January
Jan 08 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 2. Cubic Spline (Lectures (under development) are available for free download as BGtalks.zip at http://lppc.physics.harvard.edu/~gottschalk/ )
Jan 15 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 3. Stopping Theory II
Jan 22 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 4. Basics
Jan 29 Marco Riboldi (MGH / Politecnico di Milano) 4D-Targeting Error Analysis
February
Feb 05 Bela Suki (Boston U) Biomechanics of the normal and diseased lung
Feb 12 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 5. Single Scattering
Feb 26 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 6. Scattering
March
Mar 04 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 7. Nuclear reactions
Mar 11 Cindy Hancox (MGH) Trapping without laser cooling: using a cryogenic buffer gas to rein in troublesome atoms
Mar 18 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 8. The Bragg peak
Mar 25 Amir Abdollahi (DKFZ / Tufts) Molecular radio-oncology and potential implications for treatment planning
April
Apr 08 Vladimir Semenenko (Med College of Wisconsin) Is it safe to expose a large volume of healthy lung in IMRT of thoracic tumors? An animal study.
Apr 22 Alexander Shmidt (U Darmstadt/ GSI) A beam tracking system for the treatment of moving targets with scanned ion beams
Apr 29 Basit Athar (MGH, formerly Cornell) The Charm Physics at CLEO detector
May
May 06 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 9. Slit Scattering
May 13 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 10.Binary Degraders and Stacks
May 27 Open discussion Highlights of the PTCOG Meeting
June
June 10 Sri Sridhar (Northeastern U) Nanoplatforms for Nanomedicine
June 17 Thomas Bortfeld (MGH) The changing landscape of IMRT/IMPT (travel report)
June 21 Warren D'Souza (U of Maryland) A multi-plan IMRT framework
July
July 01 Marco Schwartz (MGH/ ATreP Trento, Italy) A new tool to summarize radiotherapy dose distributions: probabilistic dose reporting
July 08 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 11.Double Scattering
July 15 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 12. Range Modulators
July 22 Amr Aly (Boston U / MGH) 1. Google sketchup: Applications in Rad Onc 2. Align RT Studies at FHBPTC and Cox
August
Aug 05 Bryan Bednarz (Rensselaer Polytech I) Detailed Varian Clinac Accelerator Modeling for Calculating Intermediate- and Low-level Organ Doses from Radiation Treatments
Aug 12 Review of student projects:
Cornelia Gansemer (U Heidelberg / MGH) Development of dose-function histograms for thoracic IMRT
Patrick Hoyer (U Heidelberg / MGH) Cone-beam CT reconstruction
Aug 19 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 14. Neutron Detection
Aug 26 Marta Peroni (Politecnico di Milano /MGH ) Contour propagation and local correction of deformable registration
September
Sept 02 Joao Seco (MGH) + MIT collaborators: Ayman Abouraddy, Sylvain Danto, Yoel Fink Proton Radiography Imaging with Scintillating Fibers
Sept 16 Review of Techniques for Proton Range Verification
George TY.Chen: Proton range telescope
Hsiao-Ming. Lu: Time-resolved proton dose measurements
Peter Binns(MIT), Kent Riley (MIT), Thomas Bortfeld: Prompt gamma measurements
Harald Paganetti: Monte Carlo simulations for prompt gamma
Sept 17 Special seminar: Haber Auditorium, 11 am Joanne Kang (DKFZ) Scan path optimization for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy
Sept 30 Marloes Steneker and Cathryn Nagel (NKI) Radiotherapy at NKI - Past to Present
October
Oct 07 Eric Silver (Harvard) Resonant Cancer Theranostics - a Spin-off from Astrophysics Research
Oct 14 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 15.Neutron Dose
Oct 21 Dirk de Ruysscher (MaastRO Clinic, NL) Complete Computer Assisted Theranostics
Oct 28 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 16. Design Programs
November
Nov 04 Selin Damla Ahipasaoglu (Cornell) Approximating Sets with Simple Bodies: Theory, Algorithms, and Geometry
Nov 11 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard) Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 17. Beam Transport Theor y
Nov 18 Dejan Trbojevic Novel proton therapy gantry
Nov 18 Hanspeter Pfister and Miriah Meyer (Harvard, Computer Science Dept) Overview of the Connectome Project. Moving Least Squares (MLS) Volume Raycasting and Multi-Material Volume Meshing
Nov 25 Dualta McQuaid (Royal Marsden Hospital) Planning and delivery of target tracking IMRT with MLCs
December
Dec 03 Nicolas DePauw (MGH) Validating the PBS Monte Carlo and generating depth dose distributions for treatment planning
Dec 09 John Wolfgang (MGH) Applications of Volume Rendering for Radiation Oncology
Dec 16 Theophane Weber (MIT) Quantifying statistical synchrony using message passing algorithms,and application to the analysis of neural signal
Dec 23 Greg Sharp (MGH) Plastimatch: deformable registration tool
