Conveners
T4-1 Advances in Physics in Biology and Medicine Symp.: Novel diagnosis and therapy (DPMB) | Symposium sur les progrès en physique dans la biologie et la médecine: nouveaux diagnostics et thérapies (DPMB)
- Valerie Booth
Approximately half of all cancer patients require radiation therapy at some point during the management of their disease. Radiation detectors are tools for the quantitative characterization of fields of ionizing radiation used for radiation therapy and are essential for their safe and effective use. The goal of dosimetry measurements is to quantify the amount of energy deposited in the body...
Introduction: The eye’s optics change in those with type 1 diabetes mellitus. Known optical changes could impact both vision and imaging of diabetes-related changes to blood vessels, which are sight threatening. Here we investigate retinal image quality in those with diabetes and healthy controls.
Methods: Using novel methods, retinal image quality was derived for 1200 healthy eyes and 46...
A quantitative real-time in vivo evaluation of ionizing radiation delivered to patients during a radiotherapy procedure is critical to assure patients receive treatments with rigorous quality control. Current dosimeters are not well suited for simple and direct measurements due to atomic composition, requiring correction to dose distribution, and probe size limitations. We are developing a...
Structural optical imaging within tissues is potentially useful for medical screening of various diseases, and particularly suitable for superficial and easily accessible oral cancers. Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a non-invasive, low coherence imaging technique that allows micron-scale resolution for structural determinations within tissues. Intensity data from OCT images can be used...
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a non-invasive medical imaging modality that
provides excellent soft tissue contrast and resolution. MRI cell tracking effectively monitors cell migration in various immunotherapies where cells are labelled with high susceptibility iron oxide particles to create a negative contrast in the image. However, it is not possible to quantify the number of cells as...
