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When: Wednesday, 11:45 am - 12:45 pm (bring your lunch)
Where: Bryan Research Building, Rm 162 (atrium conference room)
Medical physics is the application of the concepts and methods of physics to the diagnosis and treatment of human disease. As you can see from the speakers below, medical physicists come from many fields including radiology, BME, physics, radiation safety, radiation oncology, etc.
Beginning this semester, we are pleased to offer a weekly seminar, which will also serve as a BME 399 course co-instructed by Ehsan Samei and Joseph Lo of the Duke Advanced Imaging Labs. (For fall 2004 this will be a BME 265 section, the change in course numbers is just a bureaucratic requirement since BME graduate students can only take 2 399 courses for credit.) For more information or to volunteer for future seminars, please email us.
updated 5/15/04
| Date | Speaker | Topic
| Jan 14
| Robert Reiman, MD | Duke Radiation Safety I-131 therapy: external radiation safety and regulatory issues
| Jan 21
| Cristian Badea, PhD | Duke Radiology A micro-CT system for functional phenotyping in the mouse
| Jan 28
| Robert Saunders | Physics doctoral candidate Characterization of breast masses for the purpose of simulation (SPIE practice)
| Feb 04
| Randolph McKinley | BME doctoral student Measurements of a quasi-monochromatic beam for x-ray computed mammotomography (SPIE practice)
| Feb 11
| Randolph McKinley | BME doctoral student Measurements of a quasi-monochromatic beam for x-ray computed mammotomography (part 2)
| Feb 18
| No seminar, SPIE Medical Imaging
| Feb 25
| Alan Baydush, PhD | Duke Radiation Oncology What can an imaging scientist do in radiation oncology?
| Mar 03
| Jonathan Jesneck | BME doctoral student Optimization of beam quality for selenium-based full-field digital mammography
| Mar 10
| Page McAdams, MD | Duke Radiology Digital tomosynthesis for improved lung nodule detection: initial clinical experience
| Mar 17
| Carl Ravin, MD | Duke Radiology Digital chest image quality
| Mar 24
| Jay Baker, MD | Duke Radiology Breast CAD: limitations and future directions
| Mar 31
| David Catarious, MS | BME doctoral candidate Overview and performance of a computer-aided detection system for mammographic masses
| Apr 07
| Adam Wax, PhD | Duke BME Detecting pre-cancerous cells using angle-resolved low coherence interferometry
| Apr 14
| Devon Godfrey | BME doctoral candidate Optimization and clinical implementation of matrix inversion tomosynthesis (MITS) for lung nodule detection
| Apr 21/28
| No seminar, final exams
| May 19
| Carey Floyd, PhD | Duke Radiology & BME Journal club: Dodd LE, Wagner RF, Armato SG, 3rd, et al. Assessment methodologies and statistical issues for computer-aided diagnosis of lung nodules in computed tomography: Contemporary research topics relevant to the Lung Image Database Consortium. Academic Radiology 2004; 11:462-475.
| May 26
| DIRD faculty
| DIRD Faculty/Student Meeting
| Jun 02
| Ada Chen | BME doctoral student Journal club: Wu T, Stewart A, Stanton M, et al. Tomographic mammography using a limited number of low-dose cone-beam projection images. Medical Physics 2003; 30:365-380.
| Jun 16
| Rob Saunders, | physics doctoral candidate, Sarah Boyce, UNC BME doctoral student, Caryl Brzymialkiewicz, BME doctoral candidate Note new date! International Workshop Digital Mammography - practice presentations: | Simulation of Breast Lesions (Saunders), Physical Characterization of a Selenium-based Full Field Digital Mammography Detector (Saunders), Geometric Optimization in Mammography Magnification Radiography Simulation (Boyce), Evaluation of 3D Acquisition Orbits with an Emission Mammotomography System incorporating a Full-Field CZT Detector (Brzymialkiewicz). Jun 30
| Jonathan Jesneck | BME doctoral student Journal club: West M, Blanchette C, Dressman H, et al. Predicting the clinical status of human breast cancer by using gene expression profiles. PNAS 2001; 98 (20): 11462-11467.
| Jul 14
| Swatee Singh | BME doctoral student Journal club: Flynn, M. "Processing Digital Radiographs of Specific Body Parts." Advances in Digital Radiography - Categorical Course in Diagnostic Radiology Physics (2003 Syllabus), RSNA 2003.
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