Upcoming Events
| 14 Jul 2020 12:00PM - 01:00PM No Physics Seminar (AAPM) (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 21 Jul 2020 12:00PM - 01:00PM Wonmo Sung (MGH): Predictive modeling of clinical benefits of adding radiotherapy to immunotherapy for hepatocellular carcinoma (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
| 28 Jul 2020 12:00PM - 01:00PM Raanan Marant / Atchar Sudhyadhom (MGH) (Physics Seminar) Goitein Room |
Job and thesis project opportunities are available.
June 2020: Presentation about equity, diversity, inclusion in Medical Physics by Jennifer Pursley, Ph.D..
May 2020: Interview with David Craft, Ph.D., on RADformation.
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.
April 2020: We are leading a new MICCAI challenge: Anatomical Brain Barriers to Cancer Spread: Segmentation from CT and MR images.
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.
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 signifiant effort.
February 2020: David Craft, Ph.D. co-authored a recent Nature publication on somatic drivers.
January 2020: The 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!
July 2019: Abdel Hammi, Ph.D. won 2nd place in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Young Investigator competition.
June 2019: Joost Verburg, Ph.D. received the Michael Goitein best abstract award in physics at the annual conference of the Particle Therapy CoOperative Group (PTCOG).
December 2018: Our proton range detector was listed as one of the 5 breakthroughs of the year in medical physics and biosciences.
November 2018: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. receives a highly competitive Damon Runyon-Rachleff Innovation Award that supports the next generation of exceptionally creative thinkers with "high-risk/high-reward" ideas. Congratulations!
October 2018: Variable RBE impacts proton therapy of liver cancer (Physics World)
September 2018: Thomas Bortfeld, Ph.D. receives the Glocker Medal, the highest award of the German Society of Medical Physics (DGMP). It is named after Richard Glocker, the last Ph.D. student of Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen.
September 2018: Precise proton range detector gets ready for the clinic (Physics World and featured article in PMB)
July 2018: David Gierga, Ph.D. was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
May 2018: Jay Flanz, Ph.D. was re-elected as the Chairman of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) for the second term.
April 2018: Jan Schuemann, Ph.D. is the 2018 recipient of the Michael Fry Research Award of the Radiation Research Society. Congratulations, Jan, on this well deserved honor for your significant accomplishments.
March 2018: Stefan ten Eikelder will receive the Jan Hemelrijk Award for his Master’s thesis "Optimal fractionation for combined photon-proton treatments" from The Netherlands Society for Statistics and Operations Research. He also received the Tilburg University Master’s Thesis Prize 2017 and the Philips prize for Data Science in Healthcare, one of the Young Talent Awards of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Congratulations Stefan!
February 2018: Susu Yan, Ph.D. received an early career scholarship award at the Winter Institute of Medical Physics
February 2018: Three ways to make proton therapy affordable (ESTRO news)
Videos about our work
These videos were published by the Institute of Physics (physicsworld):
1. A pioneering approach to cancer treatment
Mission:
“The Division of Radiation Biophysics improves clinical outcomes by leading innovative research, development, and clinical application of imaging techniques, multimodality therapies, and computational methods while providing patients with the highest level of safety, efficiency, and accuracy of their treatments.”