Medical Physics Education Program
A certificate and accreditation program for Dartmouth postdocs and PhD students
Irwin I. Tendler is the first candidate to complete his PhD within the Dartmouth Medical Physics Education Program since our CAMPEP accreditation. He successfully completed his thesis titled: "Quantitative Scintillation Imaging for Dose Verification & QA Testing in Radiotherapy". He has moved on to join the residency program at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, in Houston TX. Congratulations and best wishes on the launch of a wonderful scientific career ahead!
In a recent paper, Tendler et al, demonstrated visualization of Cherenkov light from a human radiotherapy treatment, and examines the light emission for spectral confirmation of the origins of the signal.
Tendler et al, IJROBP, February 1, 2020 106(2), pp 422–429.
https://www.redjournal.org/article/S0360-3016(19)33947-1/fulltext
PhD Candidate Daniel Alexander won a Top 3 place in the Physics section for Members in Training (MiT) Research Challenge at the upcoming Radiosurgery Society Annual Scientific Meeting. His presentation abstract was titled "Cherenkov Imaging for Adaptive Replanning Guidance in Head and Neck Radiotherapy". This work will be presented at the annual meeting in Washington DC, in April 2020.
PhD student Daniel Alexander presented his work titled "Imaging Cherenkov Emission in Head and Neck Radiotherapy" at the Peter Neurath Young Investigator Symposium of the New England AAPM Chapter Winter Meeting in Boston, Friday March 15, 2019. He tied for 1st place in this event, reporting on his work to non-invasively image dose delivery features from tissue phantoms, mask restraints and human patients. The work reported on the first documented imaging of radioluminescence during human head and neck radiotherapy treatment, completed at the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, under the guidance of Oncologist Lesley Jarvis, MD PhD.
Jacqueline Andreozzi, recent PhD graduate of the Dartmouth program, recently presented her thesis work in 3 talks at the AAPM Annual meeting. Her work on using Cherenkov light to verify beam parameters in an MRI-Linac was highlighted in PhysicsWorld. The same work was published in the June issue of Medical Physics, and highlighted on the cover. After finishing her doctoral thesis at Dartmouth, she accepted a Residency position in Clinical Physics at the University of Florida, Gainsville
Jacqueline Andreozzi, PhD, 2018
First year PhD student Irwin Tendler was selected to present the Dartmouth team's work on scintillation dosimetry imaging in total skin electron therapy, in the John R. Cameron Young Investigator Symposium, at the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Annual Conference, July 31, 2018. He was awarded 3rd prize for his talk, which focused on clinical results presenting the application of time-gated imaging of small scintillator dots that were placed on the skin surface of patients receiving irradiation. Detection of these point dosimeters with the C-Dose camera (DoseOptics LLC), allowed for quantitative skin dose estimation from the image analysis, and the numbers were validated with OSLD dosimetry used at the same time. The approach provides the first methodology for remote quantitative imaging dosimetry, without wires or in-room readout devices. The work is in review now for peer-reviewed publication. Similar work was presented at the AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting in 2018, where he was awarded 2nd prize.
The Annual meeting of the NE AAPM Chapter will take place at Dartmouth College on June 22, 2018. President-Elect David Gladstone is organizing it, and the venue will be Alumni Hall, above the Hopkins Center. Details are coming online soon here.
Prof David Gladstone ScD, was voted in as the President-Elect of the New England AAPM Chapter in July for the upcoming 2018 year, as announced by Greg Sharp, the current NEAAPM President. His duties will include working with the rest of the board, to plan and execute the educational meetings of the chapter, selecting the meeting venue, creating the program and inviting speakers. The President-Elect then becomes the President the following year, 2019.
