ESR 6 - Log Records of my activities througout the ARDENT training
Activities 2013Q1
Training
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: March-April, 2013
Description:Introduction to FLUKA/FLUPIX Monte Carlo code by Dr. Sofia Rollet. The code is meant to be used to simulate dose to phantom by the neutron and photon beam from the Mainz TRIGA reactor.
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: March, 2013
Description:Introduction to molecular imaging and nuclear medicime by Dr. Claudia Kuntner. Operational principals of microPET laboratory were explained together with animal experiment.
Conferences
Venue: Montreal, Canada
Date: 29-30 October, 2012
Description: Representing Canadian space radiation community on behalf Dr. Anthony Waker. The workshop informed the scientific community about the utilization of CNES stratospheric balloons while the participants identified Canadian scientific and technological objectives requiring balloon flights.
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 20-23 November 2012
Description: This workshop was the first annual workshop organised by ARDENT. It's goal was to gather all ESRs and the respective supervisors in order to have an overview of the evolution in the different research projects. It was a good occasion to meet all the representatives from the different institutions and an excellent opportunity for us ESRs to know each other better. This workshop was highlighted by the visit to the MedAustron Cancer treatment facility which is actually in construction near Vienna.
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 7-11 March 2013
Description: The ECR annual symposium was an excellent conference on radiology and oncology. It was my first big meeting with the experts in this field with more than 20 000 medical specialists. I was able to attend to the different lectures in person and online which were directly related to my PhD studies.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: February-May 2013
Description: This course is focused on working principal and application of various types of lasers that are commonly used in medical field. Even though this course is not directly related to my field of study, it is one of the mandatories courses at the Medical University of Vienna.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The aim of this course is to introduce new radiotherapy techniques that have not been commonly implemented in the clinical environment. The lectures are done in a form of journal club where each student presents four recent papers from prestigious journals.
Activities 2013Q2
Training
Place: Vienna General Hospital, Austria
Date: June, 2013:
Description:Visit of the oncology center of the Vienna General Hospital. Various machines have been presented in order for me to get an idea of the physical limitations for the proposed phantom. Besides the treatment planning system equipment some commotional and experimental phantoms have been introduced with their working principals and functionality by Dr. Georg Dietmar.
Conferences
Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 13 June, 2013
Description: Preparation meeting for the Annual Workshop in Milan. During the meeting new members of the team were introduced. In addition, we go a tour of the ATLAS detector in the LHC.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: June 2013
activeDescription: The basic seminar provides an introduction into Radiation Oncology physics, ranging from the operational principles of beam delivery units, dose calculation, dosimetry, treatment planning to advanced radiotherapy techniques like Intensity modulated radiotherapy, image guided radiotherapy, and stereotactic radiotherapy.
Other activities
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: May, 2013
Description:Lecture given by Dr. Blaickner Matthias about functionality of digital radiation therapy phantoms.
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: May, 2013
Description:Writing and submitting the HeBrePha (Heterogeneous Breathing Phantom) proposal to FFG grant committee together with Dr. Sofia Rollet.
Activities 2013Q2
Training
Place: University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada
Date: July, 2013:
Description: Garfield++ (Monte Carlo) simulation of gas detector for tritium detection in air. The work has been done together with Dr. Anthony Waker.
Important meetings
Place: Durham Cancer Centre, Lakeridge Health Hospital, Canada
Date: July, 2013
Description: Meeting with Dr. Aaron Vandermeer who is medical physicist at Lakeridge Health Hospital who resented their radiation therapy phantoms. We discussed features of more complex phantoms. He also suggested some changes to my correct design in order to make the phantom more human like.
The pictures below show currently used phantoms at the Durham Cancer Centre.
Other activities
Place: Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria
Date: August, 2013
Description: One month intensive German language and Austrian culture course at Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Activities 2013Q4
Training
Place: Dresden, Germany
Date: 7-11 October, 2013
Description: The course went over basic set up of this Monte Carlo code. The instructors introduce simple ways how to create more complex geometries by the use of graphical editor, set different physics cards, obtain the wanted readouts and to debug the code. I highly appreciate the newly learned transformation and translation for fast and simple geometry modifications.
Place: Seibersdorf Labor, Austria
Date: November, 2013
Description: This was a basic radiation training that every radiation protection worker must go thru in order to work with the LINACs and sources at laboratories
Conferences
Venue: Milan, Italy
Date: 14 - 18 October, 2013
Description: The Workshop took place in Milano during the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. ESRs presented their work for the Mid-Term Review and useful information was exchanged. Experts were invited to deliver training courses on experimental micro- and nanodosimetry.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The course was design to give overview on the history, methods (designs) of clinical trial and good clinical practice and provided introduction to the European clinical trial Directive, pharmacovigilance and meta-analyses.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The usage of common and specific software packages that are important in science were described, in particular: Adobe Photoshop; Endnote; GraphPad Prism, Sigmaplot (as well as the following scientific freeware: ImageJ , WinMDI (cytometry analyses) Cn3D, Rasmol, Chimera (3D visualization of molecules). In addition, various scientific databases were described in more detail.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The course was focused on basis of MRI like different signals (T1, T2, T2*), orientation of spins in space under the influence of magnetic field and various reading techniques such as contrast enhance imaging, dynamic imaging and fast spin echo imaging.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The main objective of this course where covering the history and justification of patent system, types of intellectual property rights and contracts, the patent application process, research of novelty, biopatents, license contracts. Moreover, the lectures touched on the topic of market research and project management.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The aim of this course is to introduce new radiotherapy techniques that have not been commonly implemented in the clinical environment. The lectures are done in a form of journal club where each student presents four recent papers from prestigious journals.
Outreach
Venue: Oshawa, Canada
Date: 29 November, 2013
Description: During my visit in Canada I gave my first ARDENT outreach presentation at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology to the PhD and Master students of nuclear engineering faculty. The presentation was very successful as students showed a great interest in various detectors used within ARDENT proven by the hour long question section. In addition, the school was interested in buying the educational Medipix toolkit produced by Jablotron.
Experimental activities
Place: Vienna General Hospital, Vienna
Date: November, 2013
Description: Various dose profiles were measured by the use of Ru-106 source (standard eye applicator) and PTW micro-diamond detector prototype. The measurement will be used for eye melanoma TPS benchmarking.
Activities 2014Q1
Training
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March-May, 2014
Description: Medical LINACs require daily, monthly and annually check in order to verify that the machine can deliver prescribe dose to a patient. QA is being done by the use of different TPS setups while mechanical and radiation output of the machine is evaluated.
Conferences
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 6 - 10 March, 2014
Description: The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) is the annual meeting of the European Society of Radiology (ESR). It was my second time attending this massive 20 000 participants conference. The program included 1500 oral scientific and educational presentations related to the state-of the-art cancer diagnostics and treatment methods.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: February-May, 2014
Description: The aim of this course was to introduce new radiotherapy techniques that have not been commonly implemented in the clinical environment. The lectures are done in a form of journal club where each student presents three recent papers from prestigious journals
Date: February-May, 2014
Description: Ethics in clinical research: history, important international and national guidelines, ethics committees (mode of operation, tasks). Good Scientific Practice: Good scientific practice guidelines of the Medical University of Vienna and scientific misconduct
Measurements
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March - May, 2014
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March - May, 2014
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March - May, 2014
Activities 2014Q1
Training
Place: CERN
Date: 19 - 23 March, 2014
Description: The training course was composed of three sessions: knowledge and technology transfer, entrepreneurship and project management. The courses where focusing on how to become good project manage and how to create own private companies based on our research
Conferences
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 4 -8 April, 2014
Description: European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO) conference was a great place for any radiation oncologists, physicists, radiobiologists and RTTs where a broad portfolio of educational presentations and workshops were presented. Symposia and debates were focused new evidence for the more common tumors, for the challenging unusual clinical presentations as well as in biology, imaging, physics and technology
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 29 April, 2014
Description: The workshop was dedicated to the application of imaging in life sciences. The scientific program of this workshop aimed to reflect its truly multidisciplinary and translational character with contributions from the development of novel tracers, through preclinical studies and quantification of observed signals, to clinical (research) applications
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: April - June, 2014
Description: The aim of this seminar is to stimulate discussion about various topics related to medical physics and in-house developments of the Department of Oncology at AKH
Measurements
Place: CNAO
Date: 8 June, 2014
Description: Phantom connection materials test including different construction techniques has been conducted in order to analyze best suitable method for the dynamic thorax phantom construction
Activities 2013Q1
Training
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: March-April, 2013
Description:Introduction to FLUKA/FLUPIX Monte Carlo code by Dr. Sofia Rollet. The code is meant to be used to simulate dose to phantom by the neutron and photon beam from the Mainz TRIGA reactor.
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: March, 2013
Description:Introduction to molecular imaging and nuclear medicime by Dr. Claudia Kuntner. Operational principals of microPET laboratory were explained together with animal experiment.
Conferences
Venue: Montreal, Canada
Date: 29-30 October, 2012
Description: Representing Canadian space radiation community on behalf Dr. Anthony Waker. The workshop informed the scientific community about the utilization of CNES stratospheric balloons while the participants identified Canadian scientific and technological objectives requiring balloon flights.
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 20-23 November 2012
Description: This workshop was the first annual workshop organised by ARDENT. It's goal was to gather all ESRs and the respective supervisors in order to have an overview of the evolution in the different research projects. It was a good occasion to meet all the representatives from the different institutions and an excellent opportunity for us ESRs to know each other better. This workshop was highlighted by the visit to the MedAustron Cancer treatment facility which is actually in construction near Vienna.
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 7-11 March 2013
Description: The ECR annual symposium was an excellent conference on radiology and oncology. It was my first big meeting with the experts in this field with more than 20 000 medical specialists. I was able to attend to the different lectures in person and online which were directly related to my PhD studies.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: February-May 2013
Description: This course is focused on working principal and application of various types of lasers that are commonly used in medical field. Even though this course is not directly related to my field of study, it is one of the mandatories courses at the Medical University of Vienna.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The aim of this course is to introduce new radiotherapy techniques that have not been commonly implemented in the clinical environment. The lectures are done in a form of journal club where each student presents four recent papers from prestigious journals.
Activities 2013Q2
Training
Place: Vienna General Hospital, Austria
Date: June, 2013:
Description:Visit of the oncology center of the Vienna General Hospital. Various machines have been presented in order for me to get an idea of the physical limitations for the proposed phantom. Besides the treatment planning system equipment some commotional and experimental phantoms have been introduced with their working principals and functionality by Dr. Georg Dietmar.
Conferences
Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
Date: 13 June, 2013
Description: Preparation meeting for the Annual Workshop in Milan. During the meeting new members of the team were introduced. In addition, we go a tour of the ATLAS detector in the LHC.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: June 2013
activeDescription: The basic seminar provides an introduction into Radiation Oncology physics, ranging from the operational principles of beam delivery units, dose calculation, dosimetry, treatment planning to advanced radiotherapy techniques like Intensity modulated radiotherapy, image guided radiotherapy, and stereotactic radiotherapy.
Other activities
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: May, 2013
Description:Lecture given by Dr. Blaickner Matthias about functionality of digital radiation therapy phantoms.
Place: AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Austria
Date: May, 2013
Description:Writing and submitting the HeBrePha (Heterogeneous Breathing Phantom) proposal to FFG grant committee together with Dr. Sofia Rollet.
Activities 2013Q2
Training
Place: University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Canada
Date: July, 2013:
Description: Garfield++ (Monte Carlo) simulation of gas detector for tritium detection in air. The work has been done together with Dr. Anthony Waker.
Important meetings
Place: Durham Cancer Centre, Lakeridge Health Hospital, Canada
Date: July, 2013
Description: Meeting with Dr. Aaron Vandermeer who is medical physicist at Lakeridge Health Hospital who resented their radiation therapy phantoms. We discussed features of more complex phantoms. He also suggested some changes to my correct design in order to make the phantom more human like.
The pictures below show currently used phantoms at the Durham Cancer Centre.
Other activities
Place: Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, Austria
Date: August, 2013
Description: One month intensive German language and Austrian culture course at Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.
Activities 2013Q4
Training
Place: Dresden, Germany
Date: 7-11 October, 2013
Description: The course went over basic set up of this Monte Carlo code. The instructors introduce simple ways how to create more complex geometries by the use of graphical editor, set different physics cards, obtain the wanted readouts and to debug the code. I highly appreciate the newly learned transformation and translation for fast and simple geometry modifications.
Place: Seibersdorf Labor, Austria
Date: November, 2013
Description: This was a basic radiation training that every radiation protection worker must go thru in order to work with the LINACs and sources at laboratories
Conferences
Venue: Milan, Italy
Date: 14 - 18 October, 2013
Description: The Workshop took place in Milano during the 150th anniversary of the Politecnico di Milano. ESRs presented their work for the Mid-Term Review and useful information was exchanged. Experts were invited to deliver training courses on experimental micro- and nanodosimetry.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The course was design to give overview on the history, methods (designs) of clinical trial and good clinical practice and provided introduction to the European clinical trial Directive, pharmacovigilance and meta-analyses.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The usage of common and specific software packages that are important in science were described, in particular: Adobe Photoshop; Endnote; GraphPad Prism, Sigmaplot (as well as the following scientific freeware: ImageJ , WinMDI (cytometry analyses) Cn3D, Rasmol, Chimera (3D visualization of molecules). In addition, various scientific databases were described in more detail.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The course was focused on basis of MRI like different signals (T1, T2, T2*), orientation of spins in space under the influence of magnetic field and various reading techniques such as contrast enhance imaging, dynamic imaging and fast spin echo imaging.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The main objective of this course where covering the history and justification of patent system, types of intellectual property rights and contracts, the patent application process, research of novelty, biopatents, license contracts. Moreover, the lectures touched on the topic of market research and project management.
Date: February-May 2013
Description: The aim of this course is to introduce new radiotherapy techniques that have not been commonly implemented in the clinical environment. The lectures are done in a form of journal club where each student presents four recent papers from prestigious journals.
Outreach
Venue: Oshawa, Canada
Date: 29 November, 2013
Description: During my visit in Canada I gave my first ARDENT outreach presentation at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology to the PhD and Master students of nuclear engineering faculty. The presentation was very successful as students showed a great interest in various detectors used within ARDENT proven by the hour long question section. In addition, the school was interested in buying the educational Medipix toolkit produced by Jablotron.
Experimental activities
Place: Vienna General Hospital, Vienna
Date: November, 2013
Description: Various dose profiles were measured by the use of Ru-106 source (standard eye applicator) and PTW micro-diamond detector prototype. The measurement will be used for eye melanoma TPS benchmarking.
Activities 2014Q1
Training
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March-May, 2014
Description: Medical LINACs require daily, monthly and annually check in order to verify that the machine can deliver prescribe dose to a patient. QA is being done by the use of different TPS setups while mechanical and radiation output of the machine is evaluated.
Conferences
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 6 - 10 March, 2014
Description: The European Congress of Radiology (ECR) is the annual meeting of the European Society of Radiology (ESR). It was my second time attending this massive 20 000 participants conference. The program included 1500 oral scientific and educational presentations related to the state-of the-art cancer diagnostics and treatment methods.
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: February-May, 2014
Description: The aim of this course was to introduce new radiotherapy techniques that have not been commonly implemented in the clinical environment. The lectures are done in a form of journal club where each student presents three recent papers from prestigious journals
Date: February-May, 2014
Description: Ethics in clinical research: history, important international and national guidelines, ethics committees (mode of operation, tasks). Good Scientific Practice: Good scientific practice guidelines of the Medical University of Vienna and scientific misconduct
Measurements
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March - May, 2014
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March - May, 2014
Place: Vienna General Hospital
Date: March - May, 2014
Activities 2014Q1
Training
Place: CERN
Date: 19 - 23 March, 2014
Description: The training course was composed of three sessions: knowledge and technology transfer, entrepreneurship and project management. The courses where focusing on how to become good project manage and how to create own private companies based on our research
Conferences
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 4 -8 April, 2014
Description: European Society for Radiotherapy & Oncology (ESTRO) conference was a great place for any radiation oncologists, physicists, radiobiologists and RTTs where a broad portfolio of educational presentations and workshops were presented. Symposia and debates were focused new evidence for the more common tumors, for the challenging unusual clinical presentations as well as in biology, imaging, physics and technology
Venue: Vienna, Austria
Date: 29 April, 2014
Description: The workshop was dedicated to the application of imaging in life sciences. The scientific program of this workshop aimed to reflect its truly multidisciplinary and translational character with contributions from the development of novel tracers, through preclinical studies and quantification of observed signals, to clinical (research) applications
Graduate school courses at Medical University of Vienna
Date: April - June, 2014
Description: The aim of this seminar is to stimulate discussion about various topics related to medical physics and in-house developments of the Department of Oncology at AKH
Measurements
Place: CNAO
Date: 8 June, 2014
Description: Phantom connection materials test including different construction techniques has been conducted in order to analyze best suitable method for the dynamic thorax phantom construction