Medical Physics Research Projects

For general inquiries contact the Director of Medical Physics - Prof George Sandison


	S Bowen	4D Dose Painting Incorporation of motion-compensated molecular imaging into treatment plans for biologically conformal and motion-compensated RT.		R Stewart	Monte Carlo Cyclotron Project Monte Carlo Modeling of the UWMC Cyclotron: Fast Neutron Dosimetry, Microdosimetry and Relative Biological Effectiveness.		E Ford	Patient Safety Research This is an effort to bring the “science of safety” to bear on clinical processes and improve the quality and safety of care delivered to patients.

	S Bowen	4D PET/CT-guided RT QA Design and evaluation of an integrated 4D PET/CT and 4D RT QA workflow using respiratory motion phantoms and dosimeters.		R Stewart	Monte Carlo Damage Simulation MC model to generate nucleotide-level maps of clustered DNA lesions, including double strand breaks (DSB), formed by ionizing charged particles.		J Meyer	smARtsKin An augmented reality based patient positioning and monitoring system.

	M Phillips	Decision Theory Application of Bayesian decision theory to pertinent problems in Radiation Oncology.		R Stewart	Monte Carlo Excision Repair A MC model to simulate excision repair outcomes for all types of clustered DNA lesions other than DSB.		J Meyer	Spectral CT imaging Evaluating the benefits of spectroscopic imaging in discriminating biological materials

	E Ford	Experimental Therapy Proton Irradiator An experimental platform for a highly localized proton beam for radiation biology to test fundamental hypotheses in proton RT.		M Phillips	Multiobjective Optimization Development of multiobjective optimization strategies for radiotherapy plan optimization.		J Meyer	Synthetic Diamond Detectors Development and application of CVD diamond detectors for radiation dosimetry.

	J Meyer	Lung Tumor Modeling Development of models to correlate abdominal breathing with lung tumor motion.		J Meyer	Optical Calorimetry Development of an energy independent radiation dosimeter for high dose rate applications based on digital holographic interferometry.

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