Therapy Imaging Program (TIP)
Supported by Federal Share of program income earned by MGH on C06 CA059267
(T. Bortfeld, G. El Fakhri, R. Jeraj)
TIP Mission
To achieve the best proton therapy treatment through advanced imaging.
To support NCI proton therapy clinical trials at MGH and elsewhere using imaging as a biomarker.
Physics News in 2018
July 30: David Gierga, Ph.D. was elected as a Fellow of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM).
May 30: Jay Flanz, Ph.D. was re-elected as the Chairman of the Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) for the second term.
April 2: 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 16: 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 24: Susu Yan, Ph.D. received an early career scholarship award at the Winter Institute of Medical Physics
February 6: The HST 531 course "Medical Physics of Proton Radiation Therapy" will start on February 6
Videos about our work published on physicsworld.com
Recent work highlighted in the media
October 2018: Variable RBE impacts proton therapy of liver cancer (Physics World)
February 2018: Three ways to make proton therapy affordable (ESTRO news)
November 2017: Celebrating the International Day of Medical Physics
February 2017: Anterior proton delivery: handle with care
January 2017: TOPAS-nBio enables radiobiology simulations
November 2015: Nanoparticles target tumor vasculature
May 2015: Improving PET monitoring of proton therapy
March 2015: Proton radiographs improve range prediction
January 2015: Nanoparticles boost proton dose
April 2014: Horizons 2013: Connecting physicists in medicine
December 2013: Time-resolved data simplify proton imaging
November 2013: IMPT: Addressing Range Uncertainties
November 2013: Resolving gamma lines verify proton range
September 2013: The Expanding Roles of Medical Physicists
June 2013: Resolvable gammas boost range verification
April 2013: MRI reveals proton range in the liver
April 2013: Monte Carlo techniques in radiation therapy
April 2013: Limiting interplay effects in proton therapy
April 2013: In-room PET treatment verification
January 2013: The interdependence of optimal fractionation schemes and the spatial dose distribution
December 2012: GPU accelerates proton dose calculations
May 2012: Reducing out-of-field doses in scanning proton therapy using apertures