE VMAT PLANS
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A.157 PRELIMINARY STUDY FOR COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEMS FOR VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY
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A.158 A METHOD TO DEFINE ISODOSE-BASED STRUCTURES IN DOSE PAINTING TREATMENT OPTIMIZATION OF GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME TUMORS (GBM)
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A.159 A FEASIBILITY STUDY OF TOMOTHERAPY DOSE PAINTING HYPOFRACTIONATED TREATMENTS ON GLIOBLASTOMA MULTIFORME (GBM) GUIDED BY MRI
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A.160 COMMISSIONING AND IMPLEMENTATION OF DOSIMETRY CHECK WITH TRUEBEAM FFF BEAMS AND NEW DMI-EPID
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A.161 NEUTRON ACTIVATION DETECTORS FOR CLINICAL DOSIMETRY IN EXTERNAL BEAM RADIATION TREATMENTS
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A.162 MOVING TARGET IN TOMOTHERAPY TREATMENT: A PHANTOM STUDY
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A.163 SLICED MARY: A DEFORMABLE PHANTOM FOR THE VALIDATION OF SET-UP BASED ON SURFACE IMAGING IN RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENTS
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A.164 ADAM: A 3D PRINTED BREATHING PHANTOM FOR END TO END TESTS ON RT TREATMENTS
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A.165 COMMISSIONING OF VOLUMETRIC MODULATED ARC THERAPY AND PATIENT QA WITH OCTAVIUS 2D ARRAY AND GAFCHROMIC EBT3 FILMS
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A.166 CLINICAL AND DOSE PREDICTORS FOR THE INCIDENCE OF LATE URINARY SYMPTOMS AFTER RADICAL RADIOTHERAPY FOR PROSTATE CANCER
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A.167 DOSE UNCERTAINTIES DUE TO INTER-FRACTIONAL ANATOMICAL CHANGES FOR CARBON ION THERAPY IN THE ABDOMINAL REGION
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A.168 DOSIMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF 3D-PRINTED APPLICATORS FOR HIGH DOSE RATE BRACHYTHERAPY
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A.169 RADIOBIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS FOR EVALUATION OF SIB HYPOFRACTIONATED TREATMENT IN H&N DISEASE
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A.170 DEFORMABLE REGISTRATION AND CONTOURING PROPAGATION OF THE BOWEL LOOPS ON DAILY MVCTS: EVALUATION OF INTER-OBSERVER VARIATIONS AND THE IMPACT ON DVHS
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A.171 NEW APPROACH TO BRAIN METASTASES TREATMENT
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A.172 EVALUATION OF THE COMPASS SYSTEM FOR DOSIMETRIC PRETREATMENT VERIFICATION OF VMAT PLANS: PROPOSAL OF A CONFORMITY INDICATOR
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A.173 MULTICENTRE RESULTS OF EPID-BASED IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY
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A.174 A QUANTITATIVE TEST TO EVALUATE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE MULTILEAF COLLIMATOR
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A.175 PERSPECTIVES OF USING AN INTEGRAL QUANTITY FOR REFERENCE DOSIMETRY OF SMALL PHOTON BEAMS
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A.176 CVD DIAMOND SCHOTTKY PHOTODIODE IN AWIRELESS CONFIGURATION FOR IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY APPLICATION
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A.177 ESTABLISHMENT AT ENEA-INMRI OF A NEW ABSORBED DOSE TO WATER PRIMARY STANDARD FOR MEDIUM-ENERGY X-RAY BEAMS
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A.178 THE INSIDE PROJECT FOR THE ON-LINE VERIFICATION OF HADRONTHERAPY TREATMENTS: TEST RESULTS WITH A CLINICAL PROTON BEAM
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A.179 USING ANATOMIC AND METABOLIC IMAGING IN STEREOTACTIC RADIO NEURO-SURGERY TREATMENTS
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A.180 PRELIMINARY DOSIMETRIC STUDY FOR PRECLINICAL SMALL ANIMAL HADRONTHERAPY
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A.181 IN-SILICO IMPLEMENTATION OF MRI-60CO BASED RT: A DOSIMETRICAL COMPARISON WITH RECTAL CANCER (SIMBAD)
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A.182 MONTE CARLO DOSE CALCULATION OF VIEWRAY HYBRID MRI-CO60 RADIOTHERAPY SYSTEM: A REPEATABILITY STUDY
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A.183 GAFCHROMIC EBT3 CALIBRATION: A NEW CURVE TYPE REDUCING THE DEPENDENCE ON FILMS LOT
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A.184 DIGITAL CAMERA SYSTEM AS A CHEAP AND EASY PREDICTION TOOL OF SKIN TOXICITY IN BREAST RADIOTHERAPY: VALIDATION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
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A.185 VMAT PATIENT SPECIFIC QA: CHARACTERIZATION AND VALIDATION OF THE COMPASS SYSTEM
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A.186 SMALL FIELD DOSIMETRY FOR VMAT IMPLEMENTATION: A MULTIDETECTOR STUDY
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A.187 CHARACTERIZATION OF EXRADIN A26 MICRO IONIZATION CHAMBER IN UNFLATTENED PHOTON BEAMS
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A.188 PRELIMINARY INVESTIGATIONS ON THE USE OF PTW T60020 DOSIMETRY DIODE PR IN CLINICAL PROTON BEAMS AT CATANA PROTONTHERAPY FACILITY
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A.189 EARLY PREDICTION OF INDIVIDUAL RESPONSE IN NEO-ADJUVANT ADAPTIVE RADIOCHEMOTHERAPY FOR RECTAL CANCER
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A.190 A COMPARISON BETWEEN STATIC AND HELICAL CALIBRATION OF THE NEW OCTAVIUS DETECTOR 729 IN TOMOTHERAPY
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A.191 CHARACTERIZATION OF A NEW STEREOTACTIC DIODE UNDER FLATTENING FILTER FREE BEAMS DOWN TO SMALL FIELDS
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A.192 A PRELIMINARY DOSIMETRIC STUDY TO VALIDATE MULTI-SEGMENT PLAN (FIELD IN FIELD) FOR BREAST IRRADIATION USING IN VIVO DOSIMETRY (IVD)
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A.193 INTRAFRACTION BREAST DISPLACEMENTS DURING HELICAL TOMOTHERAPY
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A.194 DOSIMETRIC PROPERTIES OF 3D-PRINTED FLAT BOLUS FOR EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY
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A.195 THE USE OF A REDUNDANT INDEPENDENT CALCULATION SOFTWARE IN THE EXTRA-CRANIAL STEREOTACTIC SMALL FIELD RADIOTHERAPY AS PART OF QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM
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A.196 FIRST CLINICAL SYSTEM FOR FULLY AUTOMATED PLANNING FOR NONCOPLANAR CYBERKNIFE: COMPARISON WITH COPLANAR VMAT FOR PROSTATE SBRT
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A.197 CLINICAL SUPPORT IN RADIATION THERAPY SCENARIOS: MR BRAIN TUMOR SEGMENTATION USING AN UNSUPERVISED FUZZY C-MEANS CLUSTERING TECHNIQUE
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A.198 DOSIMETRIC CHARACTERIZATION OF A COMMERCIAL 2-D SCINTILLATION DETECTOR FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTS IN SCANNED PROTON AND CARBON ION BEAMS
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A.199 ASSESSMENT OF DOSIMETRIC IMPACT OF CARBON FIBER STABILIZATION DEVICES FOR POSTOPERATIVE PARTICLE THERAPY
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A.200 SMALL FIELD OUTPUT FACTOR EVALUATION WITH A MICRODIAMOND DETECTOR OVER 30 ITALIAN CENTERS
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A.201 DOSIMETRIC BENEFITS AND REPRODUCIBILITY OF DIBH TECNIQUE GUIDED BY AN OPTICAL SYSTEM
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A.202 DOSE PROFILES OF LOW ENERGY BEAMS FOR DOSIMETER CALIBRATION
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A.203 MODELING OF COUCH TRANSMISSION IN THE RAYSTATION TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM
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A.204 RAPIDARC PROSTATE TREATMENTS: RELATION BETWEEN DOSIMETRIC ACCEPTABILITY AND PLAN QUALITY
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A.205 ADVANCES IN KILOVOLTAGE X-RAY BEAM DOSIMETRY BY MONTE CARLO CALCULATIONS AND MULTIPLE DETECTOR INTERCOMPARISON
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A.206 A NEW MEASURING SYSTEM OF MAMMARY GLAND THICKNESS PRIOR TO INTRAOPERATIVE RADIOTHERAPY WITH ELECTRON BEAMS (IOERT) IMPROVES DOSIMETRIC TREATMENT ACCURACY
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A.207 EVALUATION OF CT-BASED FEATURES AND ADC VALUES TO ASSESS TUMOR CONTROL ON CERVICAL LYMPH NODES TREATED WITH CHEMORADIOTHERAPY
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A.208 BOWEL DOSE-VOLUME PREDICTORS OF DIARRHEA IN PATIENTS TREATED WITH POST-PROSTATECTOMY WHOLE-PELVIS IMRT
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A.209 SPINAL LESION TREATMENT USING THE CYBERKNIFE: A SINGLE FRACTION RADIOSURGICAL TECHNIQUE
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A.210 INNOVATIVE APPROACH IN IORT SARCOMA ASSESSMENT USING A DEDICATED TREATMENT PLANNING SYSTEM
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A.211 COMPARISON OF THREE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS FOR GAMMA INDEX EVALUATION IN IMRT TREATMENTS
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A.212 A NEW METHOD TO CALIBRATE GAFCHROMIC® EBT3 FILMS FOR ROUTINE QUALITY CONTROL IN RADIOTHERAPY PHOTON BEAMS
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A.213 AN IN-HOUSE SOFTWARE TO CREATE SYNTHETIC-CT BASED ON MRI
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A.214 VALIDATION OF A NEW COMMERCIAL OPTIMIZATION TOOL FOR VMAT TREATMENT PLANNING
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A.215 BIOLOGICAL TARGET VOLUME SEGMENTATION FOR RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT PLANNING
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A.216 A NEW 3D RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUE REDUCES SKIN TOXICITY FOR LARGE BREAST AND/OR HIGH BMI PATIENTS
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A.217 IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW STRATEGY FOR DOSE TRACKING AND OF NOVEL RADIOBIOLOGICAL MODELS FOR ADAPTIVE RADIOTHERAPY
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A.218 EVALUATION OF THE AUTOSEGMENTATION TOOL OF NORMAL TISSUE STRUCTURES IN PROSTATE CANCER: A MULTICENTRIC STUDY
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A.219 INTRA- OR PERIPROSTATIC CALCIFICATIONS AS NATURAL FIDUCIAL MARKERS FOR PROSTATE LOCALIZATION IN IMAGE-GUIDED RADIOTHERAPY
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A.220 IN VIVO DOSIMETRY WITH GAFCHROMIC FILMS DURING INTRAOPERATIVE RADIATION THERAPY (IORT): A GOOD PRACTICE FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE
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A.221 CHARACTERIZATION OF A BIDIMENSIONAL POLYCRYSTALLINE CVD DIAMOND DOSIMETER WITH PHOTON BEAMS
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A.222 MULTICENTRE STUDY OF RELATIVE DOSIMETRY MEASUREMENTS USING RAZOR NEW SILICON DIODE
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A.223 BEAM DELIVERY CHECK AND IN-VIVO DOSIMETRY DURING BREAST RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT
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A.224 QUALITY ASSURANCE TOOLS FOR RISK MANAGEMENT
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A.225 CHARACTERISTICS AND CRITICALITIES OF OCTAVIUS-4D DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR IMRT AND RAPIDARC PLAN VERIFICATION
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A.226 COMPARISON OF DOSIMETRIC SYSTEMS IN RADIOTHERAPY PLAN VERIFICATION
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A.227 NEW EXPERIENCE WITH BREAST VOLUMETRIC MODULATION ARC THERAPY (VMAT) REALIZED WITH TRILOGY LINAC: COMPARISON WITH TOMOTHERAPY, PROS AND CONS
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A.228 MONTE CARLO-CORRECTED GTV DOSE PRESCRIPTION ON LUNG TUMORS TREATED WITH CYBERKNIFE: A POSSIBLE RECIPE
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A.229 A VERSATILE ASYMMETRIC COLLIMATION SYSTEM FOR CLINICAL USE IN EXTERNAL ELECTRON BEAM RADIOTHERAPY WITH ELEKTA’S LINAC
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A.230 COMMISSIONING OF FLATTENING FILTER FREE BEAM FOR STEREOTACTIC ABLATIVE RADIOTHERAPY (SABR) LUNG TREATMENTS
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A.231 STUDY OF THE DOSE DELIVERY SYSTEM INACCURACIES AND THEIR IMPACT ON THE DOSE DISTRIBUTION DURING THE FIRST YEARS OF THE CNAO CLINICAL ACTIVITY
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A.232 A NATIONAL MULTI-INSTITUTIONAL STUDY TO ASSESS DOSIMETRIC CONSISTENCY IN TREATMENT PLANNING OF PROSTATE STEREOTACTIC BODY RADIATION THERAPY (SBRT)
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A.233 3D EVALUATION OF PRE-TREATMENT AND IN-VIVO EPID-BASED DOSIMETRY IN VMAT PROSTATE TREATMENTS: INITIAL EXPERIENCE WITH A COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
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A.234 EBT3 AND MICRODIAMOND FOR SUPERFICIAL DOSE MEASUREMENTS UNDER A TOMOTHERAPY H&N IRRADIATION
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A.235 IN-HOUSE IMAGEJ PLUG-IN FOR THE QUALITY ASSURANCE OF DYNAMIC MULTI LEAF COLLIMATOR
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A.236 VMAT PLANNING APPROACH TO AVOID SUPERFICIAL UNDERDOSAGE FOR ACCELERATED PARTIAL BREAST IRRADIATION
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Radiodiagnostics and Interventional Radiology
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B.237 CT AND MRI: A UNIQUE PHANTOM FOR QUALITY CONTROLS
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B.238 EVALUATION OF RADIATION DOSE INCREMENT IN CONTRAST-ENHANCED CT FOR DIFFERENT X-RAY BEAM QUALITIES
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B.239 QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF NOISE AND SPATIAL RESOLUTION PROPERTIES OF ASIR-RECONSTRUCTED CT IMAGES AT DIFFERENT PERCENTAGES OF RECONSTRUCTION
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B.240 DOSIMETRIC AND QUALITATIVE EVALUATION OF CT LONGITUDINAL AUTOMATIC TUBE CURRENT MODULATION USING IN-HOUSE PHANTOMS
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B.241 MONITORING OF DATA OF EXPOSURE OF COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY EXAMINATIONS BY ANALYSIS OF RADIATION DOSE STRUCTURED REPORTS
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B.242 A NOVEL IMAGEJ MACRO FOR CATPHAN LOW CONTRAST MODULE ANALYSIS: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
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B.243 DUAL ENERGY CT IMAGING FOR BONE MARROW EDEMA DETECTION
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B.244 MONTE CARLO (MC) CODE APPLICATION TO MAMMOGRAPHY: EVALUATION OF THE COEFFICIENTS FOR THE ESTIMATION OF THE AVERAGE GLANDULAR DOSE (AGD)
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B.245 PATIENT DOSE EVALUATION IN DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS THROUGH A MATLAB SCRIPT
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B.246 APPLICATION OF THE EUREF PROTOCOL FOR ACCEPTANCE TEST OF THREE DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS SYSTEMS
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B.247 ORGAN DOSES AND CANCER LIFETIME ATTRIBUTABLE RISK EVALUATIONS IN SCOLIOSIS EXAMINATIONS WITH THE EOS IMAGING SYSTEM
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B.248 STAFF DOSE REDUCTION DURING CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHIES PROCEDURES USING RADIO-ABSORBING SURGICAL DRAPES
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B.249 ESTIMATION OF DIAGNOSTIC LEVELS (DLS) IN CT AND X-RAY PROCEDURES: IMPORTANCE OF PATIENT SAMPLE
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B.250 GAMMA-TOOLS: A MULTIPURPOSE PHANTOM FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE IN GAMMA KNIFE STEREOTACTIC RADIOSURGERY TREATMENTS
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B.251 CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS ON RADIOLOGICAL RISK MANAGEMENT IN HOSPITALS
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B.252 PATIENT RADIATION DOSE IN INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES FOR INTRACRANIAL ANEURYSMS: FIRST RESULTS OF A MULTI-CENTER EXPERIENCE
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B.253 ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION COMPARISON IN CT: MODEL BASED (MBIRVEO), ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL (ASIR) AND NEW ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE (ASIR-V)
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B.254 RADIOLOGIC IMAGING OF THE NEWBORN INSIDE THE INCUBATOR. PART 2: RADIATION DOSE AND IMAGE QUALITY
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B.255 RADIOLOGIC IMAGING OF THE NEWBORN INSIDE THE INCUBATOR. PART 3: RISK ESTIMATION
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B.256 PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE ABSORBED FETAL DOSE ASSOCIATED WITH PRE-DELIVERY UTERINE ARTERIES EMBOLIZATION
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B.257 ANALYSIS OF DOSIMETRIC DATA FROM CT EXAMINATION COLLECTED WITH RDIM SYSTEM, TERRITORIAL AREA OF RAVENNA, AUSL DELLA ROMAGNA
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B.258 TEXTURE ANALYSIS IN CT AND PET: A PHANTOM STUDY FOR FEATURES VARIABILITY ASSESSMENT
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B.259 IMAGE QUALITY IN DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS: A PHANTOM ASSESSMENT
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B.260 OPTIMISATION OF PAEDIATRIC FULL SPINE EXAMINATION: THE EXPERIENCE OF CARLO POMA GENERAL HOSPITAL IN MANTOVA
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B.261 STANDARDIZED EVALUATION OF CT IMAGE QUALITY: A COMPARISON BETWEEN THREE WIDESPREAD SOFTWARE PACKAGES FOR AUTOMATED CATPHAN ANALYSIS
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B.262 THE RECENTLY INTRODUCED STANDARDIZED EXPOSURE INDEX CAN BE A USEFUL TOOL FOR AEC PERFORMANCE CONTROLS?
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B.263 LOCAL REFERENCE LEVELS FOR INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY USING A DOSE TRACKING APPLICATION: PRELIMINARY RESULTS
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B.264 DEFINITION OF LOCAL DOSE REFERENCE LEVELS IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY USING A DOSE TRACKING SYSTEM
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B.265 HOW TO DEFINE LOCAL DIAGNOSTIC REFERENCE LEVELS FOR CT, MG AND XA USING A DOSE TRACKING SOFTWARE
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B.266 EVALUATION OF THE VOLUMETRIC DOSE IN DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS
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B.267 RETROSPECTIVE DOSE EVALUATION IN ADULTS UNDERGOING RECURRING CT EXAMINATIONS: LAST FIVE YEARS EXPERIENCE IN OUR INSTITUTION
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B.268 PROJECT OF AN AUTOMATIC SYSTEM FOR TRADITIONAL RADIOLOGY EQUIPMENTS AND IMAGE DETECTORS QUALITY CONTROLS
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B.269 RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF ANGIOGRAPHIC PROCEDURES: DOSIMETRIC EVALUATION
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B.270 INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY: COMPARISON OF DATA FROM THREE CENTERS WITH SIMILAR TECHNOLOGY
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B.271 GUI SOFTWARE FOR AUTOMATIC DQE CALCULATION IN DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY
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B.272 DENTAL HYBRID CONE BEAM CT EFFECTIVE DOSES AND PATIENT RADIOLOGICAL REPORT
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B.273 EVALUATION OF THE ACTUAL PERCEPTION OF MEDICAL IMAGES INFORMATIVE CONTENT BY VARYING MEDICAL DISPLAYS PERFORMANCES
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B.274 A NOVEL COMPUTERIZED METHOD FOR QUALITY ASSURANCE OF MEDICAL ULTRASOUND PROBES
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B.275 CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CBCT) CHARACTERIZATION FOR IN-VIVO CANCELLOUS BONE STRUCTURAL MEASUREMENTS
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B.276 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS SYSTEMS: DOSE AND IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT
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B.277 ESTIMATE ORGAN DOSE FROM CT EXAMINATION: A SOFTWARE COMPARISON
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B.278 HEALTH DOSE ASSESSMENT OR HEALTH TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT?
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B.279 EFFECT OF THE PEDIATRIC PATIENT POSITIONING AND MANAGEMENT ON CT AEC
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B.280 PATIENT CT DOSIMETRY: USE OF THE DICOMSR PROTOCOL FOR CALCULATION AND MONITORING OF DRL AND RELEVANT PARAMETERS
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B.281 THE SYRMA-CT PROJECT FOR BREAST COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY WITH SYNCHROTRON RADIATION: IMAGE QUALITY AND DOSE EVALUATION
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B.282 CT-BASED MONITORING OF MICROWAVE THERMAL ABLATION
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B.283 PATIENT DOSE IN UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION (UAE) FOR FIBROIDS: A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY BASED ON DATA REGISTERED IN RIS/PACS
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B.284 THE USE OF IVC FILTERS IN PREGNANCY: DOSIMETRIC CONSIDERATIONS ON CLINICAL CASES
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B.285 EFFECTIVENESS OF A RADIOLOGIC TECHNOLOGIST INTERNAL AUDIT
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B.286 CT IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVER (CHO): METHOD AND IMPLEMENTATION
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B.287 SYNTHETIC 2D RECONSTRUCTIONS OF DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS: AN ATTEMPT OF OBJECTIVE IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT
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B.288 A NEW METHOD FOR THE DIRECT EVALUATION OF DOSIMETRIC PARAMETERS FOR PEDIATRIC PATIENTS IN HIGH PITCH CT SCANS OVERCOMING AAPM RTP111
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B.289 RADIATION DOSE TRACKING: EXPERIENCE IN CLINICAL MAMMOGRAPHY
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B.290 DOSE REDUCTION IN PEDIATRIC CT CLINICAL INVESTIGATIONS: THE IMPACT OF THE ADAPTIVE STATISTICAL ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM (ASIR)
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B.291 DEFINITION OF LOCAL REFERENCE DIAGNOSTIC LEVELS FOR CT WITH A DOSE-TRACKING SOFTWARE
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B.292 DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN IT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR A MEDICAL PHYSICS DEPARTMENT (MPD) ACTIVITY WORKFLOWS
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B.293 A PROPOSAL OF MAMMOGRAPHY QC-RELATED INDICATOR FOR HTA EVALUATION
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B.294 MULTI HOSPITAL EXPERIENCES OF RADIATION DOSE INDEX MONITORING
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B.295 THREE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH DOSE REDUCTION BY MEANS OF ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM AVAILABLE ON CT SIEMENS SOMATOM DEFINITION FLASH
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B.296 ITERATIVE METHOD FOR CT SYSTEM: DOSE REDUCTION AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF IMAGE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
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B.297 EVALUATION OF DIAGNOSTIC REFERENCE LEVELS FOR ANGIOGRAPHY SYSTEM USING A RADIATION DOSE MONITORING SYSTEM
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B.298 COMPARISON OF TWO RADIATION DOSE MONITORING SYSTEMS
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B.299 FOLLOW-UP OF RADIATION SKIN INJURIES IN PATIENTS AFTER FLUOROSCOPICALLY-GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES: A PRELIMINARY STUDY
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B.300 CBCT DOSE INDICATORS: EVALUATION OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES AND CORRELATION WITH PATIENT DOSE
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B.301 EFFECTIVENESS EVALUATIONS OF AN ORGAN BASED MODULATION SYSTEM FOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
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B.302 USE OF A COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE TO MANAGE DOSES FROM RADIOLOGICAL PROCEDURES IN A MULTI-SITE ENVIRONMENT: PRESENTATION AND EARLY EXPERIENCE OF A PROJECT FROM AIFM
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B.303 CT IMAGE QUALITY RECONSTRUCTED BY ITERATIVE ALGORITHMS: IS IT TIME TO CHANGE STANDARD ANALYSIS METHODS?
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B.304 ANALYSIS ON PHANTOM IMAGES BETWEEN 2D SYNTHESIZED MAMMOGRAPHY (SM) FROM DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT) AND FLAT FIELD MAMMOGRAPHY (FFDM)
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B.305 EVALUATION OF OPERATOR AND PATIENT DOSE DURING INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES
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B.306 IMAGE QUALITY IN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION BREAST CT
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B.307 PERSONNEL REAL TIME DOSIMETRY IN INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
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B.308 MEDICAL DEVICE EVALUATION FOR OPERATORS’ RADIATION PROTECTION IN ANGIOGRAPHIC PROCEDURES OF CHRONIC TOTAL OCCLUSION
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B.309 COMPARISON AMONG THREE DIFFERENT APPROACHES FOR LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY EVALUATION IN DIGITAL RADIOGRAPHY
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B.310 LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY IN DIGITAL MAMMOGRAPHY: COMPARISON BETWEEN TWO SYSTEMS THROUGH A STATISTICAL METHOD
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B.311 EVALUATION OF CT RADIATION PROFILE WIDTH WITH GAFCHROMIC® XR-QA2 FILMS
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B.312 EVALUATION OF THE EFFECTIVE RESOLUTION OF AN OPTICAL FLATBED SCANNER FOR RADIOCHROMIC FILMS ANALYSIS
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B.313 IMPLEMENTATION OF EUREF QUALITY CONTROL PROTOCOL IN DIGITAL BREAST TOMOSYNTHESIS (DBT)
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B.314 SIZE-SPECIFIC, SCANNER-INDEPENDENT ORGAN DOSE ESTIMATES IN MULTI-SLICE ABDOMINAL CT EXAMINATIONS OF OVERWEIGHT AND OBESE PATIENTS
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B.315 CT IMAGE QUALITY ASSESSMENT BY A CHANNELIZED HOTELLING OBSERVER (CHO): APPLICATION TO PROTOCOL OPTIMIZATION
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B.316 EVALUATION OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN STORAGE AND DISTRIBUTION OF RADIOLOGICAL DATA
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B.317 DOSE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM: ONE YEAR RESULTS
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B.318 CLINICAL VALIDATION OF THE M5L LUNG COMPUTER-ASSISTED DETECTION SYSTEM
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B.319 ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
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B.320 PATIENT-SIZE SPECIFIC EFFECTIVE DOSE ESTIMATION USING SSDE IN ABDOMEN AND CHEST CT EXAMS
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B.321 X-RAY TRANSMISSION EVALUATION OF LEAD-FREE PROTECTIVE APRONS
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B.322 A NEW METHOD FOR THE ANATOMICAL DISTRICT RECOGNITION (ADR) IN CT IMAGES
100

B.323 PATIENT RADIATION DOSE IN INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOLOGY PROCEDURES PERFORMED IN MODENA LOCAL HEALTH UNIT
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B.324 DIAGNOSTIC RADIATION DOSE IN ADULT TRAUMA PATIENTS: A SURVEY PERFORMED AT MODENA LOCAL HEALTH UNIT
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B.325 EFFECT OF DIFFERENT FRAME RATES ON LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY IN DIGITAL ANGIOGRAPHY
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B.326 LOW CONTRAST DETECTABILITY ASSESSMENT THROUGH A STATISTICAL METHOD: HOMEMADE SOFTWARE AND DEDICATED PHANTOM
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B.327 MULTICENTRIC EXPERIENCE OF DOSE MONITORING FROM MAMMOGRAPHY SYSTEMS USING A COMMERCIAL DOSE REGISTRATION SOFTWARE
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B.328 VIRTUAL MONOENERGETIC IMAGES ON DUAL ENERGY CT: AN IN PHANTOM COMPARISON OF HU ACCURACY IN TWO DIFFERENT SCANNERS
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Developments in Nuclear Medicine
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C.329 IN VIVO SMALL ANIMALS BETA DETECTION: A MONTE CARLO FEASIBILITY STUDY FROM BETA TO CERENKOV LUMINESCENCE IMAGING
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C.330 RADIOBIOLOGICAL ALPHA PARAMETER ESTIMATE FOR A PERSONALIZED 90Y MICROSPHERE TREATMENT OF HEPATO- AND CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA
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C.331 APPLICATION OF STANDARDIZED PROCEDURE ENHANCES RELIABILITY OF SUV DATA IN PET/CT STUDIES
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C.332 IMPACT OF UPTAKE TIME IN PHYSIOLOGICAL COMPARTMENTS FOR PET/CT EXAMINATION
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C.333 APPLICATION OF LIDEA (LIVER DETECTION ALGORITHM) FOR PET/CT SCANS
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C.334 DEPTH-OF-INTERACTION DISCRIMINATION TO CORRECT PARALLAX ERROR IN HIGH RESOLUTION PET
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C.335 GEOMETRY VARIABILITY IN THE MEASUREMENT OF GAMMA, BETA AND ALPHA EMITTERS IN RADIONUCLIDE CALIBRATORS
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C.336 PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS OF BIOGRAPH MCT TOF-PET/CT SCANNER
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C.337 AUTOMATIC GTV CONTOURING APPLYING ANOMALY DETECTION ALGORITHM ON DYNAMIC FDG PET IMAGES
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C.338 BREATHING MOTION CORRECTION IN DOSIMETRY OF LIVER LESION BASED ON 90Y-PET/CT IMAGING
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C.339 THE IMPACT OF EANM (2013) FORMALISM FOR RADIOIODINE DOSIMETRY IN HYPERTHYROIDISM DISEASE: A COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF THERAPEUTIC ACTIVITY
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C.340 CHARACTERIZATION OF AN INTRAOPERATIVE GAMMA SYSTEM
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C.341 RADIATION PROTECTION IMPACT OF RADIOIODINE THERAPY FOR HYPERTHYROIDISM AFTER A PATIENT SPECIFIC DOSIMETRIC STUDY
105

C.342 STUDY OF INTER-FRACTION VARIABILITY OF ABSORBED DOSE TO BONE METASTASES AND FOLLOW-UP FOR A PATIENT WHO UNDERWENT 223RA-DICHLORIDE THERAPY
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C.343 LESIONS DOSIMETRY FOR 223RA THERAPY OF BONE METASTASES FROM CASTRATION-RESISTANT PROSTATE CANCER
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C.344 PET SCANNER CLINICAL TRIAL QUALIFICATION WITH 68GE-FILLED NEMA/IEC IMAGE QUALITY PHANTOM OUTPERFORMS WITH RESPECT TO 18F
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C.345 TRULY DOSIMETRIC TREATMENT PLANNING WITH 99M-TC MAA SPECT PROLONGED OVERALL SURVIVAL IN RADIOEMBOLIZATION OF HEPATOCARCINOMA WITH 90-Y GLASS MICROSPHERES
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C.346 PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF RADIONUCLIDIC PURITY OF CYCLOTRON PRODUCED 99MTC
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C.347 PRELIMINARY RADIONUCLIDIC PURITY ASSESSMENT OF 223RA
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C.348 PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF AN ADAPTIVE THRESHOLD SEGMENTATION SOFTWARE FOR PET LESION DELINEATION
107

C.349 QUANTITATIVE SPECT/CT IMAGING USING A COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE
107

C.350 QUANTITATIVE 177LU SPECT IMAGING USING ADVANCED CORRECTION ALGORITHMS IN NON-REFERENCE GEOMETRY
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C.351 MICROSPHERES THERAPY OF LIVER TUMORS: CALCULATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS OF ABSORBED DOSES FOR NON-UNIFORM ACTIVITY DISTRIBUTIONS VIA 90Y-PET/CT IMAGING
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C.352 INTERNAL DOSE ASSESSMENT IN MOLECULAR RADIOTHERAPY: TIME FOR AN AGREED DOSIMETRY PROTOCOL?
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C.353 DOSIMETRIC VALIDATION AND COMPARISON OF A NOVEL ELECTRONIC DOSIMETRIC SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE RADIATION PROTECTION
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C.354 PERFORMANCE OF MEDIPROBE COMPACT GAMMA CAMERA
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C.355 ABSOLUTE MEASUREMENT IN SITU OF THE 90Y ACTIVITY IN LIQUID SOLUTION BY TDCR METHOD AND CALIBRATION OF AN IONIZATION CHAMBER
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C.356 A NOVEL RADIOGUIDED SURGERY TECHNIQUE EXPLOITING BETA – DECAY
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C.357 A QUALITY CONTROL PROTOCOL FOR ROUTINE TESTS ON THE PHOSPHOR IMAGER CYCLONE PLUS
110

C.358 90Y-PET/CT IMAGING QUANTIFICATION IN PEPTIDE RECEPTOR RADIONUCLIDE THERAPY (PRRT)
110

C.359 EVALUATION OF FDG-PET/CT ROLE IN RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT OF HEAD AND NECK CANCER
110

C.360 COMPARISON STUDY OF TUMOUR UPTAKE DISTRIBUTION IN PRE AND POST TREATMENT IMAGING FOR 90Y LIVER RADIOEMBOLIZATION
111

C.361 CALCULATION OF TUMOR AND NORMAL TISSUE BED IN 90Y LIVER RADIOEMBOLIZATION WITH DIFFERENT DOSIMETRIC METHODS
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C.362 A DIRICHLET PROCESS MIXTURE MODEL FOR AUTOMATIC 18F-FDG PET IMAGE SEGMENTATION
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C.363 OPTIMIZATION OF ACQUISITION PROTOCOL OF 11C-LABELED METHIONINE PET/CT
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C.364 GAMMA TOMOSYNTHESIS FOR MOLECULAR IMAGING
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C.365 MONTE CARLO AND CLINICAL STUDY OF THE IMPACT OF ATTENUATION AND SCATTER CORRECTIONS ON PROSPECTIVE 3D DOSIMETRY FOR RADIOEMBOLIZATION WITH 90Y MICROSPHERES
112

C.366 ACCURATE MEASUREMENTS OF LOW ACTIVITY FOR CALIBRATION OF A RIA GAMMA COUNTER USED IN RED MARROW DOSIMETRY
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C.367 QUALITY ASSURANCE FOR PET/CT SYSTEM: NEMA NU2-2012 PROTOCOL ON THE NEW SIEMENS BIOGRAPH MCT FLOW
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C.368 NON-RIGID DEFORMATION OF MULTIPLE PET SERIES AND DOSE DISTRIBUTIONS FOR EVALUATING HEAD AND NECK CANCER RESPONSE TO RADIOTHERAPY
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C.369 NOISE STRUCTURE ANALYSIS IN [F-18]FDG-PET IMAGING: A MULTICENTER PHANTOM STUDY
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C.370 A NEW REGULARIZED RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM IN THE EVALUATION OF CONTRAST DETECTABILITY AND BACKGROUND VARIABILITY: COMPARISON WITH STANDARD OSEM ALGORITHM
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C.371 NOVEL LABR3:CE GAMMA CAMERA PROTOTYPE FOR ACCURATE COMPTON SCATTER REJECTION
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C.372 A MULTICENTER DOSIMETRIC AND OBSERVATIONAL STUDY FOR LESION DOSIMETRY IN 223RA THERAPY OF BONE METASTASES: CALIBRATION PROTOCOL AND ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA
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C.373 A STUDY OF MYOCARDIAL TOMOSCINTIGRAPHY BY SEMI-QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS
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C.374 STUDY OF WHOLE BODY RESIDENCE TIMES FOR 131I TREATMENT OF THYROID CANCER
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C.375 RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF DOSE–RESPONSE FOR HCC LESIONS TREATED WITH 90Y RESIN MICROSPHERES
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C.376 RADIOMETABOLIC THERAPY WITH 131I FOR HYPERTHYROIDISM FROM GRAVES’ DISEASE. FIRST EXPERIENCES IN SASSARI HOSPITAL
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C.377 USE OF CUMULATIVE SUV VOLUME HISTOGRAM AS A NEW TOOL TO RADIOTHERAPY TREATMENT MONITORING
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C.378 NEW PROMISING SCINTILLATION CRYSTALS FOR MOLECULAR IMAGING APPLICATIONS: CRY018 AND CRY019
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C.379 RED MARROW AND BLOOD DOSIMETRY IN 131I TREATMENT OF METASTATIC DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CARCINOMA: 7 YEARS EXPERIENCE AT MAURIZIANO HOSPITAL OF TURIN
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C.380 RADIOIODINE 131I TREATMENT OF DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING DIALYSIS: DOSIMETRY, RADIATION PROTECTION AND PRACTICAL ASPECTS
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C.381 RED MARROWDOSIMETRY IN DIFFERENTIATED THYROID CANCER (DTC): COMPARISON BETWEEN PREVISIONAL AND POST THERAPY DOSE FOR MULTITREATED PATIENTS AND FOLLOW-UP
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C.382 8F-FDG WHOLE BODY PET/CT DOSE EVALUATION IN PEDIATRIC PATIENTS
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C.383 A PROCEDURE TO QUANTIFY RADIONUCLIDE PURITY OF [18F]FDG BY MEANS OF GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY
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C.384 DIFFERENT POLAR-MAP PATTERNS USING THE NOVEL TECHNOLOGY FOR MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING (MPI)
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C.385 CHARACTERIZATION OF A PET SCANNER FOR IMAGING WITH 68GA
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C.386 EFFECTIVE DOSE ESTIMATE IN PET-CT EXAMINATIONS
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C.387 EVALUATION OF COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE PERFORMANCE IN RETRIEVING INFORMATION FROM MERGED SPECT AND CT IMAGES: A PHANTOM STUDY
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C.388 ABSOLUTE GAMMA CAMERA CALIBRATION FOR QUANTITATIVE SPECT IMAGING WITH 177LU
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C.389 IMPACT OF ATTENUATION AND SCATTER CORRECTION IN PREVISIONAL DOSIMETRY BASED ON SPECT-CT IMAGES FOR RADIOEMBOLIZATION OF LIVER LESIONS WITH 90Y MICROSPHERES
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C.390 ACCURATE MONTE CARLO MODELING OF AN ACTIVITY METER USING FLUKA
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C.391 EXPERIENCE WITH ALPHA RADIATION THERAPY: PRELIMINARY PHYSICAL ASSESSMENT ON USING RA-223
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C.392 PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE OF CLEARPEM, A DEDICATED SCANNER FOR POSITRON EMISSION MAMMOGRAPHY
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Radioprotection and BSS EURATOM Directive
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D.393 A SOFTWARE PACKAGE FOR DATA REGISTRATION AND ANALYSIS IN INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
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D.394 PEDIATRIC IN VIVO DOSIMETRY: A NOVEL PROCEDURE FOR RETINOBLASTOMA CHEMOEMBOLIZATION
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D.395 EXPERIMENTAL STUDY OF THE CORRELATION BETWEEN DAP AND OPERATOR EXPOSURE IN CARDIAC PROCEDURES
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D.396 AVERAGE GLANDULAR DOSE (AGD) IN MAMMOGRAPHY: RELIABILITY OF RECORDED DATA IN ORDER TO COMPLY TO COUNCIL DIRECTIVE 59/2013/ EURATOM
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D.397 A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF AVERAGE GLANDULAR DOSE IN 8900 PATIENTS WHO UNDERWENT CLINICAL MAMMOGRAPHY
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D.398 APPLICATION OF ICRP 60 AND ICRP 103 TISSUE WEIGHTING FACTORS FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICAL EXPOSURE TO EMILIA-ROMAGNA POPULATION FROM 2001 TO 2010
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D.399 AGE AND SEX DISTRIBUTION OF EMILIA-ROMAGNA POPULATION RADIODIAGNOSTIC EXAMINATIONS FOR A RISK ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY
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D.400 DECOMMISSIONING PROCEDURES FOR A 17 MEV MEDICAL CYCLOTRON
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D.401 DETERMINATION OF ATTENUATION PROPERTIES OF MATERIALS USED IN PROTECTIVE DEVICES AGAINST DIAGNOSTIC MEDICAL X-RADIATION FOLLOWING THE NEW CEI EN 61331-1
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D.402 VALIDATION OF A PORTAL MONITOR FOR RADIOACTIVE HOSPITAL WASTES
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D.403 EVALUATION OF MEDICAL RADIATION EXPOSURES IN TUSCANY
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D.404 ASSESSMENT OF RADIONUCLIDE IMPURITIES IN 18F-METIL-CHOLINE (18F-FMECH)
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D.405 MONTE CARLO ESTIMATION AND MEASUREMENT OF THE ACTIVATION PRODUCTS DUE TO AN ELECTRON LINEAR ACCELERATOR FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS
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D.406 WHY NOT USE EFFECTIVE DOSE INDEX (EDI) INSTEAD OF EFFECTIVE DOSE (E) FOR THE INFORMATION RELATING TO PATIENT EXPOSURE?
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D.407 A WORK PROCESS-ORIENTED ANALYTICAL MODEL FOR THE CALCULATION OF DOSE AND RISK TO THE OPERATORS INVOLVED IN FLUOROSCOPIC PROCEDURES
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D.408 ATTENUATION OF PROTECTIVE EYEWEAR IN DIFFERENT GEOMETRIES: EXPERIMENTAL RESULTS
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D.409 STUDY OF A LINAC TARGET ACTIVATION
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D.410 ACTIVITY ESTIMATION IN PATIENTS SUBMITTED TO RADIOIODINE THERAPY FOR HYPERTHYROIDISM
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D.411 “OPERRA” PROJECT ON PRIORITIES FOR RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF RADIATION PROTECTION: DEVELOPMENT OF A SURVEY
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D.412 QUALITY ASSURANCE AND MANAGEMENT PROGRAM OF INDIVIDUAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL RADIATION PROTECTION EQUIPMENT IN A ISO 9001: 2008 QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
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D.413 ISO 17025 ACCREDITATION EXPERIENCE OF AN INDIVIDUAL MONITORING SERVICE
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D.414 ABSTRACT WITHDRAWN
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D.415 AUTOMATIC RADIATION DOSE TRACKING AS PART OF A REGIONAL PACS IN TUSCANY
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D.416 CT ORGAN DOSES AND EFFECTIVE DOSE CALCULATION USING PHYSICO®: AN AUTOMATIC DOSIMETRIC SOFTWARE
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D.417 INVESTIGATION ON NUCLEAR MEDICINE’S COUNTING WASTE: PRESENCE OF EU-152 WAS FOUND
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D.418 EXTREMITY DOSES ASSESSMENT OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE PERSONNEL INVOLVED IN 99MTC-RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS PREPARATION: A MULTICENTER STUDY – PRELIMINARY RESULTS
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D.419 PATIENT DOSIMETRIC EVALUATION IN ANGIOGRAPHY PRACTICE: APPLICATION IN INTERVENTIONAL NEURORADIOLOGY
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Developments in MRI
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E.420 EXPOSURE TO STATIC MAGNETIC FIELDS IN NMR RESEARCH LABORATORIES
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E.421 DIFFUSE AND LOCAL MYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS EVALUATED BY MEANS OF T1-3D VOLUMETRIC MAPPING. INITIAL CLINICAL EXPERIENCE
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E.422 NOVEL MRI QUALITY ASSURANCE PROCEDURE BASED ON SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO LINEARITY
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E.423 RENAL FUNCTION ASSESSMENT BY TEXTURE ANALYSIS OF R2 MAP
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E.424 RECTAL CANCER TEXTURE ANALYSIS APPLIED ON ADC MAPS IN RESPONSE ASSESSMENT TO NEOADJUVANT THERAPY
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E.424 bis A NEW REFINED ACOUSTIC AND THERMAL COUPLING MODEL FOR TEMPERATURE RISE IN MR-GUIDED HIFU
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E.425 ANALYSIS OF SIMULTANEOUS EEG/FMRI DATA ACQUISITION IN EPILEPTIC PATIENTS: COMPARISON OF SEMI-BLIND ICA, SPATIAL ICA AND GLM BASED METHODS
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E.426 HIGH-FIELD MR SPECTROSCOPY IN THE MULTIPARAMETRIC MRI EVALUATION OF BREAST LESIONS
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E.427 FIBROSING LIVER DISEASES IN PAEDIATRIC AGE: MRI INVESTIGATION BY DIAGNOSTIC MAPS OF SLOW DIFFUSION AND FAST DIFFUSION GENERATED FROM A MULTIPLE B VALUES DWI
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E.428 ACCURACY OF THE GRASE SEQUENCE IN EVALUATING T2 RELAXATION TIME
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E.429 QUALITY ASSURANCE OF PHASED ARRAY COILS: ANALYSIS OF THE NOISE AMPLIFICATION FACTOR DISTRIBUTION
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E.430 IMPLEMENTING INTRA-OPERATIVE MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING EQUIPMENT – SAFETY CONCERNS
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E.431 TEMPORAL STABILITY QA IN FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
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E.432 SAFETY FOR MRI PATIENTS WITH IMPLANTED MEDICAL DEVICES
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E.433 MRI FERROMAGNETIC DETECTOR SYSTEM FOR PATIENTS’ AND OPERATORS’ SAFETY: EXPERIENCE IN OPBG
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E.434 MACHINE LEARNING TECHNIQUES IMPLEMENTED ON STRUCTURAL MRI FEATURES AT DIFFERENT SPATIAL SCALES FOR PRESCHOOLERS WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS
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E.435 A CUSTOM-MADE MR-COMPATIBLE PASSIVE DEVICE FOR FMRI INVESTIGATIONS IN NEURAL CORRELATES OF ANKLE MOVEMENTS DURING MOTOR TASKS
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E.436 ARTERIAL SPIN LABELING (ASL) TECHNIQUE COULD BE USED AS STANDARD CLINICAL TOOL?
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E.437 TRANS-CRANIAL MRI-GUIDED FOCUSED ULTRASOUND SURGERY (TCMRGFUS): ITALIAN AND WORLD-FIRST EXPERIENCE AT 1.5 TESLA
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E.438 COMPARATIVE EVALUATION OF DATA PREPROCESSING SOFTWARE TOOLS TO INCREASE EFFICIENCY AND ACCURACY IN DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING
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E.439 RESTING STATE FMRI: A TOOL TO INVESTIGATE FUNCTIONAL CONNECTIVITY MODULATION INDUCED BY TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION OF THE MOTOR NETWORK
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E.440 LONG TERM SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO ANALYSIS OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGES FROM MULTICOIL ARRAY
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E.441 MAPPING OF THE RESPONSE OF A 16 ELEMENT PHASED-ARRAY COIL USED FOR BREAST MRS
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E.442 DIFFUSION KURTOSIS IMAGING IN HEAD AND NECK AND BRAIN TUMOR: A FEASIBILITY STUDY
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E.443 IMPROVING DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF BREAST LESIONS WITH ADC AND DCE KINETIC DESCRIPTORS
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E.444 LOSS OF REPRODUCIBILITY IN A TASK BRAIN
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E.445 BRAIN SIZE BIAS CORRECTION METHOD IN A VOLUMETRIC GROUP ANALYSIS: THEORY AND NORMALIZATION
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E.446 COMPARISON OF PCA VS KPCA FOR PHYSIOLOGICAL NOISE REMOVAL IN RESTING STATE FMRI
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E.447 MRI QUANTIFICATION OF NON-GAUSSIAN WATER DIFFUSION IN WHITE AND GRAY MATTERS: AN IN-VIVO DKI STUDY
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E.448 DKI AND PSEUDO-KURTOSIS IN PHANTOMS
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E.449 THE IMPORTANCE OF PERFORMING AN ACCURATE IMAGES PREPROCESSING IN MR DIFFUSION ANALYSIS
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E.450 AIFMMULTICENTER INTERCOMPARISON OF MR SCANNERS FOR PROTON SPECTROSCOPY – PRELIMINARY RESULTS
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E.451 QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF SUSCEPTIBILITY EFFECTS CAUSED BY DENTAL MATERIALS IN HEAD MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
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E.452 ARTEFACTS AND RELIABILITY IN 3D ATRIAL FIBROSIS SEGMENTATION OF DELAYED-ENHANCEMENT CARDIAC MRI
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E.453 ACCURACY COMPARISON OF TWO DIFFERENT OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHMS FOR DIRECT BI-EXPONENTIAL ANALYSIS OF IVIM MRI IMAGES
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Non-Ionizing Radiations
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F.454 COMMENTS ON THE SOUND PERCEPTION IN CONFINED ENVIRONMENT AND IMPLICATIONS ON HEARING AIDS
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F.455 NOISE EXPOSURE OF WORKERS AND PASSENGERS ON REGIONAL TRAINS IN CALABRIA
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F.457 DEVELOPMENT OF A COMPUTATIONAL TOOL FOR HIFU ABLATION THERAPY TO ASSURE SAFETY OF THE PATIENT
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F.458 SIMULTANEOUS USING OF TWO SUPERFICIAL HYPERTHERMIA ANTENNAS
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F.459 OPENING FRACTION TIME OF INTERNAL JUGULAR VALVES USING ULTRASOUND TRACES
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F.460 IMPLEMENTATION OF A QUALITY ASSURANCE PROGRAM FOR ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCERS
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F.461 HOW HTA METHODOLOGY IS ABLE TO HELP THE DECISION MAKER TO INTRODUCE MOST SUITABLE TECHNOLOGY
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F.462 ASSESSMENT OF WORKERS’ EXPOSURE DUE TO BLUE-LIGHT NEONATAL PHOTOTHERAPY
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F.463 ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELDS OF A NEW FERROMAGNETIC SURGICAL SYSTEM
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Education
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G.464 BIRTH OF LEDA (LABORATORY FOR EDUCATION IN DOSIMETRY ANALYSES) IN MEDICAL PHYSICS AND RADIOTHERAPY DEPARTMENTS
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G.465 THE AIFM WEB SECTION ‘ILFISICOMEDICORISPONDE’ TWO YEARS FROM THE START: CONSIDERATIONS, CRITICAL POINTS AND FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS
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G.466 ICTP, TRIESTE UNIVERSITY AND ITALIAN MEDICAL PHYSICS: A TRAINING OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG PHYSICISTS FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
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