06-Jan Thomas Bortfeld
The potential of very high energy electron (VHEE) therapy
13-Jan James Deye (National Cancer Institute)
Research funding at NIH/NCI
20-Jan Brian Thorndyke (U Florida, Gainesville)
Hybrid Monte Carlo / Molecular Dynamics in Optimization
27-Jan no presentation
03-Feb Katia Parodi (FZR Dresden, Germany)
The feasibility of in-beam PET for proton therapy
10-Feb Tom Delaney
Proton/carbon therapy in Japan
17-Feb Herman Suit
10 scientific highlights 2003
24-Feb Bernie Gottschalk
InstantEye - Fast calibration of proton eye treatments
02-Mar Dan Low (Washington University, St Louis)
Quantitative 4-D CT imaging
11-Mar Stine Kormann (Kopenhagen/Stanford) Thursday 1:00 PM
11-Mar Stine Kormann (Kopenhagen/Stanford) Thursday 1:00 PM
Correlation of surface and internal tumor motion
16-Mar Eike Rietzel
16-Mar Eike Rietzel
4DCT image formation and clinical protocol at MGH (II)
23-Mar Ross Berbeco
Physics aspects of respiratory gating
30-Mar Khaled Aljarrah
Determination of Initial Beam Parameters in Monte Carlo Linac Simulation
06-Apr S. Sridhar, M. Amiji (Northeastern University)
Nanomedicine: A new research paradigm
13-Apr no presentation
13-Apr no presentation
20-Apr A. Trofimov, T. Bortfeld
Development of temporo-spatial optimization techniques
21-Apr Catherine Coolens (Royal Marsden, London) Wednesday
Complexity and structure in intensity modulated radiotherapy beams
27-Apr no presentation
27-Apr no presentation
04-May George Chen
Dosimetry with gel scintillators; recent travel report
11-May Jan Grimm (CMIR, MGH)
Molecular imaging
18-May K.-H. Küfer, M. Monz (ITWM Kasierslautern ,Germany)
18-May K.-H. Küfer, M. Monz (ITWM Kasierslautern ,Germany)
New IMRT optimization concepts
25-May Wolfgang Schlegel (DKFZ Heidelberg)
25-May Wolfgang Schlegel (DKFZ Heidelberg)
01-Jun George Xu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Patient modeling and Monte Carlo dosimetry research at RPI
08-Jun H. Jiang, H. Paganetti
08-Jun H. Jiang, H. Paganetti
Status of GEANT4 Monte Carlo for clinical applications
15-Jun PTCOG meeting
22-Jun Sven O. Grözinger (GSI Darmstadt)
Volume conformal irradiation of moving target volumes with scanned ion beams
29-Jun Skip Rosenthal, Greg Sharp
29-Jun Skip Rosenthal, Greg Sharp
Automating anatomic feature-based registration for patient set up
06-Jul no presentation
13-Jul Christoph Bert
4D treatment planning for motion compensated C-12 therapy
20-Jul Gregory T. Clement (Brigham and Women's Hospital)
Ultrasound
27-Jul AAPM meeting
27-Jul AAPM meeting
3-Aug Yair Censor (University of Haifa)
Update on liver treatment / AAPM highlights
10-Aug Katie Metheany
10-Aug Katie Metheany
3D video assisted partial breast irradiation (PBI) setup
10-Aug Jon Jacob Shonke (NKI, Amsterdam) 3:00 PM
Image guidance research at NKI
17-Aug Michael Fernald
17-Aug Michael Fernald
Motion compensation with MLC
24-Aug George Chen
Document database
31-Aug Sven Süptitz, Janet Sisterson, Thomas Bortfeld
Reference database for the department
07-Sep no presentation
14-Sep Thomas F. DeLaney
Target volume definition for protons, photons
21-Sep no presentation
28-Sep Jong Kung, David Gierga, John Wolfgang
IMRT @ MGH
05-Oct ASTRO
05-Oct ASTRO
12-Oct Yu Zhou (Johns Hopkins Univ., Mech. Eng.)
Quantitative C-arm Fluoroscopy for Prostate Brachytherapy
19-Oct Huanmei Wu
Respiratory Motion Analysis and Prediction using Database Technology
26-Oct ESTRO
02-Nov Ross Berbeco
Respiratory Gating at MGH: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
09-Nov Greg Sharp
Deformable image registration
16-Nov Christoph Bert
3D surface imaging at Linac2, QA and analysis of PBI setup
23-Nov Simon Warfield (Dir., Comput. Radiol. Lab, BWH)
Nonrigid Registration, Segmentation and Validation For Quantitative Medical Image Analysis
03-Dec Reshma Munbodh (Electrical Enginering, Yale) (Friday)
03-Dec Reshma Munbodh (Electrical Enginering, Yale) (Friday)
Image registration for prostate treatments
07-Dec Steve Jiang
07-Dec Steve Jiang
Normalized dose difference as a new method for the comparison of dose distributions
17-Dec Research Retreat (Friday)
21-Dec Katia Parodi
Feasibility of dose quantification with in-beam PET data in radiotherapy with 12C and proton beams
28-Dec Happy New Year