Scott C Lester, MD

X-ray Minibeam Radiotherapy (MBRT) is an emerging technology recently translated to first-in-human treatments. MBRT uses narrow beamlets generated by specialized collimators to produce spatially fractionated dose distributions with high peak-to-valley dose ra...

To streamline the treatment planning and delivery workflow for VMAT‑based Total Body Irradiation (TBI) and evaluate its impact on utilization of clinical resources.

This project aimed to characterize a shielding technique for total skin electron therapy (TSET) patients with implanted cardiac devices (ICDs). Goals of the work included quantifying shielding effectiveness by quantifying and minimizing the dose delivered to...

To evaluate the dosimetric performance of an in-house developed fully automated VMAT total body irradiation (TBI) treatment planning platform.

Therapy Physics

Proton dose distributions can be very sensitive to setup and anatomical variations. Specifically, back tissue correspondence in posterior beam spine SBRT and changes in lung density or pleural effusion in lung SBRT are scenarios in which plan adaption would b...