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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.
Read more at physicsworld.com.
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.
Upcoming Events
| 26 Jan 2021 12:00PM - 01:00PM Dr. Shawn Demehri (MGH): Immunity to Commensal Papillomaviruses for Cancer Prevention (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 02 Feb 2021 12:00PM - 01:00PM Tyler Miller, MD, PhD (MGH): Targeting the innate immune system to fight glioblastoma (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 09 Feb 2021 12:00PM - 01:00PM Zohreh Amoozgar, PhD (MGH): Reprogramming tumor microenvironment to potentiate immunotherapy (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |