If you can make it, you can share it - Perspectives on the first DIY-fair at the European congress of medical physics (ECMP, DUBLIN 2022)

Miika T Nieminen; Irene Hernandez-Giron; Jonas S Andersson

doi:10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.103214

If you can make it, you can share it - Perspectives on the first DIY-fair at the European congress of medical physics (ECMP, DUBLIN 2022)

Phys Med. 2024 Feb:118:103214. doi: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.103214. Epub 2024 Jan 18.

Authors

Miika T Nieminen¹, Irene Hernandez-Giron², Jonas S Andersson³

Affiliations

¹ Research Unit of Health Sciences and Technology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland; Department of Diagnostics, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland. Electronic address: miika.nieminen@oulu.fi.
² School of Physics, University College Dublin (UCD), Dublin, Ireland.
³ Department of Radiation Sciences, Radiation Physics, Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden.

PMID: 38238110
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmp.2024.103214

Abstract

The medical physics and engineering community is known for being active in conjuring do-it-yourself (DIY) -solutions to support their clinical and research work. To facilitate the exchange of solutions and ideas, a DIY-fair was held for the first time at the European Congress of Medical Physics (ECMP) in August 2022 in Dublin, Ireland. Altogether 32 contributions were presented, consisting of software, scripts, 3D-printed customized solutions, devices, gadgets and phantoms. All contributions were published in video format on a dedicated YouTube channel, and most were also presented in person at the conference. The fair demonstrated that there is an unmet need for sharing and distributing information on self-created solutions in the medical physics community. The authors propose the creation of a dedicated platform for sharing such content within our community, as well as a continuity of DIY-fairs at future ECMP meetings.

Keywords: 3D printing; Do-it-yourself; Medical physics; Phantoms; Programming; Scripts.

MeSH terms

Congresses as Topic
Humans
Ireland
Physics*