Publications
    Conférences en 2012

    Conférences en 2012

       

       

    1. On the Importance of Heterogeneous Calculation in Brachytherapy: A Radiobiological Point of View.  Hossein Afsharpour, Frank Verhaegen and Luc Beaulieu. Oral presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    2. Validation of the AAPM/ESTRO TG-192 Protocol for Robotic Implantation of Brachytherapy Seeds: Spatial Positioning Assessment.  Tarun Podder, Luc Beaulieu, Barrett Caldwell, Robert Cormack, Jostin Crass, Adam Dicker, Aaron Fenster, Gabor Fichtinger, Michael Meltsner, M Moerland, Ravinder Nath, Mark Rivard, Tim Salcudean, Danny Song, Bruce Thomadsen and Dr. Yan Yu.  Oral presentation, at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    3. Real-Time Radiation Field Tracking Using Long Scintillating Fibers.  Mathieu Goulet, Luc Gingras, Nicolas Depauw, Louis Archambault, Joao Seco and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    4. Groundbreaking 2D and 3D Dosimetry Techniques Using Scintillating Fibers and Tomographic Reconstruction.  Mathieu Goulet, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu and Luc Gingras.  Oral presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    5. A Novel Multi-Point Plastic Scintillation Detector for in Vivo Dosimetry and Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy.  François Therriault-Proulx, Luc Beaulieu, Louis Archambault and Sam Beddar.  Oral presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina. Selected as BEST IN PHYSICS (THERAPY).

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    6. On the Importance of Fluorescence Within the Stem Effect of Scintillation Detectors.  François Therriault-Proulx, Luc Beaulieu, Louis Archambault and Sam Beddar.  Oral presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    7. Characterization of a Commercial Photodiode Based Plastic Scintillation Detector Prototype.  L Wootton, David Klein, C Bonde, E Adams, D Schmidt, Luc Beaulieu and Sam Beddar.  Oral presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    8. Reducing Pacemaker Doses with a Lead Sheet: A Multi-Detector Study.  Alexandra Bourgouin, Nicolas Varfalvy, Luc Beaulieu and Louis Archambault.  Poster presentation at the 54th AAPM Annual meeting, July 29th – August 2 2012, Charlotte, North Carolina.

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    9. A new optically encoded single-fiber plastic scintillation detector for multi-point radiation dosimetry.  François Therriault-Proulx, Sam Beddar, Louis Archambault and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the Young Investigator Competition, COMP Annual Meeting, July 11-14, Halifax, Canada.

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    10. Adaptation of the CVT algorithm for catheter optimization in high dose rate brachytherapy.  Éric Poulin, Charles-Antoine Collins-Fekete, Janelle Morrier, Nicolas Varfalvy, Jean Pouliot and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation, COMP Annual Meeting, July 11-14, Halifax, Canada.

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    11. Tomographic dosimetry using scintillating fibers and its application to 2D and 3D dosimetry.  Mathieu Goulet, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu and Luc Gingras. Oral presentation at the Young Investigator Competition, COMP Annual Meeting, July 11-14, Halifax, Canada.

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    12. Plastic scintillation detector validation for kV dosimetry.  François Lessard, Louis Archambault, Mathieu Plamondon, Philippe Després, François Therriault-Proulx, Sam Beddar and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation, COMP Annual Meeting, July 11-14, Halifax, Canada.

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    13. Comparison between plastic scintillation detectors and different commercial stereotactic dosimeters on a CyberKnife unit.  Jonathan Morin, Dominic Béliveau-Nadeau, Euna Chung, Dany Theriault, Jan Seuntjens, Louis Archambault, Sam Beddar and Luc Beaulieu.  Poster presentation, COMP Annual Meeting, July 11-14, Halifax, Canada.

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    14. Development and application of a novel multi-point plastic scintillation detector for radiation therapy.  François Therriault-Proulx, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu and Sam Beddar.  Oral presentation at the 31st ESTRO annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-13. 2012.

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    15. Low energy photon dosimetry using plastic scintillation detectors  François Lessard, François Therriault-Proulx, Philippe Després, Louis Archambault, Sam Beddar and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the 31st ESTRO annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-13. 2012.

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    16. A sub-millimeter plastic scintillation detector for small field measurements delivered by a CyberKnife unit  Jonathan Morin, Dominic Béliveau-Nadeau, Euna Chung, Dany Thériault, Jan Seuntjens, Louis Archambault, Sam Beddar and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the 31st ESTRO annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-13. 2012.

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    17. High resolution 2D dosimetry using long scintillating fibers and tomographic reconstruction.  Mathieu Goulet, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu and Lus Gingras.  Oral presentation at the 31st ESTRO annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-13. 2012.

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    18. A revolutionary multi-point plastic scintillation detector for in vivo dosimetry in HDR brachytherapy  François Therriault-Proulx, Louis Archambault, Sam Beddar and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    19. A fast and accurate GPU-based primary+scatter algorithm for LDR-brachytherapy  Alexandre Bourque, Philippe Després and Luc Beaulieu  Oral presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    20. Quantifying the inter-source attenuation in a dual-source HDR/PDR afterloader treatment unit.  Mathieu Plamondon and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    21. Biochemical disease free survival of 3D image-guided brachytherapy boost within a Permanent Seed Implant.  André-Guy Martin, Sylviane Aubin, Nicolas Varfalvy, Jean Pouliot, Éric Vigneault, Philippe Després and Luc Beaulieu.  Oral presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    22. Formalism for hyper-spectral, multi-point, plastic scintillation detectors.  Louis Archambault, François Theriault Proulx, Sam Beddar and Luc Beaulieu.  Poster presentation at the 31st ESTRO annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-13.

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    23. Characterization and validation of a commercial plastic scintillation detector prototype.  Alexandra Bourgouin, Chris Bonde, Erik Adams, Daniel Schmidt, Sam Beddar, Luc Beaulieu and Louis Archambault.  Poster presentation at the 31st ESTRO annual meeting, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-13.

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    24. Fast Monte Carlo HDR dose calculations with bGPUMCD.  Sami Hissoiny, Michel D'Amours, B Ozell, Philippe Després and Luc Beaulieu.  Poster presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    25. Dosimetric impacts of upgrading from Plato to OncentraBrachy in a high volume Prostate HDR brachytherapy center.  Frédéric Lacroix, Janelle Morrier, Marie-Claude Lavallée, Sylviane Aubin, William Foster, André-Guy Martin, Éric Vigneault, Nicolas Varfalvy and Luc Beaulieu.  Poster presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    26. Long term experience of HDR boost for localized prostate using inverse planning with simulated annealing.  Éric Vigneault, Philippe Despré, André-Guy Martin, William Foster, Sylviane Aubin and Luc Beaulieu.  Poster presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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    27. On the effects of dose heterogeneities on the estimation of the alpha/beta ratio for prostate cancer.  Hossein Afsharpour, Frank Verhaegen and Luc Beaulieu  Poster presentation at the World Brachytherapy Congress, Barcelona, Spain, May 9-12 2012.

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