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2008 PLanUNC Users Workshop

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The 2008 PLanUNC Users' Workshop was held in Chapel Hill, NC on April 23-25. Twenty-one attendees from 10 institutions participated in the workshop.

More pictures from the 2008 Workshop can be found here. Information about our previous workshop can be found here

The workshop covered three days, and included talks and labs about basic PLanUNC usage, new PLanUNC features, and instruction on how to adapt PLanUNC for your own research. The 2008 course schedule is listed below.

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 – Basic PLanUNC Usage

8:00 - 8:30 Lecture 1: Introduction and Welcome
8:30 – 9:15 Lab 1: Installing PLanUNC
9:15 – 9:45 Lecture 2: PLanUNC: Capabilities and New Features
9:45 – 10:00 Coffee Break
10:00 – 10:30 Case Study I: Physician’s Perspective
10:30 – 11:00 Case Study II: Physicist’s Perspective
11:00 – 12:00 Lab 2: Using PLanUNC to plan a 4-field breast case
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 Lab 2: Continued
2:00 – 2:45 Lecture 3: Commissioning in PLanUNC
2:45 – 3:00 Coffee Break
3:00 – 5:00 Lab 3: Commissioning a linac in PLanUNC

Thursday, April 24, 2008 – New PLanUNC Features

8:00 – 8:15 Morning introduction and question period
8:15 – 9:00 Lecture 4: Convolution-superposition dose calculation
9:00 – 10:00 Lab 4: Commissioning convolution-superposition in PLanUNC
10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break
10:15 – 11:15 Lab 4: Continued
11:15 – 12:00 Lecture 5: PLanUNC DICOM-RT import/export features
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 Lab 5: Using DICOM-RT with PLanUNC
1:45 – 2:30 Lecture 6: ConStruct – New image analysis tools
2:30 – 3:00 Lab 6: Using ConStruct
3:00 – 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:00 Lab 6: Continued
4:00 – 4:30 Lecture 7: SNAP – an alternative automatic segmentation tool

Friday, April 25, 2008 – Programming and Adapting PLanUNC

8:00 – 8:15 Morning introduction and questions from attendees
8:15 – 9:30 Lecture 8: PLanUNC data structures
9:30 – 9:45 Coffee break
9:45 – 12:00 Lab 7: Importing an external dose distribution into PLanUNC
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 Lecture 9: Programming in PLanUNC
1:45 – 2:30 Lab 8: Implementing a new dose engine in PLanUNC
2:30 – 2:45 Coffee break
2:45 – 4:00 Lab 8: Continued
4:00 – 5:00 Questions, closing, and course evaluation

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