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IMAT/VMAT
Two Day Seminar
About This Seminar
Modulated Arc Therapy (IMAT/VMAT) is a rapidly emerging progression of conventional IMRT technology. During treatment, beam parameters are in a dynamic state while the machine is in arc motion.

This seminar offers participants an all-inclusive perspective on IMAT/VMAT. It is a must attend for any facility implementing or considering to implement this technology. The faculty will bring a large amount of clinical knowledge on relevant topics and share a host of professional experience from well established patient databases and technical experience.

IMAT/VMAT is quickly evolving as a practical solution which rivals slice-based and fixed field IMRT.

Please join us for this exciting educational opportunity!
Educational Objectives
This seminar will assist attendees in:
  • Discovering how dynamic IMAT/VMAT is not only fast and efficient but produces highly conformal dose distributions, can improve therapeutic ratio compared with static IMRT, minimizes dose variances, as a result of intrafraction motion & is well tolerated by patients.
  • Identifying key clinical rationale for treating with IMAT/VMAT vs. conventional IMRT.
  • Identifying the resources required in implementation of an IMAT/VMAT program.
  • Classifying various IMAT/VMAT treatment planning techniques.
  • Examining how utilizing IMAT/VMAT can be an advantage with Radiosurgery and SBRT treatments.
  • Formulating IMAT/VMAT quality assurance practices.
  • Differentiating the rationale and clinical efficiency for using IMAT/VMAT in various disease entities.
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Workshops
Attendees will be able to participate in faculty directed case presentations offered in multiple sessions. The clinical case tutorials will cover varying anatomical sites, be performed real-time (on different treatment planning systems) and be organized in tracks to allow participation by individual’s within their specific area of interest.
Seminar Credit
The Medical Technology Management Institute (MTMI) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education for physicians.

MTMI designates this educational activity for a maximum of 15 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits ". Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Credits will also be provided to medical physicists by CAMPEP, dosimetrists by the MDCB and therapists as 16.5 category A by the ASRT.
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MTMI would like to thank the following companies who are generously providing educational support for this conference.

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Seminar Schedule

Day One
7:00 am Registration, Coffee and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am Welcome
8:05 am What is Modulated Arc Therapy?
... Gibbons
8:45 am A Dosimetric Comparison of IMAT/VMAT or
More Conventional Delivery Techniques
... Shepard
9:15 am Clinical Considerations of using IMAT/VMAT
in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer
... Fiveash
9:45 am Clinical Considerations of using IMAT/VMAT
in the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer
... Mehta
10:15 am Informal Discussion and Break
10:35 am Starting an IMAT/VMAT Program
... Popple
11:05 am Motion Management for IMAT/VMAT
... Shepard
11:35 am IMAT vs. VMAT: The Clinical Perspective
... Mehta
12:05 pm Questions and Answers with the Faculty
12:15 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm Utilization of IMAT/VMAT in SBRT
... Popple/Mehta
  • Technical considerations and implementation
  • Clinical considerations for use
2:15 pm IMAT Without a Flattening Fliter
... Popple
3:00 pm Informal Discussion and Break
3:20 pm Clinical Rationale and Experience in Less
Common Anatomical Regions
... Fiveash
3:50 pm Non-traditional Deliver Methods for IMAT/VMAT
... Gibbons
4:20 pm The Role of IMAT/VMAT in SRS
... Fiveash
5:05 pm Questions and Answers with the Faculty
5:15pm Adjourn for the Day
Day Two
8:00 am IMAT/VMAT Treatment Planning Algorithms and Delivery Solutions
... Shepard
9:00 am Tips and Tricks of Implementing IMAT/VMAT
... Popple/Shepard
  • Varian Rapid Arc
  • Elekta VMAT
10:00 am Informal Discussion and Break
10:15 am Treatment Planning Tutorial Demonstrations
  • Prostate
  • Head and Neck
  • Intra-cranial
12:15 pm Lunch (on your own)
1:15 pm Commissioning and IMAT/VMAT System
... Popple
1:45 pm IMAT/VMAT Quality Assurance and Dosimetric Verification
... Shepard
2:30 pm Image Guidance of Advanced Techniques
... Popple
3:00 pm Informal Discussion and Break
3:15 pm Future Directions, Challenges and Opportunities
... Gibbons
3:45 pm Questions and Answers with the Faculty
4:00 pm Adjourn
Faculty
John Fiveash, MD
Associate Professor
University of Alabama Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

Vivek Mehta, MD
Director of Center for Advanced
Targeted Radiotherapies
Swedish Cancer Institute
Seattle, WA

David M. Shepard, PhD
Director of Medical Physics
Swedish Cancer Institute
Seattle, WA
John P. Gibbons, PhD
Chief of Clinical Physics
Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center
Baton Rouge, LA

Richard A. Popple, PhD
Assistant Professor
University of Alabama Birmingham
Birmingham, AL

J. Ed Barnes, PhD, FACR
Course Director
Executive Director
MTMI
Milwaukee, Wi

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