[ RadSafe ] New Shielding Symposium

[ROBBARISH at aol.com]

Dear colleagues:
 
A few weeks ago I participated as a speaker at the radiation shielding  
symposium organized by the Southeast Chapter of the American Association of  
Physicists in Medicine (SEAAPM). There was an overflow crowd, and people  who were 
interested in attending had to be turned away. From my perspective, as  someone 
who is now exclusively doing shielding design work, all of  the talks were 
extremely well organized and particularly useful.
 
That symposium occurred shortly after the publication of the new NCRP  Report 
No. 147 on medical x-ray imaging facility shielding.
 
It is expected that AAPM TG-57, which has finished its work on a new  
document addressing radiotherapy shielding, will also have its report published  by 
the NCRP sometime in the next few months.
 
A local medical physics consulting company has organized another two-day  
symposium, to be held on 29 and 30 September, here in New York City. Authors of  
these new diagnostic and therapy related NCRP reports will be the featured  
speakers.
 
To learn about this educational symposium go to:
 
_http://www.ictradiotherapy.com/events.asp_ 
(http://www.ictradiotherapy.com/events.asp) 
 
Rob Barish