Authors: Ross I. Berbeco, Vera Birrer, Raphael Bruegger, Pablo Corral Arroyo, Roshanak Etemadpour, Dianne M. Ferguson, Rony Fueglistaller, Thomas C. Harris, Yue-Houng Hu, Matthew W. Jacobson, Mathias Lehmann, Marios Myronakis
Affiliation: Medical Physics Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medial School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Department of Radiation Oncology, Dana Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Varian Imaging Laboratory
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Dual-layer kV imager (DLI) architecture enables the capability for single-shot dual-energy (DE) intrafraction imaging. As noise from individual DLI layers are primarily uncorrelated, simpl...
Authors: Debora de Souza Antonio, Romy Guthier, Konrad Pawel Nesteruk, Erno Sajo, William Paul Segars, Gregory C. Sharp, Atchar Sudhyadhom, Hengyong Yu
Affiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital, Carl E. Ravin Advanced Imaging Laboratories and Center for Virtual Imaging Trials, Duke University Medical Center, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School,, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To develop an open-access toolkit for rapidly generating simultaneously realistic CT scans and low-field MR images of the abdominal region, based on patient data, while employing an XCAT phan...
Authors: Davide Brivio, Erno Sajo, Ryan Williams, Piotr Zygmanski
Affiliation: University of Massachusetts Lowell, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
Abstract Preview: Purpose: To develop a non-invasive 3D in-vivo dosimetry tool exploring the relationship between positron annihilations and dose per voxel using Monte Carlo simulation. The Positron Guided Radiation Th...
Authors: Ramesh Boggula, Yash Somnay, Hualin Zhang
Affiliation: Radiation Oncology, Keck School of Medicine of USC, Wayne State University
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Spatially fractionated radiation therapy (SFRT) allows delivery of therapeutic doses to bulky tumors otherwise limited by dose-volume effects that threaten organ-at-risk tolerances. For negle...
Authors: Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Benito De Celis Alonso, Braian Adair Maldonado Luna, Kevin M. Moerman, Gerardo Uriel Perez Rojas, René Eduardo Rodríguez-Pérez, Kamal Singhrao
Affiliation: Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Department of Radiation Oncology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Galway, Faculty of Physics and Mathematics, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Abstract Preview: Purpose: Online adaptive radiotherapy replanning for single-isocenter bone cancer metastasis treatment reduces on-table treatment time and patient discomfort compared to the multi-isocenter standard-o...
Authors: Emily Hansen, Tyler Kaulfers, Alois M. Ndlovu, Niara Rowe, Roland Teboh
Affiliation: Montefiore Einstein University Hospital, Hackensack University Medical Center
Abstract Preview: Purpose: A topic often discussed is the disparity of women in medical physics, overlooking the absence of Black and Hispanic women in the field. The intersectionality within marginalized communities i...