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
Jan 7
Jan 14
Jan 21 Oliver Hauser, Harvard University
(Evolutionary Game Theory)
(Evolutionary Game Theory)
Jan 28 Joris H. Radermacher, Eindhoven University of Technology
(Image registration)
(Image registration)
February
Feb 4
Feb 11 Sara St. James, MGH
(Instrumentation for improving the spatial resolution and sensitivity of small animal PET)
(Instrumentation for improving the spatial resolution and sensitivity of small animal PET)
Feb 18 Kathryn D. Held, MGH
(Low dose radiation effects, charged particle biology and related radiation biology topics #1)
(Low dose radiation effects, charged particle biology and related radiation biology topics #1)
Feb 25 Gueorgui Gueorguiev
(3D IMRT QA)
(3D IMRT QA)
March
Mar 4 Giancarlo Sportelli
(In-room PET System)
(In-room PET System)
Mar 11 Bernard Gottschalk, Harvard
(On the Nuclear Halo of a Pencil Beam in Water)
(On the Nuclear Halo of a Pencil Beam in Water)
Mar 18 Paul Chapman, MD, MGH
(The History of Dose-related Risk Determination for Proton Beam Radiosurgery)
(The History of Dose-related Risk Determination for Proton Beam Radiosurgery)
Mar 25 Marc Bussiere, MGH
(MGH Radiosurgery Program – Past and Present)
(MGH Radiosurgery Program – Past and Present)
April
Apr 1 Hanne Kooy, MGH
(Whiteboard, Astroid (2) and Judy)
(Whiteboard, Astroid (2) and Judy)
Apr 8 Yangming Ou, MGH
(DRAMMS: A robust deformable registration tool for brain, breast, cardiac and prostate pathology studies)
(DRAMMS: A robust deformable registration tool for brain, breast, cardiac and prostate pathology studies)
Apr 15
Apr 22 Kathryn D. Held, MGH
(Low dose radiation effects, charged particle biology and related radiation biology topics #2)
(Low dose radiation effects, charged particle biology and related radiation biology topics #2)
Apr 29 Drosoula Giantsoudi, MGH
(MC-LET studies)
(MC-LET studies)
May
May 6 Jan Schuemann, MGH
(Site-specific range uncertainties caused by dose calculation algorithms for proton therapy. Should we change our range margins?)
(Site-specific range uncertainties caused by dose calculation algorithms for proton therapy. Should we change our range margins?)
May 13 Iman Aganj, MGH
(Avoiding Non-Uniformity in Non-Rigid Image Registration)
(Avoiding Non-Uniformity in Non-Rigid Image Registration)
May 15 Sunil Krishnan, M.D. Anderson
(BWH/DF/MGH Joint Seminar - "Combining Nanoparticles and Radiation Rationally - Are We There Yet?”)
(BWH/DF/MGH Joint Seminar - "Combining Nanoparticles and Radiation Rationally - Are We There Yet?”)
May 20
May 27 David J. Gladstone, Dartmouth
(Time to spare; cardiomyopathy reduction by gated radiation delivery)
(Time to spare; cardiomyopathy reduction by gated radiation delivery)
June
Jun 3 Clemens Grassberger, MGH
(New Developments on the Interface Physics/Biology: ESTRO & IBPRO Update)
(New Developments on the Interface Physics/Biology: ESTRO & IBPRO Update)
Jun 10 PTCOG
Jun 17
Jun 24 Florin Rosca, MGH
(A hybrid electron and photon IMRT planning technique)
(A hybrid electron and photon IMRT planning technique)
July
Jul 1 Joost Verburg, MGH
(Prompt gamma-ray detection for proton range verification)
(Prompt gamma-ray detection for proton range verification)
Jul 8 Katrin Teichert, Fraunhofer ITWM
(Leaf Position Adjustment in Adaptive IMRT Planning)
(Leaf Position Adjustment in Adaptive IMRT Planning)
Jul 15
Jul 22 AAPM
Jul 29 Bernard Gottschalk, Harvard
(Detecting Range Mixing in Time Resolved Diode Dosimetry)
(Detecting Range Mixing in Time Resolved Diode Dosimetry)
August
Aug 5 Kayla Rae Mendel, USC
(Retrospective analysis of fidelity in patient set-up and dose delivery in proton therapy for ocular tumors)
(Retrospective analysis of fidelity in patient set-up and dose delivery in proton therapy for ocular tumors)
Aug 12 Yuting Lin, MGH
(Radiosensitization using Gold nanoparticles for proton therapy)
(Radiosensitization using Gold nanoparticles for proton therapy)
Aug 19
Aug 26 Susu Yan, MGH
(On-board Robotic Multi-pinhole SPECT System for Region-of-interest (ROI) Imaging)
(On-board Robotic Multi-pinhole SPECT System for Region-of-interest (ROI) Imaging)
September
Sept 2
Sept 9 Xinhui Wang, Surgical Oncology MGH
(Blocking the Formation of Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer Stem Cells)
(Blocking the Formation of Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer Stem Cells)
Sept 16 Kanglin Chen, Fraunhofer Institute
(Medical Image Registration in Lübeck)
(Medical Image Registration in Lübeck)
Sept 23 Bernard Gottschalk, Harvard
(On the Nuclear Halo)
(On the Nuclear Halo)
Sept 30 Jan H. Unkelbach, MGH
(Target Delineation for Glioblastoma Based on a Model of Infiltrative Tumor Growth)
(Target Delineation for Glioblastoma Based on a Model of Infiltrative Tumor Growth)
October
Oct 8 David Jeffray (Collins Lecture)
Oct 14 Stephen J. McMahon, MGH
(Nanoparticle-Radiation Interactions: Current Status and Outstanding Questions)
(Nanoparticle-Radiation Interactions: Current Status and Outstanding Questions)
Oct 21 Birgit Müller, Technische Universität München
(Impact of interfractional changes on the delivered dose of intensity modulated radiotherapy with protons and photons)
(Impact of interfractional changes on the delivered dose of intensity modulated radiotherapy with protons and photons)
Oct 28
November
Nov 4 Yang-Kyun Park, MGH
(Proton Dose Calculation on Scatter-Corrected CBCT Image: Feasibility Study for Adaptive Proton Therapy)
(Proton Dose Calculation on Scatter-Corrected CBCT Image: Feasibility Study for Adaptive Proton Therapy)
Nov 11 Javier Pascau, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
(Intraoperative Radiation Therapy: from treatment planning to surgical navigation)
(Intraoperative Radiation Therapy: from treatment planning to surgical navigation)
Nov 18
Nov 25 Chiara La Tessa, Brookhaven National Laboratory
(Applied nuclear physics in particle therapy: opportunities at BNL)
(Applied nuclear physics in particle therapy: opportunities at BNL)
December
Dec 2 Robert Hommes, Technical University Eindhoven
(Finite Element Method for Deformable Patient Model Library)
(Finite Element Method for Deformable Patient Model Library)
Dec 9
Dec 16 Birgit Müller, Technische Universität München
(Physician Sliding Study - Involving Physicians in IMRT Planning by Interactive Plan Navigation)
(Physician Sliding Study - Involving Physicians in IMRT Planning by Interactive Plan Navigation)
Dec 23
Dec 30
