BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Toronto BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20210114T032637Z UID:E23900AC-8FF8-4A71-8C15-2CE4FD7A64A7 DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20201127T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Toronto:20201127T170000 DESCRIPTION:Medical linear accelerators are among the most complicated and expensive medical devices used in healthcare today. Operating under simila r physical principles as high energy accelerators used for particle physic s research\, medical accelerators must also be configured and reduced in s ize and scale to be practical in a hospital environment. The process for l earning how to maintain and service these devices can be lengthy due to th e physical complexity of the device\, and the layers of knowledge that are required to understand the different systems that make up the machines. A s well\, since the medical linac is configured to specific operating point s\, any adjustments must be done very carefully to ensure that the machine does not change it's clinical configuration or that harm may come to the unit if the electron beam deviates from its specific path.\n\nSIMAC is a m edical linac simulator that simulates the basic physical operating princip les of the linear accelerator. It models the electron beam acceleration pr ocess and steering to the target as well as modelling the bremsstrahlung p hotons created in the target. It simulates beam peaking or tuning\, beam s teering as well as beam flatness. It is web based and can be used to under stand the operating principles of a linear accelerator without accessing a real machine. It also comes with a series of lessons\, laboratory like ex ercises and quiz assessments so that the learner can study linac operating principles and theory at their own pace. It is designed to allow a new li nac service technician to gain sufficient knowledge of the accelerator so that they understand the basic operating theory and have a good feeling fo r how different components of the accelerator interact with each other. Th is presentation will give an overview of the SIMAC simulator and learning environment\, and how they are used to teach linear accelerator functional ity.\n\nSpeaker(s): Marco Carlone\, PhD\, P.Eng. FCOMP\, \n\nToronto\, Ont ario\, Canada\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/249020 LOCATION:Toronto\, Ontario\, Canada\, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.o rg/m/249020 ORGANIZER:costas.sarris@utoronto.ca SEQUENCE:4 SUMMARY:A web based linear accelerator training tool URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/249020 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><p>Medical linear accelerators are among the most complicated and expensive medical devices used in healthcare today. O perating under similar physical principles as high energy accelerators use d for particle physics research\, medical accelerators must also be config ured and reduced in size and scale to be practical in a hospital environme nt. The process for learning how to maintain and service these devices can be lengthy due to the physical complexity of the device\, and the layers of knowledge that are required to understand the different systems that ma ke up the machines. As well\, since the medical linac is configured to spe cific operating points\, any adjustments must be done very carefully to en sure that the machine does not change it's clinical configuration or that harm may come to the unit if the electron beam deviates from its specific path.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>SIMAC is a medical linac simulator that simu lates the basic physical operating principles of the linear accelerator. I t models the electron beam acceleration process and steering to the target as well as modelling the bremsstrahlung photons created in the target. It simulates beam peaking or tuning\, beam steering as well as beam flatness . It is web based and can be used to understand the operating principles o f a linear accelerator without accessing a real machine. It also comes wit h a series of lessons\, laboratory like exercises and quiz assessments so that the learner can study linac operating principles and theory at their own pace. It is designed to allow a new linac service technician to gain s ufficient knowledge of the accelerator so that they understand the basic o perating theory and have a good feeling for how different components of th e accelerator interact with each other. This presentation will give an ove rview of the SIMAC simulator and learning environment\, and how they are u sed to teach linear accelerator functionality.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR