UW- School of Medicine and Public Health

Madison, Wisconsin

  Department of Medical Physics
 

Seminar Schedule, Spring 2008

 

Monday  4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

 

Location: 1335 Health Sciences Learning Center, 750 Highland Avenue


QUICK LINKS: [Medical Physics Home Page]   [ Health Sciences Learning Center -  map]    [John R. Cameron Symposium, 2008]


January 28, 2008, Lee Kiessel (student of Dr. Tim Hall)    

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"Evaluation of a Pressure Sensing Array for use with Ultrasound Strain Imaging"

   

February 04, 2008, Hanns-Joachim Weinmann, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. James Zagzebski)

 

Head of MRI & X-Ray Research, TRG Diagnostic Imaging, Bayer Healthcare, Berlin, Germany

 

"MRI - Molecular Imaging, from Vision to Reality"

   

February 11, 2008, Katie McMillian, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. M. Elizabeth Meyerand)

 

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Radiology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

 

"Monitoring Cognitive Response to Therapy in Metastatic Brain Cancer Patients"

   

February 18, 2008, Glenn P. Glasgow, M.S., Ph.D., F.A.A.P.M., F.A.C.R. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd)

 

Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiation Oncology, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine....

 

"Brachytherapy Facility Shielding"

   

February 25, 2008, Michael Kraus, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd)

 

Director, NM-PROS Research and Advanced Development, Philips Radiation Oncology System, Fitchburg, WI

 

"Treatment Planning for Image-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy"

   

March 3, 2008, Thomas Rockwell Mackie, Ph.D.

 

Professor, Departments of Medical Physics & Human Oncology, UW-School of Medicine & Public Health, Madison, WI

 

"Dielectric Wall Accelerator System for Radiotherapy Applications"

   

March 10, 2008, Sheridan Griffin-Meltsner (student of Dr. Larry DeWerd)    

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"Gamma Knife Dosimetry"

   

March 17, 2008 - Spring Break

   

March 24, 2008, Shuai Leng (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen)

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"Novel Methods to Address Data Truncation Artifacts & Streaking Artifacts in 4D CBCT"

   

March 31, 2008, Maritza Hobson (student of Drs. Ernest L. Madsen and Tomy Varghese)

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"Prospects for Effective Uterine and Cervical Elastography"

   

April 7, 2008, Tingliang Zhuang (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen)

 

Research Assistant, Department of Therapeutic Radiology, University of Minnesota, MN

 

"Cone-beam reconstruction algorithm development & validation for C-arm based CT"

   

April 14, 2008, Sam Bedder, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Larry DeWerd)

 

Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas

 

"Scintillation Dosimetry:  Review, New Innovations & Applications"

   

April 21, 2008, Brian Nett (student of Dr. Guang-Hong Chen)    

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"Image Guided Interventions via Novel Cone-Beam Data Acquisition & Reconstruction Methods"

   

April 28, 2008, Suzanne Witt (student of Dr. M. Elizabeth Meyerand)

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"A Comparison of Computational Methods to Calculate Effective Connectivity from fMRI Time Series Data"

   

May 5, 2008, Timothy Betts (student of Dr. Michael Van Lysel)

 

Research Assistant, Department of Medical Physics, UW-School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI.

 

"Metallic Alloys for Use in Radiographic Phantoms"

   

May 12, 2008, Katja M. Langen, Ph.D. (guest of Dr. Bhudatt Paliwal)

 

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center-Orlando, Orlando, Florida

 

"Radiation Therapy of Moving & Deforming Patients"

 

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