When: Every Tuesday at 12:00 noon
Where: Goitein room, Francis H. Burr Proton Center, 30 Fruit St, Boston, MA

 
January
Jan 10 Sarah St. James, PhD (BWH)
 
 
 
 
 
Jan 13 (Friday Special Seminar) Dan Low, PhD (UCLA)
 
Jan 17 Bruce Curran, PhD
 
 
Jan 24 Mauro Testa, PhD (Radiation Oncology MGH, Harvard)
 
Jan 31
 
 
February
Feb 7 Andrew J M Kiruluta, PhD (Radiology Deparment MGH, Harvard)
 
 
 
Feb 14

Feb 21 Andrew J M Kiruluta, PhD (Radiology Deparment MGH, Harvard)

Computation MR Imaging: Diffusion and Conductivity in Biological Tissue


Feb 28 Harald Paganetti, PhD (Radiation Oncology MGH, Harvard)
NIH grant for medical physics projects: Part 1: Grantsmanship 
 
 
March
March 6 Harald Paganetti, PhD (Radiation Oncology MGH, Harvard)
NIH grant for medical physics projects: Part 2: Understanding the submission and review process
 
 
March 13 Andrew J M Kiruluta, PhD (Radiology Deparment MGH, Harvard)
Spectral Domain Interpretation of the Diffusion Problem: Encoding for Varying Time Scales

 

 
 

 

March 20 Eva Ratai, PhD (Radiology Deparment MGH, Harvard)
MR Spectroscopy
 
 
March 27 Julien Dinkel, PhD (Radiology U Heidelberg, Radiology MGH)

CT and MRI of the lung. A step into the fourth dimension 

 
April
Apr 3

 


Apr 10
 
 
Apr 17 George Barbastathis, PhD (Mechanical Eng., MIT)

Quantitative phase imaging for medical and security applications

 
Apr 24
 
 
May
May 1 Drosoula Giantsoudi, Phd (Radiation Oncology, MGH)

LET-guided optimization for IMPT

 
May 8 Synho Do, PhD (Radiology, MGH)
Practical Compressed Sensing Methods in Tomographic systems

May 15

May 22
 
May 29 Eric Klein, PhD (Washington University) 
The proton project at Washington University 
 
June
June 5 Chuan Zeng, PhD (Radiation Oncology, MGH) 
  
 Effect-driven optimization in hypofractionated proton therapy
 
 
June 12 Ludvig Paul Muren, PhD
Organ motion and its influence on morbidity predictions 
  
June 19 Dominique L. Jennings, PhD (Radiology and Martinos Imaging Center, MGH)

Mechanistic Imaging of Tumors

 
June 26 Gabriel Sawakuchi, PhD (Carleton Univ. Ottawa Canada)
 Towards cell nucleus microdosimetry using fluorescence nuclear track detectors (FNTDs)
 
 
July
July 3

July 10

July 17 Clemens Grassberger, MSc (Radiation Oncology, MGH)

4D Monte Carlo simulations of the Interplay effect in lung patients

 
 
July 24 Christie Lin, MS (Radiation Oncology MGH, Nuclear Science and Engineering MIT)
 Linear Regression Analysis of 2D Projection Image Data of 6 Degrees-­of-­Freedom Transformed 3D Image Sets for Stereotactic Radiation Therapy
 
August
Aug 7 Fei Peng (University of Michigan)
A new column generation based algorithm for VMAT treatment plan optimization

Aug 14 Choonsik Lee, PhD (Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics National Cancer Institute, NIH)
Organ dose reconstruction for patients undergoing computed tomography and conventional radiation therapy
 
 
Aug 21
 
 
Aug 28
 
 
 
September
Sept 4 David Hansen (Aarhus University, Denmark)
Image Reconstruction for Proton Tomography
 
 
Sept 11 Stephen Dowdell, PhD (Radiation Oncology, MGH)
Influence of treatment parameters on the interplay effect in PBS for lung patients
 
 
Sept 18 Marcel Lauterbach, PhD (University Paris Descartes, France)
Optical Superresolution Microscopy - STED Movies from the Nanoworld
 
Sept 25
 
 
 
October
Oct 2
 
 
Oct 9
 
Oct 16 Stephen Petit, PhD (Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, and Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
Exploiting intra tumor and lung heterogeneity with radiotherapy
 
Oct 23 Nora Hunemohr, MSc (German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg Germany)
Ion range estimation with dual energy CT
 
 
Oct 26 (Friday Special Seminar)
Steve Jiang, PhD (UCSD) Adaptive therapy and next generation treatment planning
Xun Jia, PhD (UCSD) Low dose and dynamic CBCT imaging
 
Oct 30 Ken Takeda, MD (Radiation Oncology, University Hospital Sendai, Japan)
 The great east Japan earthquake and tsunami: a radiation oncologist's eye view
 
November
 
Nov 6
 
Nov 13 Timothy Chan, PhD (University of Toronto)
Inverse inverse planning
 
 
Nov 20
 
Nov 27
 
 
December
Dec 4
 
 
Dec 11
Stephen Petit, PhD (Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht, and Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
 The range uncertainty paradox: sparing normal tissue by increasing the tumor dose
 
Dec 18