Physics Seminar 2010

January
Jan 12 George Xu (Rensselaer PI / MGH)
Medical Physics Research at RPI – A Journey in Search of the Next Big Thing

Jan 22 Clinical + Physics research forum
Thomas DeLaney, MD and Hanne Kooy, PhD
Pencil beam scanning for proton therapy

Jan 26 Thomas Bortfeld (MGH / HMS)
Single-Arc IMRT (Rapidarc, VMAT): is the hype justified?
 
 
February
Feb 1 Joint MGH / Brigham and Women's Hospital Physics Seminar (at BWH, Bornstein Amphitheater, 5pm)
Robert Jeraj (U Wisconsin)
How is molecular imaging changing radiation oncology?

Feb 2 Marloes Steneker (NKI / MGH)
Application of VMAT in the Netherlands Cancer Institute

Feb 9 Matt Davidson (MIT)
Design and Analysis of 241Am Photon Irradiators for Biological Applications

Feb 16 MIT externship project review
Nadya Shusharina Deformable image registration with explicit landmark constraints
Matthew Bieniosek The X-ray Generator/Flat Panel Interface
Paul Burkard (presented by GTY Chen) Mediastinal lymph node coverage with an anterior proton beam

Feb 19 Clinical + Physics research forum
Henning Willers, MD and Joao Seco, PhD
Stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for thoracic tumors

Feb 23 Lauren O'Donnell (BWH)
White matter atlases for segmentation, quantification, and surgical planning
 
 
 
March
March 2 Bjoern Menze (MIT) 
Image-based and patient-adaptive modeling of tumor growth in patients with glioma

March 9 Clemens Grassberger (ETH Zurich / MGH) 
Towards biologically optimized treatment planning for proton therapy: Monte Carlo calculated Linear Energy Transfer distributions in patients
 
March 19 Clinical + Physics research forum
Torunn Yock, MD and Harald Paganetti, PhD
Risk of second malignancies
 
March 23 Miguel Cortes-Giraldo (Univ of Sevilla /MGH) 
Improving computational efficiency in Monte Carlo simulations of a passive scattering proton therapy nozzle
 
March 30 Matthias Schneider (BU) 
Excitable two dimensional films: Acoustic Microfluidics - Blood Clotting and the Physics of Nerves
 
 
 
April
 Apr 26 Joint MGH / Brigham and Women's Hospital Physics Seminar (at MGH Etherdome, Monday 5pm)
Joseph Deasy (Washington U)
The QUANTEC review of normal tissue tolerance

Apr 27 Hsiao-Ming Lu, Hanne Kooy, Thomas Bortfeld
New treatment planning technologies
 
 
 
May
May 4 Christoph Börgers, Scott MacLachlan (Tufts U)
Deterministic radiation dose calculation

May 11 Bryan Bednarz, Jan Unkelbach (MGH)
Preview of PTCOG presentations

May 18 Wei Chen (MGH)
From a fast feasibility solver to an epsilon-optimality solver for RT optimization.

March 21 Clinical + Physics research forum
Helen Shih, MD and David Craft, PhD
Multicriteria optimization of RT treatment planning
 
May 25 Nicolas DePauw, Joao Seco (MGH)
Proton radiography
 
 
 
June
June 8 Jagdish Ramakrishnan (MIT)
Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART) planning for variable anatomy
 
June 15 Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst. student presentations (George Xu, advisor)

Bin Han: “Simulated Range Uncertainty Measurements Using a Time-Resolved Range Telescope and 4DCT data”

Matt Mille: “Dosimetry of Electronic Brachytherapy”

Jianwei Gu: “Modeling of CT and PET Scanners for Patient Dose Management”

Yong Hum Na: “Posture-Changable and Respiration-Simulating Phantoms”

 
June 22 Stefan Both (U Penn)

Prostate Radiotherapy - Balloons, Beacons, Markers and Beams



June 29  Samuel España-Palomares (MGH)
Update on Proton P01 projects:

1) The impact of the CT conversion algorithm when predicting proton beam ranges in patients using Monte Carlo dose calculation or PET range verification

2) Effect of CT voxel size on the delivered dose to lung patients in proton therapy

 
 
July
July 6 David Gladstone (Dartmouth)
Radiation induced cardiomyopathy as a function of radiation beam gating to the cardiac cycle

July 13 Joao Seco (MGH)

Development of the First MGH Proton Range Telescope (PRaT) Prototype

  
July 27 Uwe Schneider (Univ of Zurich)
Proton radiography
 
 
 
August
Aug 3 Yi Wang (MGH/ Harvard Physics Residency)
Dosimetric impact of inter-fractional variations in proton therapy of prostate cancer
 
Aug 10 Yading Yuan (MGH / Harvard Medical Physics Residency)

Correlative analysis of breast lesions on multi-modality images.

 
Aug 17 Marta Peroni (Politecnico di Milano)

Automated segmentation and plan adaptation for head-and-neck cancer

 
Aug 24 Shahid Naqvi (U Maryland)
 Lifting the Curse of Dimensionality: Why Monte Carlo dose engines will not only be more accurate
but also more efficient in addressing modern day complex treatment geometries with multiple moving parts
 
 
 
 
September
Sept 7  Jan Unklebach (MGH)
ESTRO presentations:

1. Robustness of a treatment plan

2. Inverse planning and Optimization - Opening the Black Box

 
Sept 21 Benjamin Williams (Dartmouth)

Human Applications of In Vivo Electron Paramagnetic Resonance Spectroscopy: Tissue Oximetry and Radiation Biodosimetry

 
Sept 28 Milos Hasan
Shadie:  a domain-specific language for volume visualization 
 
 
 
October
 Oct 12 Alejandro Carabe-Fernandez (MGH)
Fractionation effects in particle radiotherapy: implications for hypo-fractionation regimes
 
Oct 19 Maryam Moteabbed (MGH)
Monte Carlo patient study on the comparison of prompt gamma and PET imaging for range verification in proton therapy.
 
 
 
November
 
Nov 9 Stephen Dowdell (MGH)
Hardware parameter optimisation and dedicated Monte Carlo simulations for proton beam scanning
 
Nov 10 Andrea Cherubini (Institute of Neurological Sciences, Catanzaro, Italy)
Structural MRI methods applied to Neurological Diseases
 
Nov 17 Marco Schippers (PSI)

Experience with the superconducting cyclotron for fast scanning techniques at PSI

 
Nov 30 Lei Dong (U Texas/  MD Anderson CC, Houston)  

Stopping Power Ratio (SPR) Uncertainties in Proton Treatment Planning

 
 
December
Dec 7 Nadya Shusharina (MGH)
Landmark-based image registration with analytic regularization
 
Dec 14    Robert Stewart (U Washington, Seattle) and David Carlson (Yale)

Mechanistic Modeling of the Effects of Radiation Quality in Proton and Carbon Ion Therapy

 

Dec 21 Jan Unkelbach (MGH)
Priority-based multi-criteria optimization