The USTUR Director was the Landauer Memorial Lecturer at the 54^th Annual Health Physics Society' Meeting, 12-16 July 2009, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Stacey McCord gave an oral presentation on the new USTUR Pathology database and Sergei Tolmachev presented a poster entitled "Elemental Bio-imaging of Actinides and Beryllium in Lymph Nodes of Former Nuclear Workers."

Idaho State University students, George Tabatadze, Nino Chelidze, Dan Mecham, and Maia Avtandilashvili also presented their research at the meeting.

   Abstracts and Presentation links.

The USTUR Director has been appointed as an Associate Member of the European Radiation Dosimetry Group (EURADOS).

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In January, the 2008 Newsletter (Issue No. 15) was mailed to current (living) USTUR Registrants and the next-of-kin of deceased donors who wish to continue receiving news of USTUR’s progress.

   Download the December 2008 newsletter.

Three-dimensional voxel images for A) all regions of interest and B) cortical bone voxels only.

George Tabatadze, M.S., a Ph.D. candidate in the Idaho State University (ISU)/USTUR Internal Dosimetry Research Group, with the help of medical physicists at the Portneuf Medical Center, Pocatello, ID, has successfully created 3-dimensional voxel images of the regions of interest in the DOE Case 0102 ²⁴¹Am head phantom. He used the complete set of contiguous 2-dimensional CT-scan slice (Dicom) images published on the USTUR web site.

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USTUR staff conducted a workshop at Idaho State University (ISU), July 7-9, 2008, and attended the presentations and successful defenses of Naz Fallahian’s doctoral dissertation and Liesl Germann’s master’s thesis.

Learn more about this Graduate Research Workshop and USTUR/ISU collaboration.

Sergei Tolmachev and Stacey McCord attended the 53^rd Annual Health Physics Meeting in Pittsburgh, PA, July 13-17, 2008, where Ms. McCord gave an oral presentation on upgrading the internal USTUR health physics database. ISU students, Naz Fallahian, George Tabatadze, and Liesl Germann also presented their research at the meeting.

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The USTUR has added a 'Conference Contributions' link to its homepage. This static link provides easy access to recent USTUR conference contributions and is located between the 'Graduate Projects' and 'Publications' links below the flashing image.

The 'Conferene Contributions' link (circled in red) is located below the flashing image on the homepage.

   Visit the new 'Conference Contribuitions' page.

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