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George Georgiev

Medical Physics Assistant
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125 Nashua Street, 3rd floor, 3202-C
Boston, MA 02114, USA
773 710 5539, 617 539 6752

Education

  • 2015 (expected) Ph.D. University of Massachusetts, USA, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology (CAMPEP approved program)/Massachusetts General Hospital, USA – therapeutical medical physics program track
  • 2008 M.S. University of Massachusetts, USA, Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology program
  • 2003 M.S. Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria, Medical Physics program
  • 2002 M.S. Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria, Chemistry and Physics program

Work Experience

  • 2007 – Present Medical Physics Assistant - Massachusetts General Hospital, Radiation Oncology Department, USA
  • 2005-2007 Teaching assistant - University of Massachusetts-Lowell, USA

Publications

  1. Clinical implementation and error sensitivity of a protocol for 3D thoracic and prostate IMRT quality assurance (in print, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics)
  2. Computing proton dose to irregularly moving targets. Justin Phillips et al 2014 Phys. Med. Biol. 59 4261 doi:10.1088/0031-9155/59/15/4261

Conference Proceedings and Abstracts

  1. Evaluating the Effects of Excess Breathing Motion on Proton Dose Coverage. J. Phillips, G. Gueorguiev, C. Grassberger, H. Paganetti, G. Sharp. American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 2015 meeting
  2. Proton Dose Calculation for Irregular Motion Using a Sliding Interface. J. Phillips, G. Gueorguiev, C. Grassberger, H. Paganetti, G. Sharp. 57 American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting 2015
  3. Validation of a differential approach for proton pencil beam computation in heterogeneous medium. M. Desplanques, J. Phillips, Y. Park, G. Gueorguiev, G. Magro, A. Mairani, M. Ciocca, G. Baroni, G. Sharp. Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) 2015
  4. Clinical implementation of a novel transmission detector for 3D quality assurance during radiation therapy. G. Gueorguiev, F. Khan, C. Cotter, J. Turcotte, B. Crawford, G. Sharp, M. Mah'D, World Congress of Medical Physics, Canada, 2015
  5. An open-source treatment planning system for research in particle therapy: Implementation and dosimetric evaluation. M. Desplanques, G. Gueorguiev, G. Sharp. World Congress of Medical Physics, Toronto, Canada, 2015
  6. Error Sensitivity and Superiority of a Protocol for 3D IMRT Quality Assurance. G. Gueorguiev, C. Cotter, J. Turcotte, G. Sharp, M. Mah'D, B. Crawford. 56 American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting 2014, SU-E-T-152
  7. Open Source Software for Proton Treatment Planning in Heterogeneous Medium. M. Desplanques, K. Wang, J. Phillips, G. Gueorguiev, G. Baroni, G. Sharp. 56 American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting 2014, TH-A-19A-1
  8. Clinical implementation of a protocol for 3D IMRT quality assurance. G. Gueorguiev, C. Cotter, J. Turcotte, B. Crawford, G. Sharp, M. Mah’D. Radiation protection in medicine 2014 meeting
  9. A Protocol for 3D IMRT Quality Assurance of Prostate Radiotherapy. G. Gueorguiev, G. Sharp, M. Mah’D, J. Turcotte, B. Crawford. 55 American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting 2013, SU-E-T-189
  10. Computing Proton Dose to Irregularly Moving Targets. J Phillips, G. Gueorguiev, J. Shackleford, C. Grassberger, S. Dowdell, H. Paganetti, G. Sharp. 55 American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting 2013, TU-A-108-6
  11. Dose perturbations caused by gold fiducial CT artifacts during proton lung radiation treatment. G. Gueorguiev, M. Mah’D, G. Sharp. World Congress of Thoracic Imaging 2013, SO-0070 (Young Investigator Award won)

 Professional Certifications

  • American Board of Radiology - passed part 1
  • European School of Medical Physics]

Professional Affiliations

  • Member - American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM)
  • Member - New England Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
  • Member - Radiological Society of North America
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