2022 CIRMS Meeting
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29th Annual CIRMS Meeting
“Trusting radiation science: Measuring what cannot be seen”

April 11-13, 2022
Virtual meeting with Zoom presentations and posters sessions in Gather
View the full meeting agenda and flyer 

Presentation Library

Monday - Plenary Session
"Orthovoltage x-ray irradiator for preclinical FLASH radiotherapy: Design, dosimetry, and in vivo validation"
Mohammad Rezaee, Johns Hopkins University
Presentation


"Assessing air pollution with Spanish moss as a bioindicator in the low country of Savannah River basin"
Christina Hall, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Abstract
Presentation

"Alanine/EPR dosimetry for kilo, voltage x-ray applications"
Abbas Nasreddine, Aerial, France
Presentation

Monday - Junior Investigator Symposium
"A novel calorimeter design for synchrotron produced x-ray beams"
Islam El Gamal, Carleton University, Canada
EssayPresentationVirtual Poster

"Development of a hybrid alanine-calorimetry absorbed dose standard for linac electron beams"
Rodi Surensoy, Carleton University, Canada
EssayPresentationVirtual Poster

"Radiation damage to DNA: From initial ionization events to final damage products"
Samuel Ward, Oakland University
 Essay, PresentationVirtual Poster
Tuesday - Medical Applications
Session: Targeted Radionuclide Therapy

"
Targeted radionuclide therapy – Current status and trends"
Jacek Capala, National Cancer Institute/NIH
Presentation


"Quantitative imaging and dosimetry in targeted radionuclide therapy"
Yuni Dewaraja, University of Michigan
Presentation


"Recent activities of the NIST nuclear medicine program"
Denis Bergeron, National Institute of Standards and Technology
Presentation


Session: Medical Dosimetry

"Astronaut biodosimetry at Health Canada"
Lindsay Beaton, Health Canada
Presentation


"PRISM-eBT: A European Metrology project on electronic Brachytherapy"
Thorsten Schneider, National Metrology Institute of Germany (PTB), Germany
Presentation

Tuesday - Radiation Protection & Homeland Security
Session: Food Irradiation

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Detection of alpha/beta activity in food for safeguarding the Nation's food supply"
Zhichao Lin, US Food and Drug Administration
Presentation


"Laboratory proficiency evaluation in assessing radioactive contamination of food"
Clarence Rolle, US Food and Drug Administration
Presentation


Session: Analytical Measurements

"Method validation of the GammaVision total coincidence correction calibration wizard"
Jonathan Button, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract
, Presentation

"Molecular plating of mixed alpha radionuclides for energy calibration and quality assurance of CDC alpha spectrometer instrument"
Supriyadi Sadi, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Abstract, Presentation

Tuesday - Industrial Applications & Material Effects
Session: Mathematical Modeling

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Using mathematical modeling to improve scheduling at gamma irradiator facilities"
Chris Howard, Nordion
Presentation


"Modelling of electron beam and X-ray processes - status and outlook"
Josef Mittendorfer, High Tech Consulting
Presentation


"EGS_Mesh: accurate radiation transport simulations in CAD meshes with EGSnrc"
Max Orok, University of Ottawa, Canada
Essay, PresentationVirtual Poster

"E-beam dose mapping: What about modelling the “REAL product?"
Florent Kuntz, Aerial, France
Presentation


Session: Low Energy Irradiation

"Low energy e-beam at NIST"
Fred Bateman, National Institutes of Standards and Technology
Presentation


"Low energy x-ray (LEEX) is expanding"
P. Michael Fletcher, Ebeam Consulting
Abstract
, Presentation
Wednesday - Capstone Session
"Radiotherapy plan QA using deep-CNN based multi-OAR auto segmentation and GPU-accelerated Monte Carlo dose check"
X. George Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China
Presentation

General Poster Session

Poster #1:
"Deep learning based image prediction for abdominal organ motion during MR-guided radiotherapy"
Jingxi Weng, University of Florida
Abstract, Virtual Poster

Poster #2:
"Toughening of borosilicate glass by neutron irradiation"
Luke Gilde, University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract, Virtual Poster

Poster #3:
"Calibration coefficients in terms of absorbed dose to water for two ionization chambers Standard Imaging A12 and A19 exposed to low-energy x-rays from 20 kV – 150 kV"
Adriana Moreno-Ramírez, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Abstract, Virtual Poster

Poster #4:
"Investigation of low and medium energy x-ray calibrations for survey meters"

Sean Jollota, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract, Virtual Poster

Poster #5:
"XPS measurements of organic molecule degradation after exposure to MeV ion irradiation"

Noel Guardala, George Washington University
Abstract, Virtual Poster

Poster #6:
"Pencil Beam Scanning Proton vs Photon Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy for Ventricular Tachycardia: A Comparative Planning Study"

Matthew Ruth, University of Pennsylvania
Abstract, No Poster Provided

Poster #7:

"Biokinetics and dosimetry of 99mTc-iFAP of healthy male volunteers"

Luis Coria-Domínguez, Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
Abstract, No Poster Provided

Poster #8:"Automatic segmentation for the evaluation of cardiac substructure dose in support of epidemiological research on cardiovascular morbidity after breast radiotherapy"
Matthew Mille, National Cancer Institute/NIH
Abstract, Virtual Poster

Poster #9:
"Reducing the uncertainties in modelling results through better understanding of the impact of physical uncertainties"

Nicolas Mary, TRAD Tests & Radiations

Abstract, Virtual Poster

Junior Investigator Posters

Poster #10:
"A novel calorimeter design for synchrotron produced x-ray beams"
Islam El Gamal, Carleton University, Canada
Essay, Virtual Poster

Poster #11:
"Development of a hybrid alanine-calorimetry absorbed dose standard for linac electron beams"
Rodi Surensoy, Carleton University, Canada
EssayPresentationVirtual Poster

Poster #12:
"Radiation damage to DNA: From initial ionization events to final damage products"
Samuel Ward, Oakland University
EssayPresentationVirtual Poster 

Poster #13:
"Sensitivity study of accelerator placement in a shielded radiation therapy vault for a preclinical FLASH radiotherapy system"
Andrew Rosenstrom, Georgia Institute of Technology
Essay, No Poster Provided

Poster #14:
"The use of repeat image analysis in radiation therapy as a continuous quality improvement tool"
Daniella Chee, University of Toronto, Canada
Essay, Virtual Poster

Poster #15:
"EGS_Mesh: accurate radiation transport simulations in CAD meshes with EGSnrc"
Max Orok, University of Ottawa, Canada
Essay, PresentationVirtual Poster

Poster #16:
"Out-of-field organ dose reconstruction for pediatric patients undergoing proton therapy"
Keith Griffin, Georgia Institute of Technology 

Essay, Virtual Poster

Poster #17:
"Low-cost semiconductor perovskite radiation detectors for medical imaging and security applications"
Ryan Tan, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Essay, No Poster Provided

Poster #18:
"Radiological implications of selected fertilizers (0-0-60)"
Ben Billa, Porters Chapel Academy, Vicksburg, MS (high school)
Essay, Virtual Poster