IROC Houston QA Center Publications

 

·        Calculated absorbed-dose ratios, TG51/TG21, for most widely used cylindrical and parallel-plate ion chambers over a range of photon and electron energies.
(Medical Physics, Volume 29, Issue 7, pp. 1464-1472, July 2002.)
R. C. Tailor and W. F. Hanson.

·        Worldwide Quality Assurance Networks for Radiotherapy Dosimetry.
(Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Proceedings of an International Symposium, IAEA, Vienna, Vol. 2, pp.139-55, November 25-28, 2002)
Izewska, J., Svensson, H., Ibbott, G.

·        An anthropomorphic head and neck phantom for evaluation of intensity modulated radiation therapy.
(Standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Proceedings of an International Symposium, IAEA, Vienna, Vol. 2, pp.209-217, November 25-28, 2002.)
Ibbott, G., Nelson, A., Followill, D., Balter, P., Hanson, W. 

·        An anthropomorphic head phantom with a BANG® polymer gel insert for dosimetric evaluation of IMRT treatment delivery.
(standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Proceedings of an International Symposium, IAEA, Vienna, Vol. 2, pp.361-368, November 25-28, 2002.)
Ibbott, G., Beach, M., Maryanski, M.

·        Thermoluminescence Dosimetry as a Tool for the Remote Verification of Output for Radiotherapy Beams: 25 Years of Experince.
(standards and Codes of Practice in Medical Radiation Dosimetry, Proceedings of an International Symposium, IAEA, Vienna, Vol. 2, pp.191-199, November 25-28, 2002.)
Aguirre, J.F.; Tailor, R.; Ibbott, G.; Stovall, M; M. Hanson, W.

·        Comment on "Let's abandon geometry factors other than that of a point source in brachytherapy dosimetry" [Med Phys. 29, 1917–1918 (2002)]
(Medical Physics, Volume 29, Issue 8, pp:1919-1920 , August 2002.)
Mark J. Rivard, Bert M. Coursey, Larry A. DeWerd, William F. Hanson, M. Saiful Huq, Geoffrey Ibbott, Ravinder Nath, and Jeffrey F. Williamson

·        (Letter to Editor) Monte Carlo determination of dose rate constant.
(Medical Physics,Volume 29, Issue 7, pp. 1637-1638, July 2002)
Ibbott, G.S., Meigooni, A. S., Gearheart, D. M.

·        Dosimetric considerations for validation of a sequential IMRT process with a commercial treatment planning system.
(Physics in Medicine and Biology Vol. 47, 3001-3010, 2002.)
Cadman, P., Bassalow, R., Sidhu, N.P.S., Ibbott, G., Nelson, A.

·        Effect of concentration and hydration on restriction of albumin by lung interstitium
(Microvascular Research, Volume 63, Issue 1, pp:27-40, January 2002.)
Villarruel, S., Ibbott, G.S., and Lai-Fook, S.J.

·        Verification of the accuracy of a photon dose-calculation algorithm.
(Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Vol.3 No.1, pp:26-45, 2002.)
Gifford, K.A., Followill, D.S., Liu, H.H., Starkschall, G.,

·        Radiotherapy quality assurance of gynecologic oncology group (GOG) protocol 165, a cooperative group study of carcinoma of the cervix.
(International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Supplement 1, Page 283, 1 October 2002.)
J. R. Lowenstein, J. Roll, W. F. Hanson, D. S. Davis, R. Lanciano, A. R. Calkins, D. Petereit, M. Varia and G. S. Ibbott

·        Reference Photon Dosimetry Data for the Siemens Primus Linear Accelerator: Preliminary Results for Depth Dose and Output Factor
(Medical Physics 29, pp:1944, 2002.)
Cho, S. H. and Ibbott, G.S.

·        Verification of PLAQUE SIMULATOR Dose Distributions Using Radiochromic Film
(Medical Physics 29, pp:1220-1221, 2002.)
Krintz, A., Hanson, W., Ibbott, G., and Followill, D.,

·        Secondary Dose From IMRT Treatments
(Medical Physics 29, pp:1348, 2002.)
Kry, S., Salehpour, M., Followill, D., Stovall, M., and Rosen, I.

·        A reanalysis of the collaborative ocular melanoma study medium tumor trial eye plaque dosimetry
(International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics, Volume 54, Issue 2, Supplement 1, pp:329-330 , 1 October 2002.)
D. S. Followill, A. Krintz, W. F. Hanson and G. S. Ibbott

·        CCPM/COMP Symposium On Gel Dosimetry
(AAPM 44th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2002.)
Duzenli, C., Baldock, C., Ibbott, G., Schreiner, L.J., Jordan, K., Oldham, M., Short, K.

·        Status of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine Radiation Therapy Committee's Subcommittee On Low-Energy Interstitial Brachytherapy Source Dosimetry: Procedure for the Development of Consensus Single-Source Dose-Distributions.
(AAPM 44th Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2002.)
Nath, R., Rivard, M., Coursey, B., DeWerd, Hanson, W., Huq, M., Ibbott, G., Williamson, J.

·        Reference Photon Dosimetry Data for the Siemens Primus Linear Accelerator: Preliminary Results for Depth Dose and Output Factor.
(AAPM 2002.)
Cho, S.H. and Ibbott, G.S.

·        Experience with An IMRT Head and Neck QA Phantom
(AAPM 2002.)
Nelson, A., Balter, P., Hanson, W.F., and Ibbott, G.S.

·        Quality Assurance Measurements of Beam Parameters of a Linear Accelerator Using MOSFET Dosimeters: A Feasibility Study.
(Medical Physics, 29, (6), pp:1201, 2002, |SU-DD-EXH-14|.)
Bencomo, Jose A., and Ibbott, Geoffrey S.,

·        Dosimetry of brachytherapy sources: Review of the AAPM TG-43 formalism.
(Proceedings of the 3rd Korea-Japan Joint Meeting on Medical Physics and the 2nd Asia Oceania Congress of Medical Physics 2002, ISSN 1589-6691, September 2002. Contact: scho@mdanderson.org)
Cho, S. H.

·        Introduction to Radiation Protection for Medical Physicists
(Text Book CD-ROM. Contact: JBencomo@mdanderson.org )
BenComo, Jose' A

·        Principles of Digital Mammography 1st Ed.
(University Autonomous of Mexico City, Mex., 2002. Contact: JBencomo@mdanderson.org )
BenComo, Jose' A

·        Intravascular Brachytherapy Fluoroscopically Guided Interventions
(AAPM Medical Physics Monograph No. 28, 2002. Published by Medical Physics Publishing Madison, WI ISBN: 1-930524-10-2)
Editors: Stephen Balter, Rosanna C. Chan, and Thomas B. Shope, Jr.

·        Created an educational video on how to utilize the TG-51 Calibration Protocol
(Radiological Physics Center, 2002.)
Lowenstein, J.