Articles and Proceedings published in 2001

Journal Articles

1. Cho, P.S. and Phillips, M.H. Reduction of computational dimensionality in inverse radiotherapy planning using sparse matrix operations. Physics in Medicine and Biology 46:N117-N125, 2001.
2. Kuterdem, H.G. and Cho, P.S. Leaf Sequencing with secondary beam blocking under leaf positioning constraints for continuously modulated radiotherapy beams. Medical Physics 28 (6): 894-902, 2001.
3. Meyer J, Mills J A, Haas O C L, Burnham K J, Parvin E M. 'Accommodation of Couch Constraints for Coplanar Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy', Radiotherapy and Oncology, Vol. 61 (1): 23-32, 2001.
4. Meyer J, Burnham K J, Haas O C C, Mills J A, Parvin E M. 'Application of a Least-Squares Parameter Estimation Approach for 2D Spatial Modelling of Compensators for Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy', Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control, accepted for publication.
5. Parsai, H., Phillips, M.H., Cho, P.S., Kippenes, H., Gavin, P., and Axen, D. Verification of dynamic intensity-modulated beam deliveries in canine subjects. Medical Physics, 28: 2198-2208, 2001.
6. Parsai, H., Cho, P.S., Phillips, M. H., Giansiracusa, R.S., and Axen, D. Influence of systematic and random errors in delivery of dynamic intensity-modulated fields. Physics in Medicine and Biology (submitted).
7. Kippenes, H., Gavin, P.R., Parsaei, H., Leathers, C.L., Phillips, M.H., Cho, P.S., Silver, G.M., and Sanders, S. Spatial accuracy of fractionated IMRT delivery: Studies in canine paraspinal irradiation. Int. J. Radiat. Oncolo. Biol. Phys. (submitted).

Proceedings

1. Cho, P.S. ``A new paradigm for designing the intensity modulated radiotherapy beams.'' 2001 Whitaker Foundation Biomedical Engineering Conference, La Jolla, CA, August 10, 2001.
2. Lam, S.T., Marks, R.J., and Cho, P.S. ``Prostate brachytherapy seed segmentation using spoke transform.'' Medical Imaging 2001: Image Processing, M. Sonka and K.M. Hanson, Eds. Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4322:1490-1500 (2001).
3. Phillips MH, Cho PS, Parsaei H. Validation of an IMRT Program from Beginning to End. ESTRO Physics Workshop on ``Verification of IMRT from A to Z'', Seville, Spain, Sept. 15-16, 2001.
4. R.Risler, A.Z.Diaz, R.Emery, J.Jacky, G.E.Laramore and D.Reid, ``Status Report of the Clinical Cyclotron Facility in Seattle.'' Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Cyclotrons and their Applications, East Lansing, MI.

Technical Reports

1. J Jacky, Clinical Neutron Therapy System Implementation, 2001-03-01, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, March, 2001.
2. J Jacky, Clinical Neutron Therapy System Installation and Operations, 99-08-01, Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, August, 1999, (Revised April 2001, 125 pages)