Author name: maryamr9

The presentations are described as follows:

All of the presentations are described below:

Yujing, Sebastien, and Hossein were awarded funds to travel to Kenya, South Africa and Tanzania, respectively and teach. We are very proud!

Sebastien and Jake were awarded travel grants to present their work as oral presentations at the ESTRO conference, and gave excellent presentations!

EngerLab PhD student Jingyi Bian and previous MSc student are co-authors on this paper which provided a proof of concept for a hydrated electron dosimeter for radiotherapy dosimetry. This dosimeter was shown to be effective for low-dose-per-pulse linear accelerators. Read more here: Mégrourèche J, Bekerat H, Bian J, Bui A, Sankey J, Childress L, Enger

This work allows for the calculation ofG-values for radiolytic species at different temperatures and pH values through the modifications done by Jingyi to the source code of GEANT4-DNA. Read more here: Bian, Jingyi et al. “GEANT4-DNA simulation of temperature-dependent and pH-dependent yields of chemical radiolytic species.” Physics in medicine and biology vol. 68,12 10.1088/1361-6560/acd90d. 15 Jun. 2023,

Jingyi, Victor, Hossein, and Yujing are now PhD students in the EngerLab. Congratulations to all, we are so proud of you!

This work describes a method developed by Francisco which applies a deep learning trained with Monte-Carlo simulations to predict dose to medium for LDR prostate brachytherapy, considering the anisotropy of a brachytherapy source and patient tissue composition. Read more here: Berumen, Francisco et al. “FastDM,Mcalculation in LDR brachytherapy using deep learning methods.” Physics in medicine and

This paper culminated from Alaina’s master’s work in the EngerLab on hydrated electron dosimetry. In this study, GEANT4-DNA was used to calculate G-values for reactive species produced during water radiolysis. The results of this work show that GEANT4-DNA can be used to calculate G-values for hydrated electron dosimetry for clinically relevant energies. Read more here:

Read more here: Antaki M, Renaud MA, Morcos M, Seuntjens J, Enger SA. Applying the column generationmethod to the intensity modulated high dose rate brachytherapy inverse planning problem.Phys Med Biol. 2023 Mar 13;68(6). doi: 10.1088/1361-6560/acbc63. PMID: 36791469.