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43rd Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine
July 22-26, 2001 Salt Lake City, Utah

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Tuesday, July 24, 2001 Session Information

Scientific Session
Therapy - Monte Carlo Calculations
Tuesday 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Room: Ballroom A

Chair 1: Joseph O Deasy, Washington Univ, St. Louis, MO, US

Chair 2: S B Jiang, Massachusetts General Hospital

10:00 AM
TU-C-BRA-1
Investigation of the Adjoint Method for External Beam Treatment Planning Using Monte Carlo Transport - M. Kowalok*, D. Henderson, T. Mackie
10:10 AM
TU-C-BRA-2
Dosimetric Verification of a New 0.5 Cm-Long Ir-192 HDR Source Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Ionization Chamber Measurements - E. Parsai*, S. Ye, G. Dorbu
10:20 AM
TU-C-BRA-3
Benchmarking of the DPM Monte Carlo Code for Electron Beam Dose Calculations in Heterogeneous Media - I. Chetty*, L. Liu, J. Moran, T. Nurushev, S. Yokoyama, D. Mcshan, B. Fraass, S. Wilderman, A. Bielajew
10:30 AM
TU-C-BRA-4
Monte Carlo Characterization of the Helical Tomotherapy Treatment Unit - R. Jeraj*, D. Wenman, J. Balog, D. Pearson, G. Olivera, P. Reckwerdt, R. Mackie
10:40 AM
TU-C-BRA-5
Derive Electron and Photon Energy Spectra From Electron Beam Central Axis Depth Dose Curves - S. Jiang, J. Deng*, T. Pawlicki, J. Li, C. Ma
10:50 AM
TU-C-BRA-6
Monte Carlo Based Superposition Dose Calculaiton for Proton Beam Radiotherapy - J. Li*, B. Shahine, J. Deng, M. Lee, C. Ma
11:00 AM
TU-C-BRA-7
Monte Carlo Dose Calculation for Energy and Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy - B. Shahine*, J. Li, M. Lee, J. Deng, A. Boyer, T. Guerrero, C. Ma
11:10 AM
TU-C-BRA-8
Singular Component Decomposition in Reconstruction of Electron Spectra - A. Chvetsov*, G. Sandison
11:20 AM
TU-C-BRA-9
Dosimetric Accuracy of the PEREGRINE Monte Carlo Dose Calculation System for Photon Beams - R. Walling*, T. Daly, C. Hartmann Siantar, B. Faddegon, A. Bielajew, C. Chuang, L. Verhey
11:30 AM
TU-C-BRA-10
A Monte Carlo Study of Small Photon Beams in Inhomogeneous Media - A. Jones*, I. Das, L. Simpson
11:40 AM
TU-C-BRA-11
Denoising of Monte Carlo Dose Distributions Via Wavelet Threshold Denoising - J. Deasy*, M. Wickerhauser, M. Picard
11:50 AM
TU-C-BRA-12
Monte Carlo-Based Treatment Planning for Modulated Electron Beam Radiation Therapy (YI Finalist) - M. Lee*, J. Deng, J. Li, S. Jiang, C. Ma