New England Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Peter Neurath Young Investigators Symposium

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Wednesday, April 12, 2006    12:30 – 5:30 PM

Lahey Clinic, North Lobby Conference Room –4th floor, Burlington, MA

 

12:30 PM                    Opening Remarks

YC Lo, NEAAPM President and Mark Rivard, NEAAPM President-Elect

 

12:35 PM                    Towards intraoperative spectrally encoded confocal microscopy

Caroline Boudoux, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

1:00 PM                      MR contrast agents for cytoarchitectural imaging of the human ex vivo brain

                                    Megan Blackwell, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

1:25 PM                      High spatial resolution fMRI of the awake, behaving macaque monkey

                                    Francisca Leite, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

 

1:50 PM                      Combining microstimulation and fMRI in an awake behaving monkey

                        Leeland Ekstrom, Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, MIT

 

2:15 PM                      EM reconstruction with improved signal-to-noise ratio for coded aperture imaging

                                    Cynthia Tozian, PhD, Medical Imaging, Bristol-Myers Squibb

 

2:40 PM                      Importance of daily portal imaging for head and neck IMRT treatments

                                    Luciant Wolfsberger, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

3:05 PM                      Coffee Break

 

3:25 PM                      Calculation of contralateral lung dose in thoracic IMRT: An experimental evaluation

                        Deborah Schofield, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

3:50 PM                      4D Monte Carlo for IMRT and proton beams

                        Joao Seco, Ph.D., Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

 

4:15 PM                      Recovery coefficient in PET: The effects of object size and respiratory motion

                                    Xuping Zhu, Ph.D., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

 

4:40 PM                      Realistic positron emission tomography Monte Carlo simulation with pixellated detectors, light-sharing, random coincidences and dead-time modeling

                                    Bastien Guérin, M.Sc., Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University

 

5:05 PM                      Portal Vision dosimetry for complex IMRT plans

                                    Florin Rosca, Brigham and Women's Hospital

 

5:30 PM                      Closing Remarks

YC Lo, NEAAPM President and Mark Rivard, NEAAPM President-Elect


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North Lobby Conf. Room