Megan Clark, Savannah Decker, and Yao Chen, competed in the Early Career Symposium at the 2023 AAPM Spring Clinical Meeting. Over 100 applicants were submitted to this symposium for the 10 top slots to compete and Dartmouth was well represented with 3 of our graduate students obtaining final slots. Congratulations Megan, Savannah, and Yao!
Author: David Gladstone
Dartmouth PhD students win early career symposium at the NEAAPM
Kudos to Megan Clark and Austin Sloop who tied for first place in the Early Career Symposium at the New England Chapter meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. Megan presented her work on high spatial-temporal resolution scintillation imaging for beam characterization of ultra-high dose rate pencil beams. Austin presented his work on dosimetric stabilization of a modified clinical linear accelerator to deliver FLASH electron beam irradiation.
Megan and Austin are both PhD candidates in the Dartmouth Medical Physics Education Program at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth.
Congratulations!
Dartmouth MPEP students present their work at Radiation Research Society.
Megan Clark presented "First Single-pulse Scintillation Imaging of Synchrocyclotron Pencil Beam Scanning Proton System" at the 2022 Radiation Research Society meeting.
Savannah Decker presented "In vivo contralateral breast dosimetry via rapid, optical imaging to assess carcinogenesis incidents" at the 2022 Radiation Research Society meeting.
Dartmouth MPEP students present at ASTRO
Students in the Dartmouth Medical Physics Education Program will present their work at the 64th annual meeting of the American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology. Presenting authors are:
Savannah Decker: "Improved Cherenkov Imaging Across a Wide Range of Skin Pigmentation Levels for the Inclusion of Diverse Patient Populations"
Savannah Decker: "Dosimetric Effect of Variations in Bolus Placement Identified via Cherenkov Imaging"
Mahbubur Rahman: "Evaluating Risk of FLASH Experiments on a Clinical LINAC with Failure Mode and Effects Analysis"
Mahbubur Rahman: "Intensity Modulation in Electron FLASH Radiotherapy"
Mahbubur Rahman: "In-vivo Cherenkov Imaging-guided FLASH Radiotherapy"
Austin Sloop: "Comparison of Two Modified Linear Accelerators for use in FLASH Clinical Trials"
Savannah Decker wins NIH F31 Fellowship
Savannah Decker, a 3rd year PhD student in the Pogue/Gladstone labs was awarded an NIH F31 fellowship in support of her thesis work studying real time patient radiation dosimetry via imaging of Cherenkov emission. Savannah is currently investigating the use of color imaging techniques to calibrate the imaging systems for use in diverse patient populations.
Savannah Decker wins NEAAPM SLAM competition
Savannah Decker won the SLAM competition at the Winter meeting of the New England chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine. This competition is to determine who can describe their research project in a clear concise manner that anyone can understand - in 3 minutes or less! Congratulations Savannah!
Three Dartmouth researchers accepted for AAPM Early-Career Symposium
Three Dartmouth researchers involved in radiotherapy work have been accepted into the Early Career Investigator Symposium competition, in the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) Spring Clinical Meeting. Dr. Daniel Alexander, and PhD Candidates Savannah Decker and Austin Sloop will present their research. The three talks are linked here: the program
| 10:30 AM | SA-B-Celestin-1 | |
| Saturday | Clinic-Wide Cherenkov Imaging Identifies New Areas of Quality Improvement in Radiation Therapy | |
| D.Alexander*, M.Jermyn, P.Bruza, R.Zhang, E.Chen, S.Decker, B.Pogue, L.Jarvis, D.Gladstone | ||
| 11:10 AM | SA-B-Celestin-5 | |
| Saturday | Automated Detection Algorithms for Improving Radiotherapy Delivery That Directly Quantify Treatment Errors From Online In Vivo Cherenkov Imaging | |
| S.Decker*, D.Alexander, P.Bruza, R.Zhang, E.Chen, L.Jarvis, D.Gladstone, B.Pogue | ||
| 11:50 AM | SA-B-Celestin-9 | |
| Saturday | Characterization of Newly Designed EDGE Detector for UHDR FLASH Radiotherapy | |
| A.Sloop*, M.Rahman, J.Kozelka, M.Ashraf, P.Bruza, D.Gladstone, B.Pogue, J.Kapatoes, W.Simon, R.Zhang |
Daniel Alexander defends Thesis and accepts residency at UPenn
Ph.D Candidate Daniel Alexander defended his thesis work, " Expanding Cherenkov Imaging Applications in Radiotherapy: Clinic-Wide In Vivo Treatment Monitoring and MR-Linac Quality Assurance" on November 3rd. Daniel graduates at the end of this Fall term and has accepted a residency program in therapeutic Medical Physics at the University of Pennsylvania to start in the spring. Congratulations Dr. Alexander!
