The Czech Association of Medical Physicists in collaboration with EFOMP and the Department of Dosimetry and Application of Ionizing Radiation of Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague would like to invite you to the next EFOMP School for Medical Physics Experts 2015. The school will cover the main physics aspects of digital mammography and quality controls, putting them in a clinical context. It is addressed to medical physicists who are already Medical Physics Experts (MPEs) or are working to become MPEs in Diagnostic Radiology. This two-and-half day event will be accredited by EFOMP. As in previous schools, there will be an optional final exam for those seeking a higher level of certification beyond the school attendance.

Contents

Digital Mammography Overview – General overview on current clinical challenges in breast imaging (screening and diagnostic), physics and technology of 2D digital mammography, CR mammography, physical characterization of 2D digital systems.

Image Quality and Quality Control – Image quality with phantoms compared to clinical image quality. Assessing image quality by phantoms, and optimization strategies. Quality controls, acceptance/commissioning and reproducibility tests. Presentation of the EFOMP protocol on quality controls in digital mammography.

Practical Sessions – Physical characterization demo, hands-on activities on the EFOMP protocol (X-ray source, automatic exposure control, and detector tests), experiment to illustrate difference between image quality human- and computer-based.

New applications of digital mammography - State of the art and clinical challenges in breast tomosynthesis, breast CT, and contrast mammography. Recommendations for QC tests.