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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)

Spring 2025

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

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 14Anna Rodrigues, PhD
Josh Wilson, PhD		Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only,
Hock Classrooms. 3:05-4:20 PM
Jan 21Anna Rodrigues, PhD
Josh Wilson, PhD		Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only,
Hock Classrooms. 3:05-4:20 PM
Jan 28Anna Rodrigues, PhD
Josh Wilson, PhD		Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only,
Hock Classrooms. 3:05-4:20 PM
Feb 4Bastiaan Driehuys, PhDA Research Program Built on One Atom – Imaging Pulmonary Function using 129Xe MRI
Feb 11Justus Adamson, PhDMedical Physics Graduate Program Faculty Seed Grant Presentation
Feb 18Stephanie Blocker, PhDTumor RadioHistology: translating preclinical magnetic resonance histology for clinical cancer applications
Feb 25Pat B. Zanzonico, PhDMIRDsoft: The Evolving MIRD Formalism in the Age of Theranostics.
Mar 4Isabel Montero
Dongrong Yang		PhD Showcases
Montero: Modeling the clinical CT scanner landscape for Virtual Imaging Trials
Yang: Developing Intelligent Reinforcement Learning Bots for Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning
Mar 11 Spring Break – no seminar
Mar 18Julianna Pollard-Larkin, PhDMotion Management the MD Anderson Way
Mar 25Jack Stevens
Jingtong Zhao		PhD Showcases
Stevens: Mathematical approaches to multiscale characterization of head and neck cancer
Zhao: Explainable AI (XAI) Methods for Radiation Oncology Applications
Apr 1Justin Solomon, PhD
Chunhao Wang, PhD		Point and Counterpoint: The use of machine learning in medical physics research is causing a reproducibility crisis
Apr 8Tina Tailor, MDLung Cancer Screening: From Evidence to Clinical Translation
Canceled
Apr 15Angel Peterchev, PhDPrinciples and Applications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
For more information, or to share ideas for future seminars, contact Anna Rodrigues or Josh Wilson.

Fall 2024

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

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 30 Anna Rodrigues, PhD and Josh Wilson, PhD Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only.
Sept 3 Anna Rodrigues, PhD and Josh Wilson, PhD Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only.
Sept 10 Anna Rodrigues, PhD and Josh Wilson, PhD Workshops for 1st- and 2nd-year students only.
Sept 17 Casey Miller, MS Francesco Ria, PhD Scott Robertson, PhD Joe Kowalski, PhD “Important things I didn’t learn in school”
Sept 24 Xin Wu Teddy Criscuolo PhD Student Showcase Wu:  “Accuracy of photon dose calculation on photon-counting CT (PCCT) – a comparison study based on virtual monoenergetic and electron density (Rho) images for pancreatic cases ” Criscuolo: “Developing robust deformable image registration (DIR) validation”
Oct 1 Ehsan Abadi, PhD “Quantitative CT imaging: from challenges to clinical insights leveraging in silico data”
Oct 8 Michelle Howard, PhD University of Iowa NOTE: 2:30 start time
Oct 15 Fall Break – no seminar
Oct 22
Oct 29 Justus Adamson, PhD “Radiation Area: Choose Wisely or Do Not Enter”
Nov 5 Ehsan Samei, PhD
Nov 12 Njood Alsaihati Zach Gude PhD Student Showcase
Nov 15 Yanic Bercier, PhD Siemens Medical Solutions “Drumming up business: The life of a medical physicist in industry.”
Nov 19 Michael Lustig, PhD UC Berkeley
For more information, or to share ideas for future seminars, contact Anna Rodrigues or Tim Turkington.

Spring 2024

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

DateSpeakerTopic
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 6Donald Frush, MD“Coauthoring the Book of Medical Imaging and Radiation in Children”
Feb 13Scott 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 20Anna Costelle
Trevor McKeown		PhD Student Showcase
Costelle: “Combining hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI and MRS to non-invasively estimate pulmonary vascular resistance.”
McKeown: “Improving pre-treatment images for more precise cardiac radiation therapy treatment”
Feb 27Carmine Plott, PhD
Novant Health Forsyth Medical Center		“Regulatory Climate Change”
Mar 8Ryan 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?
Location TBD.
Mar 12 Spring Break – no seminar
Mar 19Suleman Surti, PhD
University of Pennsylvania		Total Body PET
Mar 26Robert Reiman, MD“The Road Less Traveled”
Apr 2Lawrence Marks, MD
University of North Carolina		“What Medicine Can Learn from High Reliability Organizations, and Why We All Should Care.”
Apr 9ManyMMT’s (Multiple Mini Talks): First-year MS students present initial research work they’ve done.
Apr 16Chunhao Wang, PhD
Scott Robertson, PhD
Yang Sheng, PhD
Dongrong Yang, MS		Medical Physics Seed Grant Project
For more information, or to share ideas for future seminars, contact Anna Rodrigues or Tim Turkington.

Fall 2023

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

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 29 Academic Skills Workshops
Sept 5 Academic Skills Workshops
Sept 12 Academic Skills Workshops
Sep 19 Joel 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 24 PhD Student Talks Devon 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 7 Steve Bache, MS Kyle Lafata, PhD Jack Shaw, MS Chunhao Wang, PhD  “This is not what I trained to do!”
Nov 28 Kathy Nightingale, PhD Ultrasonic Elasticity Imaging with Acoustic Radiation Force

Spring 2023

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

Date Speaker Topic
Jan 17 Academic Skills Workshops
Jan 24 Timothy Turkington, PhD Joseph Lo, PhD Susu Yan, PhD Zhenyu Yang, MS James Bowsher, PhD, Memorial Seminar
Jan 31 Julie Raffi, PhD Joel Greenberg, PhD Aaron Smith, MS Justin Solomon, PhD “This is not what I trained to do”
Feb 7 Academic Skills Workshops
Feb 14 PhD Student Talks Mridul Bhattarai, MS Eduardo Cisternas Jimenez, MS
Feb 21 Many MS Students Mini-Talks
Mar 7 Academic Skills Workshops
Mar 21 Yutian Feng, PhD “Production of new radionuclides on the Duke Medical Cyclotron, and the chemistry of radiotheranostics.”
Mar 28 David Crowley, MS “A Practical Roadmap for Navigating Radiation Regulations.”
Apr 4 Academic 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 18 Jiang Hseih, PhD Retired, GE Healthcare Adj Prof, UW Madison “X-ray CT – A personal journey from the 80’s to the future.”

Fall 2022

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

Date Speaker Topic
Aug 30 Bastiaan Driehuys PhD A Research Program Built on One Atom – Imaging Pulmonary Function using 129Xe MRI
Sep 06 Workshops Josh 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 13 PhD Student Talks Hunter Stephens: Reinforcement Learning in Radiation Therapy Planning Junlan Lu: Development and Validation of 129Xe Cardiopulmonary Oscillation Imaging
Sep 20 Yvonne Mowery, MD PhD Physics and Cancer Biology Joining Forces to Advance Care for Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Sep 27 James Dobbins, PhD The importance of creativity in science and medicine: Lessons from a career in academic medical physics
Oct 04 Lei Dong, PhD, Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Pennsylvania Lessons learned from proton therapy systems commissioning
Oct 11 Fall Break – No Seminar
Oct 18 Workshops Anna Rodrigues PhD / Academic Skills: Technical Writing (Bryan 103, 1st yrs + DKU) Josh Wilson PhD / Professionalism: Conflict and Resolution (Hock Classroom, 2nd yrs)
Oct 25 Alexandra Badea, PhD Justus Adamson, PhD Steve Mann, PhD Robert Reiman, MD Important things I didn’t learn in school
Nov 01 PhD Student Talks Xinyi Li and Zachary Gude
Nov 08 Chu Wang, PhD How much do you know about the Duke Radiation Safety Program? – Perspectives from the new RSO
Nov 15 Workshops Anna 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 22 Thanksgiving Recess – No Seminar
Nov 29 Deshan Yang, PhD Medical Imaging Science and Motion Management in Radiation Therapy

Spring 2020

Lecture 3:00-4:00 PM ET in Hock Auditorium (unless noted otherwise).

DateSpeakerTopic
Mar 05Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD
Chief Physicist, The Johns Hopkins Hospital
Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science		NCRP 184: Medical Radiation Exposures of Patients in the United States

Fall 2019

Samulski Lectureship 4:00-6:00 PM ET in Searle Conference Center (unless noted otherwise).

DateSpeakerTopic
Oct 03Maryellen L Giger, PhD
University of Chicago
Joe Deasy, PhD
MSKCC		State-of-the Art of AI/Machine learning in Medical Physics

Fall 2018

Lecture 2:30-3:30 PM ET in Bryan Research Bldg Auditorium (unless noted otherwise).

DateSpeakerTopic
Nov 08Martin G. Pomper, MD, PhD
Henry N. Wagner, Jr. Professor of Radiology
Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
Johns Hopkins Medical School		Precision Imaging

Spring 2018

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
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
Feb 15Jan Lagendijk, PhD
Professor of Radiation Oncology Physics, UMC Utrecht		The MRI Linac: Towards robotic real-time MRI guided radiotherapy

Fall 2017

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
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

Spring 2017

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 19Andre Dekker, PhD
Head Medical Physicist, MAASTRO Clinic
Professor and Chair Clinical Science Data, Maastricht University
The Netherlands		Big Data in Radiation Oncology
Mar 09Cynthia McCollough, PhD
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 06Warren Kibbe, PhD
Acting Deputy Director, NCI
Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT), NCI		Cancer Moonshot, Data Sharing, and the Genomic Data Commons

 

Fall 2016

DateSpeakerTopic
Sep 22Lawrence Marks, MD
Dr. Sidney K. Simon Distinguished Professor of Oncology Research and Chair of Radiation Oncology
UNC-Chapel Hill		Error Bars in Medical Imaging
Oct 20Mark Rivard, PhD
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 10Melissa Martin, MS
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)

Spring 2016

 

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 25

John Kirkpatrick, MD, PhD
Sua Yoo, PhD
Oana  Craciunescu, PhD

A Discussion on Physician Preferences in Radiation Oncology
Feb 1Anuj 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 8Anuj 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 15Joseph Lo, PhDNine Questions in Mammography Physics: Reverse Classroom
Feb 22Geoff D. Rubin, MDRadiologists and their search for lesions: mining the mind’s eye
Feb 29

Yilin Liu
Kyle Lafata

PhD Student Showcase
Liu: Development and Optimization of Four-dimensional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (4D-MRI) for Radiation Therapy
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 28Cristian Badea, PhDFunctional 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 18Yunfeng Cui, PhDThe applications of PET imaging in radiation therapy

Spring 2015

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 12

Matthew Freeman
Lynda Ikejimba

PhD Showcase
Freeman: Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI: Reining in Physics to Boost SNR
Ikejimba: QC in breast tomosynthesis: a novel phantom and image quality metrology

Jan 26Joel Greenberg, PhDX-ray scatter imaging applications in medicine
Feb 2Warren S. Warren, PhDCorrecting Decades-Old Physics and Chemistry Omissions to Improve Modern Molecular Imaging
Feb 9Stephen Glick, PhD
FDA		Technological advances in dedicated cone-beam breast CT
Feb 16

Pooyan Sahbaee
Manu Lakshmanan
Darin Clark

SPIE Preview

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 23Christopher Lascola, MDMultiplexed Theranostic Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Mar 2Donald Frush, MDDiagnostic Medical Imaging and Radiation Dose and Risk in Children
Mar 16David Hsu, MD PhDPatient Derived Xenografts as a Preclinical Model for Solid Tumors
Mar 23Stephen Riederer, PhD
Mayo Clinic		MR Angiography: A Training Ground for Medical Physics
Mar 30Jim Chang, PhDTreatment Assessment of Radiotherapy using MR Quantitative Functional Imaging: Promises and Challenge
Apr 6Mustafa Bashir, MDPhysics to Diagnosis: MRI Acquisitions in Pancreaticobiliary Disease
Apr 13Taoran Li, PhDOnline Adaptive Radiation Therapy: Decision Making and Quality Assurance

 

Fall 2014

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

 

Spring 2014

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 13Maciej Mazurowski, PhD  Data Science in Medical Imaging
Jan 27Steve Mann
Baiyu Chen  

PhD Showcase
Mann: Quantification of Tc-99m Sestamibi Distribution in Normal Breast Tissue Using Dedicated Breast SPECT-CT
Chen: A methodology for modeling volume quantification performance in CT

Feb 03Guillermo Sapiro
Duke ECE  		Computational tools for brain analysis and deep brain stimulation
Feb 10Daniele Marin, MDCT technique optimization for detection of focal liver lesions
Feb 17Jenny Hoang, MBBS  Radiation Dose Reduction in Head and Neck Imaging: Issues and Insights for Medical Physics Students
Feb 24Georgia Tourassi, PhD  Oak Ridge National Lab: Biomedical Science and Career Opportunities
Mar 03Mike Lipkin, MDRadiation Exposure From the Evaluation and Management of Kidney Stones
Mar 10NO SEMINAR, Spring Break   
Mar 17Joseph Lo, PhDClinical Practices in Mammography: A review
Mar 24Lei Ren, PhDImaging dose reduction and quality improvement for inter- and intra-fraction verification in radiotherapy
Mar 31Mark Oldham, PhD
Jing Cai, PhD		Hot Topics in Medical Physics: A 3D-conformal technique is better than IMRT or VMAT for lung SBRT
Apr 07Bennett Chin, MDSmall Animal PET/CT Molecular Imaging
Apr 14Ehsan Samei, PhDMedical Physics 2.0: the new frontier in clinical imaging physics

 

Fall 2013

DateSpeakerTopic
Sep 09Paul Segars, PhDMedical Imaging Simulation Using Computer Phantoms
Sep 16Jing Cai, PhDMRI-based Motion Management for Radiation Therapy
Sep 23Matthew Belley
Darin Clark 

PhD 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 30Mark Oldham, PhD3D Optical-Tomography: applications in radiation therapy and biology
Oct 07Oana Craciunescu, PhD
Jennifer O’Daniel, PhD
W. Robert Lee, MD
David Kirsch, MD, PhD

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 14No Seminar, Fall Break
Oct 21Michael Stabin, PhD
Vanderbilt University		The Role of Dosimetry in External and Internal Radiation Therapy
Oct 28Mark Oldham, PhD
Bob Reiman, MD, MPH
Anuj Kapadia, PhD		A discussion on Ethics and Academic Integrity
Nov 04Greg Palmer, PhDFunctional optical microscopy of tumor physiology using window chamber models
Nov 11Eric Klein, PhD
Washington University		Proton Radiotherapy and Single Room Systems
Nov 18Juan Carlos Ramirez Giraldo, PhD
Siemens		My Personal Experiences Moving from Academia to Industry
Nov 25John Hazle, PhD
President, AAPM
MD Anderson Cancer Center		30 Years of Maturation- What is the future for Medical Physics?

 

Spring 2013

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 14Ehsan Samei, PhDCT Reconstruction: Advanced Technology and Science for Improved Patient Care
Jan 21No Seminar, Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Jan 28George Gopen, PhD
Duke English		Scientific Writing
Feb 04Jason Bond
Baiyu Chen
Rachel Tian

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 11Sha Chang, PhD
UNC Radiation Oncology		New Generation Medical Physicists and Multidisciplinary Research Collaborations
Feb 18Titania Juang
Dário Rodrigues

PhD Showcase
Juang: Addressing the need for comprehensive validation of deformable image registration
Rodrigues: Multiphysics Modeling in Thermal Medicine: From the Model to Clinic

Feb 25Kim LightRadiation Oncology: Clinical Flow and Treatment Planning Techniques
Mar 04Lee Jones, PhDExercise Physiology in Oncology: New Applications of an Ancient Therapeutic Strategy
Mar 11No Seminar, Spring Break
Mar 18Cecil Charles, PhDLung Function and Structure
Mar 25Paul Kinahan, PhD
U Washington Radiology		ULTRA low dose CT for PET/CT attenuation correction
Apr 01Jim Dobbins, PhDStrategies for noise reduction and subsequent dose reduction in CT and radiographic imaging
Apr 08Anuj Kapadia, PhD3D Molecular Imaging through NSECT
Apr 15Jim Dobbins, PhD
Fang-Fang Yin, PhD		Medical Physics as a Profession: Town hall on medical physics training and careers in North America and beyond

 

Fall 2012

DateSpeakerTopic
Aug 27Tim Turkington, PhDHow to go about finding an advisor
Special location: Med Phys Classroom, Hock Plaza Ste 101
Sep 03No Seminar, Labor Day
Sep 10Jackie Wu PhD Duke Radiation OncologyKnowledge guidance in radiation treatment planning
Sep 17Ergys Subashi
Jered Wells

PhD Showcase
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 24Benjamin 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 01Gary Fullerton, PhD
U Colorado Radiology		Biophysical imaging measures of sugar accumulation on collagen as a biomarker of age and exercise
Oct 08X. Ronald Zhu, PhD
UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center		Spot scanning beam proton therapy: physics and clinical commissioning
Oct 15No Seminar, Fall Break
Oct 22Mark Oldham, PhDClinical challenges and innovative solutions in radiation therapy
Oct 29Don Frush, MDCurrent issues with radiation and medical imaging
Nov 05Chunlei Liu, PhDImaging Brain Magnetic Interaction with MRI
Nov 12Shiva Das, PhD
Joseph Lo, PhD		Knowledge-based radiation therapy
Nov 19Martin Tornai, PhDNon-Invasive 3D Molecular Breast Imaging
Nov 26Kiyohiko 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/NucMed 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

DateSpeakerTopic
Jan 12George Gopen, PhD Duke English Dept.Scientific Writing
Jan 19Rob Saunders, MA Duke Radiology & PhysicsImpact of Resolution and Noise on Mammographic Diagnosis
Jan 26Page McAdams, MD Duke Radiology/ChestDigital Chest Image Quality
Feb 2Sumin 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 Physicists 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 9Dominic 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 16Vaclav Vylet, PhD Duke Radiation SafetyMultiple Facets of Health Physics
Feb 23Don Frush, MD Duke Radiology/PediatricsCT and Radiation Risk: the Radiologist’s Perspective
Mar 2Martin Tornai, PhD Duke Radiology/Nuc. Med.New Approaches to 3D Molecular Breast Imaging
Mar 9William Hendee, PhD Medical College of Wisc.Creativity and Innovation in Action: Migration of the Products of Biomedical Research into the Marketplace
Mar 16No Seminar, Spring Recess
Mar 23Zhiheng Wang, PhD Duke Radiation OncologyGating Applications in Radiation Therapy
Mar 30James MacFall, PhD Duke RadiologyMagnetic Resonance Monitoring of Hyperthermia Therapy
Apr 6Shiva Das, PhD Duke Radiation OncologyFunctional Image-guided Radiotherapy
Apr 13Georgia Tourassi, PhD Duke Radiology/DAI LabsIntroduction to Clinical Decision Theory

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