Understanding of medical physics is essential for safe and effective radiation oncology practice. This study evaluates current instructional practices for physics education in radiation oncology physician residency programs following the release of the AAPM/A...
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Dongxu Wang, PhD, MBA
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Current AAPM guidelines (TG-104 and MPPG 2.b) primarily address kV or standard MV portal beams for imaging and are not well suited for low-dose-rate 2.5 MV imaging beams, particularly in establishing dose and image quality baselines. This study developed and...
This work commissioned a manual beam gating procedure for breast DIBH treatment on Ethos and Halcyon (O-ring) platforms, which included dosimetric consistency evaluation with an End-to-End (E2E) test and quantifying the response time of manual beam-hold using...
To assess how low-pitch spiral 4DCT impacts image quality, particularly noise, artifacts, and slice sensitivity profile (SSP), to help overcome the limitations of this technique.