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News

Optimal adaptation using mid-treatment imaging biomarkers

29 March 2021

Optimal adaptation using mid-treatment imaging biomarkers 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

Open-source software detects potential collisions in radiotherapy plans 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

Best in Physics at AAPM 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...

Presentation about equity, diversity, inclusion

02 June 2020

Presentation about equity, diversity, inclusion Presentation about equity, diversity, inclusion in Medical Physics by Jennifer Pursley, Ph.D..

Interview on machine learning

19 May 2020

Interview on machine learning Interview with David Craft, Ph.D., on RADformation.

Engineering support for COVID-19 treatment

15 April 2020

Engineering support for COVID-19 treatment 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 2020

We 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

Pencil-beam scanning at all gantries in Burr proton center 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.

Upcoming Events

13 Apr 2021
12:00PM - 01:00PM
Magdalena Bazalova-Carter (UVic): Can we deliver FLASH radiotherapy with x-rays? (Physics Seminar)
Virtual
20 Apr 2021
12:00PM - 01:00PM
William Hwang (MGH): Elucidating intratumoral heterogeneity and multi-compartment reprogramming after neoadjuvant treatment in pancreatic cancer at single-cell resolution (Physics Seminar)
Virtual
27 Apr 2021
12:00PM - 01:00PM
Meenal Datta, PhD (MGH) (Physics Seminar)
Goitein Room
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