Program Information

	Therapy Scientific Session	Thursday
	Photon Therapy - Planning and Dose Calculation Methods	1:00PM - 2:50PM	Room: Ballroom E

Moderator 1: James Mechalakos, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Moderator 2: Jan Seuntjens, McGill University

1:00 PM TH-E-BRE-1

A 3D Solver of Linear Boltzmann Transport Equation Based On a New Angular Discretization Method with Positivity for Photon Dose Calculation Benchmarked with Geant4 X. Hong*, H. Gao

1:10 PM TH-E-BRE-2

A Forward Scattering Approximation to Dose Calculation Using the Linear Boltzmann Transport Equation B. Catt*, M. Snyder

1:20 PM TH-E-BRE-3

A Novel Method to Account for Ion Chamber Volume Averaging Effect in a Commercial Treatment Planning System Through Convolution B. Barraclough*, J. Li, C. Liu, G. Yan

1:30 PM TH-E-BRE-4

An Online Replanning Algorithm for VMAT E. Ahunbay*, M. Moreau, X. Li

1:40 PM TH-E-BRE-5

Analysis of Dosimetric Characteristics in Two Leaf Motion Calculator Algorithms for Sliding Window IMRT L. Wu*, B. Huang, B. Rowedder, B. Ma, Y. Kuang

1:50 PM TH-E-BRE-6

Challenges in the Dosimetry of Flattening Filter Free Beams D. Czarnecki*, P. von Voigts-Rhetz, K. Zink

2:00 PM TH-E-BRE-7

Development of Dose Calculation Error Predictors for a Widely Implemented Clinical Algorithm A. Egan*, W. Laub

2:10 PM TH-E-BRE-8

GPU-Monte Carlo Based Fast IMRT Plan Optimization Y. Li*, Z. Tian, F. Shi, S. Jiang, X. Jia

2:20 PM TH-E-BRE-9

TrueBeam Monte Carlo Absolute Dose Calculations Using Monitor Chamber Backscatter Simulations and Linac-Logged Target Current I. Popescu*, J. Lobo, D. Sawkey, M. Svatos

2:30 PM TH-E-BRE-10

Independent Verification of Monitor Units for Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy (VMAT) X. Chen*, K. Bush, A. Ding, L. Xing

2:40 PM TH-E-BRE-11

Adaptive-Beamlet Based Finite Size Pencil Beam (AB-FSPB) Dose Calculation Algorithm for Independent Verification of IMRT and VMAT C. Park*, L. Arhjoul, G. Yan, B. Lu, J. Li, C. Liu