Conveners
T3-1 Advances in Physics in Biology and Medicine Symp.: Physics in Medicine (DPMB) | Symposium sur les progrès en physique dans la biologie et la médecine: la physique en médecine (DPMB)
- Cornelia Hoehr
Over the last half century, cancer has remained a major cause of death in Canada and worldwide. Although therapy-induced cure rates have gradually improved for some cancers and early detection has improved survival for others, cancer is still among the most straining healthcare burdens.
Radiotherapy has contributed to improvements in treatment through technological advances and refinements...
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) have unique physical and optical properties that make them ideal for various medical uses such as biomedical imaging, photothermal therapy, and drug delivery. With higher concentrations used in cancer therapy, it is imperative to understand both the benefits and potential side effects of AuNPs. Several studies have been done to quantify the toxicity of naked AuNPs....
The 5/6 nephrectomy is a prevalent model in the analysis of chronic kidney disease. It often takes the form of a surgical resection of 5/6 of the renal mass in two, distinct surgical procedures. The first step involves the resection of 2/3 renal mass from the left kidney. The second stage is a complete resection of the right kidney after one week. The initial 2/3 resection is critical to the...
Objective: When 3-dimensional conformal radiotherapy is eventually replaced by intensity modulated radiotherapy, the flattening filter (FF) can be removed from the medical linear accelerator (Linac). Although the flattening-filter-free (FFF) photon beam has some advantages such as higher beam output and less head scatter in dose delivery, there is a dosimetric concern over the low-energy...
Objective: An AI Chatbot was created for radiation safety training in radiotherapy. The Bot was for radiation staff, namely, radiation oncologists, medical physicists and radiotherapists, working in a cancer center, so that they could learn and refresh their radiation safety knowledge without attending the classroom session in the center. This is in particular important in the pandemic period,...
