When: Every Tuesday at 12:00 noon
Where: Goitein room, Francis H. Burr Proton Center, 30 Fruit St, Boston, MA
Contact: Kyung-Wook Jee --
January
no seminars
February
Feb 26 Paul Wilson, Brookhaven
March
Mar 19 Florian Dittmann
(Use of Diffusion Tensor Images in Glioma Growth Modeling for Radiotherapy Target Delineation)
Mar 25 Martin Reijzek - Special Physics Seminar at noon, Goitein room
(Application of 'system safety' in a proton therapy facility)
Mar 26 Indrin Chetty, Henry Ford Hospital
(Technical challenges associated with IGRT technologies)
April
Apr 2 Stephen Dowdell, MGH
(Comparison of Full Intensity Modulated and Single Field Uniform Dose Proton Beam Scanning Lung Treatments)
Apr 9 Maryam Moteabbed, MGH
(Does Pencil Beam Scanning provide therapeutic advantages over Passive Scattered Proton Therapy for pediatric patients?)
Apr 16
Apr 23 Karl Fritscher, UMIT
(Using statistical models of appearance for medical image segmentation and computer aided diagnosis)
Apr 30 Hao Gao, Emory University
(Tensor framelet based novel reconstruction methods for better and faster CT imaging)
May
May 7 Jeremy Chapman, Brown University
(Direct Detection of Dark Matter using the LUX Liquid Xenon Time Projection Chamber)
May 14
May 21
May 28
June
June 4
June 11 John Martin, MIT/MGH Steele Lab
(Causes, consequences, and remedies for growth-induced solid stress in murine and human tumors)
June 18 Archis Ghate, University of Washington
June 20 B.L. Gorissen, Tilburg University
(Mixed integer programming improves comprehensibility and plan quality in inverse optimization of prostate HDR-brachytherapy)
June 25 Leo Gerweck, MGH Steele Lab
(Estimated Life Time Risk of 2nd Cancers from Proton Beam Therapy)
July
July 2
July 9 Ronald Zhu, MD Anderson
(Quality Assurance for Spot Scanning Proton Therapy: System and Patient Specific)
July 16 Ehsan Salari, MGH
(A mathematical framework for the fractionation problem in concurrent chemoradiotherapy)
July 23 Jacob Flanz, MGH
(What are the goals of the next generation of Proton Therapy)
July 30 AAPM practice talks
August
Aug 6 AAPM
Aug 13 Michael Baumann, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden
(Biological perspectives for personalized radiation oncology: perclinical experiments, clinical translation)
Aug 15 Clemens Grassberger, MGH
(Are we underestimating the field-size effect for protons in lung?)
(Are we underestimating the field-size effect for protons in lung?)
Aug 20 Edwin Romeijn, University of Michigan
(NSF funding opportunity)
Aug 27 Tarek Halabi, MGH
(Landau and Lifshitz’ Formulation of Le Chatelier’s Principle: An Insight into Symbiosis?)
Aug 30 Brendan Whelan, University of Sydney
(Enabling Access to Advanced Radiotherapy Treatment Techniques through Patient Rotation)
September
Sept 3
Sept 10
Sept 17 Marcel van Herk, NKI
Sept 24 ASTRO
October
Oct 1 Edmund Mroz, MGH
(Measuring intra-tumor heterogeneity and its relation to outcome)
Oct 8 Goerge Chen, MGH
(How often is your work cited? Google Scholar vs Science Citation Index)
Oct 15 Junguo Bian, MGH Radiology
Oct 22 Bill Freeman, MIT
(Eulerian video magnification--a microscope for motions and small color changes)
Oct 29 Rasmus Bokrantz, RaySearch
(Treatment plan optimization in RayStation—recent advancements and ongoing developments)
Oct 30
Marnix Witte, NKI
(Probabilistic Planning for photon treatments)
Ruijiang Li, Stanford
(Real-Time Imaging in Radiation Oncology: Technical Innovation and Clinical Applications)
November
Nov 5 Ivan Kolesov
(Interactive Segmentation for Medical Images)
Nov 12
Nov 19
Nov 26
December
Dec 3 Stephen J. Dowdell
(The optimal 4D treatment plan - a report on the PSI 4D treatment planning workshop)
Dec 10 Reinhard Schulte, Loma Linda
(An Update on Research and Development in Proton Technology at LLUMC)
Dec 17 David Kodack, MGH Steele Lab
Dec 24
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