Diane M. Schott, PhD

Ultrasound-guided high-dose-rate (HDR) interstitial prostate brachytherapy is a technically demanding procedure requiring proficiency in imaging, catheter reconstruction, contouring, treatment planning, and quality assurance under time-constrained conditions....

To apply a proton procedure of optimizing spot weight and Ridge Filter (RF) to single-energy carbon pencil beam and evaluate it in a water phantom with a square-shape target in the center (prescription dose 50 Gy).

To develop an optimization procedure of spot weight and ridge filter (RF) dimension for single-energy proton pencil beam and apply it to a water phantom with a square-shape target in the center (prescription dose 50 Gy).

Alopecia from rotational total skin electron therapy (TSET) poses severe psychological challenges for patients with special social needs. Depending on the location of the disease, some patients may be candidates for scalp-sparing TSET. We herein present the c...