Publications

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A Study of Homogeneity Parameters in Low Dose Rate Interstitial Brachytherapy; V. Chaswal, D.L. Henderson, B.R. Thomadsen, July 2007 [presented at the 49th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, 22-26 July 2007, Minneapolis Convention Center, Minneapolis MN]. (1 page, 444 kB)

Radiation Treatment Planning Using Discrete Ordinates Codes; R.N. Slaybaugh, M.L. Williams, D. Ilas, D.E. Peplow, R.A. Lillie, B.L. Kirk, Y.Y. Azmy, T.L. Nichols, M.P. Langer, June 2007 [presented at the ANS Annual Meeting, 24-28 June 2007, Boston Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, MA]. (28 pages, 1.1 MB)

Interstitial Prostate Implant Brachtherapy using an Automated, 3-D Greedy Heuristic Optimization and I-125 Directional Sources; V. Chaswal, B.R. Thomadsen, Liyong Lin and D.L. Henderson, April 29, 2007 [28th Annual ABS (American Brachytherapy Society) Meeting, April 29, 2007, Chicago, Illinois].

Interstitial Prostate Implant Brachytherapy Using an Automated, 3-D Greedy Heuristic Optimization and I-125 Directional Sources; V. Chaswal, B.R. Thomadsen, Liyong Lin and D.L. Henderson, April 2007 [presented at the 28th Annual ABS (American Brachytherapy Society) Meeting, 29 April - 1 May 2007, Chicago IL]. (1 page, 3.0 MB)

Radiation Treatment Planning Using Discrete Ordinates Codes; R. Slaybaugh, March 2007 [presented at the 2007 ANS Student Conference, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR, 29-31 March 2007; won Best Paper Award in the Health Physics category]. (28 pages, 1.8 MB)

Multi-species Prostate Implant Treatment-Plans incorporating 192-Ir and 125-I using a Greedy Heuristic based 3-D Optimization Algorithm; V. Chaswal, S. Yoo, B.R. Thomadsen, and D.L. Henderson, February 2007 [Medical Physics, 34, No. 2, 436-444].

A Greedy Heuristic using Adjoint Functions for the Optimization of Seed and Needle Configurations in Prostate Seed Implant; S. Yoo, M.E. Kowalok, D.L. Henderson, and B.R. Thomadsen, February 2007 [Phys. Med. and Bio., 52, 815-828].

New Directional Brachytherapy Sources Offer Improved Dosimetry and the Potential for Monotherapy in Higher Risk Prostate Tumors; L. Lin, B.R. Thomadsen, M. Ritter, J. Fowler, R. Patel, S. Bentzen, and D.L. Henderson, November 2006 [48th Annual ASTRO (American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology) Meeting, November 5-9, 2006, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania].

The Use of Directional Interstitial Sources to Reduce Skin Dose in Breast Brachytherapy; Liyong Lin, R. Patel, B.R. Thomadsen and D.L. Henderson, July 2006 [48th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 23-27, 2006, Orlando, Florida].

The Use of Directional Interstitial Sources to Reduce Skin Dose in Breast Brachytherapy; Liyong Lin, R. Patel, B.R. Thomadsen and D.L. Henderson, July 2006 [presented at the 48th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 23-27, 2006, Orlando, FL]. (1 page, 3.6 MB)

A Method for Computing Energy Spectra for Multiple Orders of Compton-Scattered Photons; M.E. Kowalok, D.L. Henderson, and T.R. Mackie, July 2005 [47th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 24-28, 2005, Seattle, Washington].

Assessment of a Prostate Treatment Plan using Directional Brachytherapy; Liyong Lin, V. Chaswal, D.L. Henderson and B.R. Thomadsen, July 2005 [47th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 24-28, 2005, Seattle, Washington].

Investigations into the use of Multi-species Seeds in Interstitial Prostate Implant Brachtherapy using the 3-D Treatment Optimization program based upon the Greedy Heuristic Algorithm; V. Chaswal, S. Yoo, B.R. Thomadsen, and D.L. Henderson, July 2004 [46th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 25-29, 2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania].

Iterative Adjoint and Forward Monte Carlo transport for External Beam Treatment Planning; M.E. Kowalok, R. Jeraj, T.D. Bohm, T.R. Mackie, and D.L. Henderson, July 2004 [46th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 25-29, 2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania].

Design of a Directional Brachytherapy Source; Liyong Lin, B.R. Thomadsen and D.L. Henderson, July 2004 [46th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 25-29, 2004, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania].

Treatment Planning for Prostate Brachytherapy using Region of Interest Adjoint Functions and a Greedy Heuristic; S. Yoo, M.E. Kowalok, D.L. Henderson, and B.R. Thomadsen, December 2003 [Phys. Med. and Bio., 48, 4077-4090].

Performance of lattice- and mesh-based tallies in MCNP and MCNPX Monte Carlo codes; M.E. Kowalok, R. Jeraj, T.D. Bohm, T.R. Mackie, and D.L. Henderson, August 2003 [45th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, August 10-14, 2003, San Diego, California].

Seed and Needle Optimization for Brachytherapy using a Greed Heuristic and Adjoint Functions; S. Yoo, M.E. Kowalok, D.L. Henderson, and B.R. Thomadsen, August 2003 [45th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, August 10-14, 2003, San Diego, California].

Region-of-Interest Adjoint Functions as an Initial Guess for Iterative Inverse Treatment Planning; M. Kowalok, D.L. Henderson, and T.R. Mackie, July 2002 [44th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 14-18, 2002, Montreal, Canada].

A Greedy Algorithm for the Optimization of Prostate Implant using the Adjoint Concept; S. Yoo, D.L. Henderson, and B.R. Thomadsen, July 2002 [44th Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 14-18, 2002, Montreal, Canada].

An Adjoint Monte Carlo Method for External Beam Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning; M. Kowalok, D.L. Henderson, and T.R. Mackie, July 2001 [43rd Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, July 22-26, 2001, Salt Lake City, Utah].

Optimization in Permanent Prostate Implant Treatment Planning Using the Adjoint Dose Calculation and the Source Influence Fields; S. Yoo, D.L. Henderson, B.R. Thomadsen, July 2001 [presented at the 43rd Annual AAPM (American Association of Physicists in Medicine) Meeting, 22-26 July 2001, Salt Lake City UT]. (1 page, 1.8 MB)

An Investigation of the Adjoint Method for External Beam Radiation Therapy Treatment Planning using Monte Carlo Transport; M. Kowalok and D.L. Henderson, April 2001 [Proceedings of ICONE-9: 9th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, April 8-12, 2001, Nice, France].

Optimization of Prostate Cancer Treatment Plans using the Adjoint Transport Method and Discrete Ordinates Codes; S. Yoo, D.L. Henderson, and B.R. Thomadsen, April 2001 [Proceedings of ICONE-9: 9th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, April 8-12, 2001, Nice, France].

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