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REMINDERS: 2003 Annual Meeting Home
  • No Icebreaker - Plan to join your colleagues during the 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM beer and refreshment break in the exhibit hall.
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Thursday, August 14, 2003 Session Information
Scientific Session
Particle Therapy
Thursday 10:00:00 AM - 12:00:00 PM  Room: Ballroom 20A

Chair 1: John Antolak, UT M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Chair 2: Michael F. Moyers, Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, CA, US

10:00 AM
TH-C20A-1
Modeling of C(E) for Pencil-Beam Redefinition Algorithm to Predict Percent Depth Dose - M. Price*, K. Hogstrom, R. Boyd
10:10 AM
TH-C20A-2
A Fluence-Based Algorithm for MU Calculation of Megavoltage Electron Beams - T. Zhu*, B. Bjarngard, I. Das
10:20 AM
TH-C20A-3
Use of Magnetically Collimated Electrons and Metal Foil Modulators For Electron Fluence and Range Modulation - L. Ma*, N. Phaisangittisakul, W. D'Souza
10:30 AM
TH-C20A-4
Aperture Based Inverse Planning for Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy of Breast Cancer: A Feasibility Study - J. Deng*, R. Nath
10:40 AM
TH-C20A-5
Strip-Beam Electron Pencil-Beam Redefinition Dose Calculations for Modulated Electron Therapy - R. Boyd*, J. Antolak, K. Hogstrom
10:50 AM
TH-C20A-6
Modulated Electron Radiation Therapy Using a Conventional Multi-Leaf Collimator: A Feasibility Study - M. Ding*, J. Li , R. Price, K. Paskalev, S. McNeeley, L. Qin, W. Xiong, C. Ma
11:00 AM
TH-C20A-7
Inverse Planning with RBE: A New Concept for the Optimization of Proton Therapy - J. Wilkens*, U. Oelfke
11:10 AM
TH-C20A-8
Effect of Initial Energy Spread of Proton Beams On Energy Modulation and Dose Distribution - B. Shahine*
11:20 AM
TH-C20A-9
Considering the Constraints of Delivery Method in Treatment Planning for Proton Pencil Beam Scanning - A. Trofimov*, T. Bortfeld, W. Jennekens
11:30 AM
TH-C20A-10
Reducing Sensitivity of Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Plans to Uncertainties in the Distal Dose Fall-Off - J. Wolfgang*, T. Bortfeld
11:40 AM
TH-C20A-11
Laser-Accelerated Carbon Ion Beams for Radiation Therapy - C. Ma, E. Fourkal*
11:50 AM
TH-C20A-12
Preliminary Investigation of Intensity Modulated Neutron Radiotherapy (WIP) - J. Burmeister*, J. Farr, L. Santanam, M. Yudelev, R. Maughan


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