• Mini-symposium phantom dosimetry

    • Jan 23, 2018

    Organisation: KU Leuven

    Venue: auditorium BMW5, O&N2, campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven

    Pasquale Lombardo, doctorandus van het department Oncologie, laboratorium Experimentele Radiotherapie KU Leuven, heeft tijdens zijn doctoraatsonderzoek in de Expert Group Radiation Protection and Dosimetry aan het SCK•CEN in Mol een anatomisch uiterst gedetailleerd en beweegbaar digitaal fantoom ontworpen voor toepassingen in dosimetrie (radioprotectie en medische stralingsdosimetrie). Volgende dinsdag 23/1 zal hij zijn doctoraat verdedigen. Voor deze gelegenheid zullen de externe juryleden, die gerenommeerde experten zijn op gebied van de ontwikkeling van digitale fantomen, hun werk voorstellen tijdens een minisymposium in auditorium BMW5, O&N2, campus Gasthuisberg, om 14u. Aansluitend aan hun lezingen zal Steven Michiels (doctorandus departement Oncologie, laboratorium Experimentele Radiotherapie KU Leuven), wiens onderzoek in de medische stralingsfysica zich situeert in het domein van de protontherapie, een presentatie geven over de toepassingen van 3D printing in radiotherapie. 

     

    Programme:

    14u–14u45         Maria Zankl, Research Unit Medical Radiation Physics and Diagnostics; Institute of Radiation Protection, Helmholtz Zentrum München

                                    “ICRP adult male and female reference computational phantoms and Helmholtz family of voxel phantoms”

     

    14u45–15u30     Choonsik Lee, Dosimetry Unit; Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Radiation Epidemiology Branch, National Cancer Institute NIH

                                    “The application of computational phantoms to medical radiation dosimetry”

     

    15u30–15u45    Steven Michiels, Laboratorium Experimentele Radiotherapie, Departement Oncologie KU Leuven

                                    “Applications of 3D printing in radiotherapy”

     

    17u                        doctoraatsverdediging Pasquale Lombardo in auditorium O&N4  

    “Development of the Realistic Antropomorphic Flexible Phantom for applications in dosimetry”

    Maria Zankl is the Deputy Director of the Research Unit Medical Radiation Physics and Diagnostics of the Helmholtz Zentrum München. She is considered an international authority in the field of numerical dosimetry and computational phantoms. She has led the development of the GSF voxel computational phantom family, and in 2007, in consideration of the high accuracy, her phantoms were chosen by the ICRP to constitute the new Adult Male and Female Reference Computational Phantoms.  

    Dr. Lee is the Head of the Dosimetry Unit of the National Cancer Institute. He is an internationally recognized expert in diagnostic and therapeutic dosimetry, and specialized in the development of computational phantoms for individualized dose reconstruction. He is considered a top expert in the most recent techniques of phantom development based on Boundary Representation, which he used to develop a series of computational phantoms. In collaboration with the University of Florida, he developed a series of phantoms with non-standard body sizes, which are used to increase the accuracy in individualized organ dosimetry for medical patients. Additionally, his paediatric phantom series is going to serve as a reference for the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP).
    Dr. Lee has developed dosimetry methods for diagnostic and therapeutic radiation dosimetry procedures using Monte Carlo simulation coupled with his computational human phantoms. For radiotherapy, he applies these methods to multiple epidemiological studies of second cancers in radiotherapy patients and is extending the methodology to include dosimetry methods for proton therapy patients. For diagnostic procedures, he focuses on CT dosimetry for epidemiological studies of CT risk, but his research interests include also radiography, fluoroscopically-guided interventional procedures, and nuclear medicine practices.

    For more info, please contact Ria Bogaerts, Laboratorium voor Experimentele Radiotherapie KU Leuven (ria.bogaerts@kuleuven.be).

    23-1-2018 23-1-2018 Europe/Brussels Mini-symposium phantom dosimetry Mini-symposium on the occasion of the PhD defense of Pasquale Lombardo (SCK•CEN - KU Leuven) Venue: auditorium BMW5, O&N2, campus Gasthuisberg, Leuven Organisation: KU Leuven