Pieces of Interest from COMP for the week of July 31 – Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics Conference 2023/How a wedge can increase beam transmission in conventional proton therapy/CARO-COMP JSM 2023

Published on: July 31, 2023

• Registration is open for the second annual Canadian Undergraduate Medical Physics conference happening August 23 & 24, 2023! If you are interested in learning about research in medical physics that Canadian undergraduates have been conducting, register to attend here: https://www.cumpc.ca/ 
  
• Colleagues at the Paul Scherrer Institute are developing a way to achieve higher doses and shorter treatment times for cancer patients undergoing proton therapy. Using momentum cooling replaces the slit found in conventional proton therapy energy selection systems with a wedge that converts the spread of energies to a lower energy, keeping lower energies low while shifting higher energies to lower ones. Read more here.
• Early bird registration closes next week on August 10th for the CARO-COMP Joint Scientific Meeting! Join us in Montreal for Interprofessional Collaboration: Better Together! *COMP Members – check your email for the COMP registration code.