SFPM NANCY

The French Society of Medical Physics (SFPM) organizes annual days to contribute to the scientific information of professionals in Radiotherapy, Medical Imaging and Nuclear Medicine. In 2023, the congress will take place from June 7 to 9 in Nancy.

The people concerned by these scientific days will be medical physicists, radiotherapists, medical electroradiology technicians, biomedical technicians, dosimetrists, medical physics students and physicist assistants.

Technical and methodological developments in the care of patients with cancer are appearing at a significant pace, requiring continuous updating of knowledge.

In imaging, scanner, MRI and PET provide images used for diagnosis but also for targeting tumors in therapeutic procedures. Today these images are used by artificial intelligence software that professionals must appropriate and ensure their use in terms of security quality.

The treatment devices benefit from many technical sophistications in continuous evolution. New devices appear and must be investigated. It is necessary that professionals specializing in innovations can transmit the first knowledge and recommendations to their colleagues.

The three scientific days include 7 sessions devoted to radiotherapy, 2 sessions in medical imaging, 2 sessions in nuclear medicine, a one-day seminar in nuclear medicine, 2 sessions devoted to dosimetrists, 4 sessions have a theme common to the 3 disciplines and a session includes a debate of ideas.

The teaching methods will be conferences, theoretical presentations, debates and presentations of scientific work by national teams whose work will have been previously selected by the scientific committee of the congress.

Guest speakers will begin each radiotherapy session. The main topics covered in its sessions will be the harmonization of stereotaxy with the return of the working group of physicists from ESTRO, quality assurance, automated contouring, robust planning, management of inter and intra fractional movements, re-irradiations, innovative treatment techniques. The theme of the debate will be “will medical physicists be replaced by artificial intelligence in 2030”. The theme of the joint session between the French Society of Medical Physics and the French Society of Oncological Radiotherapy will be online adaptive radiotherapy.

The medical imaging sessions will address the technological principles and clinical interests of photonic counting scanners and will present an inventory of quality controls in medical imaging with a focus on future developments in mammography and scanners.

Nuclear medicine will address the theranostic approach.