Advanced Technology QA Consortium (ATC) Meeting
Held at RTOG Semi-Annual Meeting
Tampa, Florida, February 2, 2007


Meeting Agenda (with links to presentations in PDF format)

8:00 AM   Project Officer Report (Deye)  -  Dr. Deye was unable to attend meeting
8:15 AM   P.I.'s Report (Purdy)
8:30 AM   Workshop on Advanced Technologies in Radiation Oncology Summary (Vikram)
8:45 AM   Update on ATC compliant Treatment Planning Systems and IHE Effort (Bosch)
8:55 AM   Industry informatics efforts within ATC
 
  • CMS at ITC (Bosch/Purdy)
  • TeraMedica at ITC (Bosch/Purdy)
  • IMPAC at RTOG (Galvin)
  • Varian Eclipse at RPC (Ibbott)
9:15 AM   QARC/RPC 3DCRT Benchmark (Urie/Ibbott)
9:25 AM   QARC use of ATC Method 1 (Ulin)
9:35 AM   Image Database for RT Clinical Trials/QARC caBIG In Vivo Imaging Workspace efforts (Urie)
9:45 AM   Review of RTOG Existing/Developing Protocols pertinent to ATC Support (Martin/Galvin)
10:15 AM   Break
10:30 AM   RTOG SBRT Localization Credentialing Test (Galvin)
10:40 AM   NSABP B39/RTOG 0413 support by ATC; feasibility of increasing support for volumetric data acquisition for Arm 1-whole breast irradiation (WBI) (Straube/Ibbott/Martin)
10:50 AM   ATC PET Efforts (RTOG 0522/RTOG 0515) (Martin/Bosch/Young)
11:00 AM   RPC report on Phantom/IMRT benchmark credentialing of ATC supported protocols (Ibbott)
11:15 AM   Dose Calculation Algorithm/Heterogeneity Corrections Clinical Trial issues (Ibbott/Alvarez)
11:45 AM   ITC Dry-Run Credentialing Events and Data Integrity QA Database/Review Issues (Straube/Haynes)
12:00 PM   Lunch
1:00 PM   Transfer of RTOG case compliance QA review and score database from ITC to RTOG (Straube/Martin)
1:15 PM   NCIC report on implementing ATC Method 2 (Field/Palta)  -  (1) Software documentation, (2) administration software tools, (3) bug fixes, (4) test results, and (5) timeline for production use.
1:35 PM   RCET report on their ATC grant/subcontract supported/related efforts (Palta/Frouhar)  - Dr. Palta presented RCET's competing response to RFA.
1:45 PM   Report on CERR developments; Bioinformatics issues (Deasy)
2:15 PM   Update on EORTC ATC Supported Meningioma Protocol (Bosch/Purdy)
2:25 PM   Update on GENEPI Workshop on submission/review systems for RT treatment data held in Brussels on Dec. 11, 2006 (Bosch/Purdy)
2:35 PM   Update on NABTT ATC Support (Purdy)
2:45 PM   Status of JCOG 0403 Protocol: Phase II study of SBRT in patients with T1N0M0 NSCLC and second SBRT protocol (Ishikura)
3:00 PM   Break
3:15 PM   ATC support of NCI guidelines for the use of protons in protocols (Deye/Urie)
3:30 PM   RTOG 0626 status (DeLaney)
3:45 PM   Treatment Planning Atlas-patients with high-risk prostate cancer or who require post-op RT following radical prostatectomy (Michalski)
3:55 PM   Adaptive Radiation Therapy Clinical Trials Requirements-ATC Developmental Needs (Michalski)
4:10 PM   New Credentialing Proposal: Revamp and simplify credentialing so that it is no longer so protocol specific (Straube)
4:25 PM   Next Meetings/Teleconferences (Purdy and all participants)
4:35 PM   Review of ATC Priority List and Open Discussion (Purdy and all participants)
5:00 PM   Adjourn

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