Program Information

	Therapy Scientific Session	Wednesday
	Brachytherapy Techniques	7:30AM - 9:30AM	Room: 17A

Moderator 1: William Song, University of California, San Diego

7:30 AM WE-A-17A-1

Absorbed Dose Rate-To-Water at the Surface of a Beta-Emitting Planar Ophthalmic Applicator with a Planar, Windowless Extrapolation Chamber A. Riley*, C. Soares, J. Micka, W. Culberson, L. DeWerd

7:40 AM WE-A-17A-2

BEST IN PHYSICS (THERAPY) - Development of a Calorimeter for the Measurement of the Power Emitted From LDR Brachytherapy Sources M. Malin*, B. Palmer, L. DeWerd

7:50 AM WE-A-17A-3

Catheter Digitization in High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy with the Assistance of An Electromagnetic (EM) Tracking System A. Damato*, M. Bhagwat, I. Buzurovic, P. Devlin, S. Friesen, J. Hansen, T. Kapur, L. Lee, A. Mehrtash, P. Nguyen, D. O'Farrell, W. Wang, A. Viswanathan, R. Cormack

8:00 AM WE-A-17A-4

Development of An Ultra-Fast Monte Carlo Dose Engine for High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Z. Tian*, M. Zhang, B. Hrycushko, S. Stojadinovic, S. Jiang, X. Jia

8:10 AM WE-A-17A-5

Differences in Applicator Configuration and Dwell Loading Between Standard and Image-Guided Tandem and Ring (T&R) HDR Brachytherapy A. Damato*, R. Cormack, M. Bhagwat, I. Buzurovic, L. Lee, A. Viswanathan

8:20 AM WE-A-17A-6

Evaluation of An Automatic Interstitial Catheter Digitization Algorithm That Reduces Treatment Planning Time and Provide Means for Adaptive Re-Planning in HDR Brachytherapy of Gynecologic Cancers J. Dise*, X. Liang, L. Lin, B. Teo

8:30 AM WE-A-17A-7

Evaluation of a Grid-Based Boltzmann Solver for Nuclear Medicine Voxel-Based Dose Calculations J. Mikell*, S. Kappadath, T. Wareing, F. Mourtada

8:40 AM WE-A-17A-8

Evaluation of the OncentraBrachy Collapsed Cone Convolution Algorithm for Ir-192 Source Using Phantom and Real-Patient Heterogeneous Geometries Y. Ma*, F. Lacroix, M. Lavallée, L. Beaulieu

8:50 AM WE-A-17A-9

Exploiting Electromagnetic Technologies for Real-Time Seed Drop Position Validation in Permanent Implant Brachytherapy E. Racine*, G. Hautvast, D. Binnekamp, L. Beaulieu

9:00 AM WE-A-17A-10

Fast, Automatic and Accurate Catheter Reconstruction in HDR Brachytherapy Using An Electromagnetic 3D Tracking System E. Poulin*, E. Racine, D. Binnekamp, L. Beaulieu

9:10 AM WE-A-17A-11

Implanted Brachytherapy Seed Movement Due to Transrectal Ultrasound Probe-Induced Prostate Deformation D. Liu*, T. Meyer, N. Usmani, I. Kay, S. Husain, S. Angyalfi, R. Sloboda

9:20 AM WE-A-17A-12

The Influence of Eye Plaque Design On Dose Distributions and Dose-Volume Histograms P. Aryal*, J. Molloy, M. Rivard