Program Information

	Brachytherapy and Radiopharmaceuticals	Thursday - 7/16/2015
	Therapy Scientific Session	7:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Room: Ballroom A

Moderator 1: Benjamin Fahimian, Stanford University
Moderator 2: Yi Le, Johns Hopkins Medical Institute

Thursday 7:30 AM TH-AB-BRA-1

Biologically Based Prostate Cancer Treatment Planning with Combined Brachytherapy and External Beam Radiotherapy X. Qiu*, L. Voros, G. Cohen, G. Mageras, J. Yang, M. Zaider

Thursday 7:40 AM TH-AB-BRA-2

Generation of 3D Dosimetric Reference Datasets for Commissioning and Validation of 192Ir Brachytherapy Model-Based Dose Calculation Software Y. Ma*, J. Vijande, F. Ballester, A. Carlsson Tedgren, D. Granero, A. Haworth, F. Mourtada, G. Fonseca, K. Zourari, P. Papagiannis, M. Rivard, F. Siebert, R. Sloboda, R. Smith, R. Thomson, F. Verhaegen, L. Beaulieu

Thursday 7:50 AM TH-AB-BRA-3

Development of a Scintillation Dosimetry System Capable of Real-Time Dosimetry During LDR Brachytherapy Seed Implant F. Therriault-Proulx*, L. Beaulieu, S. Beddar

Thursday 8:00 AM TH-AB-BRA-4

A Physical Phantom for Experimental Commissioning and Performance Testing of 192Ir MBDCAs E. Pappas*, A. Moutsatsos, E. Zoros, V. Peppa, K. Zourari, P. Karaiskos, P. Papagiannis

Thursday 8:10 AM TH-AB-BRA-5

Infrastructure and Process for Model-Based Dose Calculation Software Commissioning in Brachytherapy R. Sloboda*, F. Ballester, A. Carlsson Tedgren, W. Culberson, J. Esthappan, A. Haworth, J. Lowenstein, Y. Ma, F. Mourtada, P. Papagiannis, T. Pike, M. Rivard, F. Siebert, R. Smith, I. Spadinger, P. Taylor, F. Verhaegen, J. Vijande, L. Beaulieu

Thursday 8:20 AM TH-AB-BRA-6

Independent Automatic Catheter Digitization Algorithm for High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy Quality Improvement (QI) and Quality Assurance (QA) P. Dong*, J. Cunha

Thursday 8:30 AM TH-AB-BRA-7

Determination and Evaluation of a Dose-Rate Conversion Coefficient for the Xoft Axxent® Electronic Brachytherapy Source in the Xoft Titanium Cervical Applicator S. Simiele*, J. Micka, W. Culberson, L. DeWerd

Thursday 8:40 AM TH-AB-BRA-8

Impact of Approximating the Differential Photon Fluence On the Accuracy of the Spectroscopic Dose-Rate Constant M. Malin*, L. Bartol, L. DeWerd

Thursday 8:50 AM TH-AB-BRA-9

Radiation and Thermal Dosimetric Considerations of a Combination of Hyperthermia and Thermo-Brachytherapy Seeds G. Warrell*, D. Shvydka, E. Parsai

Thursday 9:00 AM TH-AB-BRA-10

Clinical Implementation of a Grid-Based Boltzmann Solver with Adaptive Meshing for Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry J. Mikell*, F. Mourtada, T. Wareing, S. Kappadath

Thursday 9:10 AM TH-AB-BRA-11

Fear Not the Y-90 Surgical Staff Dose M. Vanderhoek*, S. McKenney, S. Huang, B. Harkness

Thursday 9:20 AM TH-AB-BRA-12

Experimental Measurement of Microsphere Activity During Assay and Preparation Toward Establishing a Standard Methodology Amongst Vendors and Clinics M. Reilly*, N. Knutson, B. Hawkins, H. Li