COMP Poster Award
Congratulations to Cheryl Duzenli, Joel Beaudry, Richard Lee, and Vince Strgar (and their co-authors outside the department) for winning best poster at COMP in Ottawa last week! Awesome work! 2017 COMP Award Recipients: https://www.comp-ocpm.ca/english/news/2017-award-recipients.htm
Our department at COMP
We are excited that our department will have a strong presence at COMP 2017! Youssef Ben Bouchta (Ph.D candidate), Maral Golshan (Ph.D candidate), and Tony Mestrovic will be giving oral presentations. There will also be at least four posters present from our department representing exciting work by physicists, students, residents, and physics assistants – be […]
Editor’s Choice paper
Congratulations to Byron Wilson (Ph.D candidate), Ermias Gete, and Karl Otto! Their recent publication has been honoured as an Editor’s Choice article in Medical Physics, a fantastic achievement. Citation: Wilson B, Otto K, Gete E. A simple and robust trajectory-based stereotactic radiosurgery treatment. Medical Physics 2017; 44 (1): 240-248.
New First-in-Canada Treatment Technology at the BCCA
The BC Cancer Foundation reached $6.5-million in funding, enabling the purchase of a new Vero™ treatment machine. The first of its kind in Canada, Dr. Ross Halperin believes “the VERO™ is an exciting treatment technology that will open the door to research new treatment options for patients with brain, liver, pancreas, kidney and lung cancers.”
Congratulations, Dr. McVicar
Congratulations, Nevin, on successfully defending your PhD thesis. It’s titled “Temperature and pH imaging using chemical exchange saturation transfer MRI contrast.” It doesn’t yet appear to be available, so you might find a recent paper of his (“Quantitative tissue pH measurement during cerebral ischemia using amine and amide concentration-independent detection (AACID) with MRI” [betcha can’t […]