Program Information

	Advances in Brachytherapy	Wednesday - 8/2/2017
	Therapy Scientific Session	7:30 AM - 9:30 AM	Room: 605

Moderator 1: Sastry Vedam, UT MD Anderson Cancer Center
Moderator 2: Robert Cormack, Brigham and Women's Hospital

7:30 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-1 : 3D Printing of Surface Applicators for HDR Brachytherapy S. Clarke*, J. Robar, M. Yewondwossen

7:40 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-2 : An Interactive Intra-Operative Inverse Treatment Planning System for Image Guided Interstitial Brachytherapy C. Guthier*, A. Visvanathan, R. Cormack

7:50 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-3 : An Operator-Free Inverse Planning Algorithm Using a Self-Adjusting Weighting Method for High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy S. Cui*, P. Després, L. Beaulieu

8:00 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-4 : Applications of Egs_brachy for Patient-Specific Model-Based Dose Calculations for Brachytherapy S. Deering*, M. Hilts, R. Taylor, R. Thomson

8:10 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-5 : Automated HDR Brachytherapy Treatment Planning and Quality Assurance System for Tandem-And-Ovoid Applicator P. Klages*, C. Shen, J. Tan, K. Albuquerque, X. Jia

8:20 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-6 : Design and Fabrication of 3D Printer Based Patient-Specific Intensity Modulated Brachytherapy (IMBT) Tandem for Cervical Cancer J. Jung*, H. Zhang, S. Olberg, B. Lu, J. Jung, J. Kim, H. Li, S. Mutic, J. Park

8:30 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-7 : Dosimetric Characteristics of the CivaDot™ Unidirectional Pd-103 Brachytherapy Source H. Zhen*, G. Redler, Y. Liao, A. Templeton, J. Turian

8:40 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-8 : Multi-Catheter Rotating Shield Brachytherapy Control System K. Patwardhan*, H. Dadkhah, M. Cho, W. Xu, Y. Kim, X. Wu, R. Flynn

8:50 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-9 : Multicriteria Optimization for Brachytherapy Treatment Planning V. Wu*, M. Epelman, M. Sir, K. Pasupathy, M. Herman, C. Deufel

9:00 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-10 : New Designed Radiotherapy Biomaterials with Reservoir and Coated Spacers for Radiotherapy Applications F. Boateng*, W. Ngwa, M. Moreau

9:10 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-11 : Novel Custom Nasopharynx Applicator with Variable-Density Shielding to Reduce Normal Structure Dose and Allow Target Dose Escalation: Design, Fabrication, and Dosimetry J. Cunha*, S. McKinley, Y. Ma, J. Phillips, L. Beaulieu, K. Goldberg, I. Hsu

9:20 AM Wednesday

WE-AB-605-12 : A Fast Inverse Treatment Planning Strategy Optimizing Dosimetric Measures for Low-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy Including Catheter Optimization C. Guthier*, D. Cail, P. Orio, J. Hesser, R. Cormack