2025
12:00 PM - 01:00 PM
Tuesday Tue
Location
Medical Physics Seminar - Atchar Sudhyadhom
MR guided RT Meets Biological/Functional Adaptation: A SMART-er Approach
Time:
12:00pm – 1:00pm Seminar & Discussion
Location:
Zoom Webinar
Webinar Registration:
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Speaker
Dr. Atchar Sudhyadhom, Ph.D., Department of Radiation Oncology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School
Atchar Sudhyadhom is an Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology at Brigham & Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Harvard Medical School where he is the lead of the MR guided Radiation Therapy (MRgRT) MRI Advanced Procedures and Simulation (MAPS) program. He completed his PhD at the University of Florida where he focused on developing novel MR techniques and associated analysis for image guidance. His lab (Atchar Lab) focuses on MRgRT and biological and functional imaging and trains students from Harvard, MIT, and U Mass Lowell.
Abstract
MR guided Radiation Therapy (MRgRT) is a growing subfield in RT that makes use of the rich MR information. In recent years, technology in the form of MR simulators and MR-linacs has enabled Stereotactic MR Adaptive RT (SMART). To date, clinical SMART adaptation has mainly been for anatomic changes in the size/location of targets and/or organs at risk but growing developments in MR imaging may enable a paradigm shift towards biological and functional adaptation, a SMART-er approach. In this talk, the speaker will present on some SMART-er areas including MR visible radiosensitizing nanoparticles and oxygen-enhanced hypoxia MR imaging.