IPEM Science Leadership Strategy. Speaker: IPEM President Dr Robert Farley

John Mallard Lecture: Hitting tumours with the hybrid 1.5T MRI radiotherapy system: from development towards real-time adaptive radiotherapy

Speaker: Professor Bas Raaymakers, (followed by short Q&A)

Radiotherapy: Adaptive radiotherapy
Liz Adams: Implementation of CBCT-based online adaptive radiotherapy: challenges and opportunities
Joel Burton-Lowe:  Quality Assurance of the Varian Ethos Adaptive Radiotherapy System Using Virtually-Deformed Anthropomorphic Phantoms
Hubert Stankiewicz: MR-only workflow validation for daily adaptive radiotherapy for prostate cancer patients on the Unity MR-Linac
Joan Chick:  Using ROMEO to unwrap B0 maps for eligibility assessment of patients with implants for Magnetic Resonance guided Adaptive Radiotherapy (MRgART)
Ronan Valentine: Adaptive Radiotherapy for the Oropharynx: A Dose Escalation Journey

Imaging/Radiation Protection: MR Updates (HF, LF MRSE)

Graeme Keith: High Field MR Update

Paul Cawley: Clinical applications of ultra-low field MR Imaging: Progress & Potential

John Foster: The IPEM MRSE Certificate of Competence Scheme

John Tracey: Application of Synthetic Data in the Training of Artificial Intelligence for Automated Quality Assurance in Magnetic Resonance Imaging

Engineering: Medical Asset Management: ISO 9001 vs IEC 55001 vs BS 70000.

Panel Speakers:

Lesley Sneddon: Implementation of BS EN 55001

David Crompton: UKAS Update – BS 70000 and the UKAS Assisted Application Scheme

Structured Discussion

Education / Professional: Medical Device Regulation, including Software as a Medical Device (SaMD).

Paul Campbell: Recent history of development of MDR

Lorna Harper: Software as a medical device – regulatory compliance in practice

Justin McCarthy: Practicalities of in-house manufacture in relation to medical devices regulations (HIE)

Rachel Jackson: Facilitated discussion

Radiotherapy: Proton Therapy and Translational Research.

Ran Mackay: Certainty in Protons in uncertain times

Adrian Crellin: The NHS Proton Beam Programme – The Challenge of an Evidence Base in Innovative Therapies

Anthony Chalmers: RadNet and Translation from research to the clinic

Bill Nailon: The PROSECCA Project

Imaging/Radiation Protection: Radiation Monitoring Unit (RMU) Scientific Session.

Andrew Reilly: Introduction

Matthew Simpson: Overview of RMU Equipment

Andrew Reilly: Experience from previous RMU exercises

Connaugh Fallon: Update on current national exercises and planning

Panel Discussion

Engineering: Body Temperature Measurement.

Prof Mark Tooley: Overview & Introduction

Dr Rob Simpson: Clinical Thermometry

Dr Rob Simpson: Small cohort study – Body temperature (calibration assessment - forehead & tympanic use on healthy volunteers)

Prof Mark Tooley: Public, Patient and audience Involvement - Study feedback / discussion

Question and answer with audience 

Education/Professional Room 4: Sustainability.

Robert Chuter: Initial comparison of the carbon footprint of radiotherapy across cancer centres

Catherine Stanford-Edwards: Clinical linear accelerator power consumption: Can we reduce financial and environmental cost?

Liam Jones: Sustainable Healthcare: Accurately Reporting Waste Volatile Anaesthetic Gas Capture

Q&A and Discussion

Education/Professional Room 5: Big Data & AI.

Chris Hopkins: Multimodal AI analysis of Prostate Cancer indicators to reduce patient backlogs and improve patient care

Cat Macleod:  Eye can see clearly now – how NLP can be used to extract greater value from existing clinical data in Ophthalmology

James Moggridge: QNI-CE - Clinical deployment of novel quantitative neuro-image analysis techniques using containerisation technology

Olivia Lala: ProCEED with caution: The challenges of developing a real-time clinical dashboard for the prostate cancer service

Woolmer Lecture: Communicating Science.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam MBE 

IPEM Prize Awards

Presented by Professor Sir Jonathan Van-Tam MBE

Publications Workshop - Hosted by Elsevier

Radiation Protection Regulation Refresher.

James Taylor HSE: The new consents process under IRR17

Physics of Life: Future drivers of physics and engineering in the clinic.

Stephen Smye: Introduction to Physics of Life

Robert Insall: Emergent properties due to competition – why intuition in biology is not always correct

Olwyn Byron: New antimicrobials and anti-virulence drugs facilitated by progress in physics

Radiotherapy: Molecular Radiotherapy & Brachytherapy.

Fergus McKiddie: Current Developments in Molecular Radiotherapy and their Deployment in Scotland

Colin Brown: Local MRT implementation and the UK MRT Consortium

Matthew Talboys: Delivering a Ra-223 Dichloride Therapeutic Service – Pitfalls of experience!

Claire Fletcher: Improvements in Cervix Brachytherapy planning and outcomes between 2013 and 2022 at Coventry

Fatima Mahmood: Commissioning of MOSFET for clinical use: Feasibility of real-time in vivo dosimetry for high dose rate gynaecological brachytherapy.

Imaging/Radiation Protection: MR Update (MR-Linac, MR-PET, MR & COVID).

Alex Dunlop: MR-Linac Update

Krithika Loganath: PET-MR: An update on the clinical and research uses

John McLean: Making better use of imaging data to improve MR scientific services to radiology  

Matt Hall: The perfect machine and what it means for quantitative MRI reproducibility

Engineering: Clinical Safety of Healthcare IT Systems.

Andrew Reilly: Intro and welcome: the scene so far

Jackie O’Flynn: The Scottish Approach to Clinical Safety Cases:
An overview of the Scottish Approach to Clinical Safety Cases for healthcare IT; discussing associated ISO standards, project phases and milestones through the software lifecycle, and key features.

Patrick Maw: My experience using DCB 0129/0160

Structured discussion + audience Q&A

Education/Professional: Workforce for the Future - different career paths.

Anna Barnes: CPD opportunities at IPEM 

Daniel Darian (Siemens) / Chris Buckley (GE Healthcare): What opportunities are available in industry for medical physicists – perspectives from two large health care companies 

Sarah Peel: Career development from a clinically-focused medical physicist into a strategic education role

Radiotherapy: AI in Radiotherapy.

Chris Walker: AI in Radiotherapy – Funding and Implementation

Amy Edwards: Evaluation of the performance of OSAIRIS (Open-source artificial intelligence auto-segmentation software) against two commercially available software packages used in radiotherapy planning

Virginia Marin Anaya:  Implementation of AI contouring tools Limbus AI and AI Rad Companion Organs RT for radiotherapy treatment planning of head and neck cancer

Samantha Warren: AI segmentation as a quality improvement tool in radiotherapy planning

Roundtable discussion: Implementation of AI contouring tools 

Imaging/Radiation Protection: Classified workers in Nuclear Medicine.

Anthony Murray: Why do we need NM IRR17 worker classification?

Graham Whish: Classifying Nuclear Medicine Staff – Legalities and Practicalities 

Matthew Memmott: Classifying Nuclear Medicine Staff - Good practice and systems of operation

William Thomson: Potential Skin Doses in Nuclear Medicine Incidents

Katherine McLellan: Estimating Skin Dose from Contamination for Risk Assessment Using Varskin+ v1.1

Engineering: Addressing the Challenges in Rehabilitation Engineering.

Ben Oldfrey: Jack Perkins Prize for best paper in MEP “Additive manufacturing techniques for smart prosthetic liners”

Zoe Clarke: Environmental controls - clinical challenges and solutions

Jon Graham: The challenges of new technology in the disabled world

Andy Dunne: Investigating Adverse Incidents – working together to improve patient safety

Jonathan Hosking: Setting up a clinical gait analysis lab

Emma Pratt: A Quality Improvement Project in a Clinical Gait Analysis Service

Education/Professional: HSST IAPS Preparation.

Lisa Ayers: Overview of IAPS – what we’re looking for and experience so far

Radiotherapy: Advances in Dosimetry  Sponsored by

Sarah Misson-Yates -  Inter-departmental audit group update and new IPEM phantoms for national audits

George Thickett - Dosimetric accuracy of the Eclipse treatment planning system at extended source-to-surface distance for total body irradiation treatments with use of boosting/shielding fields

Rebecca Hughes - Assessment of the sensitivity of various Quality Control devices to Linear Accelerator beam steering and energy adjustments

Hannah Marshall - A multi-institutional evaluation of a novel 3D-printed phantom for daily 6DoF QA checks

Sam Baker - Investigation of Beam Central Axis Position Offsets Using an Automatic Analysis Tool with an EPID Panel

Alexandros Pagonidis - ALETRI: a novel phantom for Triggered Imaging Auto Beam Hold

Early Career Presentation Session.

Belinda Gorell - 2021 PhD in Work Bursary recipient - progress report

Jungwook Shoo - Roberts Prize for best paper Physics in Medicine and Biology. HEDOS—a computational tool to assess radiation dose to circulating blood cells during external beam radiotherapy based on whole-body blood flow simulations

Vignesh Radhakrishnan - Determining bone position using microwave imaging: a feasibility study

Christopher Mayhew - Dosimetric and volumetric effects of end expiration breath hold radiotherapy for oesophageal cancer

Maria Koutrouli - Comparison of secondary cancer development in rectum and bladder after prostate radiotherapy, between VMAT and SABR regimes

Alice Gutowski - A study on skin doses in interventional cardiology

Robert Williams - Facilitating Intra-Operative MR QC via 3D Printing

Engineering: Governance of AI.

Lorna Harper - BS 30440: A validation framework for the use of AI within Healthcare

Carol Monaghan, MP - A view on governance of AI

Debate & Q&A 

Education/Professional: Future Workforce: Training routes.

Lauren Harrison - Overview of UK routes into HCS workforce

Patrick Maw - An overview of the new Clinical Scientific Computing STP

Emma Pratt - STP Review in Clinical Engineering

Steve Gandy - Intro to Scottish training, hybrid training and experiences (discussion panel may be made up of attendees)

Highest Scoring Abstracts:

Roger Staff -  Upstream trapdoors in Breast Screening AI: local validation and the need for ongoing QC.

Jigar Dubal - Cherenkov light emission in molecular radiation therapy and its application to dosimetry

Sagar Sabharwal -  Determination of Optic Nerve Motion Amplitude using MRI for Calculating Optic Nerve Planning Risk Volume Margins for Stereotactic Radiosurgery

Andrew Reilly  - What next? Capturing the big questions Leading to output via publications.

Anna Barnes, IPEM President Elect - What Next for IPEM. 

Closing Address:

Keynote Speaker: Carol Monaghan, MP - The public and patient impact of the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Community.