Program Information

	Calculation Tools for Patient Safety and QA	Monday
	Therapy Scientific Session	2:00PM - 3:50PM	Room: 108

Moderator 1: Maria Chan, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Moderator 2: Stephen Kry, MD Anderson Cancer Ctr.

2:00 PM MO-D-108-1

Cloud-Based Monte Carlo Patient-Specific Quality Assurance (QA) Method for Volumetric-Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT): Clinical and Educational Impacts X. Chen*, L. Xing, E. Mok, G. Luxton, K. Bush

2:10 PM MO-D-108-2

A Secondary Monitor Unit Calculation Algorithm Using Superposition of Symmetric, Open Fields for IMRT and VMAT Treatment Plans A. Watts*, J. Gibbons, C. Chu

2:20 PM MO-D-108-3

Energy Spectrum Inference of Clinical Photon Beam by Use of PDD J. Kotoku*, A. Haga, s. kumagai, N. Saotome, T. Kobayashi

2:30 PM MO-D-108-4

Validation of a Simple Portal Dose Calculation Model for Plan QA and In-Vivo Dosimetry W. Lu*, M. Chen, X. Mo, D. Parnell, G. Olivera, D. Galmarini

2:40 PM MO-D-108-5

Development of An Accurate Monte Carlo Model of the Standard Clinac 6MV Beam A. Egan*, W. Laub

2:50 PM MO-D-108-6

Off-Axis Ratio Based Correction for the Determination of TMR for Flattening-Filter Free (FFF) Mode Beams H. Chung*, K. Prado, E. Kinsey, B. Yi

3:00 PM MO-D-108-7

Comparison of Electron Monte Carlo and Pencil-Beam Algorithms in Clinical Electron Beam Radiation Dosimetry Z. Liu*, I. Hargrove, A. Tazi, J. Barrett

3:10 PM MO-D-108-8

Fast Monte Carlo Electron-Photon Transport Code Using Hardware Accelerators: Preliminary Results for Brachytherapy and Radionuclide Therapy Cases L. Su*, X. Du, T. Liu, X. Xu

3:20 PM MO-D-108-9

Perturbation of Tissue Density Is An Important Metric to Be Considered When Planning for Respiratory Motion Management for Lung Proton Therapy P. Park*, J. Matney, R. Mohan, X. Zhu, L. Dong, H. Li, J. Cheung, N. Sahoo, J. Yang, F. Poenisch, W. Liu

3:30 PM MO-D-108-10

3D Reconstruction of Scintillation Light Emission From Mono-Energetic Proton Beams Using a Limited Projection Approach: A Simulation Study C. Hui*, D. Robertson, S. Beddar

3:40 PM MO-D-108-11

Implication of Spot Position Error On Plan Quality in Pencil-Beam Proton Therapy J. Yu*, C. Beltran, M. Herman