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  Dose Calculation: Monte Carlo Wednesday
Therapy Scientific Session 10:30:00 AM - 12:30:00 PM  Room: Ballroom B

Moderator 1: Harald Paganetti, Massachusetts General Hospital
Moderator 2: I. Antoniu Popescu, British Columbia Cancer Agency

10:30 AM
WE-C-BRB-1
Dosimetric Changes Realized From Extended Bit-Depth and Metal Artifact Reduction in CT
C. Glide-Hurst*, H. Zhong, M. Altman, D. Chen, I. Chetty
10:40 AM
WE-C-BRB-2
A Monte Carlo Feasibility Study for Calculating Dose Perturbations in Patient Geometries Due to Homogenous Magnetic Fields From MRIgRT
Y. Yang*, B. Bednarz
10:50 AM
WE-C-BRB-3
Effect of Scattered Photons When Determining Dose Rate Constants Spectroscopically
M. Rodriguez*, D. Rogers
11:00 AM
WE-C-BRB-4
Fast and Accurate Hybrid Source Model for Modulated Electron Radiotherapy
P. Papaconstadopoulos*, J. Seuntjens
11:10 AM
WE-C-BRB-5
Monte Carlo Simulations and Experimental Validation of Rapid Dose Delivery with Very High-Energy Electron Beams
M. Bazalova*, P. Maxim, S. Tantawi, E. Colby, A. Koong, B. Loo
11:20 AM
WE-C-BRB-6
Clinical Impact of Uncertainties in the Mean Excitation Energy of Human Tissues During Proton Therapy
A. Besemer*, H. Paganetti, B. Bednarz
11:30 AM
WE-C-BRB-7
Benchmarking of the TOPAS Monte Carlo System Against Phantom Dose Measurements in Proton Therapy
M. Testa*, J. Schuemann, H. Paganetti
11:40 AM
WE-C-BRB-8
A GPU/CUDA Based Monte Carlo Code for Proton Transport: Preliminary Results of Proton Depth Dose in Water
L. Su*, T. Liu, A. Ding, X. Xu
11:50 AM
WE-C-BRB-9
Development of a GPU-Based Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Package for Proton Radiotherapy
X. Jia*, J. Schuemann, H. Paganetti, S. Jiang
12:00 PM
WE-C-BRB-10
Acceleration of Proton Monte Carlo Simulations Using the Macro Monte Carlo Method
D. Jacqmin*
12:10 PM
WE-C-BRB-11
On the Biological Basis for Competing Macroscopic Dose Descriptors for Kilovoltage Dosimetry
R. Thomson*, Å. Carlsson Tedgren, J. Williamson
12:20 PM
WE-C-BRB-12
Comprehensive Image-Based Dosimetric Analysis of Alpha Particle Dose in Bone Marrow
J. Pan*, C. Watchman