When: Every Tuesday at 12:00 noon
Where: Goitein room, Francis H. Burr Proton Center, 30 Fruit St, Boston, MA
January 2011
Jan 27 Hanne Kooy and Julie Turcotte
Jan 27 Hanne Kooy and Julie Turcotte
Open-mic discussion of safety issues in Radiation Therapy
February
Feb 1 Ehsan Salari (U of Florida)
Quantifying the Trade-off between IMRT Treatment Plan Quality and Delivery Efficiency using Direct Aperture Optimization
Feb 15 Frank Dankers (MGH)
Accuracy of 2d/2d registration versus 2d/3d fiducial-based alignment on STAR
March 15 Dualta McQuaid (MGH)
March
March 10 Joint MGH / Brigham and Women's Hospital Physics Seminar
Karl Otto (U of British Columbia)
Karl Otto (U of British Columbia)
Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT)
March 15 Dualta McQuaid (MGH)
4D planning over the full course of fractionation: Assessment of the benefit of tumor trailing.
March 22 Bruce Faddegon (UCSF)
Advances in X-ray Plus Electron Radiation Therapy with Application to Reduce Second Malignancy
March 29 Dr Herman Suit (MGH / HMS)
The proton: its structure, function and role in nature.
April
April 5 Chuan Zeng (U Mass Amherst)
Capillary interactions at a curved interface
April 12 Dr Herman Suit (MGH / HMS)
The Personal Philosophy of a Radiation Oncologist
April 19 Rex Woodleigh (MGH)
Radiation Safety: Dose Limits
April 26 Rex Woodleigh (MGH)
Radiation Safety: Informed Consent
May
May 3 Chul Hee (Charles) Min (MGH)
In vivo range verification with prompt gamma measurement system
May 10 James Balter (U Michigan)
Projection-to-volume (2D-3D) image registration
May 17 Daniel Warren (Oxford)
Particle therapy research activities in Oxford
May 24 Yue Cao (U Michigan)
Functional imaging for assessment of normal tissue/organ response to radiation
May 31 Joost Verburg (MGH)
CT metal artifact reduction and its impact on proton therapy treatment planning
June
June 14 David Craft (MGH)
Multicriteria VMAT optimization
June 21 Robert Jeraj (U Wisconsin)
Dose painting - what do we know, and what we are yet to learn?
June 28 Shikui Tang (MGH)
A technique for In-vivo Range Verification in Proton Radiotherapy
July
July 5 Wei Chen (MGH)
Scenario-based Robust Optimization for IMPT
July 12 Sohrab Eslami (Northeastern University)
Nanomechanical Cantilever-based Boundary Force Control for Nanomanipulation and Imaging
July 19 Hanne Kooy (MGH/HMS)
Upgrading imaging capabilities at the proton center
July 20 *** Wednesday 2pm Goitein ***
Kai Vetter (UC Berkeley)
Prompt gamma
July 26 Alejandro Carabe-Fernandez (MGH/HMS)
Summary of two years of research on RBE effects in proton radiotherapy at MGH
August
Aug 2 --- AAPM mtg
Aug 9 Qi Yang
Analytic Regularization for B-spline deformable image registration
Christoph Speier
A new tool for 4DCT resorting and post processing
Aug 16
Aug 23
Aug 30
September
Sept 6 Kilian Pohl (UPenn)
Identifying pathology from medical Images
Sept 13
Sept 20 Laurence Court, PhD (MD Anderson)
Quantifying Dose Uncertainties in Moving Targets
Sept 27 Dale Litzenberg, PhD (U. of Michigan)
October
Oct 4 --- ASTRO mtg
Oct 11
Oct 18 Diana Shvydka, PhD (U Toledo, OH)
Large area thin-film CdTe detector for medical imaging applications
(seminar to be via Webex)
Oct 25 Christopher Ainsley, PhD (UPenn)
An MLC for Proton-beam Therapy: Design, Development and Deployment
November
Nov 1
Nov 8 Luc Beaulieu, PhD (U. Laval, Quebec City)
Nov 15 Louis Archambault, Phd (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Quebec, CHUQ)
Monitoring radiation delivery in real-time with plastic scintillation detectors
Nov 22 Ross Berbeco, PhD (BWH)
Gold nanoparticles as vascular disrupting agents during radiotherapy
Nov 29 Jerimy Polf (Oklahoma State University)
Prompt Gamma Range Verification in Proton Therapy
December
Dec 6 Christian Richter, PhD (MGH)
Dosimetric characterization of laser-accelerated particle beams used for in vitro cell irradiation
Dec 13
Dec 20
Dec 27
