World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, September 7 - 12, 2009, Munich, Germany: Vol. 25/13 Special Topics and Workshops

Front Matter....Pages -
Education and Training of the Medical Physicist in Europe....Pages 1-4
Concerns of Editors and Publishers: Plagiarism, Rights of Authors, Open Access, etc.....Pages 5-7
Electroporation of Bone Tissue: Implications for Use in the Treatment of Bone Metastasis with Electrochemotherapy....Pages 8-9
Education, clinical training and professional recognition of medical physicists....Pages 10-12
Quantification of the experimental limitations of a semiconductor PET camera....Pages 13-16
Nanosecond-Duration Electric Pulses Open Nanometer-Size Pores in Cell Plasma Membrane....Pages 17-20
Thermosensitive Mn 2 +  - Liposomes for MR-Guided Hyperthermia - Solvent-Dependent Mn 2 +  Release....Pages 21-24
Status of Education and Training in Africa: Focus on South Africa....Pages 25-27
Treatment Planning Methods for Efficient Dose Delivery in Radiation Therapy Using Laser Accelerated Particle Beams....Pages 28-31
Causes, Detection and Characterization of Tumor Hypoxia....Pages 32-35
Experiences of in-field and remote monitoring of diagnostic radiological quality in Ghana using an equipment and patient dosimetry database....Pages 36-39
New Frontiers in Pre-clinical Small Animal Radiation Research....Pages 40-40
Size Matters - Revealing Small Scale Structures in Large Datasets....Pages 41-44
Focus and Context-Visualization without the Complexity....Pages 45-48
Electroporation and Behind: The Action of Nanosecond Pulsed Electric Field....Pages 49-52
Application of Morphometric Analysis For Quontitative Evaluation of Liver Biopsies in Therapeutic Trials....Pages 53-54
Image-Guided Stereotactic Small Animal Irradiator....Pages 55-58
Electric Field Redistribution due to Conductivity Changes during Tissue Electroporation: Experiments with a Simple Vegetal Model....Pages 59-62
Nanoparticle-mediated radionuclide-gene therapy of liver cancer....Pages 63-65
Development of Laser Accelerated Proton Beams for Radiation Therapy....Pages 66-69
An Initial EFOMP Position on the Tuning Process for Masters Programs in Medical Physics in Europe....Pages 70-73
The influence of intracellular connections on the electric field induced membrane voltage and electroporation of cells in clusters....Pages 74-77
Medical Physics Degree: A Mature Choice For Greece....Pages 78-81
Plasma medicine - therapeutic application of physical plasmas....Pages 82-83
Numerical models of microneedle electrodes for gene electrotransfer in skin....Pages 84-87
Small Animal Imaging with Micro, Flat-panel and Clinical CT-Scanners: An Applicability Analysis....Pages 88-91
Intramuscular fat content estimation in the loin muscle of pig carcasses by ultrasound spectral parameter analysis....Pages 92-95
Sound velocity and attenuation of porcine loin muscle, backfat and skin....Pages 96-99
Design and Synthesis of A Novel Inhibitor of 5-Enolpyruvylshikimate -3-phosphate Synthase....Pages 100-101
Introduction of Apoptosis and Inhibition of SMMC-7721 Growth by 2-Arsonoacetic Acid....Pages 102-105
Laser-accelerated ion beams for future medical applications....Pages 106-107
Medical Physics Status in the Middle East Countries....Pages 108-110
Locoregional hyperthermia in combination with chemotherapy for metastatic breast cancer patients: The Mammatherm-trial....Pages 111-113
The Future of Medical Physics The Role of Medical Physics in Research and Development An Opinion....Pages 114-116
Application Potentials of Microwave in NanoMagnetic Particle Hyperthermia....Pages 117-119
Thermographic measurements of allergen-induced skin reactions....Pages 120-123
Vascular Disrupting Action of Electrochemotherapy....Pages 124-127
Construction of EGFP Expressing HepG2 Cell Line Using Electroporation....Pages 128-131
Automated Laboratory of Electromagnetic Radiation for the Study of Biological Effects and Oncologic Hyperthermia....Pages 132-135
Electrically Mediated Gene Delivery to the Skin....Pages 136-139
Independent Treatment Time Verification for 3D Conformational Radiotherapy with Cobalt-60 Beam Data from IAEA-TECDOC-1540....Pages 140-142
Medical Physics Education and Training in South East Asia....Pages 143-145
The Assessment of Heart Rate Variability (HRV) and Task Load Index (TLI) as Physiological Markers for Physical Stress....Pages 146-149
Method for treatment planning of tissue ablation by irreversible electroporation....Pages 150-153
Effects of automation to the surgeons....Pages 154-157
Analysis of Mechanisms Involved in Gene Electrotransfer - Theoretical and an in Vitro Study....Pages 158-161
Reviewing and Editing of Scientific Papers....Pages 162-165
Object-oriented Model Library of the Cardiovascular System Including Physiological Control Loops....Pages 166-169
Artificial heart valves, flow acceleration and shear stresses....Pages 170-173
Optimization of Clinical Radiofrequency Hyperthermia by Use of MR-Thermography in a Hybrid System....Pages 174-175
Xenon Biosensors for Multi-Purpose Molecular Imaging....Pages 176-179
Automation in Rehabilitation: How to Include the Human into the Loop....Pages 180-183
Research in Medical Physics: What, Why, and How....Pages 184-185
AFOMP’s Draft Policy #2: “Recommended Clinical Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist Staffing Levels in AFOMP Countries”....Pages 186-189
Technology of Cancer Particle Radiation Therapy Based on Ultrafast Intense Laser Generated Proton- and Ion Beams....Pages 190-192
(invited for session ‘Automation in medicine’) Mechanical Ventilation: Much Ado about Ventilation Modes....Pages 193-196
Fundamentals and Medical Applications of Neutron and Light Spectroscopy of Confined Liquids....Pages 197-199
Phase contrast imaging for medical diagnostics: towards clinical application with compact laser-based X-ray sources....Pages 200-203
Ethics in Research....Pages 204-205
Workshop The Challenge And The Reward Of Being An Entrepreneur In Medical Physics And Biomedical Engineering....Pages 206-207
The Art of Grantsmanship....Pages 208-209
Influence of anisotropic tissue electrical conductivity on electric field and temperature distribution during electroporation-based therapy....Pages 210-213
Mapping the Brazilian Medical Device Innovation System: A Wide Field for Biomedical Engineering Development....Pages 214-217
Cell Tracking and Single Cell Imaging by MRI....Pages 218-220
The Heat Is on in Cancer....Pages 221-221
Nano-medicine in Cancer Therapy....Pages 222-222
Advice for Writing a Successful Research Proposal....Pages 223-223
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