Physics Division - Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology

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Proton Therapy
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Monte Carlo Simulation
Deformable Image Registration
In Vivo Proton Range Verification
Mathematical Modeling - Trial Design
Multicriteria Optimization
Robust Optimization

Jan Schuemann Elected VP of the Radiation Research Society

20 July 2021

Congratulations to Jan Schuemann, PhD, Associate Director of Radiation Physics Research, who has been named VP-elect for the Radiation Research Society (RRS). Learn more about the RRS at www.radres.org.

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. Read more: ESTRO newsletter,...

2021 AAPM Awards & Honors

02 March 2021

Congratulations 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 2021

The 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...

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...