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Optimal adaptation using mid-treatment imaging biomarkers
29 March 2021
Recent work by Stefan ten Eikelder et al. has shown that improved benefit in TCP/NTCP can be expected for a substantial number of patients through employment of the OSRT (optimal stopping in radiation therapy) paradigm, even in cases of relatively high uncertainties.
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2021 AAPM Awards & Honors
02 March 2021Congratulations to two members of the Mass General Radiation Oncology Physics Division, who have been recognized with awards/honors from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)! Clemens Grassberger, PhD, has been awarded the 2021 AAPM John S. Laughlin Young Scientist Award! This award recognizes outstanding scientific achievement in medical physics for early-career members of the AAPM. Only one award is granted in any given year. Greg Sharp,...
New Summer Fellowship Opportunity
21 January 2021The Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Radiation Oncology Physics Division is excited to introduce the Physics Diversity Summer Fellowship.This new opportunity is a 10-week summer fellowship designed to introduce medical physics to undergraduate students from backgrounds that have traditionally been under-represented in medicine/science. Click here to learn more.
Open-source software detects potential collisions in radiotherapy plans
30 October 2020
A team at Massachusetts General Hospital has developed RadCollision – an open-source collision detection tool designed to aid dosimetrists planning photon or proton beam radiotherapy. When embedded in a treatment planning system (TPS), the modular software platform takes just seconds to automatically calculate whether a gantry head will collide with the patient or treatment couch.
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Best in Physics at AAPM
13 July 2020
Joost Verburg, Ph.D. and co-authors received the "Best in Physics" distinction (multi-disciplinary category) for their work "First-In-Human Use of Prompt Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy for Proton Range Verification" at the 2020 annual meeting of the AAPM/COMP. The work was also highlighted in...
Presentation about equity, diversity, inclusion
02 June 2020
Presentation about equity, diversity, inclusion in Medical Physics by Jennifer Pursley, Ph.D..
Engineering support for COVID-19 treatment
15 April 2020
Tom Ruggieri, our physics technology supervisor, has been working with a team of engineers to build adapters that make home care ventilators usable for COVID-19 patients. The first systems are being deployed in the clinic.
MICCAI challenge
10 April 2020We are leading a new MICCAI challenge: Anatomical Brain Barriers to Cancer Spread: Segmentation from CT and MR images.
Pencil-beam scanning at all gantries in Burr proton center
28 February 2020
We converted our second gantry at the Burr Proton Therapy Center to full pencil beam scanning (PBS) operation and treated our last patient with the passive scattering technique. It is the end of an era at MGH and the beginning of a new one. Thanks to the entire team for this significant effort.
Upcoming Events
| 13 Apr 2021 12:00PM - 01:00PM Magdalena Bazalova-Carter (UVic): Can we deliver FLASH radiotherapy with x-rays? (Physics Seminar) Virtual |
| 20 Apr 2021 12:00PM - 01:00PM William Hwang (MGH): Elucidating intratumoral heterogeneity and multi-compartment reprogramming after neoadjuvant treatment in pancreatic cancer at single-cell resolution (Physics Seminar) Virtual |
| 27 Apr 2021 12:00PM - 01:00PM Meenal Datta, PhD (MGH) (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |