January
Jan 13 Hanne Kooy (MGH / HMS)
Advanced Software Technology for Radiation Oncology Information Deployment
Jan 20 Barack Obama Inaugural Address
(live internet broadcast)
Jan 27 Lynn Hlatki and Swati Girdhani (Tufts U / St Elizabeth's Med Ctr)
Biological advantages of proton beams
February
Feb 03 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard)
Techniques of Proton Radiotherapy: 18. Lateral Penumbra
(Lectures (under development) are available for free download as BGtalks.zip at http://lppc.physics.harvard.edu/~gottschalk/ )
Feb 10 Francesca Attanasi (INFN and Univ of Pisa, Italy)
Characterization of an in-beam PET prototype for in vivo dosimetry in hadron therapy
Feb 17 Adam Rusek (Brookhaven Nat'l Lab)
NASA Space Radiation Laboratory (NSRL) at Brookhaven National Lab
Feb 24 Seema Shah Basu (Partners Research Ventures and Licensing)
Overview of the Partners Invention Liaison Program
March
Mar 03 GTY Chen (MGH / Harvard)
Aqualyzer: A 4D proton treatment planning tool applied to pancreatic cancer.
Mar 17 Norman Smith (Vision RT)
Real time surface tracking and target estimation in radiation therapy
Mar 24 Ethan Cascio (MGH)
A Solar Flare Simulation Wheel for the BPTC Experimental Beamline
Mar 25 Chang Chang (Drexel U) Applications of Biomarkers in Optical Diagnostics
April
Apr 07 Vandana Mohan (Georgia Tech)
Medical Image Analysis towards Computer-Aided Diagnosis
Apr 14 Harald Paganetti (MGH / HMS)
Dose-to-tissue vs. dose-to-water in proton therapy
Apr 21 Josh Hallman (MGH)
Abdominal organ motion of liver and pancreatic cancer patients
Apr 28 Adam Yock (MGH)
Considering the lung function distributions in planning and evaluation of thoracic RT
May
May 12 Majd Hawari (U Cincinnati)
Photon Beam Characterization Using Scatter Radiation Analysis
May 13 Alex Segal (U of Haifa)
String Averaging Method for Sparse Common Fixed Point Problems
May 18 Herman D Suit (MGH / HMS)
Proton vs. Carbon Beam Therapy
May 19 Omar Zeidan (MD.Anderson Orlando)
PET dosimetry with polymer gels
May 26 Paul H. Chapman, MD (MGH)
The Role of Neurosurgery in the Early History of Proton Therapy at Harvard and MGH
June
June 02 Michael Gensheimer (MGH / Vanderbilt Med School)
In vivo proton beam range verification using spine MRI changes
June 09 Seth van Liew (Boston Med Ctr / HMS)
BMC experience with Cyberknife
June 16 Sang-June Park (BWH / HMS)
The effects of target size, respiratory motion and background activity on 3D and 4D PET/CT images
June 18 Joost Verburg (TU Eindhoven/ MGH)
CT metal artifact reduction for radiation treatment planning
June 30 George TY Chen (MGH/ HMS)
Analysis of serial cone-beam CT of lung patients
July
July 07 Rui Li (MGH)
Breathing motion analysis and semi-automatic tumor tracking in 2D ultrasound video
July 13 Shikui Tang (U Mass Amherst)
Stellar feedback and its impact on galaxy evolution
July 14 Vanessa Clark (Washington U, St Louis)
Automating IMRT treatment planning using hierarchical optimization
July 16 George Sherouse (U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
Polar Bears, Fault Trees and Rogue Cancer Units: A Rumination on the Evolution of Radiotherapy Quality Management.
August
Aug 04 Samuel España-Palomares (MGH , formerly Univ Complutense de Madrid)
Advanced simulations used to improve the scanner design and image quality in PET
Aug 10 Jatinder Palta (U of Florida, Gainesville)
A Priori Determination of Dose Uncertainties in IMRT Planning and Delivery
Aug 11 Summer student projects:
1. Edward Kim (Boise State Univ / MGH) Atlas-Based Auto-Segmentation (ABAS) Performance Analysis
2. Long Tong Measuring Patient Position Variations Using AlignRT
Aug 18 Wei Chen (City University of NY / MGH)
A fast linear optimizer applied to multi-criteria IMPT planning
Aug 25 Kyung-Wook Jee (MGH / Newton-Wellesley Hospital)
Multi-criteria optimization in the adaptive planning scenario
September
Sep 01 Bernard Gottschalk (Harvard)
On the scattering power of radiotherapy protons
Sep 18 Clinical + Physics research forum
Ted Hong, MD and George TY Chen, PhD
Image-guided radiation therapy for abdominal tumors
Sep 22 Jerry Xu (Partners Research Computing)
Research Computing hosting Matlab: pros and cons
Sep 29 Alexei Trofimov (MGH)
Review of correction strategies for intrafractional motion in particle therapy.
October
Oct 13 Maurice Fransen (TU Eindhoven / MGH)
A system analysis of the delivery of proton pencil-beam dose distributions
Oct 22 Joint MGH / Brigham and Women's Hospital Physics Seminar
Lei Xing (Stanford University)
KV/MV for Image-guided and Rapid Arc therapy
Oct 27 Se Young Chun (MGH Nuc Medicine)
Motion aspects in joint image reconstruction and nonrigid motion estimation
November
Nov 10 Hanne Kooy (MGH / HMS)
Astroid: information deployment environment for RT
Nov 17 Daniel L. McShan (U Michigan)
Informatics in radiation oncology
Nov 20 Clinical + Physics research forum
Jason Efstathiou, MD and Alexei Trofimov, PhD
Radiation therapy of prostate cancer
Nov 24 Andrzej Niemierko (MGH / HMS)
Are we winning the War on Cancer?
December
Dec 01 Greg Sharp (MGH / HMS)
Plastimatch 1.4 for deformable image registration
Dec 08 Benedick Fraass (U of Michigan)
Integrating Optimization and Motion Research into Clinical Studies
Dec 15 Harald Paganetti (MGH/ HMS )
Applying for NIH funding for physics projects: Instructions on grant writing and NIH/MGH administrative procedures
