03 Jan    Rajiv Gupta  (Dept. of Radiology)
State of the Art and Future Research Directions in Volumetric CT Imaging with Flat Panels
 
 
10-Jan    Timothy Chan     (OR Center, MIT)
Robust IMRT optimization         
 
 
17-Jan     Ross Berbeco    (Brigham and Women's)
Residual Motion of Lung Tumors in Gated Radiotherapy with External Respiratory Surrogates
 
 
24-Jan    no presentation    
 
 
31-Jan     Stewart Becker    (U Wisconsin, Madison, net talk)
Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation in the Prone Position with Helical Tomotherapy        
 
 
7-Feb     Christian Thieke    (German Cancer Research Center)  
First clinical protoype of a multicriteria IMRT planning system       
 
 
14-Feb     Harald Paganetti, George Chen, Steve Jiang    
Short summaries of "Deformable and 4D patient modeling with phantoms", Varian meeting    
 
 
21-Feb    no presentation    
 
 
03-Mar     Ben Clasie    (Friday)     (MIT)  
The MIT Laser-Driven Target and the BLAST experiment  
     
07-Mar     Katia Parodi    
PET/CT for proton therapy verification - Phantom experiments    
 
 
14-Mar    no presentation    
 
 
21-Mar     Katia Parodi    
PET/CT for proton therapy verification - Patient studies    
 
 
28-Mar     Michael Monz    (ITWM Kaiserslautern Germany)  
MIRA - Multi-criteria interactive radiation therapy assistant      
 
 
04-Apr    no presentation    
 
 
11-Apr     Jeffrey Yap     (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)  
PET CT Image Guided RT    
 
 
18-Apr     Alexei Trofimov    
RPM analysis    
 
 
25-Apr     Paul Segars     ( Johns Hopkins University)  
Medical imaging simulation of mice and men    
02-May     Gregory Sharp    
Marker tracking and gating    
 
 
09-May     Alexander Scherrer    
Adaptive clustering for IMRT optimization    
 
 
16-May     Leo Gerweck    
Tumor cell sensitivity is the primary determinant of tumor response to radiation    
 
 
23-May     Gregory Sharp    
Fast approximate template matching    
 
 
30-May     Joao Seco    
Effects of intra-fraction motion on IMRT treatments with segments of few monitor units    
 
 
06-Jun    no presentation    
 
 
13-Jun    no presentation (PTCOG meeting)    
 
 
20-Jun     Ziji Wu    
Deformable registration with anatomical sub-region segmentation    
 
 
27-Jun     Shinichiro Mori    
Water equivalent range maps from 4D CT data:  Works in Progress    
 
 
04-Jul    holiday    
 
 
11-Jul     Thomas Bortfeld,  Jay Flanz
Summary of the PTCOG PSI meeting and IMPT pre-meeting    
18-Jul     Maria Francesca Spaeda     (Politecnico di Milano)    
Opto-electronic tumor targeting in extra cranial high-precision radiotherapy    
 
 
25-Jul     Lily Tang    
Real-time tumor tracking system using multiple hypothesis analysis    
 
 
01-Aug    AAPM meeting    
 
 
08-Aug     Ryosuke Kohno    (National Cancer Center, Kashiwa)     
Overview of clinical and physics operations at Kashiwa    
 
 
15-Aug     Yair Censor    
Acceleration of sequential and parallel projection methods    
 
 
24-Aug     Coen Rasch    (Thursday     (NKI Amsterdam)     Yawkey #2230)
Introducing IGRT into the clinic              
 
 
29-Aug     Jingli Kiger     (MIT)    
Radiobiology of normal rat lung in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy    
05-Sep    no seminar    
 
 
12-Sep     Jim Dempsey    (Univ. Florida, ViewRay)     (net meeting)   
Device for Volumetric Real Time IGRT    
 
19-Sep     Emily Heath     (McGill University,  Montreal General Hospital)   
4D Monte Carlo dose calculations in lung using direct voxel tracking    
26-Sep     Perry Zhang     (Columbia Univ.)     (net meeting)
Image Guided Probability Based Plan Optimization    
 
 
03-Oct     Jan Unkelbach    
Accounting for range uncertainties in intensity-modulated proton therapy    
 
 
10-Oct     -     PTCOG / ESTRO    
 
 
17-Oct     Wenli Cai     (MGH Radiology)  
Automated segmentation and virtual simulation    
24-Oct     Mukta Joshi     (GE Medical Systems)
Overview of Computer Assisted Detection, treatment   planning and follow up imaging for cancer    
 
 
31-Oct    brown bag meeting    
 
 
07-Nov     ASTRO    
 
 
14-Nov     Andrew Wroe    
Secondary Neutron doses in passively scattered proton therapy    
 
 
21-Nov    no seminar    
 
 
28-Nov     Joao Seco & Harald Paganetti    
Clinical use of proton and photon Monte Carlo at the FBPTC    
 
 
05-Dec     Pierre Frederic Villard     (Univ. of Lyon, France)    
Pulmonary-Motion Simulation for Ionizing-Beam Treatment    
12-Dec     George Chen    
Report of CNAO meeting Milano    
 
 
19-Dec     Jeffrey Coderre     (MIT, Nucl. Science Eng.)    

Selective Vascular Irradiation