CMPWG is hosted by three divisions of the American Nuclear Society (ANS) – Mathematics and Computations Division (MCD), Biology and Medicine Division (BMD), Radiation Protection and Shielding (RPSD).
CMPWG promotes the advancement of computational tools, experimental data, and enabling technologies which are applicable to clinical problems in medical and health physics. The group concentrates on a multidisciplinary approach (nuclear engineering, medical physics and health physics) for use by the medical practitioners in the studies of radiation imaging, treatment and effects on human and animal life. The applications include computational benchmarks on phantoms and detectors, large scale optimization, deterministic and stochastic approaches to radiation therapy and diagnostic problems.
Suggested Activities
- Identify industry needs for technology
a. sponsor workshops
b. sponsor technical sessions
- Benchmarks
a. Accessibility of accelerator head and external source information
b. Phantom modeling – make a visual man/woman voxelized geometry accessible to all
c. Benchmark calculation of a model based on a voxelized representation of a MIRD anthropomorphic model (or a portion thereof)
d. ICRP voxel phantom for radiation protection
e. Identify a suitable problem for Monte Carlo and deterministic comparisons
- List of commonly used software
a. Make these software widely available to the community
b. Write an overview paper to be published in either Medical Physics or Nuclear Science and Engineering
- Educate nuclear scientists/engineers on treatment planning methods
a. Hold workshop on Treatment Planning for ANS members
- Promote educational opportunities and training of future generation of scientists in cross-cutting disciplines of computational and nuclear science, medical and health physics
- Have an ANS booth at American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), Health Physics Society (HPS) and Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) meetings
- Identify funding sources
Research Issues
- Simulate organ motions in particle transport codes
Other Suggestions
- Website
- Email forum
- Mentoring
Objectives