Ongoing Division Learning

Timetable of Events

Talks held within the Medical Physics Division

Please contact Riya Prashad (rprashad@stanford.edu) for more information.

Date	Speaker	Topic/ Paper Title
9/10	Nataliya Kovalchuk	Radiation as an immune modulator: where we are with modern TBI, TMLI
9/24	Ted Graves	New Technologies for Small Animal Radiotherapy: What Is Possible and What Is Needed?
10/15	Lianli Liu	Low Field MRI Denoise via Foundation Model Adaptation
10/29	Manik Aima	Uncertainty in Radiotherapy
11/12	Cynthia Chuang	Experience on Eclipse V18 Enhanced Leaf Model (ELM) MLC commissioning
11/26	Thomas Niedermayr	Updates in Brachytherapy
12/10	Lawrie Skinner	Advanced immobilization and video feedback: Maskless Head-Neck, Diagnostic overlays and upright-pediatric Radiotherapy.
1/7	Murat Surucu	Updates in the Biology-guided Radiotherapy
1/28	Guillem Pratx	FLASH Radiotherapy
2/11	Piotr Dubrowski	Benchmarking of Upright CT Imaging in MEVION S250-FIT
2/25	Amy Yu	Enhancing Educational Excellence: Strategies for Effective Teaching and Mentoring of Residents
3/11	Yong Yang	Review of Upright Proton Therapy
3/25	Lei Wang	Treatment planning and quality assurance for the treatment of functional disease on CyberKnife
4/8	Ramish Ashraf	Role of AI Agents in Improving Safety in Radiation Oncology
4/22	Zhuoran Jiang	AI Applications in Brachy Therapy
5/6	Veng Jean Heng	Tackling re-irradiation with Eclipse scripting
5/20	Bin Han	Updates on Special Procedures
6/3	Xianjin Dai	Imaging for upright radiation therapy
6/10	Yu Gao	REGULUS: Phase II trial of REal time MRI GUided adaptive stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for Liver cancers Using a Single session, simulation free workflow
6/17	Xuejun Gu	AI for image tracking
6/24	Peng Dong	Treatment Planning
7/1	Megan Clark	Initial experience with Cherenkov imaging for incident detection and/or in vivo dosimetry
7/8	Jeffrey Zabel	Scinitilator daily QA device & hypoxia guided adaptive radiotherapy on the Reflexion
7/15	Serdar Charyyev	Six Months with Upright Proton Therapy: Early Lessons from Stanford
8/19	Gregory Szalkowski	Technology and Techniques for Stereotactic Radiosurgery
8/26	Ruijiang Li	Multi-modal foundation model for precision oncology

Date	Speaker	Topic/ Paper Title
9/10	Xuejun Gu	Autosegmentation with AI, where we are?
9/24	Ted Graves	Immune Consequences of Radiation: Hidden Treasure or Fool’s Gold
10/15	Lianli Liu	Accelerate medical imaging for imaging-guided radiotherapy via AI models
10/29	Manik Aima	Novel medical physics applications
11/12	Cynthia Chuang	AAPM TG 302: Surface-guided radiotherapy
11/26	Thomas Niedermayr	Advances in Gyn Brachytherapy
12/10	Lawrie Skinner	AVATAR system update and catalyst process insights. Total skin devices update.
1/7	Murat Surucu	Cancelled
1/28	Guillem Pratx	Novel iterative reconstruction strategies for dynamic PET imaging of sparse structures
2/11	Piotr Dubrowski	Cancelled
2/25	Amy Yu	A Holistic Review for Medical Physics Residency Applicant Selection
3/11	Yong Yang	Spatially Fractionated Radiotherapy
3/25	Lei Wang	Quality Assurance on SRS/SBRT: An update on MPPG9b and TG135B
4/8	Ramish Ashraf	Multi-institutional Verification of a Novel Predictor for Successful Biology-guided Radiotherapy Delivery for Small Targets
4/22	Lewei Zhao	How far is proton arc therapy from the clinical practice?
5/6	Bin Han	Updates to the RefleXion QA based on the TG 306
5/20	Xianjin Dai	Review of In Vivo Proton Range Verification Methods
6/3	Zi Yang	Developments of a Sim-Free MRI-Only RT Workflow and a Lying-on-Gurney Position TSEI Technique
6/10	Yu Gao	MRI Safety
6/17	Nataliya Kovalchuk	Cancelled
6/24	Peng Dong	Optimization approaches to volumetric modulated arc therapy planning
7/1	Serdar Charyyev	Commissioning of Monte Carlo Dose Calculation in Proton Therapy
7/8	Veng Jean Heng	Compact representation of external beam photon phase space data via implicit neural representation learning
7/15	Zhuoran Jiang	Foundation Model-empowered Unsupervised 3D Deformable Medical Image Registration
8/19	Gregory Szalkowski	Cyberknife: Automation in planning and quality assurance
8/26	Ruijiang Li	Multi-modal foundation model for precision oncology

Date	Speaker	Topic/ Paper Title
9/5/23	Adam Wang	Photon Counting CT: Why It’s the “Hottest Clinical Procedure” in Radiology
9/12/23	Xuejun Gu	Computational Tools for Radiotherapy
9/26/23	Ted Graves	Preclinical Radiotherapy at Stanford: Bridging the Gap Between Physics, Biology, and Therapy
10/17/23	Lianli Liu	AI for Medical Image Analysis
10/31/23	Manik Aima	Detectors and traceability for clinical radiotherapeutic applications
11/21/23	Cynthia Chuang	Small Field Dosimetry for SRS Commissioning and Investigation of New Device for SRS Dosimetric Quality Assurance
11/28/23	Thomas Niedermayr	GYN and Prostate HDR Review and new technology
12/12/23	Lawrie Skinner	AI related research talks on Radiotherapy
1/16/24	Murat Surucu	Image Guidance and Motion Management 1: PET based
2/6/24	Laszlo Zalavari	Everything, Everywhere, All at Once \| A snapshot of residency projects
2/27/24	Piotr Dubrowski	Image Guidance and Motion Management 1: CT based
3/5/24	Amy Yu	The Current Status of Non-Lead Shielding Devices in our Clinic
3/19/24	Yong Yang	Prostate LDR
4/9/24	Lei Wang	An update on Quality Mangement of Brain and Spine SRS Treatment on CyberKnife
4/30/24	Ignacio Romero	Review and update of TMLI
5/14/24	Bin Han	Review of TSE
5/21/24	Ramish Ashraf	Progress of FLASH-RT at Stanford: Advancing Towards a Clinical Trial
5/28/24	Xianjin Dai	Advances in Large Language Models and Their Application in Radiation Therapy
6/11/24	Yu Gao	Image Guidance and Motion Management 1: MRI based
6/25/24	Lewei Zhao	An Overview of Some Mathematical Applications in Medical Physics
7/9/24	Serdar Charyyev	Protons: Review and Emerging Technology
7/16/24	Gregory Szalkowski	SRS/SBRT: CK, GK, and Linac-Based
8/6/24	Dimitre Hristov	Biologically-guided multi-criteria optimization and exploration to generate clinical plans for functionality-sparing radiation therapy trials
8/13/24	Ruijiang Li	Interpretable AI for digital pathology and precision oncology
8/20/24	Zi Yang	Enhancing Radiation Therapy with Deep Learning: Clinical and Pre-Clinical Applications
8/27/24	Nataliya Kovalchuk	Advanced Horizons: The Evolution of Auto-Planning in Radiation Oncology

Date	Speaker	Topic/ Paper Title
9/6/22	Xuejun Gu	Automation and Artificial Intelligence for Brain Metastases Stereotactic Radiosurgery
9/20/22	Ted Graves	Status of Preclinical Radiotherapy at Stanford and Beyond
10/18/22	Gregory Szalkowski	Cross modality auto-planning for head and neck radiotherapy and prediction of distant brain metastases based on longitudinal radiomics analysis
11/1/22	Serdar Charyyev	Spatial fractionation in radiotherapy: divide and conquer? & Measurements of proton spot scanning beam characteristics: experience with pixelated semiconductor detectors
11/15/22	Ramish Ashraf	Technical Aspects of FLASH-RT
1/10/23	Peng Dong	GammaTile Implant for Permanent Intracavitary Cs131 Brachytherapy
2/7/23	Ignacio Romero	Review and updates of VMAT-CSI
2/21/23	Wu Liu	Cone beam CT-guided, electromagnetic bronchoscopy-aided delivery of high dose rate brachytherapy for peripheral lung mass ablation
3/21/23	Lianli Liu	Learning from small datasets: neural representation learning inmodeling imaging and beam data for medical physics applications
4/4/23	Cynthia Chuang	Small Field dosimetry for SRS commissioning and Investigation of new device for SRS Dosimetric Quality Assurance
4/18/23	Dimitre Hristov	Stanford MR-Linac Program: Highlights from commissioning and clinical deployment with emphasis on gaps and opportunities for research and development
5/2/23	Guillem Pratx	Pushing in vivo cell tracking to the next level by improving cell labeling, multiplexing, and sensitivity
5/16/23	Yu Gao	MRgRT Clinical trials and studies on inter- and intra- fractional variations and benefits of adaptive radiotherapy
5/30/23	Laszlo Zalavari	One bin to rule them all… (photon counting detector/food contaimination detection)
6/6/23	Ruijiang Li	Artificial intelligence, imaging and pathology for personalized cancer treatment
6/13/23	Bin Han	PET Based Biology Guide Radiation Therapy
6/20/23	Murat Surucu	Validating Biology-guided Radiotherapy
7/11/23	Xianjin Dai	Reinforcement Learning in Radiation Therapy
7/18/23	Lei Wang	X-Ray Based Target Tracking in Radiation Therapy
8/8/23	Yong Yang	Technology Progress in Linac-Based SRS
8/15/23	Amy Yu	Get the lead out
8/22/23	Nataliya Kovalchuk	AI and Automation in Radiation Oncology
8/29/23	Thomas Niedermayr	Novel solutions in GYN HDR brachytherapy

Date	Speaker	Topic/ Paper Title
2/15/22	Sunan Cui	Development and validation of CT prognostic signatures for personalizing H&N radiotherapy
3/1/22	Lei Xing	Artificial Intelligence for Medical Physics
3/8/22	Wu Liu	Recent Research Updates
4/5/22	Cynthia Chang	Small field dosimetry
4/12/22	Hieu Nguyen	Simultaneously tracking multiple single cells using a dual-layer BGO/LSO PET scanner
4/26/22	Dimitre Hristov	Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Ultrasound Modeling of an Analog to Pseudo-Diffusivity in Intravoxel Incoherent Motion Magnetic Resonance Imaging
5/3/22	Murat Surucu	Biology-guided Radiotherapy: Initial Considerations for BgRT Commissioning
5/10/22	Lei Wang	An Update on CyberKnife Technology and TG135 U1
5/17/22	Bin Han	One Year Quality Assurance Experience of the first RefleXion System
5/24/22	Amy Yu	An Integrated QA Phantom for Frameless Single-isocenter Multitarget SRS
5/31/22	Guillem Pratx	FLASH, metastasis and BGRT: Recent updates from the Pratx Lab
6/7/22	Peng Dong	Data driven dose calculation algorithm
6/28/22	Thomas Niedermayr	Moving the needle: 3D (printed) guidance for interstitial needles in GYN brachy
7/5/22	Nataliya Kovalchuk	A Step Toward Making VMAT TBI More Prevalent: Automating the Treatment Planning Process
8/2/22	Ruijiang Li	Artificial intelligence and imaging for personalized cancer treatment
8/16/22	Ramish Ashraf	Development and Characterization of a Quality Assurance (QA) Phantom for CyberKnife
8/23/22	Yong Yang	Deep learning-based dose prediction and plan verification for external beam and HDR treatments
8/30/22	Jie Fu	Deep learning for dose prediction, image enhancement, and histological image analysis

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