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Medical Physicist / Associate Research Professor @Cornellvet @VaiderLab @medphyswb Noisic, AI, machine learning, radiation, nurd, Left Twitter for Bluer Skies

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I rarely use Twitter now.. find me here! ->

https://t.co/tvbGfSBsRA

[American Association of Physicists in Medicine @aapmHQ]

Welcome to the first edition of the 2026 AAPM Newsletter! This issue features reporting from the Working Group on Veterinary Radiation Therapy Oncology, updates from the Government Affairs team, and an update from President Robin Miller with an inside scoop on what’s coming.

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A bit late, but here are my favourite spins of 2025 -> https://t.co/weMZS0aWH9

Barker's Stochastic Drift is, without doubt, my favourite release last year.
https://t.co/hCBtcC7M30

Buy it Direct. Support your local artists and local record stores.

#NowPlaying

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@jryckman3 Building such tools requires deep understanding of murky workflows outside of #radonc “one-and-done” pathways. There are tools (e.g. Velocity) but they’re siloed & outside of traditional pacs workflows, and inertia, opportunity costs, and functionality loss is huge.

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Our latest OA paper: “Veterinary oncology data management in the era of artificial intelligence” (Published in Veterinary Oncology, Nov 2025).

We present a framework for data governance, privacy, and sharing tailored to oncology in large institutions.

https://t.co/w7LFkTSfN6

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Just published: A method for embedding cells on radiochromic film for in vitro high-precision radiation dosimetry (Med Phys, Aug 2025)

https://t.co/VJvJSQsNwU

We demonstrate how to seed cells directly onto film to measure radiation dose at the cellular level.

#medphys

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The deadline for abstracts is but a few days away! Join us as we bring together scientists of all types (data/veterinary/medical/biomedical/+), veterinarians, specialists, and more to SAVY!

Abstracts due -> January 31, 2025
Link to abstract submission-> https://t.co/mNaYSV5aEm

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The Symposium on Artificial Intelligence will be held at @cornellvet, NY, from May 16-18, 2025.

Details -> https://t.co/Fju5YJjOgN

Registration Opens->Jan 15
Abstract Deadline-> Jan 31
Early-bird-> March 14
Sponsors -> https://t.co/9RpnuPC5LT

Join us!

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Would you like to know what is WAC? WAC3 is our automated cell counting platform for spindle cells via open-access, web-based Watershed Automatic Cell Colony Counter -> https://t.co/ecXy5GT3WF

Preprint ->https://t.co/yb2rt52M4Z

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I had a great time in Norfolk, Virginia, attending and presenting at the #ACVR2024 annual scientific meeting. One of my sessions was on #OneHealth and #AI.

In short, the message I hoped to transmit was as follows.

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Poll for my #medphys peeps out there...
Would you consider a 'research sabbatical' at a veterinary radiation oncology center? The catch is you'd have to do both patient and machine QA. The bonus is you'd get a 'stipend.'

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@Young_K_Lee @TOwaterfront42k Congrats!

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the vials dont fit… no problem!

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Someone has to feed the 3D printing beast on a weekend!

Does this look familiar #medphys fam?

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@ekharvey more precisely stoichiometry .. and one can compute ED from it

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@Baldersonmichae around 88 get 1.00… but its highly dependent on the filament manufacturer

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@Baldersonmichae Its brown PLA (can send specs) its straightforward to compute PLA/H20 corr. factors if doing dosimetry. This stuff has a ~2% higher ρ than H2O. Among other uses, it can be low cost RED phantom.

[Luc Beaulieu @lubeau05]

As part of a newly financed project, we have opening for master and PhD students starting between January and September 2025 in our CAMPEP Medical Physics program. See details in the attached file and please do share among your network.

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#NowPlaying

For the falling leaves

https://t.co/RjYw7oVJNM

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Epic Systems makes the dominant electronic health record (EHR) system in America; if you're a doctor, chances are you're *required* to use it. For each hour a doctor spends with a patient, they spend *two* hours on clinically useless bureaucratic data-entry on an Epic EHR.

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