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  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