07-Jan Harald Paganeti, Ali Can (CENSSIS)
Implementing 4D Imaging into 4D Monte Carlo dose calculation

14-Jan Ross Berbeco, Greg Sharp
IRIS design issues / Tumor trajectory prediction models

21-Jan Ward Jennekens
Optimizing pencil beams for proton therapy

28-Jan Sang Lee
Monte Carlo simulations of clinical studies

04-Feb Herman Suit
The 10 scientific highlights in 2002
 
11-Feb Bernie Gottschalk
On the characterization of SOBPs and the definition of "modulation"

19-Feb Hongyu Jiang (MIT)
Application of the Monte Carlo method in developing an industrial system and a medical system for radiation detection

25-Feb Stella Flampouri (Royal Marsden, London)
Optimisation of radiotherapy beams for portal imaging

04-Mar Piran Sioshansi (RadioMed)
Linear markers for organ localization

06-Mar Geoff Hugo (UCLA, via internet)
Dosimetry of respiratory gated IMRT

11-Mar Journal Club: Image Guidance
Herman/Rosenzweig, Med. Phys. 30(3), 287-289, 2003
Steve Jiang, Skip Rosenthal, Ross Berbeco Meeks et al., IJROBP 55(4), 1092-1101, 2003
Wagman et al., IJROBP 55(3), 659-668, 2003

18-Mar Eike Rietzel
Update on the status of 4D CT at MGH

25-Mar Hanne Kooy, Sashi Kollipara
Linux cluster, computer environment at MGH Rad Onc

01-Apr AAPM abstracts

08-Apr Censsis meeting

15-Apr Discussion (A. Niemierko)
Is Monte Carlo dose calculation capable of or, possibly, better suited for 4DCT-based treatment planning than other dose calculation techniques?

22-Apr Toni Neicu
Syncronized moving aperture radiation therapy (SMART): dynamic MLC leaf sequencing with motion

29-Apr Jen-San Tsai (Maine General)
Tomotherapeutic IMRT

02-May Michael Scholz (GSI, Darmstadt, Germany)
RBE modeling for hadron therapy

06-May Jong Kung, Piotr Zygmanski, William Que
DMLC leaf segmentation algorithm that is least sensitive to intrafractional organ motion

13-May canceled (PTCOG meeting Chester, UK)

20-May David Gierga
A Monte Carlo study of intrafractional organ motion effects for lung IMRT delivery

27-May PTCOG review

03-Jun Martijn Engelsman
Superposition algorithm for lung treatment planning

10-Jun David Jaffray (Princess Margaret, Toronto)
An Integrated Approach to High Precision RT of the Prostate

17-Jun Jan Wilkens (DKFZ Heidelberg, MGH)
RBE modeling for inverse planning in proton radiotherapy

24-Jun Bijan Arjomandy (Loma Linda)
Loma Linda Proton Experience

01-Jul Bernd Voss (GSI Darmstadt, Germany)
Detector equipment for heavy ion therapy at GSI/Heidelberg

08-Jul Alex Trofimov
A study of IMPT/IMRT treatment planning for a moving target

15-Jul Greg Sharp
Summary of Tohoku and Hokkaido visit

22-Jul Martijn Engelsman
Proton treatment planning for lung tumors

29-Jul Cynthia Pope
Measurement of the intra-fraction organ motion effect in lung IMRT treatment using EDR2 film

05-Aug George Chen
Summary of the London (Royal Marsden) and Orsay visits

12-Aug AAPM meeting

19-Aug Bill Worstell (PhotoDetection Systems)
PET instrumentation for proton radiotherapy verification

21-Aug Yair Censor (Haifa University)
Projection algorithms for inverse problems in radiation therapy treatment planning

26-Aug AAPM participants AAPM review

02-Sep Ryland Degnan & Jong Kung
Identifying DMLC plans that are least sensitive to intrafractional organ motion

09-Sep David Castanon (Boston University)
Fusion & identification of obscured objects

16-Sep Marc Bussiere
Proton radiosurgery at MGH

23-Sep Hongyu Jiang
Proton Monte Carlo dose calculation based on CT data

30-Sep Harald Paganetti, 
Summary of ESTRO physics meeting in Geneva

07-Oct Greg Sharp et al.
Journal club: Adaptive filtering in radiotherapy

14-Oct Alexei Trofimov
Proton radiotherapy in Moscow and in Dubna

21-Oct ASTRO meeting

28-Oct NEAAPM meeting

04-Nov John Humm (Memorial Sloan Kettering)
PET-CT for radiotherapy planning

11-Nov Cihat Ozhasoglu (Pittsburgh)
Respiratory motion compensation techniques for radiotherapy: Real-time tumor tracking and natural breath-holding

18-Nov

25-Nov George Chen
Summary of ASTRO and PTCOG meetings

02-Dec Nick Iftimia (Wellman Labs, MGH)
Optical diagnostics technologies for clinical medicine

09-Dec Eike Rietzel
4DCT image formation and clinical protocol

16-Dec no presentation

23-Dec Hsiao-Ming Lu
Left breast treatment using respiratory maneuvers


30-Dec no presentation