Activities summary from 2005 to 2006 -- INOR

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Period from Year 2005 to 2006

1. Teaching, Training and Collaboration

Teaching radiological physics and instrumentation to Trainee Medical Officers (TMOs) of attached Ayub Teaching Hospital Complex (ATHC), Abbottabad as well as practical training in Nuclear Medicine Department.

Technical trainings to PIEAS fellows, both in nuclear medicine and radiotherapy departments.

2. Publications / Presentations/Events

Director INOR attended the first meeting of the “PAEC Nuclear Medicine Thyroid Group” on subject: Consensus Group on Thyroid Treatment Protocol, held at MINAR, Multan.
Mr. Amjad Hussain (Medical Physicist) attended cobalt teletherapy training at Bangkok
Dr. Asif Jielani (Nuclear Physician) and Mr. Wazir Muhammad (Medical Physicist) attended the first meeting of working group for IAEA TC project “PAK/06/019” at MINAR Multan
Dr. Asif Jielani (Nuclear Physician) attended IAEA RCA training course on “Radionuclide Treatment of Liver Cancer” at NORI, Islamabad
Mr. Amjad Hussain (Medical Physicist) and Dr. Saif Ur Rehman (Radiotherapist) attended the first meeting of working group for project IAEARCA/06/040 at IRNUM Peshawar
Mr. Qaisar Abbas Rizvi (Junior engineer) attended the second meeting of working group for project IAEARCA/06/040 at IRNUM Peshawar
Mr. Wazir Muhammad attended training on Linear Accelerator at Czech Republic
A scientific paper titled “Release Criteria from Hospitals of I-131 Thyrotoxicosis Therapy Patients in developing countries—Case Study” by Wazir Muhammad, Amjad Aziz Khan, Amjad Hussain has been published by the journal of Radiation Protection Dosimetry, Oxford University (February 7, 2006)
Dr. Saif Ur Rehman attended training on Linear Accelerator at Czech Republic
Linear Accelerator has been installed, accepted and commissioned successfully and is operational now

3. Research Project

INOR is the counterpart institute for a joint project at MINAR Multan, conducted by IAEA, “To establish a Model QA & QC programme for Radiation Application in Medicine”
INOR is the counterpart institute of the project “PAEC Nuclear Medicine Thyroid Group” conducted by PAEC
INOR is the counterpart institute for a joint project at IRNUM Peshawar, conducted by IAEA, titled “Improvement in QA Of Radiotherapy for Treatment of Frequent Cancers in Pakistan and Building & Improving the Regional Capability for Repair & Maintenance of Radiotherapy Equipment: IAEA/RCA/06/040”
M.S. Medical Physics Projects (PIEAS Fellows)
1. “Wedge factor dependence with depth and field size at nominal SAD & SSD setups”
  Supervised by: Amjad Hussain (Senior Scientist, INOR)
2. “Comparison of the IAEA TRS-398 and AAPM TG-51 protocols in the dosimetry of photon and electron beams”
  Supervised by: Wazir Muhammad (Junior Scientist, INOR)