04-Jan     Herman D. Suit (Special Lecture -  5 pm - Ether Dome)
The History of the MGH Radiation Oncology Department: Part I

11-Jan     Roelf Slopsema     
Scanning proton beams: the implementation of Wobbling at the NPTC

13-Jan     William Paul Segars ( Johns Hopkins Medical Institutes)  Thursday,  8 am   
NCAT – 4D computer phantom for thorax
  
25-Jan     speaker flight cancellation due to snow storm

01-Feb     Harald Paganetti     
Impact of prolonged treatment times with IMRT and IMPT

08-Feb     Greg Sharp     
Integrated Radiotherapy Imaging System (IRIS) 2005

15-Feb     no presentation

22-Feb     Daniel Kim (SUNY Syracuse)    
Glue Solutions for HDR Brachytherapy and PC Uptime

01-Mar     brown bag meeting

08-Mar     Huanmei Wu     
Modeling, Analysis and Prediction of Tumor Respiratory Motion

15-Mar     Vlad Boldea     
Comparison of 3D Deformable Registration Methods for Breath-hold Reproducibility Study in Radiotherapy

22-Mar     Robert Levine     
Optimized electron arc chest wall therapy

29-Mar     Herman Suit     
Scientific highlights 2004

05-Apr     David Craft     
Towards Multi-Objective Optimization at MGH

12-Apr     George Chen     
Recent Visits to NIRS, Royal Marsden, UCL and Milwaukee

19-Apr     Jan Unkelbach     
Compensating Inter-Fractional Motion through Probabilistic Treatment Planning

26-Apr     Juliane Daartz     
Dosimetry of Small Fields in Proton Therapy

03-May     Sarang Joshi  (UNC Chapel Hill)   
Update on Deformable Image Registration with Optical Flow

10-May     no presentation

17-May     Michael Goitein (Windisch, Switzerland)    
The Patient's-Eye View

24-May     Hsiao-Ming Lu     
The Quest for Perfect SOBP

31-May     canceled

07-Jun     Marc Bussiere     
Update of Developments at the Stereotactic Beamline at NPTC

14-Jun     Bernie Gottschalk     
Instant Eye; verification and commissioning

21-Jun     Radhe Mohan (MD Anderson CC, Houston)    
Planning and Delivery of Proton Treatments for Mobile Tumors (Lung and Esophagus)

28-Jun     Stella Flampouri     
Investigation of the delivered patient dose in lung IMRT treatment based on deformable registration of 4D CT data and Monte Carlo simulations

05-Jul     no presentation

11-Jul     Joao Seco  (Royal Marsden Hospital, England)   
Is Monte Carlo really needed in IMRT planning...?

12-Jul     Christopher Watchman     
Alpha Emitter Marrow Dosimetry Modeling for Use in Molecular Radiotherapy

19-Jul     David Kaiser  (MIT)   
The Big Bang and Beyond: Today's Particle Cosmology

26-Jul      AAPM meting

02-Aug     Dimitri Dimitroyannis (Beth Israel Deaconess Med. Ctr.)    
Aerogel, a novel immobilizer for Diagnostic and Therapeutic Radiology

09-Aug     Yair Censor (University of Haifa)    
Handling of dose-volume constraints in IMRT

16-Aug     Sairos Safai     
Development of a dosimetric phantom for 3D verification dosimetry with scanned proton beams

23-Aug     Marco Riboldi     
Target Registration Error Analysis of Partial Beam Irradiation Setup

30-Aug     Greg Boverman (NEU)    
Improving the Diffuse Optical Tomography Inverse Problem by Using Prior Information

06-Sep     no presentation

13-Sep     Katia Parodi, Thomas Bortfeld     
A filtering approach for local PET verification of proton radiotherapy

20-Sep     Michael Folkert     
Design, Construction, and Characterization of a 5 Micron Proton Microbeam at MIT

27-Sep     Ben Martin     
Optimizing IMRT with Geometric Uncertainties

04-Oct     Thomas F. DeLaney     
Spine sarcoma protocol

11-Oct     George Chen     
Summary of ICMP and ESTRO physics 2005 meetings

21-Oct     Fridtjof Nüsslin  (Technical University Munich)   
Impact of biological imaging on radiation treatment optimization

25-Oct     Herman Suit     
The History of the Department of Radiation Oncology, Part III / 1945-1970
 
01-Nov     Tom Madden, Hanne Kooy     
Proton pencil beam algorithm

08-Nov     David Herrup     
Determination of Penumbral Widths from Ion Chamber Measurements

15-Nov     Harald Paganetti   
Highlights from the Geant4 conference 2005

22-Nov     no presentation

29-Nov     no presentation

06-Dec     Lance Munn  (Steele Lab)   
Mathematical modeling of tumor physiology

13-Dec     no presentation

20-Dec     Greg Sharp     
New standards for networked medical devices