Garrett M. Pitcher, PhD

Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is the standard for proactive risk management in radiation therapy under AAPM TG-100 guidelines, yet traditional implementation can exceed 100 hours per process and shows significant inter-rater variability. This work...

Therapeutic electron beams are normally characterized by a percent dose versus depth (PDD) curve. Beam tuning based on PDD features can produce large variations in the resulting energy spectra, potentially leading to premature maintenance requirements. A stud...