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Congratulations to Francisco Berumen Murillo who won the Young Investigator award at Curietherapies!

Francisco won the Young Investigator award at Curietherapies 2023 for his presentation titled “Uncertainty estimation in patient-specific LDR brachytherapy dose prediction with deep learning methods”. Congratulations Francisco, great work!

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EngerLab warmly welcomes our new post-doctoral fellow, Dr. Laya Rafiee!

Dr. Laya Rafiee started her research on Graph Theory and Computer Vision during her master’s at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran. She then came to Canada in 2017 to pursue her study and graduated with Ph.D. in Computer Science from Concordia University in February 2023. Laya joined EngerLab in April 2023 as a postdoctoral fellow to

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EngerLab presented research at CurieTherapies!

Congratulations to our PhD students Azin Esmaelbeigi, Victor Diaz Martinez, and Francisco Berumen Murillo (collaboratively supervised by Dr. Enger at MPU and Dr. Luc Beaulieu at U-Laval), as well as our guest researcher (postdoctoral fellow) Björn Moren from Linköping University, Sweden, who successfully presented their research at Curietherapies on April 21.

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Compact radiation detector could expedite the use of dynamic PET

Congratulations to Liam Carroll, PhD student at the EngerLab for being featured in physicsworld.com for his recent publication titled “Simulation of a novel, non-invasive radiation detector to measure the arterial input function for dynamic positron emission tomography”. The aim of this study was to (A) optimize the geometry for a novel and cost efficient non-invasive detector designed to

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Welcome Björn Morén! Our newest postdoctoral fellow coming to us from Linköping University in Sweden.

Björn will work on robust optimization for intensity modulated brachytherapy. During his PhD thesis, Björn applied mathematical optimization algorithms to model and solve the treatment planning problem for brachytherapy.

Welcome Björn Morén! Our newest postdoctoral fellow coming to us from Linköping University in Sweden. Read More »