The University of New Mexico
Particle Therapy Group
1st New Mexico Workshop on Monte Carlo for Particle Therapy Treatment Planning
at UNM 16 - 18 May, 2011.
Research Areas:
- Novel particle delivery techniques
- Dose optimization
- Dosimetry and radiobiology of novel therapy particles
- Antiproton therapy
- Secondary dose
- Monte Carlo techniques in particle therapy
- Cloud computing for radiation therapy
- High performance computing in radiation therapy
- Cloud Computing as a Monte Carlo Cluster for Radiation Therapy (PA-05)
Group Members:
Faculty:
- Adam Hecht
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
- hecht @ unm.edu
- Michael Holzscheiter
- Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, UNM
- Scientist, Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, Heidelberg
- mholzscheiter @ phys.unm.edu
- Shuang (Sean) Luan
- Associate Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
- sluan @ cs.unm.edu
- Dorian Arnold
- Assistant Professor, Dept. of Computer Science
- darnold @ cs.unm.edu
- Roy Keyes
- External post-doc
- rkeyes @ cs.unm.edu
- Daniel Riofrio
- PhD student, Dept. of Computer Science
- driofrio @ cs.unm.edu
- Dominic Maes
- MS student, Medical Physics, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
- dm @ unm.edu
- Ekaterina Davydenko
- MS student, Dept. of Computer Science
- edav @ unm.edu
- Sean Fournier
- Undergraduate, Dept. of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
- Christian Romano
- Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science
- Amy Reynaud
- Undergraduate, Dept. of Computer Science
- Collaborators: UNM Computational Medicine, AD-4/ACE Collaboration (CERN), Aarhus Particle Therapy Group (Denmark)
- UNM Graduate Medical Physics, UNM Cancer Center
- UNM Departments: Physics and Astronomy, Computer Science, Chemical and Nuclear Engineering
- Organizations: PTCOG, AAPM
- Monte Carlo software: Geant4, FLUKA, MCNPX, MCNP
- Journals: Physics in Medicine and Biology, Medical Physics, The Red Journal, The Green Journal, physics.med-ph @ arxiv.org, BMC Medical Physics, Radiation Oncology