Research Highlights – RRS 2025


UF Medical Physics was well represented at the 71st Annual International Radiation Research Society Meeting, which took place from September 21-24, 2025, in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Under the leadership of Dr Wes Bolch, Distinguished Professor in the J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering, multiple students in the Advanced Laboratory for Radiation Dosimetry Studies presented their research:

  • Julia Withrow: An experimentally derived blood and lymphatic microvasculature model: applications to radiopharmaceutical dosimetry (Poster)
  • Lazaro Fuentes-Alfonso: A refined model of vasculature and glandular structures of the mesh-type reference female breast for lymphocyte dosimetry (Poster)
  • Stefan Wehmeier: Microscale model of the human parotid gland for PSMA-tagged radiopharmaceutical therapy dosimetry (Poster)
  • Stefan Wehmeier: Computed tomography organ dose library for newborn-infant-toddler phantoms (Poster)
  • John Francis: Development of Cross-Platform Application for Radiation Contamination Assessment (Poster)
  • Grey Haneberg: Histology-Based 3D Modeling of the Small Intestine for Microscale Dosimetric Assessment of Radiopharmaceutical Therapies (Poster)
  • Natalia Carrasco-Rojas: Development of whole-body, mesh-type computational phantoms of the beagle dog for preclinical radiation dosimetry studies (Invited Talk)
  • Bobby Dawson: Integrated agent-based and Monte Carlo dosimetry of time-dependent trabecular bone remodeling in the presence of bone-seeking alpha emitters (Invited Talk)
  • Bobby Dawson: Monte Carlo analysis of bremsstrahlung dose contributions from beta emitters in small-scale animal phantoms (Poster)
  • Wyatt Smither: Specific Absorbed Fractions and Radionuclide S-Values for Non-Reference Computational Phantoms (Poster)
  • Andrew Sforza: Preclinical blood dose tracking and improved radiopharmaceutical dosimetry with intra-organ vasculature in the mouse kidney (Invited Talk)