Congratulations to UF Medical Physics faculty, residents, and students, whose abstracts were accepted for presentation at the 64th Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) in Washington, DC, from July 10 – 14, 2022. An impressive total of 21 abstracts were accepted!
- Dr Mercy Akerele, Resident: “Local Diagnostic Reference Levels in Digital Radiography Examinations Based on Patient Thickness and Age”; Oral presentation.
- Dr Justin Brown, Resident: “3D Mammography”; Oral presentation & moderating session.
- Jared Baggett, MS Student: “The UF-MSK Computational Phantom Library for Medical Dosimetry: Pediatric Males and Females”; Poster presentation.
- Camilo Correa, PhD Candidate: “Intra-Brain Vascular Models Within the Adult Mesh-Type Reference Phantoms for Applications to External Beam Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine Dosimetry”; Oral presentation.
- Nathalie Correa, PhD Candidate: (2) – “Direct Dose Measurements Comparing Single-Energy and Dual-Energy Head CT Scans”; Poster presentation. AND “The Effect of Beam Overlapping in Dual-Energy Volume CT Scans and Single-Energy Helical Scans” Poster presentation.
- Bobby Dawson, MS Student: “The UF-MSK Computational Phantom Library for Medical Dosimetry: Adult Males and Females”; Oral presentation.
- Sean Domal, PhD Candidate: (2) – “A computed tomography (CT) organ dose library for pregnant females of varying body size and fetuses of varying gestational age”; Oral presentation. AND “Assessment of Fetal Dose During Breast Radiotherapy using a 3DCRT, IMRT, and Proton PBS Approach”; Poster presentation.
- Megan Glassell, PhD Student: “Determining the Contribution of CT to Total Skin Dose for Procedures in a Hybrid CT/Angiography Suite”; Oral presentation.
- Ana Heshmat, PhD Candidate: “Assessment of Iodine Detection in Dual Energy CT and Subtraction CT”; Poster presentation.
- Amanda Jackson, PhD Student: “Evaluation of Different Holographic Visualization Techniques for Surface-Guided Patient Alignment Using Mixed Reality (MixR) and the Microsoft Hololens 2”; Poster presentation.
- Dr Perry Johnson, Faculty: (2) “Expanding Access to SGRT-Based Patient Alignment Using Mixed Reality Visualization”; Poster presentation. AND “Experience and Survey Results from a National Hands-On Workshop on Simulated Error Training for the Physics Plan review”; Oral presentation. *Finalist for Arthur Boyer Award for Innovation in Medical Physics Education
- TJ Moretti, PhD Student: “Use of Automation in Image Quality Analysis in PET”; Oral presentation.
- James Perez-Sanchez, PhD Student: “Variational Clustering: Toward Unsupervised Machine Learning-Based Error Detection in Patient-Specific IMRT QA”; Poster presentation.
- Zahra Razi, PhD Student: “Gd-Doped Gel Phantom Recipe Calculator for 3T MRI”; Poster presentation.
- Colin Schaeffer, PhD Student: “A novel methodology for assessing material differentiation in dual-energy computed tomography”; Oral presentation.
- Wen-Chih Tseng, PhD Student: “Towards An Ultra-Fast Deep-Learning-Based Dose Engine for Prostate VMAT Using Knowledge Distillation”; Poster presentation.
- Jingxi Weng, PhD Student: “Deep Learning Based Cine-MR Image Prediction and Analysis for Abdominal Motion”; Poster presentation.
- Dr Yawei Zhang, Faculty: “Dosimetric Impacts of Couch Moving Rails On Proton Treatment Using Pencil-Beam Scanning”; Poster presentation.
