Accepted Abstracts for the ABS 2025 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the ABS 2025 Annual Meeting, which will take place June 18-21, 2025 in Nashville, TN.
MPP03. Presentation Time: 4:18 PM: Radiotaxis: A Novel Mechanism of Brachytherapy Resistance. Brachytherapy. Hou, J., Kopecky, A., Desai, B., Ferreira, C., Rivard, M., Chen, C., (2025).
P0402: Inter-User Variability in Contouring Brain Brachytherapy. BS Jang, L Sloan, M Reynolds, K Dusenbery, C Ferreira., (2025).
Accepted Abstracts for the AAPM 2025 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the AAPM 2025 Annual Meeting, which will take place July 27 - 30, 2025 in Washington, DC.
Inter-Fractional Target Similarity during Tandem and Ring HDR Brachytherapy. Sterling, D., Aregbe, O. O., Reynolds, M., Ferreira, C. (2025)
Presurgical Treatment Planning for Gammatile Implants. Allen, T. J., Ferreira, C. (2025)
Evaluation of Fractional Variability in High-Risk Clinical Target Volume (HR-CTV) during High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy for Cervical Cancer: A Retrospective Analysis for Adaptive Treatment Planning. Aregbe, O. O., Sterling, D. A., Reynolds, M., Yuan, J., Ferreira, C. (2025).
Retrospective Postimplant Dosimetry: Comparison of Line and Point Source for cs Low Dose Rate Intracranial Implant Brachytherapy. Adhikari, T., Allen, T. J., Alshreef, A. A., Ferreira, C. (2025)
Use of Gold Nanoparticles As Shielding during Eye Plaque Brachytherapy. Montenegro, T., Ferreira, C., Oare, C. (2025)
Accepted Abstracts for the ABS 2024 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the ABS 2024 Annual Meeting, which will take place July 10-13, 2024 in National Harbor, MD.
GammaTile CS-131 Permanent Brain Implants: From Clinical Implementation to Treatment Outcomes and Beyond. Ferreira, C., Sterling, D., Zhang, S., Reynolds, M., Dusenbery, K., Sloan, L., Alshreef, A., Chen, C., (2024).
Accepted Abstracts for the AAPM 2024 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the AAPM 2024 Annual Meeting, which will take place July 21 - 25, 2024 in Los Angeles, CA.
Dose to brain versus dose to water for GammaTile implanted brachytherapy. A. Alshreef, M. Assalmi, T. Allen, B. Rogers, C. Oare, C. Ferreira.
Dose Heterogeneity Simulation for Permanently Implanted Cs‑131 Seeds for Brain Tumor Brachytherapy. A. Alshreef, M. Assalmi. T. Allen, B. Rogers, C. Oare, F. Jafari, C. Ferreira.
Dose Coverage and Dose to Organs at Risk for GBM Patients Treated with Gammatile. T. Adhikari, A. Alshreef, C. Ferreira.
Irradiated Red Blood Cell Studied with Defocusing Microscopy. B. Guimarãesu, C. Ferreira.
A Novel Visualization Tool for Assessing HDR Brachytherapy Treatment Plans. D. Sterling, C. Ferreira, E. Ehler.
Accepted Abstracts for the AAPM 2023 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the AAPM 2023 Annual Meeting, which will take place July 23-27, 2023 in Houston, TX.
Custom-Made Lead Shield for Permanent Implanted Cs-131 Brain Tumor Patients. A. Alshreef, D. Sterling, P. Alaei, B. Rogers, S. Drehmel, M. Reynolds, K. Dusenbery, C. Chen, C. Ferreira.
Gamos Monte Carlo Simulation to Calculate the Dose in Heterogeneities for GammaTile Implanted Brachytherapy. A. Alshreef, M. Assalmi, B. Rogers, C. Oare, C. Ferreira.
Validation of Gamos Monte Carlo Simulation for Cs-131 Brachytherapy Source in Water. A. Alshreef, B. Rogers, C. Oare, C. Ferreira.
AAPM 2022 Annual Meeting
Medical Physicist: our mission is to advance medicine through excellence in the science, education, and professional practice of medical physics.
AAPM Meeting, Washington DC, July 2022, University of Minnesota
Graduation
Congratulations to lab members Courtney Oare and Brent Rogers on their graduation!
Courtney graduated from the Medical Physics PhD program, and is headed to Salt Lake City, Utah to begin her Medical Physics Residency at the University of Utah Huntsman Cancer Institute.
Brent completed his Medical Physics Residency.
Accepted Abstracts for the ASTRO 2022 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the ASTRO 2022 Annual Meeting, which will take place October 23-26, 2022 in San Antonio, TX.
Considerations in Treatment Planning and Dosimetric Specifications of Permanent 131Cs Brachytherapy Implantation in Treatment of Brain Tumor - An Institutional Experience. Shunqing Zhang, Margaret Reynolds, Kathryn Dusenbery, Parham alaei, Lindsey Sloan, Clara Ferreira, David Sterling, Abdullah Alshreef. (Poster Presentation).
Hypofractionated versus Conventionally Fractionated Radiotherapy for Glioblastoma: Peripheral Blood Leukocyte Comparison prior to and following Chemoradiation. Lindsey Greenlund, Kathryn Dusenbery, Lindsey Sloan, Clara Ferreira, Chinsoo Cho, Aika Shoo, Jianling Yuan, Stephanie Terezakis, Christopher Wilke, Kellen Mulford. (Poster Presentation).
NCCAAPM 2024
Medical Physics students and faculty at the Spring 2024 NCCAAPM meeting in Mayo Clinic, Rochester
NCCAAPM 2023
UofM Medical Physics group at the Spring NCCAAPM 2023.
North Central Chapter of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine meeting, October 2023, Wisconsin Dells, WI
Accepted Abstracts for the AAPM 2022 Annual Meeting
We are excited to announce that the following abstracts from our lab members have been accepted to the AAPM 2022 Annual Meeting, which will take place July 10-14, 2022 in Washington, DC.
An Estimate of Fetal Dose From Permanent Cs-131 Brachytherapy Implants in the Brain. A Turner, C Ferreira.
Dose Distribution with a High-Z Intraocular Shield-Ferrofluid System: An I-125 Eye Plaque Brachytherapy Monte Carlo Study. C. Oare, B. Gerbi, C. Ferreira.
End-to-End test for GammaTile Permanent Brain Implants. A. Alshreef, B. Rogers, P. Alaei, P. Bolan, C. Ferreira.
GafChromic Film Dosimetry for Evaluation of Intraocular Shielding Materials in I-125 Eye Plaque Brachytherapy. C. Oare, B. Gerbi, C. Ferreira.
Novel Film Calibration Method Directly Using Low Energy Brachytherapy Sources with a Custom Phantom. C. Oare, A. Alshreef, C. Ferreira.
North Central Chapter AAPM Spring Meeting
Research lab members Courtney Oare and Abdullah Alshreef presented their research at the North Central Chapter AAPM Spring Meeting April 21-22, 2022 in Madison, WI, as part of the meeting's Young Investigator Competition.
Courtney Oare, "Dose Distribution with a High-Z Intraocular Shield-Ferrofluid System: an I-125 Eye Plaque Brachytherapy Study"
Abdullah Alshreef, "End-to-End test for GammaTile Permanent Brain Implants"
U of M Team Receives Award for Use of GammaTile Technology in Brain Tumor Treatment
GT Medical, the supplier of GammaTiles, recently awarded University of Minnesota Medical School faculty its "Appreciation of Excellence" award for their groundbreaking work in recurrent brain tumor treatment. Read more...
