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The 2000 World Congress was the largest assembly of Medical Physicists and Biomedical Engineers ever held. The Congress incorporated seven organizations: The International Union of Physical and Engineering Sciences in Medicine (IUPESM), The International Federation for Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE), The International Organization of Medical Physicists (IOMP), The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), The Canadian Organization of Medical Physicists (COMP), The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) and The Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE (EMBS). Close to 6000 participants came to Chicago.
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Voigt, H., Magjarević, R. (2014). World Congress Chicago, 2000. In: Voigt, H., Magjarevic, R. (eds) Launching IFMBE into the 21st Century: 50 Years and Counting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-30160-5_10
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