Radiation Oncology

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February 2024 Chang and lab team receive SEAAPM Best Paper Award

Chih-Wei Chang and members of the Yang Lab have received the 2024 SEAAPM Best Paper Award for their paper, “Early in vivo Radiation Damage Quantification for Pediatric Craniospinal Irradiation Using Longitudinal MRI for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy.”

February 2024 Chen recognized with award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024

Xuxin Chen has been selected as the Second Place winner of the Computer-Aided Diagnosis Best Paper Award at SPIE Medical Imaging 2024 for the paper, "12927-30: David vs. Goliath: Large foundation models underperform small models in multi-view medical image analysis."

PhD student Shaoyan Pan was awarded 1st place in the 2024 Robert F. Wagner All-Conference Best Student Paper by SPIE Medical Imaging for his paper, “3D Volumetric CT Image Reconstruction with Single X-ray Projection Using Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model.”

In a Q&A for ESTRO, Moeen Meftahi, PhD, discusses a novel technique, Direction Modulation Brachytherapy, that when used in HDR brachytherapy for prostate cancer reduces urethral dose and its related toxicity.