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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 physicsworld. Congratulations!
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.
First treatment at new Gordon Browne proton center
27 February 2020
We treated our first patient at the new Gordon Browne proton therapy center. This is the first time a proton therapy system (ProTom Radiance 330) was retrofitted in treatment rooms designed for conventional radiation treatments. The technical development at MGH was led by Ben Clasie, Ph.D., with substantial support from Greg Sharp, Ph.D., Drosoula Giantsoudi, Ph.D., Brian Winey, Ph.D., John Wolfgang, Ph.D., Ken Jee, Ph.D., Nick Depauw, Ph.D. and many others.
Nature publication on somatic drivers
05 February 2020David Craft, Ph.D. co-authored a recent Nature publication on somatic drivers.
First patient scanned with prompt gamma spectroscopy
29 January 2020The first proton therapy patient was scanned with our prompt gamma spectroscopy system, which was developed from first principles to a clinical system by Joost Verburg, Ph.D. and his team over the past 7 years. Congratulations for this significant achievement!
Upcoming Events
| 22 Sep 2020 12:00PM - 01:00PM Arthur Lalonde (MGH): Toward online adaptive proton therapy using cone-beam CT data: feasibility and impact in head and neck patients (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 23 Sep 2020 12:00PM - 01:00PM Marc Lipsitch (Professor of epidemiology and director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics at Harvard University): Epidemiology of COVID-19: Implications for Control (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 29 Sep 2020 12:00PM - 01:00PM Roxanne Glazier (MGH) (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |