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    
Correlation of surface and internal tumor motion
 
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

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

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)
New IMRT optimization concepts

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    
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    
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

3-Aug      Yair Censor (University of Haifa)
Update on liver treatment / AAPM highlights

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    
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

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)   
Image registration for prostate treatments
   
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