Sherif M. Gadoue

Brachytherapy dose calculations are commonly based on the AAPM TG-43 formalism, which assumes a homogeneous water medium. Although widely used for HDR and LDR brachytherapy, this assumption inadequately represents dose distributions in heterogeneous tissues,...

There are many recent advances in linear energy transfer (LET) optimized proton therapy planning, radiation biology, immune therapy, and molecular imaging with the potential to improve the efficacy of radiation oncology. The aim of this talk is to present fea...