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Graduate Program Updates

Dose Distributions Lab

Our 1st year MS students recently gained valuable hands-on experience measuring dose distributions from a linear accelerator with Dr Luke Maloney, Assistant Professor in Radiation Oncology, as part of their Therapy Physics I (BME 6591) course.

MS Presentation – Mauricio Garrido

Please join us at 11:00AM on Wednesday, March 29 in CG-56 Communicore for a special research presentation by MS student Mauricio Garrido titled “Clinical Implementation of an End-to-End Solution for 2-Hydroxglutarate Detection Using MR Spectroscopy”.

MS Presentation – Ben Heggie

Please join us at 3:00PM on Thursday, March 23 in CG-056 Communicore for a special research presentation by MS student Ben Heggie titled “Accuracy and Reproducibility of Effective Atomic Number and Electron Density Measurements Between Sequential Dual-Energy CT and Rapid kV Spectral Imaging”.

MS Presentation – Jacob Campbell

Please join us at 1:00PM on Friday, March 3 in the Small Conference Room at the Davis Cancer Center for a special research presentation by MS student Jacob Campbell titled “Development of a Dose Calculation Infrastructure for Optimizing Irregularly Shaped Targets in Stereotactic Radiosurgery”.

PhD Defense – Wen-Chih Tseng

Please join us at 9:30AM on Friday, March 3 in the Small Conference Room at the Davis Cancer Center for PhD Candidate Wen-Chih Tseng’s Dissertation Defense: “Dose Calculation Strategies Toward Efficient and Accurate Treatment Planning for Modern Radiotherapy”.

Grad Student Alumni Spotlight – Dr McKetty

Dr Marlene H P McKetty graduated from the UF Medical Physics Graduate Program with a MS in 1975 and a PhD in 1978. Dr McKetty’s legacy is unparalleled. Her accomplishments raised the bar for all medical physicists and serve as a framework for all who follow in her footsteps. Dr…

Research Highlight – TJ Moretti

Congratulations to TJ Moretti, PhD Student, whose abstract (Comparison of a Mobile Gamma Camera to a SPECT/CT System for Calculation of Lung Shunt Fraction: A Phantom Study) was accepted for oral presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Early-Career Investigator Symposium) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Megan Glassell

Congratulations to Megan Glassell, PhD Candidate, whose abstract (Comparing a Peak Skin Dose Calculator to Directly Measured Entrance Skin Dose for Procedures in a Hybrid CT/Angiography Suite) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Mauricio Garrido

Congratulations to Mauricio Garrido, MS Student, whose abstract (Clinical Implementation of an End-to-End Solution for 2-Hydroxyglutarate Detection Using MR Spectroscopy) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…

Research Highlight – Zahra Razi

Congratulations to Zahra Razi, PhD Candidate, whose abstract (T1|T2 Map: A Tool for Assessment of Spatial Resolution in MRI) was accepted for presentation at the AAPM Clinical Meeting (Best Poster Competition) in Orlando, Florida in April!…