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 6
Jan 13 Nadezhda P. Shusharina, MGH
(18F-FDG PET imaging to improve treatments outcome for locally advanced lung cancer)
(18F-FDG PET imaging to improve treatments outcome for locally advanced lung cancer)
Jan 20 BWH/MGH Joint Physics Seminar (Lei Dong)
Jan 29 Charles Mayo, Mayo Clinic
(The coming era of big data for radiation oncology- making it possible and what we hope to gain for research and quality improvement)
(The coming era of big data for radiation oncology- making it possible and what we hope to gain for research and quality improvement)
February
Feb 3
Feb 10
Feb 17
Feb 24
March
Mar 3 Thomas Madden, MGH
(Development Report on ASTROID & ThinkNode)
(Development Report on ASTROID & ThinkNode)
Mar 10 Hong Xiang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University/MGH
(On Dose Calculation: Stopping Criterion for Monte Carlo Method and Deterministic Method for Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck Equation)
(On Dose Calculation: Stopping Criterion for Monte Carlo Method and Deterministic Method for Boltzmann-Fokker-Planck Equation)
Mar 17
Mar 24 Michaela Hoesl, Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich/MGH
(Clinical commissioning of an in-vivo range verification system for prostate cancer treatment with anterior and anterior oblique proton beams)
(Clinical commissioning of an in-vivo range verification system for prostate cancer treatment with anterior and anterior oblique proton beams)
Mar 31
April
Apr 7
Apr 17 Marco Schwarz, Trento Hospital, Italy
(News from Trento)
(News from Trento)
Apr 21 Tracy Underwood, MGH
(Protons for prostate: seeking benefit via anterior beams)
(Protons for prostate: seeking benefit via anterior beams)
Apr 28
May
May 5 Teun Minkels, Eindhoven University of Technology
(Using Stylized Models to Investigate the Potential Benefit of Inhomogeneous Fractionation Schemes in Proton Therapy)
(Using Stylized Models to Investigate the Potential Benefit of Inhomogeneous Fractionation Schemes in Proton Therapy)
May 12 Georges El Fakhri, MGH
(Role of Imaging in Radiation Oncology: The TIP Experience)
(Role of Imaging in Radiation Oncology: The TIP Experience)
May 19 Idan Ginsburg, Harvard University
(The Fastest Stars in the Universe and What They Teach Us)
(The Fastest Stars in the Universe and What They Teach Us)
May 26 Ramin Abolfath, Yale
(Towards First Principle Modeling of Biological Responses of Ionizing Radiation)
(Towards First Principle Modeling of Biological Responses of Ionizing Radiation)
June
Jun 2 Hugo Aerts, Dana-Farber & BWH
(Radiomics: There is more than meets the eye in Medical Imaging)
(Radiomics: There is more than meets the eye in Medical Imaging)
Jun 9 Kevin Teo, University of Pennsylvania
(Development and Clinical Applications of a Cone Beam CT system for Proton Therapy)
(Development and Clinical Applications of a Cone Beam CT system for Proton Therapy)
Jun 16 Bram Gorissen, MGH
(Robustness Versus Plan Quality For Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy)
(Robustness Versus Plan Quality For Intensity-Modulated Proton Therapy)
Jun 23
Jun 30 David Gierga, MGH
(VMAT Commissioning & Treatments @ MGH)
(VMAT Commissioning & Treatments @ MGH)
July
Jul 7 AAPM Practice talks
Jul 14 Anatoly Rozenfeld, University of Wollongong
(Progress in Advances Semiconductor Dosimetry for X-ray and Charged Particle Contemporary Radiotherapy)
(Progress in Advances Semiconductor Dosimetry for X-ray and Charged Particle Contemporary Radiotherapy)
Jul 21
Jul 28 Roel Brooimans, MGH
(Optimizing 2D Models to Reduce the Biological Effective Dose in Healthy Tissue Using Inhomogeneous Fractional Doses in Proton Therapy)
Marleen Balvert, MGH
(Treatment Plan Optimization for VMAT Using Fluence Maps)
(Optimizing 2D Models to Reduce the Biological Effective Dose in Healthy Tissue Using Inhomogeneous Fractional Doses in Proton Therapy)
Marleen Balvert, MGH
(Treatment Plan Optimization for VMAT Using Fluence Maps)
August
Aug 4
Aug 11 Stephanie Dougan, Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
(Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy)
(Radiotherapy and Immunotherapy)
Aug 18
Aug 25
September
Sept 1 Steven Florian Petit, MGH
(Development and clinical implementation of automated radiotherapy treatment planning)
(Development and clinical implementation of automated radiotherapy treatment planning)
Sept 8
Sept 15 Hong Xiang, BMC
(Physics support to imaging-based SRS/SBRT treatments on CyberKnife)
(Physics support to imaging-based SRS/SBRT treatments on CyberKnife)
Sept 22 Marco Langhans, MGH
(On Highly Non-coplanar Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy,VMAT)
(On Highly Non-coplanar Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy,VMAT)
Sept 29 Jan H. Unkelbach, MGH
(Spatiotemporal Fractionation Schemes for Irradiating Large Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations)
(Spatiotemporal Fractionation Schemes for Irradiating Large Cerebral Arteriovenous Malformations)
October
Oct 6
Oct 7 Jacob Scott, Moffitt Cancer Center
Oct 7 Jacob Scott, Moffitt Cancer Center
Oct 13 Emma Colvill, Sydney University
(First Clinical Implementation of MLC Tracking)
(First Clinical Implementation of MLC Tracking)
Oct 20 Roland Schnuerer, MGH
(In-vivo Beam Range Verification in Proton Therapy with Scanning Beams)
(In-vivo Beam Range Verification in Proton Therapy with Scanning Beams)
Oct 27 Adam Shulman, Radiating Hope
(Radiating Hope Initiatives in Africa and Insights for the Future Involvement of Massachusetts General Hospital)
(Radiating Hope Initiatives in Africa and Insights for the Future Involvement of Massachusetts General Hospital)
November
Nov 3
Nov 10 Perko, Zoltan & Leo Gerweck, MGH
(The Hit-Target vs. the Linear-Quadratic Model for Quantifying In Vitro Tumor Cell Sensitivity and Predicting Single Fraction Tumor Control Dose)
(The Hit-Target vs. the Linear-Quadratic Model for Quantifying In Vitro Tumor Cell Sensitivity and Predicting Single Fraction Tumor Control Dose)
Nov 18 Thomas Rockwell Mackie, University of Wisconsin
(Harvesting Cancer Information from the DICOM and EMR Records for Use in Radiology and Oncology)
(Harvesting Cancer Information from the DICOM and EMR Records for Use in Radiology and Oncology)
Nov 24 Mathieu Karamitros, University of Notre Dame
(Modeling radiation chemistry using Monte Carlo)
(Modeling radiation chemistry using Monte Carlo)
December
Dec 1 Physics Retreat
Dec 8 Clemens Grassberger, MGH
(Mathematical Modeling of Immunotherapy for Sarcoma)
(Mathematical Modeling of Immunotherapy for Sarcoma)
Dec 15 David Carson, Yale
Dec 22 Hakan Oesten, MGH
(In-vivo simulation of the relative biological effectiveness in the proton therapy using the Monte Carlo method)
(In-vivo simulation of the relative biological effectiveness in the proton therapy using the Monte Carlo method)
Dec 29
