Carleton Medical Physics

We are a dynamic group of professors, researchers, and students working in medical physics at Carleton University and Ottawa Medical Physics Institute (OMPI).

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A big Welcome to our 6 new graduate students starting in the medical physics program today!

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#CarletonMedPhys student Rodi Surensoy is presenting his work on 'Validation of the National Research Council alanine dosimetry system for linac electron beam measurements' at the #COMP 2021 ASM today

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Another #CarletonMedPhys student presentation at #COMP 2021 ASM today. PhD student Liz Fletcher is presenting on 'Microdosimetry of gold nanoparticle enhance radiotherapy using multiscale modelling'

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#CarletonMedPhys student Islam Gamal is presenting his PhD research 'A novel calorimeter design for synchrotron produced x-ray beams' at the #COMP 2021 Virtual ASM today

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Four of our #CarletonMedPhys students are giving talks at the #COMP 2021 Virtual Scientific Meeting this week

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#CarletonMedPhys prof Sangeeta Murugkar will be talking about her work on early cancer detection this Thursday at a Parliamentary Health Research Caucus event highlighting advances in cancer research carried out by Canada's best and brightest cancer researchers and their teams

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#CUMedPhys prof Sangeeta Murugkar will be presenting at Carleton University's fourth annual Life Sciences Day on April 6th

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Join us April 6th for the University’s fourth annual Life Sciences Day, hosted by the Faculty of Science! A full-day free virtual event which will include keynote presentations, panel sessions, a student poster competition, and networking opportunities.
https://t.co/Q7QcOXO69r

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Looking forward to hearing #CUMedPhys prof Dr. Paul Johns on @cbcallinaday's "Element of surprise" segment today.

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Congratulations also to #CarletonMedPhys student Ming Liu on successfully defending her PhD thesis "Patient-specific planning target volume margins for liver stereotactic robotic radiosurgery".

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Congratulations to #CarletonMedPhys student Chris Dydula on successfully defending his PhD thesis "Development of x-ray coherent scatter projection imaging systems". Chris now moves on to a postdoc position in x-ray imaging at Ryerson University.

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Congratulations to #CarletonMedPhys student Keren Mayorok on successfully defending her MSc thesis 'Postmastectomy radiation therapy for patients with tissue expanders'!

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Yesterday #OMPI celebrated the International Day of Medical Physics with a special Science Spoken Succinctly competition. Congratulations to Dr. Glenn Wells for his winning presentation on 'Dynamic Cardiac SPECT Imaging'!

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Great #OMPI kick-off event for the 2020/2021 academic year yesterday! #CarletonMedPhys student Iymad Mansour spoke about applying Haralick image analysis to microdosimetry. Prof Emily Heath gave a talk on robust optimization for mixed-beam radiotherapy.

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Congratulations to #CarletonMedPhys student Spencer Manwell on a successful PhD defense! Spencer's thesis was on 'Patient motion compensation in cardiac PET using radioactive fiducial markers'.

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Congratulations to #CarletonMedPhys student Eric Christiansen on successfully defending his PhD thesis "A framework for the robust delivery of respiratory-motion adaptive arc therapy". Eric is moving on to a medical physics residency position at the Durham Regional Cancer Centre.

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Prof Rowan Thomson and past #CarletonMedPhys PhD student Patricia Oliver are also the winners of the #COMP Sylvia Fedoruk prize for best Canadian Medical Physics paper.

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Congratulations to Prof Rowan Thomson on becoming a fellow of the AAPM.
Also Prof Thomson and her PhD student Patricia Oliver won the Moses & Sylvia Greenfield award for best paper in Medical Physics in 2019!

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More #CarletonMedPhys presentations today at #AAPMCOMP2020. PhD student Alexandra Bourgouin is talking about calorimeter design for dosimetry of FLASH electron beams.