Warsaw Medical Physics Meeting 2014

The conference was held from May 15th to May 17th, 2014 in the Heavy Ion Laboratory. It was organised by Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw and the Faculty of Physics, Warsaw University of Technology under the auspices of the Polish Society of Medical Physics.

The presentations and posters presented during the conference concern medical physics, especially innovative methods of neoplastic diseases control, diagnostics and radiopharmaceuticals used for medical purposes as well as the issues of quality and safety of new technologies. The invited speakers gave the lectures about:

• Radioisotope and radiopharmaceutical production center for PET

dr Jarosław Choiński

•  Radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging - current status and perspectives

dr Krzysztof Kilian

•  Quantitative data concerning the normal tissue complication probability after radiotherapy

dr hab. Paweł Kukołowicz

•  Progress in proton therapy - the physicist point of view

prof. dr hab. Paweł Olko

•  NCBJ designed medical accelerators

dr Anna Wysocka-Rabin

•  Not only radiation: why do physicists study cardiovascular system?

dr Teodor Buchner