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Archive of Seminars in Medical Physics

Overview

Welcome to the permanent archive of previous semesters of Seminars in Medical Physics.

The group photo of the speakers who gave lectures to the Medical Physics graduate program students throughout the program

Above are some of our external speakers from previous years: (Top row, left to right) Gary Fullerton of Univ of Colorado, David Jaffray of Ontario Cancer Institute, and Geoffrey Ibbott of MD Anderson; (Middle row) Elliot McVeigh of Johns Hopkins, Chuck Mistretta and then Director Jim Dobbins, Wes Bolch of Univ of Florida; (Bottom row) Program faculty Mark Oldham with Joe Deasy of Wash Univ, Bill Hendee of Medical College of Wisconsin, and Mike King of Univ of Massachusetts showing his Duke spirit! (Photos: Joseph Lo; Montage design: Titania Juang)

2023-22024 Schedule

Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 PM ET in Bryan Research Bldg Auditorium Rm 103, followed by refreshments (unless noted otherwise)

DateSpeakerTopic
Aug 29

Academic Skills Workshops

 
Sept 5Academic Skills Workshops 
Sept 12Academic Skills Workshops 
Sep 19Joel Greenberg, PhD“Ex-vivo tissue analysis via X-ray diffraction imaging”
Sep 26 MS Students Multiple Mini-Talks
Oct 3 Nandan Lad, MD
Stephen Harward, MD
Justin Solomon, PhD
Scott Robertson, PhD
Megan Russ, PhD		 “High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound”
 Oct 10 Yang Sheng, PhD “Wide Clinical Implementation of AI Agent in Radiation Oncology in 2020’s From Bench to Bedside”
Oct 24PhD Student TalksDevon Overson, MS: “Use of High-Resolution
Diffusion MRI to Characterize in vivo
Neurodegenerative Biomarkers for Alzheimer’s
Disease.”
Breylon Riley, MS:  “Multiscale Characterization of Radiomic, Pathomic, and Transcriptomic Expression Patterns in Patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma”
Oct 31 Charles Mayo, PhD
University of Michigan		 “Emerging Role of Reirradiation in Clinical Practice”
Nov 7Steve Bache, MS
Kyle Lafata, PhD
Jack Shaw, MS
Chunhao Wang, PhD		 “This is not what I trained to do!”
Nov 28Kathy Nightingale, PhD“Ultrasonic Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force”
Date Speaker Topic
Jan 16    Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only.
Jan 23     Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only.
Jan 30     Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only.
Feb 6  Donald Frush, MD
Duke Radiology		 “Coauthoring the Book of Medical Imaging and Radiation in Children”
Feb 13  Scott Floyd, MD, PhD
Mark Oldham, PhD
Zach Reitman, MD, PhD
Ying Wu, PhD		 “A unique FLASH radiation therapy capability at Duke in collaboration with Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL)”
Feb 20  PhD Student Showcase  Anna Costelle: “Combining hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI and MRS to non-invasively estimate pulmonary vascular resistance.”
Trevor McKeown: “Improving pre-treatment images for more precise cardiac radiation therapy treatment”
Feb 27  Carmine Plott, PhD
Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center		 “Regulatory Climate Change”
Mar 8 Ryan Wargo, MS
VCU
Leith Rankine, PhD
UNC

“Is getting a PhD worth it?”
These Duke Medical Physics MS graduates decided to continue their educations.  Why?

Note that March 8 is a Friday.  Location TBD.
Mar 12   (Spring Break, no seminar)
Mar 19  Suleman Surti, PhD
University of Pennsylvania		 Total Body PET
Mar 26  Robert Reiman, MD “The Road Less Traveled”
Apr 2  Lawrence Marks, MD
University of North Carolina		 “What Medicine Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations, and Why We All Should Care.”
Apr 9  Many
 MMT’s ( Multiple Mini Talks):  First-year MS students present initial research work they’ve done.
Apr 16 Chunhao Wang, PhD, and Scott Robertson, PhD
Yang Sheng, PhD, and Dongrong Yang, MS		 Medical Physics Seed Grant Project Updates
 
 For more information, or to share ideas for future seminars, contact Anna Rodrigues or Tim Turkington.

2022-22023 Schedule

Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 PM ET in Bryan Research Bldg Auditorium Rm 103, followed by refreshments (unless noted otherwise)

DateSpeakerTopic
Aug 30

Bastiaan Driehuys PhD

A Research Program Built on One Atom – Imaging Pulmonary Function using 129Xe MRI
Sep 06WorkshopsJosh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Medical Physics, Professionalism, and You (Bryan 103, 1st yrs)
Anna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Data Visualization (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs + DKU)
Sep 13PhD Student TalksHunter Stephens: Reinforcement Learning in Radiation Therapy Planning
Junlan Lu: Development and Validation of 129Xe Cardiopulmonary Oscillation Imaging
Sep 20Yvonne Mowery, MD PhDPhysics and Cancer Biology Joining Forces to Advance Care for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Sep 27James Dobbins PhDThe importance of creativity in science and medicine: Lessons from a career in academic medical physics
Oct 04Lei Dong PhD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of Pennsylvania		Lessons learned from proton therapy systems commissioning
Oct 11Fall Break – No Seminar
Oct 18WorkshopsAnna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Technical Writing (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU)
Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Conflict and Resolution (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Oct 25Alexandra Badea, PhD
Justus Adamson, PhD
Steve Mann, PhD
Robert Reiman, MD		Important things I didn’t learn in school
Nov 01PhD Student TalksXinyi Li and Zachary Gude
Nov 08Chu Wang PhDHow much do you know about the Duke Radiation Safety Program? – Perspectives from the new RSO
Nov 15WorkshopsAnna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills Workshop: Scientific Critique and Analysis (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU)
Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism Workshop: Working Together (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Nov 22Thanksgiving Recess – No Seminar
Nov 29Deshan Yang PhDMedical Imaging Science and Motion Management in Radiation Therapy
Jan 17Academic Skills Workshops 
Jan 24Timothy Turkington, PhD
Joseph Lo, PhD
Susu Yan, PhD
Zhenyu Yang, MS		James Bowsher, PhD, Memorial Seminar
Jan 31Julie Raffi, PhD
Joel Greenberg, PhD
Aaron Smith, MS
Justin Solomon, PhD		“This is not what I trained to do”
Feb 7Academic Skills Workshops 
Feb 14PhD Student TalksMridul Bhattarai, MS
Eduardo Cisternas Jimenez, MS
Feb 21ManyMS Students Mini-Talks
Mar 7Academic Skills Workshops 
Mar 21Yutian Feng, PhD“Production of new radionuclides on the Duke Medical Cyclotron, and the chemistry of radiotheranostics.”
Mar 28David Crowley, MS

“A Practical Roadmap for Navigating Radiation Regulations.”
Apr 4Academic Skills Workshop 
Apr 11

George Sgouros, PhD
Johns Hopkins University

“How and why medical physicists are key to the survival and success of radiopharmaceutical therapy”
Apr 18Jiang Hseih, PhD
Retired, GE Healthcare
Adj Prof, UW Madison		“X-ray CT – A personal journey from the 80’s to the future.”

2017-2018 SCHEDULE

Lecture 2:30-3:30 PM ET in Bryan Research Bldg Auditorium (unless noted otherwise)
followed by refreshments and town hall discussion 4-5 PM in Med Phys classroom, Hock Plaza Ste 101

DateSpeakerTopic
2017
Sep 21Adrian Bejan, PhD
J.A. Jones Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Duke University Pratt School of Engineering		Life and Evolution as Physics
Oct 26Donald Cool, PhD
Technical Executive – Radiation Safety
Electric Power Research Institute		The System of Radiological Protection:  What is it, and how is it developed
Nov 16Zeljko Vujaskovic, MD, PhD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
Director, Division of Translational Radiation Sciences
Univ Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore MD		Concurrent Pencil Beam Scanning Proton Therapy and Hyperthermia:
Initial Clinical Experience
2018
Feb 01Udo Hoffmann, MD
Professor of Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Chief of Cardiac Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital		Machine Learning and Population Imaging – The Next Frontier of Cardiovascular Medicine
[Note new date!]
Feb 15Jan Lagendijk, PhD
Professor of Radiation Oncology Physics, UMC Utrecht		The MRI Linac: Towards robotic real-time MRI guided radiotherapy
   

 

2016-2017 ACADEMIC YEAR

Date Speaker Topic
Sep 22, 2016 Lawrence Marks, M.D. Dr. Sidney K. Simon Distinguished Professor of Oncology Research and Chair of Radiation Oncology UNC-Chapel Hill Error Bars in Medical Imaging
Oct 20, 2016 Mark Rivard, Ph.D. Chief Medical Physicist, Professor of Radiation Oncology Tufts-New England Medical Center The making of an AAPM Task Group: Grass roots efforts for issuing societal standards
Nov 10, 2016 Melissa Martin, M.S. President Elect, American Association of Physicists in Medicine President, Therapy Physics Inc., Gardena, CA. Leadership Skills for Today and the Future in Medical Physics (Special Location: Bryan Res. Bldg Auditorium)
Jan 19, 2017 Andre Dekker, Ph.D. Head Medical Physicist, MAASTRO Clinic Professor and Chair Clinical Science Data, Maastricht University The Netherlands Big Data in Radiation Oncology
Mar 09, 2017 Cynthia McCollough, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering Director, CT Clinical Innovation Center and X-ray Imaging Core Department of Radiology Mayo Clinic Photon counting detectors and their future in CT imaging SPECIAL LOCATION: Hock Plaza Auditorium
Apr 06, 2017 Warren Kibbe, Ph.D. Acting Deputy Director, NCI Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), NCI Cancer Moonshot, Data Sharing, and the Genomic Data Commons

Spring 2016

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 25 John Kirkpatrick, MD, PhD Sua Yoo, PhD Oana Craciunescu, PhD A Discussion on Physician Preferences in Radiation Oncology
Feb 1 Anuj Kapadia, PhD (moderator) Point/Counterpoint (part 1)
  • Bright young physicists should be advised to avoid careers in radiation therapy
  • The 2014 initiative can have potentially unintended negative consequences for medical physics in diagnostic imaging and nuclear medicine
Feb 8 Anuj Kapadia, PhD (moderator) Point/Counterpoint (part 2)
  • The terminal M.S. degree is no longer appropriate for students interested in a career in clinical medical physics in the United States
  • MP programs should rely on classwork and basic analytical skills rather than clinical and practical aspects (because we are not clinical).
Feb 15 Joseph Lo, PhD Nine Questions in Mammography Physics: Reverse Classroom
Feb 22 Geoff D. Rubin, MD Radiologists and their search for lesions: mining the mind’s eye
Feb 29 PhD Student Showcase Yilin Liu (adv. Cai) Kyle Lafata (adv. Yin) Yilin Liu: Development and Optimization of Four-dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4D-MRI) for Radiation Therapy Kyle Lafata: Injectable Brachytherapy using Elastin-like Polypeptide Nanoparticles: Dosimetric Planning System Development and Recent Experiments
Mar 7 Maryellen Giger, PhD (U. Chicago) Quantitative Radiomics in a Medical Physics Career
Mar 21 Jatinder Palta, PhD (VCU) Medical Physics in 2020
Mar 28 Cristian Badea, PhD Functional Imaging using Temporal and Spectral Micro-CT
Apr 4 Panayiotis Mavroidis, PhD (UNC-CH) Determination of NTCP model parameters from clinical data and approaches for clinical implementation.
Apr 11 Christian Kirisits, PhD (Med. Univ. of Vienna) Modern GYN brachytherapy: Planning, delivery, verification and reporting the optimal treatment
Apr 18 Yunfeng Cui, PhD The applications of PET imaging in radiation therapy

Spring 2015

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 12 PhD Doctoral Showcase
  • Matthew Freeman
  • Lynda Ikejimba
  • Freeman: Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI: Reining in Physics to Boost SNR
  • Ikejimba: QC in breast tomosynthesis: a novel phantom and image quality metrology
Jan 26 Joel Greenberg, PhD X-ray scatter imaging applications in medicine
Feb 2 Warren S. Warren, PhD Correcting Decades-Old Physics and Chemistry Omissions to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging
Feb 9 Stephen Glick, PhD (FDA) Technological advances in dedicated cone-beam breast CT
Feb 16 SPIE Preview
  • Pooyan Sahbaee
  • Manu Lakshmanan
  • Darin Clark
  • Sahbaee: Determination of contrast media administration to achieve a targeted contrast enhancement in CT
  • Lakshmanan: Coded aperture coherent scatter spectral imaging of breast cancer
  • Clark: Rank-sparsity constrained, spectro-temporal reconstruction for retrospectively gated, dynamic CT
Feb 23 Christopher Lascola, MD Multiplexed Theranostic Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mar 2 Donald Frush, MD Diagnostic Medical Imaging and Radiation Dose and Risk in Children
Mar 16 David Hsu, MD PhD Patient Derived Xenografts as a Preclinical Model for Solid Tumors
Mar 23 Stephen Riederer, PhD (Mayo Clinic) MR Angiography:  A Training Ground for Medical Physics
Mar 30 Jim Chang, PhD Treatment Assessment of Radiotherapy using MR Quantitative Functional Imaging: Promises and Challenge
Apr 6 Mustafa Bashir, MD Physics to Diagnosis:  MRI Acquisitions in Pancreaticobiliary Disease
Apr 13 Taoran Li, PhD Online Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Decision Making and Quality Assurance
 

Fall 2014

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 28 Tim Turkington, PhD   How to find an advisor and research lab (location: Medical Physics Classroom)
Sep 04   PhD student showcase: Scott Robertson Anna Rodrigues Robertson: “Optimized 3D Radial Reconstruction for Hyperpolarized MRI” Rodrigues: ”Dynamic Electron Arc Radiotherapy (DEAR)”
Sep 11 Juan Carlos Ramirez Giraldo PhD, Siemens Healthcare   New technologies for radiation dose optimization in CT
Sep 18 Mike Lipkin, MD Radiation Exposure From the Evaluation and Management of Kidney Stones
Sep 25 Anuj Kapadia, PhD Neutron and Gamma Scatter Imaging for Medical Diagnostics
Oct 2 Daniel Letourneau, PhD Quality Control in Radiotherapy: The AQUA System
Oct 9 Bob Reiman, MD, Martin Tornai, PhD, and James MacFall, PhD When things go wrong: Practical experiences in Medical Physics (*NOTE SPECIAL TIME: 3:20-4:30 PM)
Oct 16 Mark Dewhirst, DVM, PhD Reflections on my 40 year career in Medical Research
Oct 23 Anuj Kapadia, PhD (moderator) Point-counterpoint – Student version
Oct 27* George Gopen, PhD, JD * Writing from the Reader’s Perspective * (* NOTE SPECIAL DATE AND TIME – Monday 10/27 @ 11:45 AM)
Nov 6 Kim Light, MS, CMD GYN Radiotherapy at Duke Medicine
Nov 13 Harold Walder (President) and Zak Fathi (CTO) – Immunolight Innovation – An Entrepreneur’s Insights
Nov 20 H. Gilbert Smith, PhD Office of Research Collaborations Patents and Intellectual Property: What you need to know
 

Spring 2014

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 13 Maciej Mazurowski, PhD   Data Science in Medical Imaging
Jan 27 PhD student showcase: Steve Mann   Baiyu Chen  
  • Quantification of Tc-99m Sestamibi Distribution in Normal Breast Tissue Using Dedicated Breast SPECT-CT
  • A methodology for modeling volume quantification performance in CT
Feb 03 Guillermo Sapiro, Duke ECE   Computational tools for brain analysis and deep brain stimulation
Feb 10 Daniele Marin, MD CT technique optimization for detection of focal liver lesions
Feb 17 Jenny Hoang, MBBS   Radiation Dose Reduction in Head and Neck Imaging: Issues and Insights for Medical Physics Students
Feb 24 Georgia Tourassi, PhD   Oak Ridge National Lab: Biomedical Science and Career Opportunities
Mar 03 Mike Lipkin, MD Radiation Exposure From the Evaluation and Management of Kidney Stones
Mar 10 NO SEMINAR, Spring Break    
Mar 17 Joseph Lo, PhD Clinical Practices in Mammography: A review
Mar 24 Lei Ren, PhD Imaging dose reduction and quality improvement for inter- and intra-fraction verification in radiotherapy
Mar 31 Mark Oldham, PhD Jing Cai, PhD Hot Topics in Medical Physics: A 3D-conformal technique is better than IMRT or VMAT for lung SBRT
Apr 07 Bennett Chin, MD Small Animal PET/CT Molecular Imaging
Apr 14 Ehsan Samei, PhD, DABR Medical Physics 2.0: the new frontier in clinical imaging physics
 

Fall 2013

Date Speaker Topic
Sep 09 Paul Segars PhD Duke RAI Labs Medical Imaging Simulation Using Computer Phantoms
Sep 16 Jing Cai PhD Duke RadOnc MRI-based Motion Management for Radiation Therapy
Sep 23 Matthew Belley, Darin Clark  Duke Med Phys Program  Doctoral Research Showcase
  • Belley: Investigation of a Nanoparticle Terminated Fiber Optic Detector for Real Time, in-vivo Dosimetry
  • Clark: The Application of Robust Principal Component Analysis and Kernel Regression to Spectral CT Reconstruction
Sep 30 Mark Oldham PhD  Duke RadOnc 3D Optical-Tomography: applications in radiation therapy and biology
Oct 07 Oana Craciunescu PhD, Jennifer O’Daniel PhD, W.Robert Lee MD, David Kirsch MD PhD  Duke RadOnc Hot topics in Medical Physics
  • We do not need randomized clinical trials to demonstrate the superiority of proton therapy
  • Physicists who are responsible for high-tech radiotherapy procedures should have to be specially credentialed
Oct 14 No Seminar, Fall Break
Oct 21 Michael Stabin PhD  Vanderbilt University The Role of Dosimetry in External and Internal Radiation Therapy
Oct 28 Mark Oldham,Bob Reiman,Anuj Kapadia  Duke Radiology A discussion on Ethics and Academic Integrity
Nov 04 Greg Palmer PhD  Duke RadOnc Functional optical microscopy of tumor physiology using window chamber models
Nov 11 Eric Klein PhD  Washington University Proton Radiotherapy and Single Room Systems
Nov 18 Juan Carlos Ramirez Giraldo PhD  Siemens My Personal Experiences Moving from Academia to Industry
Nov 25 John Hazle PhD  MD Anderson Cancer Center, President, AAPM 30 Years of Maturation- What is the future for Medical Physics?
 

Spring 2013

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 14 Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Radiology CT Reconstruction: Advanced Technology and Science for Improved Patient Care
Jan 21 No Seminar, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 28 George Gopen PhD Duke English Scientific Writing
Feb 04 Jason Bond, Baiyu Chen, Rachel Tian  Duke Med Phys Program & BME SPIE Preview
  • Bond: Synthesis of CT anatomical texture in voxelized XCAT phantoms
  • Chen: Development of a phantom-based methodology for the assessment of quantification performance in CT
  • Tian: Projection-based dose metric: a step towards real-time, patient-specific dose estimation
Feb 11 Sha Chang PhD  UNC Radiation Oncology New Generation Medical Physicists and Multidisciplinary Research Collaborations
Feb 18 Titania Juang, Dário Rodrigues  Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase
  • Juang: Addressing the need for comprehensive validation of deformable image registration
  • Rodrigues: Multiphysiscs Modeling in Thermal Medicine: From the Model to Clinic
Feb 25 Kim Light  Duke Radiation Oncology Radiation Oncology: Clinical Flow and Treatment Planning Techniques
Mar 04 Lee Jones PhD  Duke Radiation Oncology Exercise Physiology in Oncology: New Applications of an Ancient Therapeutic Strategy
Mar 11 No Seminar, Spring Break
Mar 18 Cecil Charles PhD  Duke Radiology Lung Function and Structure
Mar 25 Paul Kinahan PhD  U Washington Radiology ULTRA low dose CT for PET/CT attenuation correction
Apr 01 Jim Dobbins PhD  Duke Radiology Strategies for noise reduction and subsequent dose reduction in CT and radiographic imaging
Apr 08 Anuj Kapadia PhD  Duke Radiology 3D Molecular Imaging through NSECT
Apr 15 Jim Dobbins PhD & Fang-Fang Yin PhD  Duke Med. Phys. Medical Physics as a Profession: Town hall on medical physics training and careers in North America and beyond
 

Fall 2012

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 27 Tim Turkington PhD Duke Med Phys Grad Program How to go about finding an advisor  (Special location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Plaza Ste 101)
Sep 03 No Seminar, Labor Day
Sep 10 Jackie Wu PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Knowledge guidance in radiation treatment planning
Sep 17 Ergys Subashi, Jered Wells  Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase: Class of 2008 cont’d
  • Subashi: 4D contrast enhanced MRI as a functional tool in the study of the tumor microenvironment
  • Wells: Correlated polarity noise reduction (CPNR): Nonlinear image processing algorithm for CT dose reduction
Sep 24 Benjamin Nelms PhD Canis Lupus LLC Moving forward (by looking back): Improving the quality and safety of radiation therapy by applying tried-and-true quality philosophies
Oct 01 Gary Fullerton PhD U Colorado Radiology Biophysical imaging measures of sugar accumulation on collagen as a biomarker of age and exercise
Oct 08 X. Ronald Zhu PhD UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center Spot scanning beam proton therapy: physics and clinical commissioning
Oct 15 No Seminar, Fall Break
Oct 22 Mark Oldham PhD  Duke Radiation Oncology Clinical challenges and innovative solutions in radiation therapy
Oct 29 Don Frush MD  Duke Radiology Current issues with radiation and medical imaging
Nov 05 Chunlei Liu PhD  Duke Radiology Imaging Brain Magnetic Interaction with MRI
Nov 12 Shiva Das PhD, Joseph Lo PhD  Duke Rad Onc & Radiology Knowledge-based radiation therapy
Nov 19 Martin Tornai PhD  Duke Radiology Non-Invasive 3D Molecular Breast Imaging
Nov 26 Kiyohiko Mabuchi PhD National Cancer Institute Long-term medical consequences of radiation in atomic-bomb survivors
 

Spring 2012

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 23 Hao Li, Taoran Li  Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase: Class of 2008
  • Hao Li: Dual-Energy and KV/MV cone beam CT for IGRT
  • Taoran Li:Small steps towards online adaptive radiation therapy
Jan 30 Lynda Ikejimba Duke Med Phys Program, Nooshin Kiarashi Duke Elec & Comp Engineering SPIE Sneak Preview
  • Ikejimba: Development of a task-based strategy for optimized contrast enhanced breast imaging: analysis of six imaging techniques for mammography and tomosynthesis
  • Kiarashi: Development of a dynamic 4D anthropomorphic breast phantom for contrast-based breast imaging
Feb 06 Eric Monson  Duke Computer Science Medical Physics as a Profession: Effective Graphics Visualization for Scientific Writing
Feb 13 Anuj Kapadia PhD Duke Radiology Biostatistics for Boards and Beyond
Feb 20 Fang-Fang Yin PhD Duke Rad Onc My 25 years of medical physics experiences: From a student to the present and beyond
Feb 27 Chris Lascola MD PhD Duke Radiology New Contrast Mechanisms for Molecular MR Imaging
Mar 05 No Seminar, Spring Break
Mar 12 Bastiaan Driehuys PhD Duke Radiology Imaging Pulmonary Gas Exchange from Mouse to Human using Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI
Mar 19 Joel Karp PhD U Penn Radiology Directions to improve PET instrumentation for clinical imaging
Mar 26 John Kirkpatrick MD PhD Duke Rad Onc Radiosurgery for CNS diseases
Apr 02 Sua Yoo PhD Duke Rad Onc Breast Radiation Treatment: Clinic + Research
Apr 09 Mike Zalutsky PhD Duke Radiology Targeted Radiotherapy
Apr 16 Bennett Chin MD Duke Radiology Small Animal Molecular Imaging with Micro PET / CT
 

Fall 2011

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 29 Guang-Hong Chen PhD U Wisc Madison Med Phys Prior Image Constrained Compressed Sensing and Applications in Medical Imaging
Sep 05 No Seminar, Labor Day
Sep 12 Titania Juang, Mark Oldham PhD, Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Med Phys Program AAPM Recap
Sep 19 G Allan Johnson PhD Duke Radiology Magnetic Resonance Microscopy
Sep 26 Jackie Wu PhD Duke Rad Onc Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT): Benefits and Challenges
Oct 03 Joseph Lo PhD Duke Med Phys Program Medical Physics as a Profession: Glossophobia Therapy
Oct 10 No Seminar, Fall Break
Oct 17 Irina Vergalasova, Ross McGurk,  Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase: Class of 2008
  • Vergalasova: A novel technique for markerless, self-sorted 4D-CBCT
  • McGurk: Using PET to segment functional targets for head-and-neck radiation therapy
Oct 24 Joseph Izatt PhD Duke BME Optical Coherence Tomography
Oct 31 Scott Huettel PhD Duke Psychology & Neuroscience What Can Functional Neuroimaging Tell Us About Economics?
Nov 07 Francisco Robles Duke Med Phys Light scattering and absorption spectroscopy spatially-resolved in 3 dimensions using quantitative low coherence interferometry for biomedical applications
Nov 14 Mark Oldham PhD Tim Turkington PhD Jennifer O’Daniel PhD Duke Med Phys Program Hot Topics in Medical Physics
Nov 21 Seminar Cancelled
Nov 28 David Kirsch MD PhD & Shiva Das PhD Duke Rad Onc Intraoperative Molecular Imaging and Micro-CT/Micro-Irradiation
 

Spring 2011

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 12 R Edward Coleman MD Duke Radiology/Nuc.Med. Memory and Memory Impairment  (Please note special date.)
Jan 24 Vorakarn Chanyavanich MS, Joseph Lo PhD, Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Med Phys Program Medical Physics as a Profession: Job Hunting
Jan 31 Cristian Badea PhD Duke Radiology Small Animal Imaging Using Micro-CT and Digital Subtraction Angiography
Feb 07 Baiyu Chen Duke Med Phys Program Xiang Li PhD Duke Radiology Jeremy Dahl PhD Duke BME SPIE Sneak Peek 
  • Precision of hepatic CT image quantifications: a comparative study of conventional (FBP) and iterative reconstruction algorithms (ASiR and MBIR) – Chen
  • The feasibility of universal DLP-to-risk conversion coefficients for body CT protocols – Li
  • A novel imaging technique based on the spatial coherence of backscattered waves: demonstration in the presence of acoustical clutter – Dahl
Feb 14 Janet Horton MD Duke Rad. Onc. Accelerated breast radiotherapy
Feb 21 Mustafa Bashir MD Duke Radiology Clinically Relevant Physics of Medical Computed Tomography
Feb 28 Jennifer O’Daniel PhD Duke Rad. Onc. Patient Safety and Quality Assurance in Radiation Oncology
Mar 07 No Seminar, Spring Recess
Mar 14 Mark Dewhirst DVM PhD Duke Rad. Onc. Development of an MR Imageable Drug Carrying Thermosensitive Liposome – Opportunity for Drug Dose Painting in Cancer Therapy
Mar 21 Timothy Oliver PhD Duke Cell Biology Seeing the Data in the Dark: Fundamentals of Confocal and Fluorescent Imaging in Biomedicine
Mar 28 Bruce Wieland PhD Duke Med. Phys. / Bruce Technologies Inc. Cyclotron Target Systems for Production and Distribution of PET-CT Radiopharmaceuticals
Apr 4 Geoffrey Rubin MD Duke Radiology Optimization of CT Angiography Imaging
Apr 11 Misc. faculty Duke Med. Phys. Medical Physics as a Profession: Mock Interviews, Real Advice
Apr 18 William Moses PhD Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Recent Advances in Time-of-Flight PET
 

Fall 2010

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 30 George Gopen JD PhD Duke Dept of English Scientific Writing
Sep 06 Anuj Kapadia PhD Duke Radiology NSECT: The New Frontier in Quantitative Spectroscopic Imaging
Sep 13 Duke Med Phys students AAPM Annual Meeting Presentations 
  • Taoran Li, Adaptive Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (AIGRT) for Hypo-Fractionated Prostate Cancer Treatment
  • Will Giles, A Technique to Correct Crescent Artifacts in On-Board CBCT
  • Andrew Thomas, A Comprehensive Method for Optical – Emission Computed Tomography
  • Joe Newton, First results with the DMOS-RPC optical-CT Scanner and 3D Dosimetry System
Sep 20 David Brizel MD Duke Radiation Oncology The Role of Functional Metabolic Imaging in the Treatment of Head and Neck Cancer
Sep 27 Jim Dobbins PhD Duke Radiology Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Medical Physics Education
Oct 04 Qiuwen Wu PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Topics in Prostate IGRT
Oct 11 No Seminar, Fall Recess
Oct 18 Ehsan Samei PhD, Olav Christianson, Simon Murphy Duke Radiology Clinical Imaging Physics
Oct 25 Kim Light C.M.D. Duke Rad. Onc. RT Clinical Practice Lectures: Radiation Oncology: Clinical Flow and Treatment Planning Techniques
Nov 01 Mark Oldham PhD Duke Rad. Onc. How should we verify complex radiation treatments?
Nov 08 Adam Wax PhD Duke BME Interferometry and Light Scattering for Optical Spectroscopy and Biomedical Diagnostics
Nov 15 Jenny Hoang MD Duke Radiology Radiation Dose Reduction for Neck CT: Issues and Insights for Physicists
Nov 22 Chunlei Liu PhD Duke Radiology In Vivo MRI of Brain Connectivity
Nov 29 Oana Craciunescu PhD Duke Rad. Onc. RT Clinical Practice Lectures: Brachytherapy Commissioning
 

Spring 2010

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 14 Joseph Lo PhD Duke Radiology Breast Tomosynthesis: Modeling and Measuring (special location: Medical Physics Classroom, Hock Plaza Ste 101)
Jan 21 Sam Brady, Sangroh Kim PhD students, Duke Medical Physics Doctoral Research Showcase, Class of 2007 (part 1):
  • Sam Brady -TBD
  • Sangroh Kim – Kilovoltage cone-beam CT: comparative dose and image quality evaluations in partial and full-angle scan protocols
Jan 28 Barbara Beckerman, Act. Director Biomed. Sci. Egr. Ctr Oak Ridge National Labs Introduction to Biomedical Science and Engineering Ctr, Oak Ridge National Labs (special time and location: 12:00 PM at Ravin Advanced Imaging Labs conf room, Hock Plaza Ste 302)
Jan 28 Barbara Beckerman, Act. Director Biomed. Sci. Egr. Ctr Oak Ridge National Labs Multi-Modality, Semi-Automated Learning Environments for Data Analytics (special location: Medical Physics Classroom, Hock Plaza Ste 101)
Feb 4 Martin Tornai PhD Duke Radiology (Nuc. Med.) Very Low Dose 3D Molecular Breast Imaging
Feb 11 Samuel Johnston, Baiyu Chen, Dominic Crotty PhD students, Duke BME & Medical Physics SPIE 2010: Sneak Peek of Student Presentations:
  • Samuel Johnston – Phase-selective image reconstruction of the lungs in small animals using micro-CT
  • Baiyu Chen – Quantitative CT: technique dependency of volume assessment for pulmonary nodules
  • Dominic Crotty – Investigating the dose distribution in the uncompressed breast with a dedicated CT mammotomography system
Feb 18 Christopher Lascola MD PhD Duke Radiology New Contrast Mechanisms for Molecular MR Imaging
Feb 25 Mark Oldham PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Imaging and Radiation Therapy (special location: Medical Physics Classroom, Hock Plaza Ste 101)
Mar 4 Bennett Chin MD Duke Radiology (Nuc. Med.) Translational SPECT applications – Molecules of Interest from the Imaging Perspective (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Mar 18 Timothy Turkington PhD, Martin Tornai PhD Duke Radiology (Nuc. Med.) Hot Topics in Medical Physics – PET/MR, 1+1=?
Mar 25 Donald Frush, MD Duke Radiology CT and Radiation Risk: the Radiologist’s Perspective (special time & location: 3:15 – 4:30 PM, lecture room 2003 in North Hospital)
Apr 1 Lei Dong PhD M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Radiation Physics Failure Modes and Effects Analysis for IGRT
Apr 8 James MacFall PhD Duke Radiology Extracting Functional Tissue Information from Dynamic Contrast Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Apr 15 Michael King PhD U Mass Med School, Radiology (Nuc. Med.) Introduction to Task-Based Assessment of Image Quality
 

Fall 2009

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 27 Justin Roper, Vorakarn Chanyavanich PhD Students, Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase (entering class of 2006)
  • Roper: On-board SPECT for localizing functional & molecular targets
  • Chanyavanich: Knowledge-Based Optimization for IMRT Treatment Planning
(Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Sep 3 Ehsan Samei, Max Amurao, Robert Ike, Travis Greene Duke Radiology Clinical Imaging Physics: Rationale, Perspective, and Opportunities
Sep 10 Mark Oldham PhD (moderator), Jim Chang, Sua Yoo, Quiwen Wu, & Andrew Thomas Duke Radiation Oncology American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) 2009 Annual  Meeting – Reprise of Duke Presentations
  • Chang: Imaging Guided Frameless Stereotactic RadioSurgery Using CBCT 6D Image Registration and 6D Couch On Novalis Tx System
  • Yoo: Radiotherapy Treatment Plans with RapidArc for Head-And-Neck Cancer
  • Wu: Is Offline Adaptive Planning Necessary for Online Image-Guided Radiotherapy of Prostate Cancer?
  • Thomas: A 3D Solution for Advanced Photon Arc Therapy Quality Assurance
Sep 17 Ronald Jaszczak PhD Duke Radiology (Nuc Med) Molecular Imaging Instrumentation: Gamma Cameras and SPECT
Sep 24 Rendon Nelson MD Duke Radiology Use of MOSFET Technology in Clinical Radiology Research (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Oct 1 G. Allan Johnson PhD Duke Radiology Small Animal Imaging
Oct 8 Timothy Turkington PhD Duke Radiology (Nuc Med) Time-of-Flight PET and the Reduction of Attenuation Artifacts
Oct 15 Jeffrey Siewerdsen PhD Dept of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University Open House Guest Speaker From DQE to TRE: Taking Image Science to Task in Image-Guided  Interventions  (Special Location: Social Sciences Bldg rm 139)
Oct 22 Georgia Tourassi PhD Duke Radiology Biomedical Informatics Will Lead the Path to Predictive,  Personalized, Preventive, and Participatory Health Care (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Oct 29 Shiva Das PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Optimization in IMRT
Nov 5 Melissa Skala PhD Duke Biomedical Engineering Optical Coherence Tomography
Nov 12 Adam Brooks, Kelly McGrady, Michael Pierquet, Scott Senick MS Students, Duke Med Phys Program Summer Research Scholarship Presentations:
  • Brooks: Application of RapidArc Technique to Cervical Spine  Stereotactic Treatment
  • McGrady: The Detection of Lung Nodules on Chest Tomosynthesis  in Comparison to Conventional and Dual-Energy Radiography
  • Pierquet: Characterization of a Reusable Presage Formulation
  • Senick: Using Image Guided Portal Dosimetry to Evaluate  Volumetric Changes in Head and Neck Cancer patients During External  Beam Radiation Therapy
Nov 19 David Kirsch MD PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Intra-operative molecular imaging of soft tissue sarcomas (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
 

Spring 2009

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 8 Vorakarn Chanyavanich MS, Joseph Lo PhD, Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Med Phys Program Medical Physics as a Profession 2: Job Hunting  (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Jan 15 Jim Dobbins PhD, Xiang Li, Greg Sturgeon Duke Med Phys Program RSNA Revisited
  • Xiang Li – Pediatric Chest MDCT: Unique Method for Patient-specific Organ and Effective Dose Estimations
  • Greg Sturgeon – Series of Anatomically Detailed Computerized Phantoms for Pediatric CT Research
  • Jim Dobbins – Automated Registration of Chest Tomosynthesis Projection Images Using Fiducial Markers to Correct for Effects of Patient Motion During Acquisition
Jan 22 Vorakarn Chanyavanich MS, Joseph Lo PhD, et al & med phys faculty, staff, students Medical Physics as a Profession 3: Interviews and Negotiations  (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Jan 29 Scott Huettel PhD Duke Radiology Neuroeconomics: Using neuroimaging to understand economic decision making
Feb 5 Misc personnel Duke Radiology & BME SPIE Preview
  • Ned Light: Real-time 3D Doppler ultrasound guidance of autonomous surgical robot for removal of magnetically vibrating foreign bodies: feasibility study
  • Brooks Lindsey: The ultrasound brain helmet: feasibility study of multiple simultaneous 3D scans of cerebral vasculature
  • Maciej Mazurowski: A comparative study of database reduction methods for case-based computer-aided decision systems: preliminary results
Feb 12 Jennifer O’Daniel PhD Duke Rad Onc Rapid Arc commissioning and QA
Feb 19 Joe Deasy PhD Washington Univ. in St Louis Rad Onc. Informatics Challenges in Radiation Oncology: Making New Technology Work for the Patient
Feb 26 Cohen, Ranger, Samei Duke Radiology & Med Phys Program SPIE & RSNA Review
  • Adam Cohen – Measurements and Model of Polarization in CZT
  • Nicole Ranger – Extension of DQE to include scatter, grid, magnification, and focal spot blur: a new experimental technique and metric
  • Ehsan Samei – To compress or not to compress? That is the question: revisiting the need for breast compression in FFDM and DBT
(Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Mar 5 Misc. students Duke Med Phys Program Open House – Student Poster Session
  • Maryann Abogunde: Small Animal Dosimetry in Cesium and X-ray Irradiators
  • Sherry Leeper: Dosimetric and HU Comparison of Six Cone-beam CT Acquisition Techniques for Adaptive Therapy Planning
  • Xiang Li: Patient-specific dose estimation for pediatric CT
  • Francisco “Paco” Robles: Parallel frequency-domain optical coherence tomography scatter-mode imaging and dual window processing
  • Ross McGurk: Impact of dynamic lung density in the irradiation of moving tumors in the lung using step-and-shoot IMRT: a NCAT based 4D Monte Carlo simulation study
  • Ashley Manzoor: Imaging real-time drug delivery of thermosensitive liposomes in-vivo
  • Kristy Perez: Novel Patient Optimized Acquisition Trajectories for Dedicated Breast SPECT Imaging
  • Josh Wilson: Development of a PET protocol to equalize noise for PET/CT leg acquisitions
(Special Location: CIEMAS Atrium)
Mar 12 Maryellen Giger PhD, president of AAPM, Professor of Radiology at Univ  of Chicago John Bayouth PhD, Assoc Professor and Director of Medical  Physics, Dept of Radiation Oncology at Univ of Iowa. Special Panel Discussion from SEAAPM Speakers
Mar 19 Bastiaan Driehuys PhD Duke Radiology Introduction to Hyperpolarized Gas MRI
Mar 26 Mahadevappa Mahesh PhD Johns Hopkins Univ. Radiol & Medicine/Cardiology Magnitude of Radiation Exposure to US population with  focus on CT (Special Location: Bryan Research Bldg auditorium)
Apr 2 Tim Oliver PhD Duke Cell Bio. Seeing the Data in the Dark: Fundamentals of Confocal and Fluorescent Imaging in Biomedicine
Apr 9 Ed Coleman MD Duke Radiology PET in Dementia
 

Fall 2008

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 28 PhD students Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase I
  • A novel digital tomosynthesis (DTS) reconstruction method using a deformation field map – Lei Ren
  • Four-dimensional digital tomosynthesis: technique proposal and first experimental results – Jackie Maurer
  • In-vivo drug delivery and anti-tumor effects of hyperthermia-triggered doxorubicin release from thermosensitive liposomes – Ashley Manzoor
Sep 04 PhD students Duke Med Phys Program Doctoral Research Showcase II
  • Dose Reduction in Pediatric CT – Xiang Li
  • Incorporating Functional Imaging Information to rpFNA Analysis for Breast Cancer Detection in High Risk Women – Kristy Perez
  • Development of a Tapering, Fillable Phantom: Applications for PET Image Quality Assessment – Josh Wilson
Sep 11 Jim Dobbins PhD & Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Radiology Challenges and Opportunities in the Future of Medical Physics Education
Sep 18 Martin Tornai PhD Duke Radiology Summer Internships in Medical Physics
Sep 19 (see note) Walter Huda PhD Medical Univ S Carolina, Radiology Radiation Risks: What the Radiologists Need to Know  (OPTIONAL, Special Location: 7:30 AM Duke North Hospital Rm 2003)
Sep 25 (see note) George Gopen PhD Duke English Dept. Scientific Writing  (Special Location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Ste 101)
Oct 02 Haijun Song PhD Duke Rad. Onc. RT Clinical Practice Lectures: Installation of a Linac
Oct 09 Anuj Kapadia PhD Duke Radiology Neutron Stimulated Emission Computed Tomography for Spectroscopic Imaging of the Human Body
Oct 16 Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Radiology Medical Physics as a Profession
Oct 17 (see note) Medical Physics students Open House – Student Poster Session  (OPTIONAL, Special Location: TBD)
Oct 23 Fang-Fang Yin PhD (mod), John Kirkpatrick MD, Brian Czito MD Duke Rad. Onc. Hot Topics in Medical Physics – Photon vs. Proton  (Special Location: Bryan Res Bldg auditorium)
Oct 30 Mike Zalutsky PhD Duke Radiology Targeted Radiotherapy
Nov 06 Medical Physics students Summer Research Scholarship Presentations – Mary Ann Abogunde, Corey Clift, Ryan Davis, William Giles, and Chris Veale
Nov 13 Bruce Gerbi PhD Head of Physics Section, Dir. Med Phys Residency Program, Dept of Therapeutic Radiology, U Minn. Fang-Fang Yin PhD Medical Physics Residencies
Nov 20 Lynne Hurwitz MD Duke Radiology Radiation dose considerations in adult cardiothoracic imaging  (Special Location: Bryan Res Bldg auditorium)
 

Spring 2008

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 10 Georgia Tourassi PhD Duke Radiology ROC vs. Accuracy: And the winner is?
Jan 17 Martin Tornai PhD Duke Radiology 3D Molecular Breast Imaging
Jan 24 Tracy Jaffe MD Duke Radiology Imaging of abdominal pain in pregnancy
Jan 31 Joseph Lo PhD Breast Tomosynthesis: The Hype and the Hope
Feb 07 Ehsan Samei PhD Duke Radiology Dose and Quality Optimization of Imaging Systems
Feb 14 Christina Li, Xiang Li, Ben Pollard Duke BME & Med Phys Graduate Program SPIE ’08: Sneak Peek of Student Presentations  Three-dimensional computer generated breast phantom based on empirical data (C. Li)  Towards assessing the diagnostic influence of dose reduction in pediatric CT: a study based on simulated lung nodules (X. Li)  The effect of increased ambient lighting on detection accuracy in uniform and anatomical backgrounds (Pollard)
Feb 21 Bruce Wieland PhD Duke Radiology, President of Bruce Technologies Inc. Cyclotron Target Systems for Production and Distribution of PET-CT Radiopharmaceuticals
Feb 28 Bennett Chin MD Duke Radiology Small Animal Molecular Imaging: Translational SPECT applications – From Molecules to Mice, to Humans, and back again
Mar 6 Medical Physics students Open House – Student Poster Session
Mar 13 No Seminar, Spring Break
Mar 20 Don Frush MD, Terry Yoshizumi PhD Duke Radiology, Radiation Safety Hot Topics in Medical Physics – The CT Dose Controversy Please read: NEJM article and AAPM response
Mar 27 David Townsend PhD U of Tennessee Radiology & Medicine Fusion of Form and Function: 1 + 1 = 3
Apr 03 Charles Mistretta PhD Vice Chair of Med Phys, U of Wisc. Accelerated Medical Imaging using Undersampled Acquisitions and Constrained Reconstruction
Apr 10 Sua Yoo PhD RT Clinical Practice Lectures: Varian Gating System
 

Fall 2007

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 28 Mark Oldham PhD et al Duke Radiation Oncology MPP Rad Onc Director Opportunities in Radiation Therapy also feat. Shiva Das, Jackie Wu, and Fang-Fang Yin.
Sep 4 James MacFall PhD et al Duke Radiology MPP Dx Img Director Opportunities in Diagnostic Imaging also feat. G. Allan Johnson, James Provenzale, Joseph Lo and Paul Segars.
Sep 11 Tim Turkington PhD Duke Radiology, Nuc Med MPP Nuc Med Director Opportunities in Nuclear Medicine
Sep 18 Terry Yoshizumi PhD Duke Radiology MPP Med Health Phys Dir. Opportunities in Medical Health Physics
Sep 25 Art Boyer PhD Director Physics Div Scott & White Hospital Developments in Medical Physics Education
Oct 2 Ron Jaszczak PhD Duke Radiology, Nuc Med Overview of Gamma Cameras and SPECT
Oct 9 No Seminar, Fall Recess
Oct 16 Elliot McVeigh PhD Chair of Biomed Egr Johns Hopkins Univ School of Med Applications of Interventional MRI
Oct 23 G. Allan Johnson PhD Duke Radiology Small Animal Imaging- The Duke Center for In Vivo Microscopy
Oct 30 Mark Oldham PhD Duke Radiation Oncology 3D optical imaging: applications in biomedicine
Nov 6 John Kirkpatrick MD PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Radiosurgery for CNS diseases
Nov 13 Georgia Tourassi PhD Joseph Lo PhD Duke Radiology Biostatistics for Boards and Beyond
Nov 20 Adam Wax PhD Duke BME Detecting pre-cancerous cells in the human esophagus using angle-resolved low coherence interferometry
Nov 27 Mark Dewhirst DVM PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Development of an MR imageable drug carrying thermosensitive liposome – opportunity for drug dose painting in cancer therapy
 

Spring 2007

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 16 Joseph Lo PhD et al Duke Radiology & BME RSNA Recap Sujata Ghate “Sonohysterography: Do 3 Dimensional (3D) Reconstructed Images Provide Additional Value?” Ana Maria Gaca “Radiation Dose from Abdominal MDCT in Pediatric Cases” Sebastian Schindera “Multi-Energy 64-Slice Multidetector Abdominal CT: Effect on Radiation Dose, Image Noise, and Contrast Opacification” Jonathan Jesneck “A Computer Aid for Diagnosis of Breast Mass Lesions Using Both Mammographic and Sonographic BI-RADS Descriptors” Joseph Lo “Breast Tomosynthesis: Initial Clinical Experience with 100 Human Subjects” Shane McGonegle “Pilot Evaluation of Low-Dose Craniofacial CT for Diagnosis of Craniosynostosis Using a Radiation Dose Reduction Simulation Tool”
Jan 23 Sua Yoo PhD Duke Radiation Oncology CBCT-based treatment planning
Jan 30 Al Smith PhD MD Anderson Cancer Ctr Proton therapy
Feb 6 Allen Song PhD Duke Radiology & BME Use of MRI to detect small electrical activities: relevance to neuroimaging
Feb 13 Terry Wong MD PhD Duke Radiology PET/CT: Basic Principles and Clinical Applications
Feb 20 Mohit Kasibhatla MD Duke Radiation Oncology Head & neck cancer and role of IMRT
Feb 27 Joseph Izatt PhD Duke BME Optical Coherence Tomography
Mar 6 Med Phys & BME students SPIE Recap / Student Research Highlights Sam Brady: Novel Mouse Dosimetry w/ MOSFET Technology in Orthovoltage X-ray Irradiator  Kristy Perez: Analysis of patient bed positioning in SPECT-CT imaging for dedicated mammotomography  Xiang Li: Developing a Monte Carlo Code to Simulate Organ Dose for Pediatric CT Patients  Amy Sharma: Elemental spectrum of a mouse obtained via neutron stimulation
Mar 13 NO CLASS, SPRING BREAK
Mar 20 Wesley Bolch PhD Univ of Florida Customizing phantoms and organ models for medical dosimetry studies
Mar 27 Paul Segars PhD Duke Radiology Medical imaging simulation and computer phantoms
Apr 3 Georgia Tourassi PhD Duke Radiology “The Bosom Buddy”: Interactive CAD for Mammograms
Apr 10 David Jaffray PhD University Health Network, Ontario CA Image-guided radiation therapy
Apr 17 Timothy Oliver PhD Duke Cell Biology Seeing the data in the dark: fundamentals of confocal and fluorescent imaging in biomedicine
 

Fall 2006

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 31 Lo, Oldham, and students from Med Phys & BME Welcome and Student Poster Session
Sep 7 Tim Turkington PhD MPGP Nuclear Medicine Dir Introduction to Nuclear Medicine Research
Sep 14 Joseph Lo PhD et al Duke Radiology/BME Introduction to Diagnostic Imaging Research
Sep 21 Terry Yoshizumi PhD MPGP Health Physics Dir Introduction to Medical Health Physics Research
Sep 28 Mark Oldham PhD MPGP Radiation Therapy Dir Introduction to Radiation Therapy Research
Oct 5 Srini Mukundan PhD MD Duke Radiology/BME Imaging the Bloodpool with Nanoparticles
Oct 12 Lawrence Marks MD Duke Radiation Oncology Evaluating new technology in radiation therapy
Oct 19 Roderic Pettigrew PhD Director, NIH/NIBIB Redington Memorial Lecture: Horizons at the Interface of the Physical / Life Sciences Special place & time: Bryan Res. Bldg. Auditorium 4-5 PM, reception 5-6 PM
Oct 27 Geoffrey Ibbott PhD MD Anderson Cancer Ctr Radiation Physics IMRT delivery as evaluated with the RPC’s anthropomorphic phantom Special time: Fri Oct 27 12:00-1:15. There will be no seminar on Thu Oct 26.
Nov 2 Cristian Badea PhD Duke Radiology X-ray based morphological and functional imaging in small animals
Nov 9 Samei/Lo/Oldham Professionalism: Everything we wish somebody would have told us when we were grad students.
Nov 16 Mark Oldham PhD et al Duke Radiation Oncology Selected presentations from American Society for Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology (ASTRO) meeting
Nov 23 No Seminar, Thanksgiving
Nov 30 Jim Dobbins PhD MPGP Director, Duke Radiology/BME Measuring Image quality
 

Spring 2006

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 12 George Gopen, PhD Duke English Dept. Scientific Writing
Jan 19 Rob Saunders, MA Duke Radiology & Physics Impact of Resolution and Noise on Mammographic Diagnosis
Jan 26 Page McAdams, MD Duke Radiology/Chest Digital Chest Image Quality
Feb 2 Sumin Zhou, PhD (organizer) Junan Zhang, PhD Devon Godfrey, PhD Oana Craciunescu, PhD Mark Oldham, PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Selected talks from American Society for Therapeutic Radiology & Oncology (ASTRO) and American Association of Phycisists in Medicine (AAPM): • Some Variants of the Iterative Algorithm (Zhang) • Online Digital Tomosynthesis (DTS): A Novel Technique for Improving Target Localization in Radiation Therapy (Godfrey) • Imaging Tools with Potential to Characterize Tumor Changes and Estimate Response in Breast Cancer Patients Treated with Neoadjuvant Therapies (Craciunescu) • Three dimensional imaging of tumor microvasculature and viable cell distribution using optical computed and emission tomography (Oldham)
Feb 9 Dominic Crotty, BS Ada Chen, MA Amy Sharma, BS Duke BME/Radiology Selected talks from International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) 2006: • Experimental Spectral Measurements of Heavy K-edge Filtered Beams for X-ray Computed Mammotomography (Crotty) • Gaussian frequency blending algorithm with Matrix Inversion Tomosynthesis (MITS) and Filtered Back Projection (FBP) for better Digital Breast Tomosynthesis Reconstruction (Chen) • Rotating Slat Collimator Design for High-Energy Near-Field Imaging (Sharma)
Feb 16 Vaclav Vylet, PhD Duke Radiation Safety Multiple Facets of Health Physics
Feb 23 Don Frush, MD Duke Radiology/Pediatrics CT and Radiation Risk: the Radiologist’s Perspective
Mar 2 Martin Tornai, PhD Duke Radiology/Nuc. Med. New Approaches to 3D Molecular Breast Imaging
Mar 9 William Hendee, PhD Medical College of Wisc. Creativity and Innovation in Action: Migration of the Products of Biomedical Research into the Marketplace
Mar 16 No Seminar, Spring Recess
Mar 23 Zhiheng Wang, PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Gating Applications in Radiation Therapy
Mar 30 James MacFall, PhD Duke Radiology Magnetic Resonance Monitoring of Hyperthermia Therapy
Apr 6 Shiva Das, PhD Duke Radiation Oncology Functional Image-guided Radiotherapy
Apr 13 Georgia Tourassi, PhD Duke Radiology/DAI Labs Introduction to Clinical Decision Theory

2022-22023 Schedule

Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 PM ET in Bryan Research Bldg Auditorium Rm 103, followed by refreshments (unless noted otherwise)

DateSpeakerTopic
Aug 30

Bastiaan Driehuys PhD

A Research Program Built on One Atom – Imaging Pulmonary Function using 129Xe MRI
Sep 06WorkshopsJosh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Medical Physics, Professionalism, and You (Bryan 103, 1st yrs)
Anna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Data Visualization (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs + DKU)
Sep 13PhD Student TalksHunter Stephens: Reinforcement Learning in Radiation Therapy Planning
Junlan Lu: Development and Validation of 129Xe Cardiopulmonary Oscillation Imaging
Sep 20Yvonne Mowery, MD PhDPhysics and Cancer Biology Joining Forces to Advance Care for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Sep 27James Dobbins PhDThe importance of creativity in science and medicine: Lessons from a career in academic medical physics
Oct 04Lei Dong PhD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of Pennsylvania		Lessons learned from proton therapy systems commissioning
Oct 11Fall Break – No Seminar
Oct 18WorkshopsAnna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Technical Writing (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU)
Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Conflict and Resolution (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Oct 25Alexandra Badea, PhD
Justus Adamson, PhD
Steve Mann, PhD
Robert Reiman, MD		Important things I didn’t learn in school
Nov 01PhD Student TalksXinyi Li and Zachary Gude
Nov 08Chu Wang PhDHow much do you know about the Duke Radiation Safety Program? – Perspectives from the new RSO
Nov 15WorkshopsAnna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills Workshop: Scientific Critique and Analysis (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU)
Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism Workshop: Working Together (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Nov 22Thanksgiving Recess – No Seminar
Nov 29Deshan Yang PhDMedical Imaging Science and Motion Management in Radiation Therapy
Jan 17Academic Skills Workshops 
Jan 24Timothy Turkington, PhD
Joseph Lo, PhD
Susu Yan, PhD
Zhenyu Yang, MS		James Bowsher, PhD, Memorial Seminar
Jan 31Julie Raffi, PhD
Joel Greenberg, PhD
Aaron Smith, MS
Justin Solomon, PhD		“This is not what I trained to do”
Feb 7Academic Skills Workshops 
Feb 14PhD Student TalksMridul Bhattarai, MS
Eduardo Cisternas Jimenez, MS
Feb 21ManyMS Students Mini-Talks
Mar 7Academic Skills Workshops 
Mar 21Yutian Feng, PhD“Production of new radionuclides on the Duke Medical Cyclotron, and the chemistry of radiotheranostics.”
Mar 28David Crowley, MS

“A Practical Roadmap for Navigating Radiation Regulations.”
Apr 4Academic Skills Workshop 
Apr 11

George Sgouros, PhD
Johns Hopkins University

“How and why medical physicists are key to the survival and success of radiopharmaceutical therapy”
Apr 18Jiang Hseih, PhD
Retired, GE Healthcare
Adj Prof, UW Madison		“X-ray CT – A personal journey from the 80’s to the future.”

2022-22023 Schedule

Tuesdays 3:30-4:30 PM ET in Bryan Research Bldg Auditorium Rm 103, followed by refreshments (unless noted otherwise)

DateSpeakerTopic
Aug 30

Bastiaan Driehuys PhD

A Research Program Built on One Atom – Imaging Pulmonary Function using 129Xe MRI
Sep 06WorkshopsJosh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Medical Physics, Professionalism, and You (Bryan 103, 1st yrs)
Anna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Data Visualization (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs + DKU)
Sep 13PhD Student TalksHunter Stephens: Reinforcement Learning in Radiation Therapy Planning
Junlan Lu: Development and Validation of 129Xe Cardiopulmonary Oscillation Imaging
Sep 20Yvonne Mowery, MD PhDPhysics and Cancer Biology Joining Forces to Advance Care for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Sep 27James Dobbins PhDThe importance of creativity in science and medicine: Lessons from a career in academic medical physics
Oct 04Lei Dong PhD
Professor of Radiation Oncology
University of Pennsylvania		Lessons learned from proton therapy systems commissioning
Oct 11Fall Break – No Seminar
Oct 18WorkshopsAnna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Technical Writing (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU)
Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Conflict and Resolution (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Oct 25Alexandra Badea, PhD
Justus Adamson, PhD
Steve Mann, PhD
Robert Reiman, MD		Important things I didn’t learn in school
Nov 01PhD Student TalksXinyi Li and Zachary Gude
Nov 08Chu Wang PhDHow much do you know about the Duke Radiation Safety Program? – Perspectives from the new RSO
Nov 15WorkshopsAnna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills Workshop: Scientific Critique and Analysis (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU)
Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism Workshop: Working Together (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Nov 22Thanksgiving Recess – No Seminar
Nov 29Deshan Yang PhDMedical Imaging Science and Motion Management in Radiation Therapy
Jan 17Academic Skills Workshops 
Jan 24Timothy Turkington, PhD
Joseph Lo, PhD
Susu Yan, PhD
Zhenyu Yang, MS		James Bowsher, PhD, Memorial Seminar
Jan 31Julie Raffi, PhD
Joel Greenberg, PhD
Aaron Smith, MS
Justin Solomon, PhD		“This is not what I trained to do”
Feb 7Academic Skills Workshops 
Feb 14PhD Student TalksMridul Bhattarai, MS
Eduardo Cisternas Jimenez, MS
Feb 21ManyMS Students Mini-Talks
Mar 7Academic Skills Workshops 
Mar 21Yutian Feng, PhD“Production of new radionuclides on the Duke Medical Cyclotron, and the chemistry of radiotheranostics.”
Mar 28David Crowley, MS

“A Practical Roadmap for Navigating Radiation Regulations.”
Apr 4Academic Skills Workshop 
Apr 11

George Sgouros, PhD
Johns Hopkins University

“How and why medical physicists are key to the survival and success of radiopharmaceutical therapy”
Apr 18Jiang Hseih, PhD
Retired, GE Healthcare
Adj Prof, UW Madison		“X-ray CT – A personal journey from the 80’s to the future.”

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