5th Annual Loma Linda Workshop - Program

Wednesday, July 24, 2019

(underlined talks available as PDF)

TIME EVENT
8:00 - 8:45 Educational Lecture 3: NTCP and TCP modeling and Biopsy Data for Biological Optimization of IMRT, Elisabetta Gargioni, UKE, Hamburg (Zoom)
9:00 - 9:25 Protons Do Play Dice: Validating, Implementing and Applying Monte Carlo Techniques for Proton Therapy, Carla Winterhalter, University of Manchester
9:30 - 9:55 An Overview of FRED: A GPU-based Monte Carlo Tool for Proton Therapy, Antoni Rucinski, IFJ, Cracow, Poland
10:00 - 10:15 Coffee break
10:20 - 10:45 Intra-treatment PET imaging in Proton Therapy with the J-PET System: System Overview and First Experimental Results. Antoni Rucinski, IFJ, Cracow, Poland
10:50 - 11:15 Increasing the Spatial Resolution of a Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Radiography, Abdel Hammi, MGH
11:20 - 11:55 The University of Bergen Proton CT Project Update, Pierluigi Piersimoni, University of Bergen
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:30 - 13:55 Concurrent Computation: Entropy and Communication Cost, Ernesto Gomez, CSUSB
14:00 - 14:25 Radiation Chemistry Model for BNCT, Jamie Milligan, LLU
14:30 - 14:55 In Vivo Range Verification for Prostate Cancer with a Urethral Catheter Dosimeter, Bruce Faddegon, UCSF
15:00 - 15:15 Coffee break
15:20 - 15:45 Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, Hanh Nguyen, Baylor University
15:50 - 16:15 4D Modeling of radiation dose to the circulating blood in radiation therapy, Abdel Hammi, MGH
16:20 - 16:55 Annular flow modeling, Said Kas-Danouche, Dominican Adventist University, Dominican Republic
17:00 - 17:15 Adjournment