World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering September 7 - 12, 2009 Munich, Germany : Vol. 25/XIII Special Topics and Workshops

Present Your Research to the World! The World Congress 2009 on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering – the triennial scientific meeting of the IUPESM - is the world’s leading forum for presenting the results of current scientific work in health-related physics and technologies to an international audience. With more than 2,800 presentations it will be the biggest conference in the fields of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering in 2009! Medical physics, biomedical engineering and bioengineering have been driving forces of innovation and progress in medicine and healthcare over the past two decades. As new key technologies arise with significant potential to open new options in diagnostics and therapeutics, it is a multidisciplinary task to evaluate their benefit for medicine and healthcare with respect to the quality of performance and therapeutic output. Covering key aspects such as information and communication technologies, micro- and nanosystems, optics and biotechnology, the congress will serve as an inter- and multidisciplinary platform that brings together people from basic research, R&D, industry and medical application to discuss these issues. As a major event for science, medicine and technology the congress provides a comprehensive overview and in–depth, first-hand information on new developments, advanced technologies and current and future applications. With this Final Program we would like to give you an overview of the dimension of the congress and invite you to join us in Munich! Olaf Dössel Congress President Wolfgang C.

Education and Training of the Medical Physicist in Europe.- Concerns of Editors and Publishers: Plagiarism, Rights of Authors, Open Access, etc..- Electroporation of Bone Tissue: Implications for Use in the Treatment of Bone Metastasis with Electrochemotherapy.- Education, clinical training and professional recognition of medical physicists.- Quantification of the experimental limitations of a semiconductor PET camera.- Nanosecond-Duration Electric Pulses Open Nanometer-Size Pores in Cell Plasma Membrane.- Thermosensitive Mn2?+? - Liposomes for MR-Guided Hyperthermia - Solvent-Dependent Mn2?+? Release.- Status of Education and Training in Africa: Focus on South Africa.- Treatment Planning Methods for Efficient Dose Delivery in Radiation Therapy Using Laser Accelerated Particle Beams.- Causes, Detection and Characterization of Tumor Hypoxia.- Experiences of in-field and remote monitoring of diagnostic radiological quality in Ghana using an equipment and patient dosimetry database.- New Frontiers in Pre-clinical Small Animal Radiation Research.- Size Matters - Revealing Small Scale Structures in Large Datasets.- Focus and Context-Visualization without the Complexity.- Electroporation and Behind: The Action of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field.- Application of Morphometric Analysis For Quontitative Evaluation of Liver Biopsies in Therapeutic Trials.- Image-Guided Stereotactic Small Animal Irradiator.- Electric Field Redistribution due to Conductivity Changes during Tissue Electroporation: Experiments with a Simple Vegetal Model.- Nanoparticle-mediated radionuclide-gene therapy of liver cancer.- Development of Laser Accelerated Proton Beams for Radiation Therapy.- An Initial EFOMP Position on the Tuning Process for Masters Programs in Medical Physics in Europe.- The influence of intracellular connections on the electric field induced membrane voltage and electroporation of cells in clusters.- Medical Physics Degree: A Mature Choice For Greece.- Plasma medicine - therapeutic application of physical plasmas.- Numerical models of microneedle electrodes for gene electrotransfer in skin.- Small Animal Imaging with Micro, Flat-panel and Clinical CT-Scanners: An Applicability Analysis.- Intramuscular fat content estimation in the loin muscle of pig carcasses by ultrasound spectral parameter analysis.- Sound velocity and attenuation of porcine loin muscle, backfat and skin.- Design and Synthesis of A Novel Inhibitor of 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate -3-phosphate Synthase.- of Apoptosis and Inhibition of SMMC-7721 Growth by 2-Arsonoacetic Acid.- Laser-accelerated ion beams for future medical applications.- Medical Physics Status in the Middle East Countries.- Locoregional hyperthermia in combination with chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer patients: The Mammatherm-trial.- The Future of Medical Physics The Role of Medical Physics in Research and Development An Opinion.- Application Potentials of Microwave in NanoMagnetic Particle Hyperthermia.- Thermographic measurements of allergen-induced skin reactions.- Vascular Disrupting Action of Electrochemotherapy.- Construction of EGFP Expressing HepG2 Cell Line Using Electroporation.- Automated Laboratory of Electromagnetic Radiation for the Study of Biological Effects and Oncologic Hyperthermia.- Electrically Mediated Gene Delivery to the Skin.- Independent Treatment Time Verification for 3D Conformational Radiotherapy with Cobalt-60 Beam Data from IAEA-TECDOC-1540.- Medical Physics Education and Training in South East Asia.- The Assessment of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Task Load Index (TLI) as Physiological Markers for Physical Stress.- Method for treatment planning of tissue ablation by irreversible electroporation.- Effects of automation to the surgeons.- Analysis of Mechanisms Involved in Gene Electrotransfer - Theoretical and an in Vitro Study.- Reviewing and Editing of Scientific Papers.- Object-oriented Model Library of the Cardiovascular System Including Physiological Control Loops.- Artificial heart valves, flow acceleration and shear stresses.- Optimization of Clinical Radiofrequency Hyperthermia by Use of MR-Thermography in a Hybrid System.- Xenon Biosensors for Multi-Purpose Molecular Imaging.- Automation in Rehabilitation: How to Include the Human into the Loop.- Research in Medical Physics: What, Why, and How.- AFOMP’s Draft Policy #2: “Recommended Clinical Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist Staffing Levels in AFOMP Countries”.- Technology of Cancer Particle Radiation Therapy Based on Ultrafast Intense Laser Generated Proton- and Ion Beams.- (invited for session ‘Automation in medicine’) Mechanical Ventilation: Much Ado about Ventilation Modes.- Fundamentals and Medical Applications of Neutron and Light Spectroscopy of Confined Liquids.- Phase contrast imaging for medical diagnostics: towards clinical application with compact laser-based X-ray sources.- Ethics in Research.- Workshop The Challenge And The Reward Of Being An Entrepreneur In Medical Physics And Biomedical Engineering.- The Art of Grantsmanship.- Influence of anisotropic tissue electrical conductivity on electric field and temperature distribution during electroporation-based therapy.- Mapping the Brazilian Medical Device Innovation System: A Wide Field for Biomedical Engineering Development.- Cell Tracking and Single Cell Imaging by MRI.- The Heat Is on in Cancer.- Nano-medicine in Cancer Therapy.- Advice for Writing a Successful Research Proposal.