Digital Breast Tomosynthesis and Other Topics
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The Mammography Workshop is designed to serve our diverse membership (both in modality and geography) and will present a mix of fundamentals, cutting edge research, and new imaging technologies. Lectures will be delivered by internationally renowned faculty and will be held in English, via zoom. Dr. Peter Watson and Alain Gauvin are leading this initiative.
Participation is open to everyone, with discounts available for COMP members.
Objectives: This workshop will help attendees to:
- Understand the image acquisition process of digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT).
- Identify the considerations in DBT/synthetic 2D image quality and artifacts.
- Understand the components of a QA program for DBT.
- Learn about the clinical challenges and opportunities related to DBT and breast screening.
- Keep up to date with the CAR mammography accreditation requirements.
Continuing Education Credits
This COMP workshop has been approved by CAMPEP for 16.25 MPCEC credits.
Endorsed by the America Association of Physicists in Medicine. 
Workshop Schedule:
| Day 1: March 31 | Theme: General/Technology | |
| Time (EASTERN) | Session Topic | Speaker |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Welcome Remarks and review of goals | Peter Watson - McGill University Health Centre/McGill University |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Technological advances in DBT - hardware considerations | James Mainprize - Sunnybrook Research Institute |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Technological advances in DBT - software considerations | Andrew Maidment - University of Pennsylvania |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | BREAK | |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | DBT in Clinical Practice (synthetic 2D, etc.) | Matthew Seidler - CHUM |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | ACR Quality technologist and physicist QC | Doug Pfeiffer - Boulder Community Health |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Discussion session - Artifacts Examples |
| Day 2: April 14 | Theme: QA | |
| Time (EASTERN) | Session Topic | Speaker |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Welcome Remarks and review of goals | Elena Tonkopi - Nova Scotia Health Authority |
| 11:15 - 12:15 | Tomosynthesis QC: European approach (EUREF) | Ruben E. van Engen - Dutch Expert Centre for Screening (LRCB) |
| 12:15 - 13:00 |
Vendor specific QC in tomosynthesis: Siemens Healthineers |
Stefan Veitanhansl - Siemens Healthineers |
| 13:00 - 13:30 | BREAK | |
| 13:30 - 14:15 | Vendor specific QC in tomosynthesis: Hologic | Tushita Patel - Hologic Inc. |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Vendor specific QC in tomosynthesis: GE | Romain Brevet - GE Healthcare |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Discussion session - QC questions |
| Day 3: April 21 | Theme: Logistics & IT | |
| Time (EASTERN) | Session Topic | Speaker |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Welcome Remarks and review of goals | Alain Gauvin - Connectimage Medical Inc. |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Experience of BC with remote quality control | Rasika Rajapakshe - BC Cancer- Kelowna |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | CAR Mammography accreditation update | Marc Venturi - CAR |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | BREAK | |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Specimen Radiography | Joanne Muldoon - Hologic Inc. |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Specific IT needs in tomosynthesis | Alain Gauvin - Connectimage Medical Inc. |
| 15:00 - 15:45 | Discussion session - remote workstation |
| Day 4: April 28 | Theme: Clinical perspective and Future Initiatives | |
| Time (EASTERN) | Session Topic | Speaker |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Welcome Remarks and review of goals | Stephanie Schofield - Nova Scotia Health Authority |
| 11:15 - 12:00 | Clinical perspective (DBT today, DBT biopsy, multimodality) | Jean Seely - The Ottawa Hospital |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | DBT from USA technologist experience | Suzanne Watring - NorthShore University Health System |
| 12:45 - 13:15 | BREAK | |
| 13:15 - 14:00 | Discussion session | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Tomosynthesis and other technologies in the past, present and future: impact on women's health | Martin Yaffe - Sunnybrook Research Institute and The University of Toronto |
Planning Committee:
Peter Watson, workshop co-director, McGill University Health Centre | Montréal, QC
Alain Gauvin, workshop co-director, Connectimage Medical Inc. | Montréal, QC
Elena Tonkopi, Nova Scotia Health Authority | Halifax, NS
Stephanie Schofield, Nova Scotia Health Authority | Halifax, NS
Marija Popovic, Education Committee Chair, McGill University Health Centre | Montréal, QC
Erika Brown, COMP, Grimsby, ON
Khadija Cutcher, COMP, Ottawa, ON
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