MCMA 2022: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MONTE CARLO TECHNIQUES FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS 2022
PROGRAM FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 12TH
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09:00-10:50 Session 9: Proton and ion beam radiotherapy
09:00
Monte Carlo applications for light ion beam therapy (Invited)
09:20
Relative biological effectiveness in the spatial fractionation of hadron therapy beams.
09:30
Localization of anatomical changes in patients during proton therapy with in-beam PET monitoring: a Voxel-Based Morphometry approach exploiting Monte Carlo simulations
09:40
moqui: MOnte carlo code for QUIck proton dose calculation
09:50
Investigation of the impact of aperture and field size on the secondary radiation field in proton therapy using Monte Carlo simulations and measurements with a Timepix detector
10:00
Development of a GPU-accelerated Monte-Carlo (FRED) for carbon therapy dose recalculation using a data-driven fragmentation model
10:10
On the perturbation and beam quality correction in carbon ion beams
10:20
Prediction of out-of-field neutron doses for proton therapy patients by means of Monte Carlo simulations
10:30
Numerical simulations to optimize passive scattering eye treatment beamlines toward improved clinical performances
10:40
A Monte Carlo framework to evaluate the radiological properties of 3D-printable materials for proton therapy phantom development
11:20-12:30 Session 10: Imaging & Image Guidance
11:20
Monte Carlo simulation of a proton computed tomography scanner to optimize fluence modulated imaging (Invited)
11:40
Development and benchmark of a customizable Monte Carlo CT scanner model
11:50
Optical 3D body scanning for patient-specific dose estimates in CT
12:00
Evaluation of the impact of a scanner prototype on proton CT and helium CT image quality and dose efficiency with Monte Carlo simulation
12:10
Fastcat: Rapid Hybrid Monte Carlo Simulation of Cone Beam CT (CBCT)
12:20
A fast GPU Monte Carlo code for Virtual Clinical trials in Breast Computed tomography
PRESENTER: Antonio Sarno
12:30-13:45 Session 11: Posters
Monte Carlo simulation of the on-board imager (OBI) kV imaging system
Dosimetry study of SIRT microspheres with Monte-Carlo simulations
Monte Carlo simulation for WIDMApp (Wearable Individual Dose Monitoring Apparatus): an innovative approach for individual dose monitoring in Molecular Radiotherapy.
Monte Carlo modelling and validation of the IBA ProteusONE proton beam at PARTICLE using TOPAS/GEANT4
On the Monte Carlo simulation of neutron-induced direct and indirect DNA damage to estimate neutron relative biological effectiveness
Geant4-DNA modeling of water radiolysis beyond the microsecond: an on-lattice stochastic approach
A theoretical Monte Carlo study for Yttrium-90 radioembolization on hepatocellular carcinoma tumours
Distal edge determination for a multi-slat prompt-gamma camera: irradiation with a 200-MeV proton beam
Implementation of microdosimetry-based radiobiological models in TOPAS MC
Dependence on the nucleus eccentricity of microdosimetric quantities for radiopharmaceutical alpha emitters
Towards Computational Microdosimetry in Boron Neutron Capture Therapy with GEANT4
13:45-14:25 Session 12: Imaging & Image Guidance, continued
13:45
A Radiation detector simulation toolkit for calculating the Arterial Input Function during Dynamic Positron Emission Tomography
13:55
TOPAS-Imaging: An extension to the TOPAS simulation toolkit for medical imaging systems
14:05
SMART: Solving design challenges in accelerator-based, high-volume production of medical isotopes
14:15-15:25 Session 13: Monte Carlo and Artificial Intelligence
14:15
Deep Learning for Monte Carlo Simulation in Medical Physics (Invited)
14:35
Conditional GAN for Monte Carlo SPECT simulation
14:45
Fast Dose Calculation in X-Ray Guided Interventions by Using Deep Neural Networks and Monte Carlo Simulations
14:55
Improving the statistical quality of Monte Carlo dose distribution by using a deep learning approach
15:05
GAN for source modeling in PET Monte Carlo simulation
15:15
Machine learning techniques applied to therapeutic energies particle tracking of protons and carbon ions in microdosimetry exploiting Geant4 simulations
16:00-16:50 Session 14: Microdosimetry and Radiobiology
16:00
Calculation of energy imparted from ionization-based measurements
16:10
Validating in- and out-of-field microdosimetric spectra of proton, helium and oxygen beams with TOPAS.
16:20
Microdosimetry of gold nanoparticle enhanced radiation therapy using multiscale modelling
16:30
Microdosimetric simulations with TOPAS: comparison with experimental data
16:40
Simulation of biological damage using ionization cross sections of water clusters
19:00-23:59 dinner & drinks at Horta

Horta restaurant, Hopland 2, 2000 Antwerp

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