Measuring radiation dose for cancer therapy

Professor Dave Rogers
Department of Physics
Carleton University

Tuesday, 24 November 2009
6:30pm, dinner at 7:00pm
Al's Steak House, 327 Elgin Street (free parking in back, access from Lewis)

Abstract

Radiation is one of the three main treatments for cancer. The accurate assessment of the quantity and distribution of radiation delivered to a patient is critical to the success of such treatments. I will discuss the role that Monte Carlo simulations of radiation transport have played in ensuring this accuracy, from the role in primary standards for measuring radiation, to the protocols for measuring the radiation dose in a water tank in a clinic to the calculation of the dose distribution in a patient based on a CT scan.

About the speaker

BSc,MSc, Phd (1972) all at U of Toronto

Research Officer at the National Research Council of Canada, 1973-2003 in the Ionizing Radiation Standards Group of the Institute of National Measurement Standards.
     -Group leader 1985 - 2003

Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics at Carleton University, 2003-

Research Interests:
  Development and application of Monte Carlo techniques for the simulation of the transport of electrons
and photons with energies above 1 keV.
  Applications in cancer radiotherapy and primary standards of ionizing radiation..

About Al's Steak House

Note that there is a free parking lot behind the restaurant: Go east on Gilmour St, one block down Cartier and then out Lewis to the lot. You can use the back entrance for convenience.

Standard Menu, $35.00 (includes choice of meal and tea/coffee).   Drinks and desert extra.  Vegetarian or other meals can be ordered with a few days notice.

Please confirm by October 17 that you will be coming so we can arrange for the meals and space.   As always, guests are welcome.