Presentations

IGRT QA and its importance in stereotactic delivery accuracy, 11th Alpe Adria Medical Physics Meeting, Novi Sad, Serbia, October 22, 2023

 

Quality Assurance of X-Ray Based IGRT Systems, AAPM 65th annual meeting, Houston, TX, July 27, 2023

 

Image guidance in radiation therapy - Current practice and recent advances. The 7th International Clinical Oncology Congress of Iran, Tehran, Iran, February 3, 2023 (online)

 

Patient specific quality assurance, Workshop on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Novi Sad, Serbia, Dec. 1-4, 2022

 

Tolerances and recommendations for measurement-based patient-specific QA, Workshop on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Novi Sad, Serbia, Dec. 1-4, 2022

 

In vivo dosimetry and applicability of EPID, Workshop on Advanced Radiotherapy Techniques, Novi Sad, Serbia, Dec. 1-4, 2022

 

Quality assurance in image-guided radiotherapy, 2nd Serbian Radiation Oncology Congress, Vrdnik, Serbia, November 5, 2022

 

Imaging dose from x ray based image guided radiotherapy, 2nd Serbian Radiation Oncology Congress, Vrdnik, Serbia, November 5, 2022

 

X ray-based image guided radiation therapy: Imaging dose and QA, MPTF/Aga Khan University (Pakistan) webinar, July 28, 2022

 

Image guidance in radiation therapy – Current practice and imaging dose, The 6th International Clinical Oncology Congress of Iran, Tehran, Iran, February 16, 2022 (online)

 

Image guidance in radiation therapy: past, present, and future, RSNA 107th annual meeting, Chicago, IL, November 29, 2021

 

Measurement and calculation of imaging dose, RSNA 107th annual meeting, Chicago, IL, November 29, 2021

 

Advances in image guidance with emphasis on x ray-based modalities, AAPM 63rd annual meeting, virtual, July 26, 2021

 

The effect of small field output factor inaccuracy on TPS dose calculations, NCCAAPM Spring Special Symposium on Small Field Dosimetry, Madison, WI, April 21, 2022


Appropriate use and QA of image guided radiotherapy, Bulgarian Society of Biomedical Physics and Engineering’s XIII National Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Conference (NMPEC-2020), online, 13 November 2020

 

Doses from IGRT; Good practice and guidelines for imaging during treatment: physicist perspective, IAEA Regional Workshop on Assuring Patient Safety and Management  of Doses from Imaging in Radiotherapy, 25-27 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary

 

Dose assessment for kV and MV imaging during treatment, IAEA Regional Workshop on Assuring Patient Safety and Management  of Doses from Imaging in Radiotherapy, 25-27 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary

 

Methods to account for imaging dose and AAPM TG-180 recommendations; IAEA Regional Workshop on Assuring Patient Safety and Management  of Doses from Imaging in Radiotherapy, 25-27 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary

 

Summary of guidelines from QA and QC of imaging systems for RT, IAEA Regional Workshop on Assuring Patient Safety and Management  of Doses from Imaging in Radiotherapy, 25-27 November 2019, Budapest, Hungary

 

Pediatric organ doses from IGRT, Children’s Oncology Group fall meeting, Atlanta, GA, September 11, 2019

 

Overview of image guidance in radiation therapy, 2018 AAPM Summer School, Nashville, TN, July 26, 2018

 

Imaging dose in radiation therapy, 2018 AAPM Summer School, Nashville, TN, July 27, 2018

 

TG-180: Image Guidance Doses Delivered During Radiotherapy, NCCAAPM Fall Meeting, La Crosse, WI, Nov. 10, 2017


Accounting for kV imaging dose, AAPM 58th annual meeting, Washington, DC, August 2, 2016


Cone Beam CT: A dosimetric overview, Univ. of Minn., Univ. of Tokyo, Osaka Univ. Scientific Symposium, Minneapolis, MN, July 25, 2014


Early experience with Pinnacle Auto-Planning, Philips AAPM Symposium, Austin, TX, July 20, 2014

 

Small field diode dosimetry, NCCAAPM Small Field Dosimetry Symposium, Madison, WI, October 10, 2013


  Dosimetry of small IMRT fields, NCCAAPM Small Field Dosimetry Symposium, Madison, WI, October 10,           2013


Patient organ doses from imaging in IGRT: KV radiograph vs. KV-CBCT vs. MV portal image vs. MV-CBCT, AAPM 54th annual meeting, Charlotte, NC, August 1, 2012 (G. Ding, P. Alaei)

 

Cone Beam CT: Dose measurement, calculation, and inclusion in the treatment plan, AAPM 54th annual meeting, Charlotte, NC, August 1, 2012 (P. Alaei, G. Ding)

 

Cone beam CT in radiation therapy: Devices, Techniques and Doses, TCRT Spring Conference, St. Paul, MN, April 14, 2012


An update on kilovoltage CBCT dose inclusion in treatment planning, NCCAAPM Fall Meeting, Wisconsin Dells, WI, Sept. 17, 2011


Calculating organ dose from fluoroscopy, AAPM 53rd annual meeting, Vancouver, BC, August 1, 2011

 

Inclusion of the dose from kilovoltage cone beam CT in radiation therapy treatment plans, UCSD Radiation Oncology Academic Seminar Series (Web presentation), August 6, 2010


Review of the doses from CBCT and their inclusion in the treatment planning, AAMD 2010 Annual Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, June 16, 2010


Inclusion of kilovoltage cone beam CT dose in the treatment plans, NCCAAPM Fall Meeting, St. Paul, MN, Oct. 23, 2009

 

In vivo diode dosimetry for dose verification in IMRT treatments-experience with two treatment planning systems, Medical Physics Seminar, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Nov. 12, 2007

 

Lung dose calculations at kilovoltage x-ray energies using a model-based treatment planning system, NCCAAPM Spring meeting, Minneapolis, MN, May 5, 2000

 

Generation and use of energy deposition kernels for low energy x rays, NCCAAPM Spring meeting, Madison, WI, April 24, 1998