University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Seminar Archive
2023
Monday, September 11, 2023 Brian Pogue, PhD, Entrepreneurship, Startups & Academic Medical Physics
Monday, May 1, 2023 Aeli Olson, Graduate Research Assistant Antimony-119 Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Alexandra DiFilippo, Graduate Research Assistant Imaging synaptic density using the PET radiotracer [11C]UCB-J in Alzheimer's disease and Down syndrome
Monday, April 24, 2023 Daniel Seiter, Graduate Research Assistant Evaluation of Pulmonary Hypertension with MRI Victor Santoro Fernandes, Graduate Research Assistant Comprehensive, lesion-level, longitudinal disease assessment and its clinical implications
Monday, April 10, 2023 Tan Phan, Graduate Research Assistant Assessment of Fetal Arrhythmias via Simultaneous Fetal Echocardiography and Fetal Magnetocardiography Andrew Bertinetti, Graduate Research Assistant Development and Testing of a Dosimeter Compatible SPECT/CT Phantom for Beta Emitting Radiopharmaceutical Therapy Agents
Monday, April 3, 2023 Kevin Treb, Graduate Research Assistant Development of a Prototype Photon Counting C-arm System for Image-Guided Interventions
Monday, March 27, 2023 Timothy Allen, Graduate Research Assistant Reproducibility of Liver ADC Measurements Using Motion Robust Diffusion Weighted Imaging Ruiqi Geng, Graduate Research Assistant Automated MR Image Prescription of the Liver Using Deep Learning: Development, Evaluation, and Prospective Implementation
Monday, March 20, 2023 Emil Schueler, Ph.D, DABR, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center The unique aspects of FLASH RT and the path towards clinical implementation
Monday, March 6, 2023 Ken Tichauer, PhD, Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Graduate Affairs, Biomedical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology Quantitative imaging of molecular and functional biology: biomedical optics applications from bench to bedside
Monday, February 27, 2023 Kaelyn Becker, Graduate Research Student Cyclotron production of radioscandium from enriched calcium targets for cancer imaging applications Joseph F. Whitehead, Graduate Research Assistant Advanced X-ray Imaging Techniques for Hepatic Arterial Blood Velocity Measurement
Monday, February 13, 2023 Daniel Bushe, Graduate Research Assistant The Development of a Multi-Contrast Chest X-ray Radiography Prototype System for the Diagnosis of Lung Disease Eric Wallat, Graduate Research Assistant Improving the Efficacy of Functional Lung Avoidance Radiotherapy
Monday, February 6, 2023 Jordan M. Slagowski, PhD, DABR, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison Small Animal IMRT for Preclinical Dose Painting
Monday, January 30, 2023 Grant Roberts, PhD Candidate | UW-Madison Advancing Functional Assessment for Cerebrovascular 4D Flow MRI Mu-Lan Jen, PhD Candidate | UW-Madison Technical improvement of arterial spin labeling MRI for cerebrovascular evaluation in Alzheimer's disease
2022
Monday, December 12, 2022 Nicholas Nelson, Research Assistant, UW-Madison Monte Carlo modeling and dosimetry of a dynamic collimation system for pencil beam scanning proton therapy Ahtesham Ullah Khan, Research Assistant, UW-Madison Development of a primary standard for absorbed dose to water from alpha-emitting radionuclides
Monday, December 5, 2022 Ke Li, PhD, Associate Professor, Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-Madison The essence of photon counting imaging and its benefits in image-guided interventions
Monday, November 21, 2022 Stephen A. Graves, Ph.D., DABR, Assistant Professor of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, and Biomedical Engineering, University of Iowa Health Care Developments in Radiopharmaceutical Therapy and the Need for Foundational Infrastructure in Support of Patient-Tailored Treatments
Monday, November 14, 2022 Wolfgang A. Tome, Ph.D. , Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Professor, The Saul R. Korey Department of Neurology Director of Medical Physics, Institute for Onco-Physics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine Real Time Motion-adapted Prostate SBRT using the Radixact Synchrony System: Commissioning, Testing and Clinical Implementation
Monday, November 7, 2022 Peter J. H. Scott, PhD, Associate Professor, Radiology Director, Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Director, PET Chemistry Director, Center for Positron Emission Tomography, University of Michigan We are Explorers in Radiochemical Space: Adventures in Radiochemistry, Artificial Intelligence and Radiotheranostics
Monday, October 31, 2022 Zibo Li, PhD, Professor of Radiology, Director - Cyclotron and Radiochemistry Research Program
University of North Carolina The Development of Radiochemistry for PET and Radionuclide-Based Therapy
Monday, October 24, 2022 Scott Crawford, PhD, Associate Professor, UW-Madison The Role of Medical Imaging in Assessing Structure-Function Relationship in Tissue Health and Performance: Implications for Musculotendinous Injury, Recovery, and Rehabilitation
Monday, October 17, 2022 Lei Xing, PhD, Jacob Haimson & Sarah S. Donaldson Professor, Director of Medical Physics Division, Dept of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University Medical Imaging & Therapeutic Decision-Making in the age of AI
Monday, October 10, 2022 Chongzhao Ran, PhD, Associate Professor of Radiology, A. A. Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School Chemiluminescence and bioluminescence imaging of amyloid beta species of Alzheimer's disease
Monday, October 3, 2022 Mattison Flakus , Medical Physics Graduate Student, UW-Madison Advancing the Utility of CT-Ventilation Biomarkers in Functional Avoidance Radiation Therapy Antonia Wuschner, PhD Student, UW-Madison Modeling Radiation-Induced Changes in Perfusion for Improved Functional Avoidance Lung Cancer Therapy
Monday, September 26, 2022 Lindsey Sloan, MD PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota Radiation Immunodynamics in the Treatment of Patients with Glioblastoma
Monday, September 19, 2022 Chuck Stearns, PhD, Senior Advanced Development Engineer, Voximetry A Thirty-Year Perspective on Clinical PET
Monday, September 12, 2022 Dr. Nancy Obuchowski, Vice Chairman, Quantitative Health Sciences Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine Design and Analysis Considerations for Clinical Trials Using Quantitative Imaging Biomarkers
Monday, May 2, 2022 Martin Ebert, PhD, Professor, Director of Physics Research
Institution: Radiation Oncology, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital; and School of Physics, Mathematics and Computing, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Research in the time of COVID: Collaborative imaging research on local, national and international scales
Monday, April 25, 2022 Sydney Jupitz, Graduate Student of Dr. Bryan Bednarz Development of an Ultrasound-based Image Guidance Radiotherapy System for Motion Management in the Liver Christopher Kutyreff, Graduate Student of Dr. Jon Engle No-carrier-added 69/71Germanium and 61/64Copper for Radiotracer Development
Monday, April 18, 2022 Saiful Huq, PhD, FAAPM, FInstP , Professor and Director UPMC Hillman Cancer Center and University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA Dosimetry of small static photon fields: Challenges and solutions
Monday, April 11, 2022 Rebecca Howell, PhD, Professor, Radiation Physics
Director, Radiation Dosimetry Services
Director, Late Effects Research Group
Institution: MD Anderson Cancer Center Radiation therapy-related late effects
Monday, April 4, 2022 Megan Hyun, PhD, Assistant Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center Ethical Considerations for Artificial Intelligence in Radiology and Radiation Oncology
Monday, March 28, 2022 James Renaud, PhD, Research Officer, Metrology Research Centre, National Research Council Canada Accuracy by the microkelvin: Clinical dosimetry applications of a probe-format calorimeter
Monday, March 21, 2022 David Adam, Graduate Student Research Assistant Combining external beam radiotherapy and radiopharmaceutical therapy dosimetry for recurrent head and neck cancer treatment
Monday, March 7, 2022 Lawrence Lechuga, Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. Sean Fain Fluorine-19 MRI for Quantitative In Vivo Tracking of Murine Natural Killer Cells Within Lymphoma Luis Torres, Graduate Research Assistant to Prof. Sean Fain Motion Compensation in Pulmonary Ultra-short Echo Time MRI
Monday, February 28, 2022 Dr. Hania Al-Hallaq, At the University of Chicago, Dr. Al-Hallaq is an Associate Professor of Radiation and Cellular Oncology, the Associate Director of the Graduate Program in Medical Physics, and the Director of the Medical Physics Certificate Program. Waiting to Exhale: Harnessing the Power of the Respiratory Cycle to Improve Radiotherapy and Assess Resulting Toxicities
Monday, February 21, 2022 Dr. Brian Pogue, Professor & Chair of the Dept. of Medical Physics, UW - Madison Quantifying radiotherapy dose & FLASH effects with optical signals
Monday, February 14, 2022 Jason Frank Moody, MS, Graduate Research Assistant - Alexander Lab Characterizing Deterioration in White Matter Microstructure Associated with Aging and Alzheimers Disease Dementia
Monday, February 7, 2022 Timothy Ziemlewicz, MD, Associate Professor of Radiology Focused Ultrasound Histotripsy: The evolution of local tumor ablation
Monday, January 31, 2022 Will Ferris, Student of Wes Culberson, PhD Evaluation of motion synchronized treatments for helical Tomotherapy Dalton Griner, Student of Guang-Hong Chen, PhD CXR COVID classification using deep learning
2021
Monday, December 6, 2021 Emily King, Medical Physics Graduate Student Development of standard x-ray beams for calibration of radiobiology cabinet and conformal irradiators Autumn Walter, Medical Physics Graduate Student Evaluation of the effects of filtration on the Xoft Axxent Source
Tuesday, November 30, 2021 J�rgen Hennig, Professor, Department of Radiology, University Medical Center, Freiburg, Germany Single Shot Spiral Turbo Spin Echo (TSE) MRI at 1.5 and 3 Tesla
Monday, November 22, 2021 Bert Coursey, PhD, Guest Researcher, National Institute of Standards and Technology Marie Curie visit to the Bureau of Standards in 1921
Monday, November 15, 2021 Paul Laeseke, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, UWSMPH Imaging platform for guiding histotripsy tumor therapy in the liver Martin Wagner, PhD, Senior Scientist, Department of Medical Physics, UWSMPH
Monday, November 8, 2021 Yingli Yang, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, UCLA MR Guided RT (MRgRT) and on-board MRI
Monday, October 25, 2021 Frank Ranallo, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology Radiation Dosimetry in Computed Tomography
Monday, October 18, 2021 Tess Reynolds, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, ACRF Image X Institute, University of Sydney Near Clinical Imaging in the Hybrid Theatre
Monday, October 11, 2021 Ryan Schryver, Public Access Compliance Specialist, Ebling Library Public access to publications: Professional and ethical considerations for authors.
Monday, October 4, 2021 Kuangyu Shi, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Bern, Switzerland Artificial Intelligence in Total-Body PET and Theranostics
Monday, September 27, 2021 Chengzhu Zhang, Medical Physics Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Chen) Interior tomographic reconstruction via direct backprojection and deep learning. Daniel Huff, Medical Physics Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Jeraj) Visualization and quantification of immune-related adverse events by 18F-FDG PET/CT in immune-checkpoint blockade-treated metastatic melanoma
Monday, September 20, 2021 Mang Feng , Medical Physics Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Li) Overcoming the challenge of concentric artifacts in spectral photon counting CT Ruiyang Zhao, Medical Physics Graduate Student (Advisor: Dr. Hernando) Motion robust high SNR liver fat quantifications with flip angle modulated approach
Monday, September 13, 2021 Mark Griswold, PhD, Professor, Departments of Radiology and Biomedical Engineering, Case Western Reserve University A Quick Look at Two Types of MR
Monday, April 26, 2021 Lindsay Bodart (Student of Mike Speidel), Real-Time Three-Dimensional Image Guidance Platform Using Transthoracic Echocardiography and X-ray Fluoroscopy Ian Marsh (Student of Bryan Bednarz), Treatment Planning for Immunomodulatory Radiopharmaceutical Therapy
Monday, April 19, 2021 Jeffery Chancellor, PhD, Director, SpaRTAN Physics Laboratory
Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Astrology, LSU
Assistant Professor, Department of Preventative Medicine & Population Health, UTMB
Fellow, Outer Space Institute, University of British Columbia Development of Ground-based Analogs for Space Radiobiology Research
Monday, April 12, 2021 Dustin Jacqmin, PhD, DABR, Assistant Professor, Department of Human Oncology, UWSMPH Promoting Quality Improvement and Safety Culture in Radiation Therapy using Incident Learning Systems
Monday, April 5, 2021 Peter Ferjancic, (Student of Robert Jeraj), Probabilistic Incorporation of Uncertainties in Radiotherapy Ping Ni Wang (student of Walter Block and Jim Holmes), Accelerated Radial Imaging With Compressed Sensing Reconstruction for Time-resolved Breast DCE-MRI
Monday, March 29, 2021 Heather Whitney, PhD, Associate Professor at Wheaton College and Visiting Scholar with the Department of Radiology, The University of Chicago Studies of classification repeatability and feature harmonization in computer-aided diagnosis using radiomic features from breast DCE-MRI
Monday, March 22, 2021 Julianne Pollard-Larkin, PhD, Associate Professor & Chief of Gastrointestinal and Thoracic Service, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Critical Mass: Moving from Gender Equity to Racial Equity within Medical Physics
Monday, March 15, 2021 Martha Matuszak, PhD, Associate Professor and the Director of Advanced Treatment Planning in the Department of Radiation Oncology at the University of Michigan. Function and Utility Guided Treatment Planning for Lung Radiotherapy
Monday, March 8, 2021 Nikolai Mickevicius, PhD, Bentson Translational Research Fellow, Department of Human Oncology, UWSMPH Toward Rapid MR-fingerprinting in cancer imaging
Monday, March 1, 2021 Andrew Wentland, MD, PhD, Fellow, Department of Radiology, UWSMPH Artificial Intelligence Applications in Abdominal Imaging
Monday, February 22, 2021 Todd Pawlicki, PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO, Medical Physics 3.0 and future directions for radiotherapy clinical medical physics
Monday, February 15, 2021 John Bayouth, PhD, Pulmonary function damage following radiation therapy treatments: assessment and mitigation strategies
Monday, February 8, 2021 Michael Lawless, PhD, Dual Energy CT in RT: Non-calcium images for bone marrow imaging and bone disease delineation
Monday, February 1, 2021 Sam Beddar, PhD, In Vivo Dosimetry for Brachytherapy
Monday, January 25, 2021 Austin Bazydlo (student of Dr. Andrew Alexander), White Matter Microstructure in Down syndrome: Insights for Aging and Cognitive Decline Matthew Zammit (student of Dr. Bradley Christian), Improving quantification and characterization of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers in Down syndrome using PET imaging
2020
Monday, December 7, 2020 Carri Glide-Hurst, Ph.D, DABR, FAAPM, Toward Enhanced Cardiac Sparing in Radiation Therapy
Monday, November 30, 2020 , No Seminar due to RNSA
Monday, November 23, 2020 Arman Rahmim, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Radiology and Physics, University of British Columbia Senior Scientist, BC Cancer Research Institute On Growth, Success and Well-being in Academia
Monday, November 16, 2020 Matt O\'Donnell, Ph.D., Light and Sound: Integrating Photonics with Ultrasonics
Monday, November 9, 2020 Seminar Canceled, No Seminar
Monday, November 2, 2020 Monica Shokeen, MBA, PhD, Multiscale Imaging of Multiple Myeloma Pathogenesis
Monday, October 26, 2020 Annie Zhang, Motion compensation and distortion correction in liver diffusion MRI Philip Corrado, Cardiac 4D Flow MRI: Validation, Post-Processing, and Application in Clinical Studies
Monday, October 19, 2020 Surendra Prajapati, MS, PhD, DABR, Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX Medical Physics Career in Radiation Oncology: Experiences as Junior Clinical Faculty
Monday, October 12, 2020 Vimal Desai, Ph.D. , Radiation Oncology Physics Resident
Department of Human Oncology
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health Calibrating dynamic clinical photon treatments closer to treatment conditions: recent developments in plan-class specific reference field linear accelerator dosimetry
Monday, October 5, 2020 Michael Kissick, Physicist, Research and Development, Accuray, Inc.; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison Radixact Motion Synchronization Development Experience
Monday, September 28, 2020 Filiz Yesilkoy, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison,Department of Biomedical Engineering Optical Metasurfaces for Label-free Biosensing and Bioimaging Applications
Monday, September 21, 2020 Jeremy Bredfeldt, Ph.D., Faculty Medical Physicist , Brigham and Women’s Hospital Harvard Medical School Synthetic CT for MRI-only Radiation Therapy
Monday, September 14, 2020 Todd McNutt, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Informatics, Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology and Molecular Radiation Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Using big clinical data to advance precision radiotherapy and to uncover the spatial dependence of radiation on treatment related toxicity
Monday, April 27, 2020 Medical Physics Graduate Students, Research Presentations
Monday, April 20, 2020 Medical Physics Graduate Students, Research Presentations
Monday, April 13, 2020 Lianna DiMaso (student of Larry DeWerd and Jessica Miller), Split-filter dual-energy CT: investigation of tumor visibility, spectral separation, and dose allocation Catherine Steffel (student of Tomy Varghese and Carol Mitchell) , Ultrasound, Atherosclerosis, and Stroke Risk: A Quantitative Approach
Monday, April 6, 2020 Katie Carey (student of Sean Fain), Hyperpolarized gas MRI for evaluation of longitudinal changes in Ventilation in Pulmonary Diseases Evan Harvey (student of Ke Li), Improving Cerebral CT Angiography Small Vessel Image Quality with Photon Counting Detector Technology
Monday, March 30, 2020 Heather Whitney (REDI Speaker: Hosted by Hayley Whitson) , [CANCELLED]
Monday, March 23, 2020 Filiz Yesilkoy (Hosted by Kevin Eliceiri) , Optical Metasurfaces for Label-free Biosensing and Bioimaging Applications [CANCELLED]
Monday, March 16, 2020 NO SEMINAR, UW Spring Break - NO SEMINAR
Monday, March 9, 2020 Monica Shokeen (Hosted by Kevin Eliceiri) , Multiscale Imaging of Multiple Myeloma Pathogenesis [CANCELLED]
Monday, March 2, 2020 Xu Ji (student of Guang-Hong Chen) , X-ray Multi-contrast Imaging
Monday, February 24, 2020 Guy Hwang (student of Elizabeth Meyerand and Vivek Prabhakaran), Applying Machine Learning on Neuroimaging Data with Limited Sample Size Cole John Cook (student of Elizabeth Meyerand), Effects of Preprocessing on Spectral Dynamic Causal Modeling
Monday, February 17, 2020 Chu Ma (Hosted by Kevin Eliceiri) , Acoustic Functional Materials for Imaging
Monday, February 10, 2020 Parminder Basran (Hosted by Rock Mackie) , Veterinarians Do Medical Imaging Too: Machine Learning Applied to Race Horses
Monday, February 3, 2020 Jose M Guerrero (student of Andy Alexander), Advances in Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Quality Assurance, Biophysical Modeling, and Data Analysis Approaches John Hayes (student of Guang-Hong Chen), High Pitch Helical CT Reconstruction Using Combined MBIR and Deep Learning Prior Networks
Monday, January 27, 2020 Sean Frigo, PhD (hosted by Larry DeWerd), Assistant Professor; Department of Human Oncology Modeling Rounded MLC Leaf Ends
2019
Monday, December 9, 2019 Celerino Abad-Zapatero (Hosted by Hernando Diego), The Power of Fourier Transforms: Crystallography and other Biomedical Applications
Monday, November 25, 2019 Q. Li (Hosted by Dr. Guang Hong Chen) , Deep Learning based Iterative Image Reconstruction
Monday, November 18, 2019 Amy Weisman (Student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Automatic Quantification and Assessment of FDG PET/CT in Patients with Lymphatic Disease Alison Roth (Student of Dr. Robert Jeraj) , Response heterogeneity in metastatic prostate cancer
Monday, November 11, 2019 Giles Santyr (Hosted by Sean Fain) , Functional MRI in pediatric Lung Disease
Monday, November 4, 2019 Brent Murphy (Hosted by Rock Mackie), Entrepreneurial Activities in Medical Physics: Lessons Learned
Monday, October 28, 2019 Shuai Leng (Hosted by Ke Li), Photon-counting Detector CT: Principles, Algorithms, and Clinical Applications of an Emerging Technology
Monday, October 21, 2019 Blake Smith (Student of Dr. Wes Culberson), Dynamic Collimation for Proton Therapy
Monday, October 14, 2019 Kullervo Hynynen (Hosted by Paul Harari), The Potential of Focused Ultrasound for Brain Tumour Treatments
Monday, October 7, 2019 Megan Hyun (Hosted by Larry DeWerd), Physicist-patient consultations in radiation therapy: respecting patient autonomy and potentially improving anatomical consistency
Monday, September 30, 2019 Paul Begovatz (Hosted by Sean Fain and Tim Hall), Postdoc - Multi-Nuclear MRI/MRS Natural Abundance to Hyperpolarization: In-Vivo X-Nuclei Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging
Monday, September 23, 2019 Zac Labby and Dustin Jacqmin (Hosted by Larry DeWerd) , Assistant Professors (CHS),
Department of Human Oncology What the Chernobyl nuclear disaster can teach us about patient safety in radiotherapy
Monday, September 16, 2019 Doug Dean III (Hosted by Andy Alexander), Imaging Brain Development Using Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Monday, September 9, 2019 Shannon Holmes, PhD (Hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Medical Physicist, Standard Imaging, Inc. Small Field Challenges and the Development of a Scintillation Detector
Monday, May 6, 2019 Simon Cherry, PhD (hosted by Dr. Brad Christian), Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology, University of California-Davis JR Cameron symposium: Seeing is Believing: Total Body Positron Emission Tomography
Monday, April 29, 2019 Hans Sonke Jans (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Assistant Professor, Division of Medical Physics, Medical Physicist, Dept. of Medical Physics, CCI, Department of Oncology, University of Alberta Activity Measurement of Unsealed Sources in Nuclear Medicine
Monday, April 22, 2019 Stephen Yip, Lauren Keith, Elizabeth Zakszewski, Jacob Beres, Medical Physics Graduates Professional Development Career Panel
Monday, April 15, 2019 Sabrina Hoffman (student of Dr. Bruce Thomadsen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development of a liver gel-dosimetry motion phantom for real-time image guided radiotherapy verification Charles Matrosic (student of Dr. Wesley Culberson and Dr. Bryan Bednarz) , Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA
Monday, April 8, 2019 Sarah Strand (student of Dr. Ronald Wakai), Low-Cost Fetal Magnetocardiography Gengyan Zhao (student of Beth Meyerand), Deep Learning Uncertainty Machnism and Bayesian Deep Learning Models for MR Neuroimaging
Monday, April 1, 2019 Natalie Viscariello (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Application of NIST-traceable Dosimetry Methods in Radiobiology Leonard Che Fru (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development of an Optical Device that Measures Hemoglobin Oxygen Saturation in Tissue and its Application to Improve Radiotherapy
Monday, March 25, 2019 Vimal Desai (student of Dr. Wesley Culberson), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Advancements in Dosimetry for Modulated Clinical Linear Accelerator Treatments
Monday, March 18, 2019 Ivan M. Rosado-Mendez, PhD, Assistant Professor, Instituto de FÃsica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Medical Ultrasound Laboratory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM): Ongoing Projects and Initial Results
Monday, March 11, 2019 Alexandra Schroeder (student of Dr. Kevin Eliceiri), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Intrinsic microenvironment fluorescence signals in clinically relevant wound healing models Alexander Antolak (student of Ed Jackson), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development of a framework for the quantitative assessment of treatment response in head and neck PET/MRI
Monday, March 4, 2019 David Shepard (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Director of Medical Physics, Swedish Medical Center Seattle, WA Improving Quality and Safety with Surface-Guided Radiation Therapy
Monday, February 25, 2019 Guang-Hong Chen, Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical imaging: Opportunities and Challenges
Monday, February 18, 2019 Jessica Miller (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Dual energy CT applications in Radiotherapy
Monday, February 11, 2019 Anant Madabhusk (hosted by Dr. Kevin W. Eliceiri), Computational Radiology and Pathology: Opportunities in Precision Medicine
Monday, February 4, 2019 Carson Hoffman (student of Dr. Oliver Wieben), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Flowing Through Time and Space Juan Pablo Cruz Bastida (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA CT Number Accuracy at Reduced Dose Levels
Monday, January 28, 2019 Susan Richardson, PhD (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Medical Physicist, Radiation Oncology, Swedish Medical Center-Tumor Institute Patient safety: Luck or Skill?
2018
Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Last Class Day,
Monday, December 10, 2018 Dr. Vesna Sossi (hosted by Dr. James Holden), Adjunct Professor / Professor Physics and Astronomy, Medicine University of British Columbia Vancouver, BC, Canada Insights into Parkinson's disease provided by novel analysis approaches to brain PET data
Monday, December 3, 2018 Andrew P. Santoso (student of Dr. Timothy Hall), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Characterizing the Microstructure of the Uterine Cervix using Model-Based Quantitative Ultrasound Parameters
Monday, November 26, 2018 Seminar Canceled ,
Monday, November 19, 2018 Kevin Eliceiri, PhD, Director of the Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation Morgridge Institute for Research and the Department of Biomedical Engineering University of Wisconsin—Madison The ImageJ Ecosystem: An Open Platform for Biomedical Image Analysis
Monday, November 12, 2018 Brian W. Pogue, PhD (hosted by Dr. Kevin W. Eliceiri), MacLean Professor of Engineering Professor of Physics & Astronomy Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine Darthmouth College Hanover, NH Optical Imaging Advances in Surgery & Radiation Therapy
Monday, November 5, 2018 Helen B. Stone, PhD (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Radiation Injury: Protection, Mitigation, and Treatment, and the Challenges of Dosimetry for Radiation Biology
Monday, October 29, 2018 Robert Bujila (hosted by Dr. Timothy Szczykutowicz), Medical Radiation Physics and Nuclear Medicine Karolinska University Hospital Stockholm, Sweden Determination of Lateral Half Value Layer Profiles in Computed Tomography
Monday, October 22, 2018 David Mummy (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Defining Asthma Phenotypes Using Hyperpolarized Gas MRI and CT
Monday, October 15, 2018 Emily Ehlerding (student of Dr. Weibo Cai), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Molecular Imaging for Personalized Cancer Immunotherapy Eric Simiele (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Characterization of Signal Changes in Light Guides used for Scintillation Dosimetry in the Presence of a Magnetic Field
Monday, October 8, 2018 Cancelled,
Monday, October 1, 2018 Carri Glide-Hurst, PhD, DABR, FAAPM (hosted by Amy Weisman), Director of Translational Research Radiation Oncology Henry Ford Cancer Institute Detroit, MI Reserved for WISELI: Toward High Precision MRI in Simulation and Treatment Delivery
Monday, September 24, 2018 Samuel Achilefu, PhD (hosted by Dr. Kevin W. Eliceiri and Dr. Melissa Skala) Talk Sponsored by the Morgridge Institute for Research Multiscale Imaging Initiative, Director, Optical Radiology Laboratory Professor of Radiology, Biomedical Engineering, and Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics Michel M. Ter-Pogossian Endowed Chair in Radiology Vice Chair, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO - USA Cancer Viewing Glasses for Fluorescence Image-Guided Cancer Surgery
Monday, September 17, 2018 Michael A. Pinkert, M.S. (student of Dr. Walter Block and Dr. Kevin Eliceiri), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Tools for Multiscale Imaging of Collagen in Cancer
Monday, September 10, 2018 Boris Gramatikov, PhD (hosted by Dr. Kevin W. Eliceiri and Dr. Sean Fain). Talk sponsored by the McPherson Eye Research Institute, Assistant Professor, Ophthalmic Instrumentation Lab, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Utilizing the Birefringent Properties of the Human Fovea in the Design of Ophthalmologic Diagnostic Instrumentation
Monday, April 30, 2018 Gregg E. Trahey, PhD, Robert Plonsey Professor of Biomedical Engineering Professor of Biomedical Engineering Bass Fellow Professor in Radiology Duke University - USA CAMERON SYMPOSIUM LECTURE: Spatial Coherence in Medical Ultrasound: Opportunities for Improved Imaging and Measurement
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 Jacob A. Macdonald (student of Dr. Oliver Wieben), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA 4D Flow MRI during Exercise in Prematurely Born Adults and Children Kai D. Ludwig (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Perfusion of the Placenta - Assessed by ASL and Ferumoxytol DCE MRI in the Non-Human Primate Erin Adamson (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Improving Robustness of Hyperpolarized 13C Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging
Monday, April 23, 2018 Matthew Scarpelli (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Assessing Treatment Response of Cancer Patients with Quantitative 18F-FLT PET/CT imaging Christie Lin (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Quantitative PET for Response Assessment: Monitoring the Development of Multiple Metastases
Monday, April 16, 2018 Rachel D. McKinsey, PhD (hosted by Ms. Amy Weisman and Ms. Catherine Steffel, WISELI), Medical Physicist e+CancerCare, Lafayette, Louisiana - USA The Evolving Role of the Clinical Medical Physicist in Radiation Therapy
Thursday, April 12, 2018 Kolleen Kennedy, MS (hosted by Ms. Amy Weisman and Ms. Catherine Steffel, WISELI), Executive Vice President, Oncology Systems, Varian Medical Systems Academic Industrial Partnerships: Accelerating Innovation
Thursday, April 12, 2018 Jorge Jimenez (student of Dr. Walter Block), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Abbreviated 3D Radial Breast MRI Protocol a New Approach to Cancer Screening
Monday, April 9, 2018 Manik Aima (student of Dr. Wesley Culberson), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Dosimetric Characterization of a Directional Low - Dose Rate Brachytherapy Planar Source Array Sameer Taneja (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Direct Measurement of the Energy Spectrum of a 6MV Linear Accelerator
Monday, April 2, 2018 SMJ Mortazavi, PhD (hosted by Dr. Azam Niroomand-Rad), Visiting Scientist, Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia, PA - USA Adaptive Response Can Reduce ARS and Infection Risk during Long Term Manned Space Missions and Decrease Cancer Risk Post Mission
Monday, March 26, 2018 SPRING BREAK, Spring Break - No Seminar
Monday, March 19, 2018 Wolfgang Tome, PhD, FAAPM, FASTRO (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd & Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal), Department of Radiation Oncology, Montefiore Medical Center & Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, NY - USA Development of Animal Models for Radiation Engineered Oncology - Experiences and Potential Pitfalls
Monday, March 12, 2018 Daniel Gomez Cardona (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA IImage quality Assessment and Parameter Optimization for Low Dose X - ray CT with Statistical Model - Based Iterative Reconstruction (MBIR) Jon Hansen (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development of a Convex Windowless Extrapolation Chamber to Measure Surface Dose Rate from Ru - 106 Episcleral Plaques
Monday, March 5, 2018 Michelle Svatos, PhD (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Medical Device Executive, Celestial Medical - USA Data Analysis Pitfalls: P-Hacking, Dredging, Harking and Other Barriers to Translation
Monday, February 26, 2018 Valery Radchenko, PhD (hosted by Dr. Jonathan Engle), Research Scientist, TRIUMF, Vancouver, British Columbia, CANADA Production and Application of Therapeutic Radionuclides at TRIUMF
Monday, February 19, 2018 Charles A. Mistretta, PhD, Professor, Departments of Medical Physics and Radiology, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - USA Forty Years of Imaging Tools for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology
Monday, February 12, 2018 Zhimin Li, PhD (Resident, advised by Dr. Frank N. Ranallo), Imaging Residency Program, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - USA Ultrasound Transducer Uniformity and Sensitivity Assessment, and Initial Solution to Some CT QA Problems Christina Brunnquell, PhD (Resident, advised by Dr. Frank N. Ranallo), Imaging Residency Program, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - USA An Introduction to Imaging Workflow Analytics and Application to CT Time Efficiency Evaluation in Acute Stroke Response
Monday, February 5, 2018 Tobey James Betthauser (student of Dr. Bradley T. Christian), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Characterization of Positron Emission Tomography Radioligands for In Vivo Tau Imaging
Monday, January 29, 2018 Taylor Patton (student of Dr. John Bayouth), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Quantifying Ventilation Change Due to Radiation Therapy Using 4DCT Jacobian Calculations Andrew Shepard (student of Dr. Bryan Bednarz), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA An Ultrasound-Based Motion Management System Utilizing 2D/3D Real-Time Tracking for Use in Radiotherapy
2017
Friday, December 15, 2017 Last Class Day,
Monday, December 11, 2017 E.R. Birnbaum, PhD (hosted by Dr. Jonathan Engle), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM - USA Isotope Production at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Monday, December 4, 2017 Sean B. Fain, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - USA Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic Imaging in Cancer and Lung Disease
Monday, November 27, 2017 Seminar Cancelled due to RSNA (Radiological Society of North America), Chicago, IL - USA, Seminar Cancelled due to RSNA
Monday, November 20, 2017 Sean Frigo, PhD (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Assistant Professor (CHS), Dept of Human Oncology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Contributions from the Outside: Three Examples Helping Radiation Therapy
Monday, November 13, 2017 Medical Physics Graduate Student Town Hall Meeting, Professional Development in Medical Physics: A Discussion Panel
Monday, November 6, 2017 John Wochos, MS, DABR; Casey Abing, MS, DABR; and Mary Ellen Jafari, MS, DABR (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Gunderson Health System, LaCrosse, WI - USA Clinical Applications at Gunderson Medical Physics
Monday, October 30, 2017 Ronald Wakai, PhD, Professor, Department of Medical Physics, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - USA Fetal Magnetocardiography and Optically-Pumped Magnetometers
Monday, October 23, 2017 Benjamin Cox, MS (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Bioreactor Development for Multi-Scale Measurement of Tumor Metabolism Mariajose Bedoja (student of Dr. Christopher Brace), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Finite-Element Model of Multiple Antenna Microwave Ablation: Impact of High-Power Modulation
Monday, October 16, 2017 Dr. Krishna Nayak (hosted by Dr. Sean Fain), Professor of Electrical Engineering-Systems, Biomedical Engineering, and Radiology University of Southern California - USA Real-Time MRI: Past, Present, Future
Monday, October 9, 2017 Yinsheng Li (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Data Consistency Driven CT Image Reconstruction Framework
Monday, October 2, 2017 Benjamin Nelms, PhD (hosted by Dr. Wesley Culberson), President, Canis Lupus LLC, Co-Founder, ProKnow Systems The Most Important Medical Device in Radiation Therapy (And Why Nobody Is Using It)
Monday, September 25, 2017 Wesley Culberson, PhD, DABR, Assistant Professor and UWADCL Director University of Wisconsin - Madison - USA Accredited Dosimetry Calibration Laboratories
Monday, September 18, 2017 Dr. Peter R. Almond, PhD, FAAPM, FACMP (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Professor, MD Anderson Cancer Research Center, Houston, Texas - USA Radium Beam Therapy and High Voltage X-Rays. The Eigthtieth Anniversary of a Forgotten Paper
Monday, September 11, 2017 Quinton Guerrero, MS (student of Dr. Timothy Hall), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA On the Use of Rhesus Macaque Model for Ultrasonic Backscatter Parameters in the Human Cervix
Monday, June 19, 2017 Courtney Morrison (student of Drs. Frank Koroseck and Walter Block), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA High Spatiotemporal Resolution Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Breast MRI
Monday, May 22, 2017 Yongshuai Ge (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), RResearch Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA SPECIAL SEMINAR: X-Ray Dark-Field Digital Tomosynthesis Imaging
Monday, May 1, 2017 Brett Byram, PhD (hosted by Kevin W. Eliceiri) , Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt School of Engineering, Nashville, TN - USA Cutting through the Fog: Eliminating Clutter in B-Mode and Doppler Ultrasound
Monday, April 24, 2017 Jordan Slagowski (student of Dr. Michael Speidel), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Cardiac Chamber Mapping via C-arm CT with a Scanning-Beam Digital X-ray system David Dunkerley (student of Dr. Michael Speidel), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Real-time 3D catheter tracking using Scanning-Beam Digital X-ray (SBDX) tomosynthesis
Monday, April 17, 2017 Maryellen L. Giger, PhD , A.N. Pritzker Professor of Radiology, the Committee on Medical Physics, and the College Vice-Chair for Basic Science Research, Dept of Radiology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL - USA CAMERON SYMPOSIUM LECTURE - Radiomics and Deep Learning in Medical Imaging for Precision Medicine
Monday, April 10, 2017 Wenjun Yang (student of Dr. Tomy Varghese), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Monitoring Microwave Ablation for Liver Cancer Using Ultrasound Strain Imaging Patrick Leo (student of Dr. Brad Christian), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA PET imaging of Alzheimer’s Disease in Down Syndrome
Monday, April 3, 2017 Miles Olsen (student of Dr. Walter Block), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Neurosurgical Device Tracking with Real-time MRI in Preclinical Gene Therapy and Stem Cell Therapy Experiments David Campos (student of Dr. Michael Kissick), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Radiation Induces Prompt Metabolic Fluxes in Cancer: An In-vitro Demonstration
Monday, March 27, 2017 Zhi-Pei Liang, PhD (hosted by Dr. Charles Mistretta) , Franklin W. Woeltge Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering Co-chair, Integrative Imaging Theme, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA Molecular Imaging with Spins: A Path to High Resolution through Subspaces
Monday, March 20, 2017 Spring Break,
Monday, March 13, 2017 Jennifer Smilowitz, PhD, DABR, Clinical Associate Professor, Medical Physics and Human Oncology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Radixact: The next chapter in TomoTherapy innovation at UW Madison
Monday, March 6, 2017 Michelle Svatos, PhD (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Medical Device Executive, Celestial Medical - USA Creating Research that Translates to Widespread Clinical Use, or Not!
Monday, February 27, 2017 Jason Rownd, MS (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Senior Medical Physicist, Dept of Radiation Oncology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI 53226 - USA Department of Radiation Oncology Clinical Workflow of HDR Brachytherapy in the Treatment of Cervical Cancer: Tandem and Ring Applicator
Monday, February 20, 2017 Oswaldo Baffa Filho, PhD, Visiting Professor, Departmento de Fisica, FFCLRP-Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil Physiological Measurements Using Magnetic Nanoparticles
Monday, February 13, 2017 Sean B. Fain, PhD , Professor and Director of the Image Analysis Core Facility, MRI, and CT Imaging, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Functional Imaging of the Lungs with Gas Contrast Agents
Monday, February 6, 2017 Rebecca Abergel (hosted by Dr. Jonathan Engle), PhD, Chemistry, University of California, Berkeley, Staff Scientist, Chemical Sciences Division and Deputy Director, Institute for Resilient Communities, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, CA - USA Biological Coordinator and Distribution of F-elements: from Radionuclide Decontaimination to Targeted Radiotherapy
Monday, January 30, 2017 Dan E. Hyer, PhD (hosted by Dr. Wesley Culberson), Medical Physics Residency Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA - USA Collimation in spot scanning proton therapy
Monday, January 23, 2017 Frank N. Ranallo, PhD, DABR, FAAPM, Associate Professor CHS , Depts of Medical Physics & Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Radiation Safety in Medical Imaging
2016
Thursday, December 15, 2016 LAST CLASS DAY,
Monday, December 12, 2016 Mark Pankuch, PhD (hosted by Dr. Wesley Culberson), Director of Medical Physics, CDH Proton Center, Chicago, IL - USA Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy and Proton Imaging: Realizing the full potential for proton therapy
Monday, December 5, 2016 M. Daniela Cornejo (student of Dr. Rasmus Birn), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA A Task fMRI Model for Testing Resting State fcMRI Noise Correction Methods.
Monday, November 28, 2016 Seminar Cancel due to RSNA (Radiological Society of North America), Chicago, IL - USA, Seminar Cancel due to RSNA
Monday, November 21, 2016 Haidy Nasief (student of Dr. Timothy Hall), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Quantitative Ultrasound of the Breast
Monday, November 14, 2016 Melissa C. Skala, PhD (hosted by Dr. Edward F. Jackson), Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University of Wisconsin - Madison, WI - USA Optical Metabolic Imaging of Cellular Heterogeneity in Cancer
Monday, November 7, 2016 Patrick Hill, PhD (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Assistant Professor (CHS), Department of Human Oncology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA ViewRay MRI-guided Radiotherapy
Monday, October 31, 2016 Stephen Graves (student of Dr. R.J. Nickles), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Positron-Emitting Isotopes of Manganese and Applications Thereof
Monday, October 24, 2016 Seminar Cancelled ,
Monday, October 17, 2016 Kathryn Keenan, PhD (hosted by Dr. Edward F. Jackson), Applied Physics Division, Physical Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Boulder, CO - USA Quantitative MRI for Precision Medicine
Monday, October 10, 2016 Camille Garcia-Ramos (student of Vivek Prabhakaran), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development of Covariance Networks of Cortical/Subcortical Volumes on Children with New-onset Epilepsy
Monday, October 3, 2016 Alexander K. Converse, PhD, Associate Scientist, Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - USA Pharmacokinetic modeling in PET neuroimaging of nonhuman primates
Monday, September 26, 2016 Michael D. Graham, PhD (hosted by Dr. Alejandro Roldan-Alzate), Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor and Harvey D. Spangler Professor, Dept of Chemical and Biological Engineering, UW-Madison - USA Collide and conquer: flow-induced margination and demargination phenomena in blood
Monday, September 19, 2016 Everardo M. Flores (student of Dr. Larry A. DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Interferometer-based Calorimetric Measurements of Absorbed Dose to Water in Megavoltage External Beam Therapy John Garrett (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development of a Multi Contrast X-ray Breast Imaging System
Monday, September 12, 2016 Jessica Fagerstrom (student of Dr. Wesley Culberson), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Design of a modulated orthovoltage stereotactic radiosurgery system Samantha Simiele (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Advancements in electronic brachytherapy dosimetry for the treatment of cervical cancer
Monday, May 2, 2016 Norbert J. Pelc, ScD, Shriram Chair of Bioengineering, Professor of Bioengineering and Radiology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA - USA CAMERON SYMPOSIUM - Perspective for Future Developments in CT Imaging
Monday, April 25, 2016 Timothy G. Perk (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Methods for Identification and Quantification of Bone Disease Using PET/CT Images Brandon P. Walker (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen, Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie, and Kevin Eliceiri) ), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Modular Multi-Source X-Ray Tube for Computed Tomography Applications
Monday, April 18, 2016 Stephanie Harmon (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Bridging the gap: connecting imaging phenotypes and cellular genotypes Christina Brunnquell (student of Dr. M. E. Meyerand), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA MRI and PET neuroimaging methods for stem cell tracking
Monday, April 11, 2016 Vikas Singh (hosted by Dr. Sean Fain), Associate Professor Department of Biostatistics and Computer Sciences University of Wisconsin– Madison - USA New Formulations for Morphometric and Connectivity Analysis in Preclinical Alzheimer's Disease (AD)
Monday, April 4, 2016 Reinier Hernandez (student of Dr. Weibo Cai), Research Assistant, Depts of Biochemistry and Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Molecular Imaging of Brain Cancer Hector Valdovinos (student of Dr. R. Jerry Nickles), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Production, Labeling and in vivo Studies with the Theranostic Pair 55 Co and 58m Co for Immuno-PET and Auger Electron-Based Targeted Radioimmunotherapy
Monday, March 28, 2016 Abby E. Besemer (student of Dr. Bryan P. Bednarz), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development, validation, and implementation of a patient-specific Monte Carlo 3D internal dosimetry platform Alfonso Rodriguez (student of Dr. Sean B. Fain), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA The Effect of High Resolution Kernels, Iterative Reconstruction, and Acquisition Parameters on Quantitative Computed Tomography Measures of the Lung
Monday, March 21, 2016 SPRING BREAK,
Monday, March 14, 2016 Matthew Bernstein, PhD (hosted by Dr. Andrew Alexander), Professor of Medical Physics, Department of Radiology, Mayo Clinic, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, Minnesota - USA Compact 3T MRI Scanner with High Performance Gradients
Monday, March 7, 2016 Song Chen, MD (hosted by Dr. Robert Jeraj), Attending Physician, Dept of Nuclear Medicine, The 1st Hospital of China Medical University, Honorary Associate/Fellow, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Diagnostic Classification of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules Using Dual Time PET/CT Radiomics Features
Monday, February 29, 2016 Walter F. Block, PhD, Professor, Depts Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering, and Electrical and Computer Engineering, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Information Intensive Guide Therapy: Moving Beyond Tracking Surgical Devices to Tracking Therapy
Monday, February 22, 2016 Bradley T. Christian, PhD , Dept of Medical Physics and Psychiatry, Co-Director of the Waisman Center Brain Imaging Laboratory, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development and Translation of PET Radiotracers for Neuroimaging: Methods and Models
Monday, February 15, 2016 Thomas P. Stossel, MD, Director,Translational Medicine Division, Senior Physican, Hematology Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA - USA Is the Conflict of Interest Movement Impeding Medical Innovation?
Monday, February 8, 2016 Syvat Vergun (student of Dr. Vivek Prabhakaran), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Predicting Primary Outcomes of Brain Tumor Patients with Standard Clinical Protocol MRI Data
Monday, February 1, 2016 Marina E. Emborg, MD, PhD, Associate Professor, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Modeling and Imaging Cardiac Neurodegeneration in Parkinson's Disease
Monday, January 25, 2016 Bryan P. Bednarz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA The Future of Radiological Engineering in Oncology (And Why It's Important)
2015
Tuesday, December 15, 2015 LAST CLASS DAY,
Monday, December 14, 2015 Dr. Patricia Keely (hosted by Dr. Edward F. Jackson), Professor and Chair, Department of Cell and Regenerative Biology, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Imaging Cancer Progression: Matrix, Metabolism, Metastasis
Monday, December 7, 2015 Dr. Ryan Flynn (hosted by Dr. Wesley Culberson), Director of Medical Physics, Clinical Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, IA - USA Rotating Shield Brachytherapy for Prostate and Cervical Cancer
Monday, November 30, 2015 Seminar Cancelled due to RSNA, Seminar Cancelled due to RSNA
Monday, November 23, 2015 Diego Hernando, PhD (hosted by Dr. Thomas Grist and Dr. Scott Reeder), Assistant Scientist, Dept of Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Development and Validation of Quantitative MR Techniques for Abdominal Imaging
Monday, November 16, 2015 Edward F. Jackson, PhD, FAAPM, FACR, Professor & Chair, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI 53705 - USA Quantitative Imaging Initiatives: What, Why, Who, and How?
Monday, November 9, 2015 Dr. Han Wen (hosted by Dr. Guang-Hong Chen and Dr. Ke Li), Senior Investigator, Imaging Physics Laboratory, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD - USA From Nano Particles to Nanometric Far-Field Interferometers-Collaboration Between Synchrotron Beamlines and X-ray
Monday, November 2, 2015 Kai Niu (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Ultra Low Radiation Dose Digital Subtraction Angiography (DSA) Imaging using Low Rank Constraint
Monday, October 26, 2015 Dr. Harvey Coxson (hosted by Dr. Sean B. Fain), Associate Professor of Radiology, Investigator UBC Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, University British Columbia, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, CANADA The Longitudinal Assessment of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Using Quantitative Imaging
Monday, October 19, 2015 Frank N. Ranallo, PhD, DABR, Associate Professor CHS , Depts of Medical Physics & Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA The Role of Physics in CT Protocol Optimization over the Range of CT Scanner Types: Recommendations and Misconceptions.
Monday, October 12, 2015 Megan Hyun (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Improving Dose Determination Accuracy in Nonstandard Fields of the Varian TrueBeam Accelerator Michael Lawless (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Kilovoltage X-ray Dosimetry for Cone Beam Computed Tomography
Monday, October 5, 2015 Youming Yang (student of Dr. Bryan Bednarz), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Concurrent Monte Carlo Transport and Fluence Optimization Therapy, Development, and Applications
Monday, September 28, 2015 Dr. Frederic Tessier (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Officer, Measurement Science and Standards, National Research Council, Government of Canada EGSnrc investigation of the NE2575 ionization chamber anomaly, and ideal chamber shapes
Monday, September 21, 2015 Zoubir Ouhib, MS, DABR (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Chief of Brachytherapy, Lynn Cancer Institute, Boca Raton Regional Hospital in Boca Raton, Florida, and Assistant Professor at Florida Atlantic University - USA End of Life for Brachytherapy
Monday, September 14, 2015 Dr. Xie George Xu, (hosted by Dr. Larry DeWerd), Edward E. Hood Endowed Chair of Engineering, Professor Nuclear Engineering Program, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, New York - USA A Review of Radiation Dosimetry Research Involving Computational Human Phantoms and Coprocessor-based Monte Carlo Dose Calculations
Wednesday, August 5, 2015 Yue Yan (student of Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Dosimetric and Biologic Characteristics of the Flattened and Flattening-Filter-Free Beams of the Linac System
Friday, May 8, 2015 LAST CLASS DAY, LAST CLASS DAY
Monday, May 4, 2015 Bruce Wen (student of Drs. Paul Campagnola and T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Texture Analysis applied to second harmonic generation image data for diseases classification and Multi-View Second Harmonic Generation Imaging
Monday, April 27, 2015 Jason S. Lewis, PhD, Emily Tow Jackson Chair in Oncology; Vice Chair for Research, Dept of Radiology;Chief, Radiochemistry & Imaging Sciences Service , Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Cameron Symposium - "Interrogating Cancer with Zr-89 Radiopharmaceuticals and PET"
Monday, April 20, 2015 Xiao Wang (student of Dr. Tomy Varghese), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Characterization of Carotid Plaque Vulnerability using Quantitative Ultrasound and Strain Imaging
Monday, April 13, 2015 Professor Chester A. Mathis (guest of Dr. Bradley Christian), UPMC Endowed Chair of PET Research & Distinguished Professor of Radiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA - USA Imaging Aggregated Proteins In Vivo with PET
Monday, April 6, 2015 Tyler Fowler, MS (student of Dr. Bryan Bednarz), Research Assistant, Medical Radiation Research Center, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA A novel high-throughput irradiator for in vitro radiation sensitivity bioassays
Monday, March 30, 2015 SPRING BREAK, UW-Madison, Spring Break - No Seminar
Monday, March 23, 2015 Eric Schrauben, MS (student of Dr. Oliver Wieben), Research Assistant, Medical Radiation Research Center, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA 4D Flow MR Post-processing Strategies for Specific Neuropathologies
Monday, March 16, 2015 Benjamin Rosen (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Advanced Radiochromic Film Methodologies for Quantitative Dosimetry of Small and Nonstandard Fields
Monday, March 9, 2015 Andrew R. Hoy, LT, MSC, USN (student of Dr. Andrew Alexander), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Diffusion Tensor Imaging with Free Water Elimination
Monday, March 2, 2015 Joshua Reed (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA New directions for low-energy photon-emitting elongated brachytherapy sources
Monday, February 23, 2015 Remi Patriat (student of Dr. Rasmus Birn), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Resting-state fMRI Study of Pediatric Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Preprocessing Optimization and Clinical Observations
Monday, February 16, 2015 Laura Bell (student of Dr. Thomas Grist), Research Assistant, Medical Radiation Research Center, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Quantitative pulmonary perfusion using dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI
Monday, February 9, 2015 Michael Loecher (student of Dr. Oliver Wieben), Research Assistant, Medical Radiation Research Center, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Improved correction, reconstruction, and analysis methods for 4D-Flow MRI
Monday, February 2, 2015 Michael Kissick, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI 53705 Radiotherapy, Tumor Oxygen Dynamics, and the Likely Role of the Glycolytic Oscillator
Monday, January 26, 2015 Oswaldo Baffa, University of São Paulo, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil Potential Application of Metallic Nanoparticles for Dosimetric Systems
2014
Tuesday, December 23, 2014 Areli Zuniga (student of Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal), Research Assistant, Medical Radiation Research Center, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Generalized Tumor Dose for Treatment Planning Decision Support
Friday, December 12, 2014 LAST DAY OF CLASS, Last Day of Class
Monday, December 8, 2014 Stanley Kruger (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Regional Pulmonary Ventilation Assessment with MRI
Monday, December 1, 2014 Seminar Cancel due to RSNA (Radiological Society of North America), Chicago, IL, Seminar Cancel due to RSNA
Monday, November 24, 2014 Suzanne E. Lapi, PhD (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Assistant Professor, Department of Radiology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO - USA - Antimatter & Antibodies: PET Imaging of Receptor Expression in Oncology
Monday, November 17, 2014 Michael Wang, PhD , Ultrasound Systems Engineering, GE Healthcare Implementation of Shear Wave Elastography on a Commercially Available Ultrasound System
Monday, November 10, 2014 Travis McCaw (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Medical Radiation Research Center, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Characterization of interplay errors in step-and-shoot IMRT of the lung
Monday, November 3, 2014 Jonathan F. Lovell, PhD (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, University at Buffalo, New York - USA Self-assembled Porphyrin Nanomaterials for Biomedical Imaging and Phototherapy
Monday, October 27, 2014 T. Rockwell Mackie Scientific Symposium, Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie's Scientific Symposium
Monday, October 20, 2014 Charles A. Mistretta, PhD, John R. Cameron Professor, Depts of Medical Physics, Radiology & Biomedical Engineering The Development of Modern Angiography
Monday, October 13, 2014 Ashley Anderson (student of Dr. Oliver Wieben), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-SMPH, Madison, WI - USA - Motion Characterization & Compensation in MRI with Radial Trajectories
Monday, October 6, 2014 Samuel Anthony Hurley (student of Dr. Andrew Alexander), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Rapid and Accurate Single and Multicomponent Relaxometry Using Steady-State Acquisitions
Monday, September 29, 2014 Gang Zheng, PhD (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Professor, Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto & Princess Margaret Cancer Center, Ontario - CANADA - Porphysome Nanotechnology and Beyond: Explore New Frontiers of Cancer Imaging & Therapy
Monday, September 22, 2014 Jeremy D. Rogers (guest of Dr. Edward Jackson and Kevin Eliceiri), Assistant Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Laboratory for Optical & Computational Instrumentation, McPherson Eye Research Institute University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - USA - Fractal Organization of Tissue: Quantifying Tissue Scattering Properties at the Nanoscale
Monday, September 15, 2014 Kevin W. Eliceiri, Director, Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation (LOCI), Department of Cell and Molecular Biology and Biomedical Engineering, Affiliate Principal Investigator, Morgridge Institute for Research (MIR), Madison, WI - USA Mesoscale Imaging
Monday, September 8, 2014 Amit Joshi, PhD (guest of Dr. Rockwell Mackie and Kevin W. Eliceiri), Assistant Professor of Radiology, Molecular Physiology & Biophysics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas - USA Simultaneous Imaging and Therapy of Cancer with Multimodal Nanoparticles
Thursday, May 15, 2014 Matt LaFontaine (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Viability of DCE-CT Kinetic Analysis in Oncology
Friday, May 9, 2014 LAST DAY OF CLASS, UW-Madison, Last Day of Class - No Seminar
Monday, May 5, 2014 David A. Jaffray, PhD. *Cameron Symposium*, Head, Medical Physics, Ontario Cancer Institute /Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON - CANADA Cameron Symposium - Image-guided therapy - we're just getting started
Monday, April 28, 2014 Daniel Saenz (student of Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - MRI-Guided Target Motion Assessment Using Dynamic Automatic Segmentation
Monday, April 21, 2014 Christian Capitini, MD (guest of Dr. Bryan Bednarz), Dept of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI - USA Using 19F MRI to monitor cellular infusions to treat cancer
Monday, April 14, 2014 Mariela A. Porras-Chaverri (student of Dr. John Vetter), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Patient-oriented breast imaging dosimetry
Monday, April 7, 2014 Martha Malin (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Energy Based Brachytherapy Dosimetry
Monday, March 31, 2014 David Niles (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Hyperpolarized carbon-13 MRI with application to obstructive uropathy
Monday, March 24, 2014 Paul Campagnola, PhD, Professor, Depts of Biomedical Engineering & Medical Physics, LOCI, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Second Harmonic Generation and Optical Scattering Probes of the ECM in Ovarian Cancer
Monday, March 17, 2014 SPRING BREAK, UW-Madison, Spring Break - No Seminar
Monday, March 10, 2014 Timothy R. DeGrado, PhD (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Professor, Depts of Radiology, Physiology & Biomedical Engineering, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Radiometal Production Using Solution-Based Cyclotron Targets
Monday, March 3, 2014 Ronald M. Summers, MD, PhD. (guest of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Senior Investigator, Clinical Image Processing Service, Imaging Biomarkers & Computer-Aided Diagnosis Laboratory, Bethesda, MD Towards Fully-Automated Abdominal CT Image Interpretation
Monday, February 24, 2014 Bastiaan Driehuys, PhD (guest of Dr. Sean Fain), Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Physics, Duke University Medical School, Center for in vivo Microscopy, Durham, NC - USA Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI: Introduction, History and New Directions
Monday, February 17, 2014 T. Rockwell Mackie, PhD., Professor Emeritus, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA The Relationship Between Science and Technology
Monday, February 10, 2014 Nicholas Rubert (student of Dr. Tomy Varghese), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Towards Quantitative Ultrasound Imaging of Thermal Ablation Therapy in the Liver
Monday, February 3, 2014 Michael Kissick, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - On Radiotherapy & Oxygen Dynamics
Monday, January 27, 2014 Adam Uselmann (student of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Dept of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Simulation, Analysis, and Optimization of the Dielectric Wall Accelerator
2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 Habib Al saleh (student of Dr. Walter Block), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - MRI OF DEGENERATIVE JOINT DISEASE IN THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM
Monday, December 9, 2013 Ivan Rosada-Mendez (student of Dr. James Zagzebski), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Advanced spectral analysis methods for quantification of coherent ultrasound scattering: applications in the breast
Monday, December 2, 2013 RSNA (Radiological Society of North America) , RSNA (Radiological Society of North America)
Monday, November 25, 2013 Jeremy Bredfeldt (Student of Dr. Rockwell T. Mackie and Kevin Eliceiri), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Collagen Alignment Imaging and Analysis for Breast Cancer Classification
Monday, November 18, 2013 Jeremy Gordon (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Improved Acquisition Efficiency for Hyperpolarized 13C MRI
Monday, November 11, 2013 Michael L. Oelze, PhD.(guest of Dr. Tim Hall), Associate Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Beckman Institute, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL Emerging Quantitative Ultrasound Applications for Medical Diagnostics: From Assessing Liver Disease to Diagnosing Cancer to Monitoring of Therapy
Monday, November 4, 2013 Chi Ma (student of Dr. Tomy Varghese), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Echocardiographic Strain Imaging Using a Lagrangian Description
Monday, October 28, 2013 Yinghua Tao (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Radiation dose reduction techniques in cardiac computed tomography: analysis of myocardial perfusion and coronary angiographic data
Monday, October 21, 2013 Matthew Bayer (student of Dr. Tim Hall), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Ultrasonic Motion Tracking for Large Deformations
Monday, October 14, 2013 A. Pasha Hosseinbor (student of Dr. Andrew Alexander), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Diffusion MR Modeling: Theory and Applications
Monday, October 7, 2013 Ansel Hillmer (student of Dr. Bradley Christian), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Imaging the α4β2 Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor System with PET
Monday, October 7, 2013 SPECIAL SEMINAR: Beatrice Berthon (guest of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Graduate Student, Cardiff University, Wales, UK Development and Validation of an Optimized Automatic PET Segmentation Tool for H&N Radiotherapy Treatment Planning
Monday, September 30, 2013 Jessica Snow (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA Microchambers
Monday, September 23, 2013 Elizabeth Zakszewski (student of Dr. Andrew Alexander), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Diffusion Tensor Imaging In the Rhesus Macaque Brain
Monday, September 16, 2013 Ke Li (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Performance studies of x-ray differential phase contrast tomographic imaging systems in medical diagnosis using modern signal detection theories
Monday, September 9, 2013 Stephen T. Brunner (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Prior image constrained image reconstruction in emerging computed tomography applications
Monday, May 20, 2013 Ngoneh Jallow (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Comprehensive Characterization of [18F]NaF PET Imaging Uncertainties in a Multicenter Trial
Monday, May 13, 2013 Yin Zhang (student of Dr. Weibo Cai), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Molecular Imaging of Tumor Angiogenesis
Friday, May 10, 2013 Last day of class, Last day of class
Wednesday, May 8, 2013 Dr. Bruce J. Tromberg (guest of Dr. Paul J. Campagnola), Laser Microbeam & Medical Program, Beckman Laser Institute & Medical Clinic, University of California, Irvine, CA 92614 - USA- CAMERON LECTURE: Medical Imaging in Thick Tissues Using Diffuse Optics
Monday, May 6, 2013 Jialu Yu (student of Dr. Wolfgang Tome), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Is Dose Accumulation Required? Implication on Dose Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy
Monday, April 29, 2013 Andy Ellis (student of Dr. Wolfgang Tome), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Effects of Respiratory Motion on Tumor Subvolume Imaging and Treatment
Monday, April 22, 2013 Malcolm McEwen (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Revisiting an old idea - application of the Fricke dosimeter in primary standards
Monday, April 15, 2013 Suhong Yu (student of Dr. Ronald Wakai), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Detection of Fetal Cardiac Repolarization Abnormalities using Magnetocardiography
Monday, April 8, 2013 Qing Liang (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Patient-specific CT Dose Determination from CT images
Monday, April 1, 2013 J. Gabe Heredia (student of Dr. M. Elizabeth Meyerand), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Support Vector Machine Tissue Classification of Multiparametric MRI Tumor Data
Monday, March 25, 2013 Spring Break, Spring Break
Friday, March 22, 2013 Liyong Lin, Ph.D. , Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Radiation Oncology, 3400 Civic Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104 SPECIAL SEMINAR: Experimental characterization of two-dimensional pencil beam scanning proton spot profiles
Monday, March 18, 2013 Athena Heredia (student of Dr. Bruce Thomadsen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Directional High Dose Rate Brachytherapy Source
Monday, March 11, 2013 Jason P. Holland, D.Phil (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Radiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114 USA Imaging oncogenic pathway signaling with metal-based radiotracers
Wednesday, March 6, 2013 Benjamin Titz (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - *POSTPONED* Development of a molecular imaging-based tumor simulation framework
Monday, March 4, 2013 Dustin Wooten (student of Dr. Brad Christian), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – The Development of PET Techniques to Study the 5HT1A System
Monday, February 25, 2013 Deb Horng (student of Dr. Scott Reeder), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Signal Modeling for MRI-based Fat and Iron Quantification
Monday, February 18, 2013 Timothy Szczykutowicz, PhD (student of Dr. Charles Mistretta), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – Intensity Modulated CT?
Monday, February 11, 2013 Ryan Flynn, Ph.D., Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA Opportunities in Proton Therapy and Brachytherapy
Monday, February 4, 2013 Frank Ranallo, Ph.D., DABR, Associate Professor of Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA The Role of Physics in CT Protocol Optimization over the Range of CT Scanner Types: Recommendations and Misconceptions
Monday, January 28, 2013 David W.O. Rogers (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Professor, Medical Physics, Physics Department - Carleton University, Ottawa, ON, Canada How to accurately represent and measure a radiotherapy beam's spectrum
2012
Monday, December 10, 2012 Terry Oakes, PhD, (guest of Dr. Brad Christian), Chief, Traumatic Brain Injury Image Analysis, NICoE/Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, MD Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury Neuroimaging is the answer. And it isn't
Monday, December 3, 2012 Stephanie Junell (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Small and Nonstandard Photon Field Dosimetry
Monday, November 26, 2012 Seminar cancelled due to RSNA Meeting, Seminar cancelled due to RSNA Meeting
Monday, November 19, 2012 Dr. Thomas R. Mackie, Emeritus Professor, Departments of Medical Physics and Human Oncology, Dr. Soren Bentzen, Professor, Department of Human Oncology Do we need randomized controlled trials in radiation oncology?
Monday, November 12, 2012 Andrew Wentland (student of Drs. Oliver Wieben and Thomas Grist), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Flow in Radially Acquired Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Methods and Applications in Atherosclerotic Disease
Monday, November 5, 2012 Jeff Wilkinson (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Medtronic Technical Fellow, Sr. Principal R&D Engineer, Medtronic, Mounds View, MN USA An Insider s Look at Medical Electronics
Monday, October 29, 2012 Ji Tang (invited by Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Radiation Dose Reduction via iterative reconstruction methods: current status and future directions
Monday, October 22, 2012 Sean Fain, PhD., Associate Professor of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Fast MRI for Non-Invasive Assessment of Lung Structure and Function
Monday, October 15, 2012 Elizabeth Nett (student of Dr. Oliver Wieben), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Functional Imaging in Congenital Heart Disease with 4D Phase Contrast MRI
Monday, October 8, 2012 Huimin Wu (student of Dr. Walter Block), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Non-contrast-enhanced intracranial MR angiography with Pseudo Continuous Arterial Spin Labeling (PCASL) and Accelerated 3D Radial Acquisition (VIPR)
Monday, October 1, 2012 No Seminar, No Seminar
Monday, September 24, 2012 Eric Bultman (student of Drs. Walter Block and Scott Reeder), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Hepatic Perfusion Modeling Using Time-Resolved 3D Radial DCE-MRI: Quantitative and Semi-Quantitative Approaches
Monday, September 17, 2012 Bradley P. McCabe (student of Dr. Michael Van Lysel), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Dosimetric Comparisons Between The Scanning Beam Digital X-ray (SBDX) System and a Conventional Flat-Panel Cardiac Fluoroscopic Imaging System
Monday, September 10, 2012 Laura Bartol (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Spectroscopic characterization of Megavoltage-Photon Spectra
Monday, August 27, 2012 Lauren Keith (student of Drs. Charles Mistretta and Frank Korosec), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Experimental Design to Study the Spatial and Temporal Fidelity of HYPR Reconstruction and A Behind Scenes Look at the Imaging Facility at Fort Detrick Army Base, MD
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 Ralph Hurd, Ph.D., (guest of Dr. Sean Fain), Chief Scientist, GE Healthcare, Menlo Park, California USA Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Metabolic Imaging
Monday, July 23, 2012 Thomas E. Yankeelov, Ph.D., (guest of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Director of Cancer Imaging Research, Director of the VICC Animal and Human Imaging Shared Resource, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN USA Integrating Imaging Data into Mathematical Models of Tumor Growth
Friday, July 20, 2012 Frank Ranallo, Ph.D., DABR, Associate Professor(CHS), Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Radiation Safety in Medical Imaging
Friday, July 13, 2012 Dr. Michael A. Speidel , Assistant Scientist, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA SPECIAL SEMINAR - Inverse Geometry X-ray Fluoroscopy: New SBDX Technology for Cardiac Interventional Procedures
Thursday, June 21, 2012 Dustin Jacqmin (student of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Macro-Step Monte Carlo Methods and Their Applications in Proton Radiotherapy and Optical Photon Transport
Friday, May 18, 2012 Heming Zhen (student of Dr. Wolfgang Tome), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Improving Patient-Specific Pre-Treatment Quality Assurance
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 Last Class Day, No Seminar - Last Day of Class
Monday, May 7, 2012 Pascal Theriault Lauzier (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Quantitative Assessment of Prior Image Constrained Compressed Sensing in the Context of Cardiac CT Imaging
Sunday, May 6, 2012 Jialu Yu (student of Dr. Wolfgang Tome), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA – An Iso-NTCP Adaptive Dose Guidance Strategy for Prostate Cancer
Monday, April 30, 2012 Regina K. Fulkerson (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Dosimetric Characterization of Surface Applicators used with Miniature Electronic and Iridium-192 Brachytherapy Sources
Monday, April 23, 2012 Nick Bevins (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging: Moving Toward Clinical Implementation
Friday, April 20, 2012 John W. Weidner (student of Provost Paul DeLuca), Xtd-5, LTC, U.S. Army, DTRA Stockpile Associate, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico - USA - Measurement of 225AC and 223Ra Production Cross Sections and Thermal-Hydraulic Modeling of a RbCi/Ga Target Stack
Monday, April 16, 2012 John Floberg (student of Dr. Charles Mistretta), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Novel Denoising Methods for Improving Dynamic Positron Emission Tomography
Monday, April 9, 2012 Craig Levin, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Professor of Radiology, Physics & Electrical Engineering, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford University, Stanford, CA - USA - New Directions for Positron Emission Tomography System Technology
Monday, April 2, 2012 Spring Recess, No seminar - spring recess
Monday, March 26, 2012 Adam Paxton (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Improved Dosimetry for 90Y Microspheres Treatments of Liver Malignancies
Monday, March 19, 2012 Todd Pawlicki, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Associate Professor, Director of Medical Physics & Clinical Operations, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - USA Statistical Process Control Techniques for Radiation Therapy QA
Monday, March 12, 2012 DR. Yasuhisa Fujibayashi, Ph.D., D.Med.Sci (guest of Dr. R. Jerry Nickles), Director, Molecular Imaging Center, National Institute of Radiological Sciences, Chiba, Emeritus Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Fukui, JAPAN PET Imaging & Radionclide Therapy with Cu-ATSM in Relation to Cancer Stem Cells
Monday, March 5, 2012 Timothy J. Carroll, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Oliver Wieben), MR Imaging of Neurovascular Disease, Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Director of MRI Research, Department of Radiology, Northwestern University MR Imaging of Neurovascular Disease
Monday, February 27, 2012 Surendra Prajapati (student of Drs. T. Rockwell Mackie and Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Design of small animal imaging and therapy system including summary of the OSMD conference
Monday, February 20, 2012 Susanta K Hui, PH.D., DABR (guest of Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal), Assosiate Professor, Therapeutic Radiology and Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, MN Total marrow irradiation: an emerging area of interdisciplinary and translational research for hematological malignancies
Monday, February 13, 2012 Evan Sengbusch (student of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI - USA - Treatment Planning, Optimization, and Beam Delivery Techniques for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy
Monday, February 6, 2012 Dr. Tiezhi Zhang (guest of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Clinical Associate Professor, William Beaumount Hospital, Royal Oak Michigan Tetrahedron Beam Computed Tomography for Image Guided Radiotherapy
Monday, January 30, 2012 [CANCELLED]_Dr. Gary A. Ezzell (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Radiation Oncology, Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, AZ [CANCELLED]_AAPM Initiatives: 2012 and Beyond [CANCELLED]
Monday, January 23, 2012 Lei Xing, Ph.D., (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Jacob Haimson Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California 94305 From Radiological Image to Molecular Image Guided Radiation Therapy
2011
Thursday, December 15, 2011 LAST CLASS DAY, LAST CLASS DAY
Monday, December 12, 2011 Bryan Bednarz, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA "Measurements and Calculations of Doses Outside the Treatment Volume External Beam Radiation Therapy"
Monday, December 5, 2011 Matthew Smith (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Novel MRI techniques for diagnosis and surveillance of breast cancer
Monday, November 28, 2011 Seminar cancelled due to RSNA Meeting, Seminar cancelled due to RSNA Meeting
Monday, November 21, 2011 Scott Reeder, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Radiology and Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Quantitative Biomarkers of Diffuse Liver Disease
Monday, November 14, 2011 David S. Followill, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Director, Radiological Physics Center, Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX USA Radiological Physics Center Quality Assurance in Clinical Trails
Monday, November 7, 2011 Ryan DeWall (student of Dr. Tomy Varghese), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Shear Wave Imaging Using Transient Needle Vibration for Monitoring Thermal Ablative Therapies
Tuesday, November 1, 2011 SPECIAL SEMINAR: John D. Hazle, Ph.D., FAAPM, Professor and Chair, Department of Imaging Physics, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Magnetic Resonance Guided Thermal Therapy and Beyond
Monday, October 31, 2011 Ian Rowland, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Imaging the Hungry Caterpillar
Monday, October 24, 2011 Frank Ranallo, Ph.D., DABR, Associate Professor(CHS), Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Radiation Safety in Medical Imaging
Monday, October 17, 2011 Andrew Hahn (guest of Dr. Sean Fain), Graduate Studies in Biophysics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Mathematical models to improve complex-valued fMRI in the presence of motion, confounding physiologic phenomena, and temporal variations in bulk B0 magnetic field inhomogeneity
Monday, October 10, 2011 Kibo Nam (student of Drs. Tim Hall and James Zagzebski), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Quantitative Ultrasound for Breast Tumor Diagnosis
Monday, October 3, 2011 Parham Alaei, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Associate Professor, Department of Therapeutic Radiology-Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN USA Cone beam CT in radiation therapy: Devices, Techniques and Doses
Monday, September 26, 2011 Frank Ranallo, Ph.D., DABR, Associate Professor(CHS), Medical Physics and Radiology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA CT protocols: image quality and dose *Important variations among different CT scanner methods of optimization and catastrophes to avoid
Monday, September 19, 2011 Steven L. Jacques, Ph.D., (guest of Dr. Michael Kissick), Department of Dermatology and Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, USA The optics of pathology: imaging and spectroscopic approaches toward detecting disease and tissue status
Friday, September 16, 2011 Franjo Pernus, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Professor and Head of the Imaging Technologies Lab Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana Review of 3D/2D Registration Methods for Image-Guided Medical Interventions
Monday, September 12, 2011 Zhihua Qi (student of Guang-Hong Chen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA 4D Cone Beam Computed Tomography Using Prior Image Constrained Compressed Sensing: Clinical Implementation & Evaluation
Thursday, June 16, 2011 Brian Hundertmark (student of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Small Field Dosimetry for an Output-Stabilized TomoTherapy Hi-Art Machine
Thursday, June 9, 2011 Steve Hahn, Ph.D. , Assistant Dean, UW Graduate School SPECIAL RADIOLOGY SEMINAR: "Helping PIs Manage Their Research Funds with PI Financials" ....... NOTE SPECIAL TIME and PLACE: 12 PM, Room 1220 Centennial Building
Monday, May 2, 2011 CAMERON SYMPOSIUM: William Hendee, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of Radiology, Radiation Oncology, Biophysics and Bioethics, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI Is Medical Radiation Safe? Can It be Safer?
Monday, April 25, 2011 Jonathan Engle (student of Dr. R.J. Nickles), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Production of electrophilic PET synthons: [F-18]F2 and [CI-34m]CIF from a high voltage discharge
Monday, April 18, 2011 Dongxu Wang (student of Drs. Wolfgang Tome and T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA On Trajectory Uncertainty and the Limited Range Problem for Proton Computed Tomography
Monday, April 11, 2011 Stephen Bowen (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj and Soren Bentzen), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Development of PET imaging-based prescriptions for dose painting in radiotherapy
Monday, April 4, 2011 Marina Emborg, Ph.D., MD, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Visualizing Solutions for Parkinson s Disease
Monday, March 28, 2011 Luc Y. Beaulieu, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Assistant Professor, Department of Physics & Physical Oceanography, Memorial University of Newfoundland & Labrador, CANADA Plastic Scintillation Detectors in Radiation Therapy: Old Concepts and New Applications
Monday, March 21, 2011 James M. Hevezi, Ph.D., FACR/FAAPM (guest of Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal), ACR Board of Chancellors, Chair - Commission on Medical Physics, Director of Medical Physics at CyberKnife Center of Miami, Florida - USA Enhancements to CyberKnife SRS/SBRT
Monday, March 14, 2011 Spring Recess, No Seminar, Spring Recess
Monday, March 7, 2011 Jacqueline Moga (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Spectroscopic characterization of low-energy photon-emitting brachytherapy sources and kilovoltage x-ray beams
Monday, February 28, 2011 Polad M. Shikhaliev, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen), Assistant Professor and Director, Medical Imaging Laboratory, Department of Physics & Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA USA Photon counting Radiography and CT: current status and perspectives
Monday, February 21, 2011 Jeffrey Moirano (student of Dr. James Holden), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA A Simultaneous Dual-Tracer PET Investigation of Dopaminergic Neuromodulation
Monday, February 14, 2011 Yusung Kim, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Wolfgang Tome), Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa City, IOWA MRI-Guided, Adaptive Brachytherapy (BT): Rationales for Intensity-Modulated BT (IMBT)
Monday, February 7, 2011 Patrick Hill (student of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Fan Beam Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 Dave Bates, MSc, Inc. SPECIAL SEMINAR: Preclinical Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Imaging
Monday, January 31, 2011 Rachel DiAnne McKinsey (student of Dr. M. Elizabeth Meyerand), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA A Study of Cerebral Perfusion in Adult Offspring of Patient s with Alzheimer s Dementia using Dynamic Susceptibility Contrast MRI
Monday, January 24, 2011 Kang Wang (student of Dr. Charles Mistretta), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA 3D Time-Resolved Contrast-Enhanced MR Angiography with Cartesian Undersampling, Parallel Imaging and Constrained Reconstruction
2010
Monday, December 20, 2010 Miao Zhang(student of Dr. T. Rockwell Mackie), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Geometric Uncertainty Introduced Dose Variation in Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy
Wednesday, December 15, 2010 Last Class Day!, Last Class Day! Last Class Day!
Monday, December 13, 2010 Jatinder R. Palta, Ph.D., FAAPM (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Professor & Physics Residency, Program Director, University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL USA Confidence-Weighted Treatment Planning and Delivery: A New Paradigm in Radiotherapy
Monday, December 6, 2010 Tina Pike (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Absorbed Dose to Water Characterization of a Low-energy Miniature X-ray Source used in Brachytherapy Applications.
Monday, November 29, 2010 Seminar cancelled due to RSNA Meeting, Seminar cancelled due to RSNA Meeting
Monday, November 22, 2010 Joseph Grudzinski (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA A Whole-Body Pharmacokinetic Model for the Early Assessment of Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Agents
Monday, November 15, 2010 Evan D. Morris, Ph.D., (guest of Dr. Brad Christian), Associate Professor, Diagnostic Radiology, Psychiatry, Biomedical Engineering, Co-Director of Imaging Section, Yale PET Center, Yale University, New Haven, CT USA ntPET: PET Analysis Methods for Tracking Temporal (Phasic) Fluctuations in Neurotransmitter Levels
Monday, November 8, 2010 Dimitri Visvikis, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Universite de Bretagne Occidentale, Brest, France Bringing new PET image derived parameters to clinical practice
Monday, November 8, 2010 Zheng Liu, MD, PHD (guest of Dr. Weibo Cai), Professor of Medicine and Vice Director of Ultrasonography, The Third Military Medical University, P.R. China Angiotripsy: The Technology of Microbubble-Enhanced Ultrasound Cavitation
Monday, November 1, 2010 Matt Vanderhoek (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA A Comprehensive Methodology for PET-Based Treatment Response Assessment
Monday, October 25, 2010 Julie Raffi (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Limitations of current dosimetry for intracavitary accelerated partial breast irradiation with high dose rate 192Ir and electronic brachytherapy sources
Monday, October 18, 2010 Wouter van Elmpt, Ph.D., (guest of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Fellow, Maastricht Radiation Oncology (MAASTRO Clinic), Department of Radiation Oncology, Maastricht University Medical Centre, Netherlands Dose-Escalation by Boosting Radiation Dose within the Primary Tumor on the Basis of Molecular Imaging
Monday, October 11, 2010 Keisha McCall (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Effect of patient set-up and patient motion on PET-based biological targets for image-guided radiotherapy
Monday, October 11, 2010 Jogesh Mukherjee, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Brad Christian), Professor and Director, Preclinical Imaging, Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior, Physiology & Biophysics And Radiological Sciences, University of California-Irvine *SPECIAL 1309 HSLC, 12noon* PET Imaging Agents for Alzheimers Disease
Monday, October 4, 2010 Matt Nyflot (student of Dr. Robert Jeraj), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Treatment Response Assessment through Multimodality Imaging of Tumor Proliferation, Hypoxia, Metabolism, and Perfusion
Monday, September 27, 2010 Eric Peterson (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Simultaneous Proton and Hyperpolarized Carbon-13 Imaging
Monday, September 20, 2010 Nathan Artz (student of Dr. Sean Fain), Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Assessing Kidney Perfusion with Arterial Spin Labeling MRI
Monday, September 13, 2010 Donghui Zhao, Ph.D. (Postdoc of Dr. Michael Kissick), Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI USA Optical Fiber Grating Sensors and Their Applications
Monday, April 26, 2010 Mahadevappa Mahesh, MS, PhD, FAAPM, FACR, Associate Professor of Radiology & Medicine Magnitude of Radiation Exposure to US Population (NCRP report #160) with special focus on CT dose
Monday, April 19, 2010 Joseph Zambelli, Research Assistant Design and Characterization of a Phase Contrast X-Ray CT System
Monday, April 12, 2010 Ted Fisher, Research Assistant 3D Motion Tracking for Ultrasound Strain Imaging
Monday, April 5, 2010 Nana Aba Menash-Brown, Research Assistant A Magneto-Mechanical Assessment of the Human Fetal Heart
Monday, March 22, 2010 Yi Rong, Ph.D., Research Assistant The Application of kV Cone Beam CT Images for Adaptive Radiotherapy
Monday, March 15, 2010 Timothy J. Carroll, Ph.D., Associate Professor Contrast Enhanced MRI
Monday, March 8, 2010 Mark Griswold, Ph.D, Associate Professor Recent Advances in Radial Parallel Imaging and Atlas Based Reconstructions for MRI
Monday, March 1, 2010 Malcolm McEwen, Ph.D, Adjunct Professor of Physics Electron beam dosimetry-present status and future direction
Thursday, February 25, 2010 Ian Rowland, Ph.D., Visiting Assistant Professor Contrast Agents Applied to MR Spectroscopy
Monday, February 22, 2010 Edward T. Bender, Research Assistant Moving towards non-uniform dose prescription in whole brain radiotherapy
Monday, February 15, 2010 Reed Selwyn, Ph.D., LT, MSC, USN, Associate Professor, Radiology and Radiological Services Imaging to Improve Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnosis and Treatment
Monday, February 8, 2010 Dan Negrut, Ph.D, Associate Professor Scalable Parallel Simulation of Granular Dynamics on the GPU
Friday, January 1, 2010 Wai-Hoi (Gary) Wong, Ph.D., Professor and Director, PET Instrumentation Development Next Generation PET Camera - Ultrahigh Resolution and Sensitivity Made Affordable