 AAPM William D. Coolidge Recipient for
2004
C. Clifton Ling, Ph.D.
C. Clifton Ling received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics from the
University of Washington, Seattle, in 1971. He then entered radiation
biophysics and medical physics as a Research Fellow at Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Since then, he has held academic
appointments at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical
School, George Washington University Medical Center, University of
California, San Francisco, and is currently the Enid A. Haupt Professor
and Chairman of the Department of Medical Physics, Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Professor of Radiology (Physics), Weill
Medical College of Cornell University.
Dr. Ling has been an active participant in professional activities
within the AAPM. He served on the Board of Directors (82-87), chaired the
Scientific Program Committee (83-87) and Science Council (91-93), and
participated in numerous committees and task groups. He also contributed
in many other societies, serving as chair of the ASTRO Radiation Physics
Committee, as a Councilor in Physics in Radiation Research Society, and
was on grant review panels of both the U.S. and Canadian National Cancer
Institutes. He has been on the editorial boards of Medical Physics,
International Journal of Radiation Oncology/Biology/Physics, Radiotherapy
Oncology, Seminars in Radiation Oncology, Radiation Research, and
Radiographics.
Dr. Ling has received numerous honors and awards, including Honorary
Member of the European Society of Therapeutic Radiology Oncology, Evan and
Marion Helfaer Distinguished Lectureship of the Medical College of
Wisconsin Cancer Center, Ray Bush Visiting Professor of Princess Margaret
Hospital and Ontario Cancer Institute, Suntharalingam Lecturer of Thomas
Jefferson University, Speaker of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada, Ira Spiro Visiting Professor of Harvard Medical
School, Franz Buschke Lecturer of University of California, San Francisco,
and in 2003 keynote speaker at the UK Radiation Oncology Society and Japan
Radiological Society annual meetings.
Dr. Ling’s research interest range from the fundamentals of cancer
radiation biology to optimized radiation treatment planning and delivery,
and more recently biological and molecular imaging as applied to cancer
management. He has contributed to brachytherapy dosimetry, particularly of
I-125 seeds. In collaboration with scientists and clinicians, they have
participated in the development of 3D-CRT and IMRT, and ushered in the
wide-spread use of these advance techniques. In biological research Dr.
Ling has studied the oxygen effect, dose rate effects and the repair of
sublethal damage, hypoxic cell radiosensitization, radiation induced
carcinogenesis and apoptosis, and the effects of oncogenes on
radiosensitivity. At present, his laboratory is focusing on the biological
basis of molecular and functional imaging. Dr. Ling has authored more than
180 peer-reviewed papers and over 30 chapters in books and proceedings. He
has been the principal investigator on numerous grants from the National
Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, and American Cancer Society.
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AAPM Award for Achievement in Medical Physics
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 Donald E. Herbert, Ph.D.
Donald Herbert received his Ph.D. from
University of London in 1967 as a Special Research Fellow of the US
National Cancer Institute. (Previous studies were at Carnegie-Mellon,
Northwestern, Oklahoma, and Johns Hopkins). He returned from London to
Colorado Springs (He had been an assistant professor of physics at
Colorado College 1961-1964) and joined Penrose Cancer Hospital
(1967-1975). Presently, he is Professor of Radiology and Director of the
Biostatistics and Epidemiology Core Unit at the University of South
Alabama College of Medicine. He is an AAPM Fellow and a former Associate
Editor of Medical Physics. He chaired the AAPM First Midyear Topical
Symposium on statistical modeling, the AAPM-sponsored workshop on
nonlinear dynamics, two AAPM standing committees and three task groups. He
was co-editor of and major contributor to the proceedings of the
symposium, workshop and five international conferences. He was a Visiting
Scientist at the AAPM Radiological Physics Center (Houston) and an
AAPM-IPEM Visiting Lecturer (United Kingdom). He has been a statistical
consultant to various organizations including the US Nuclear Regulatory
Commission (1980-1983), a member of the US National Academy of Sciences
BEIR V Committee (1986-1990), and a co-author of their BEIR V report. He
is an author of over 70 publications in books, journals, reports and
proceedings of conferences (including over 1400 pages as sole author) and
has given over 80 presentations (including refresher courses at AAPM,
ASTRO and RSNA) that encompass a broad range of studies in both basic and
clinical medical sciences and draw upon an extensive repertoire of
advanced mathematical and statistical concepts, insights, models and
methods. His current projects include a lecture series on modeling, a
monograph on nonlinear dynamics and a pilot program in data-mining.
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Special Award for Outstanding Service to the
AAPM
Carl J. Vyborny, M.D., Ph.D. |
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 Carl J. Vyborny, M.D., Ph.D., whose life (1950-2004) was
cut short by lung cancer, was both a radiologist and medical physicist,
and contributed uniquely to the understanding of the physical aspects of
image quality and to the clinical usage of computer-aided diagnosis. Dr.
Vyborny received bachelor and masters degrees in physics from University
of Illinois, and a Ph.D. in medical physics and an M.D. with honors from
University of Chicago. As a radiologist at LaGrange Memorial Hospital,
Illinois, he was P.I. for the first Chicagoland clinical trial of
mammographic CAD and for one of the sites for the ACRIN Digital
Mammography Imaging Screening Trial. He served as Radiation Safety Officer
at two hospitals and on the Illinois Radiation Protection Advisory
Council. As a Clinical Professor at the University of Chicago, Dr. Vyborny
actively advised medical physics Ph.D. graduate students and helped train
radiology residents on the physics of radiographic image quality. Dr.
Vyborny participated in the creation of the Mammography Accreditation
Program of the ACR and, as an original member of the Academy of Radiology
Research, in the efforts to establish the NIH National Institute of
Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. He was lead author on the 2003
International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurement report, ICRU
Report 70, "Image Quality in Chest Radiography", which will be used for
many years by both medical physicists and radiologists. Dr. Vyborny was a
fellow of the AAPM, the SBI, and the ACR. He received the Distinguished
Service Award Gold Medal from the Chicago Radiological Society.
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New AAPM Fellows
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 Larry E.
Antonuk, Ph.D.
Larry Antonuk received his PhD degree in Nuclear Physics
from the University of Alberta in 1981. He performed nuclear research at
the University of Neuchatel (Switzerland) and at Saclay (France) from
1981-1986. In 1987, he joined the Department of Radiation Oncology at the
University of Michigan, rising to the rank of Professor in 2001. He
founded the flat-panel imaging group at Michigan in 1987 and devotes the
majority of his research efforts to his research in x-ray imaging
technologies focusing on radiotherapy, radiography, fluoroscopy, and
mammography. Dr. Antonuk, along with his colleague and friend Dr. Robert
Street of Xerox, PARC, was an early proponent of the concept of applying
active-matrix addressing to the problem of x-ray imagers. His extensive
work in the field has helped to inspire significant academic, clinical and
industrial interest in active-matrix, flat-panel imagers to the extent
that these devices are now used routinely in a wide variety of clinical
settings.
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 Caridad Borrás,
D.Sc.
Cari Borrás has a Doctor of Science degree in Physics
from the University of Barcelona, Spain. She did her thesis at Thomas
Jefferson University (TJU), Philadelphia, as a Fulbright scholar. She is
certified in Radiological Physics (ABR) and in Medical Health Physics
(ABMP). She worked as a radiological physicist at the Santa Creu i Sant
Pau Hospital, Barcelona; at TJU; at the West Coast Cancer Foundation, San
Francisco, and at the Pan American Health Organization/World Health
Organization (PAHO/WHO), Washington, DC. She is currently Senior Scientist
and Director of Special Programs at The Institute for Radiological Image
Sciences, Frederick, MD; Adjunct Assistant Professor (Radiology) at The
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences,
Washington DC, and consultant for PAHO/WHO and IAEA. She is an ACR Fellow
and a founding member of the Spanish (SEFM) and the Latin American Medical
Physics Societies. In 2003 she was awarded SEFM’s Gold Medal.
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 Karen E.
Breitman, B.Sc.
Karen Breitman entered the field of medical physics at
the Manitoba Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation in Winnipeg, finding
here an exciting multi-disciplinary area where an education in physics can
be combined with an interest in medicine and biological sciences. She
worked there for many years as a clinical medical physicist before joining
the Tom Baker Cancer Center in Calgary where she is currently a senior
medical physicist. At the TBCC, she also served terms as Director and
Acting Director of Medical Physics. She is board certified in radiation
oncology by the ABMP and is a fellow of the CCPM. With appointments at the
University of Manitoba and the University of Calgary, she has been
involved with the education and training of radiation therapists,
residents and medical physics graduate students. She has served in
leadership, executive and committee roles for several medical physics
scientific and certification organizations in Canada as well as in the
AAPM.
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 Michael
J. Bronskill, Ph.D.
Michael Bronskill was born in Toronto, Canada. He
received his B.Sc. in Mathematics and Physics from the University of
Toronto in 1966, and M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Medical Biophysics from
the University of Toronto in 1968 and 1970, respectively. From 1970 to
‘71, he held an MRC Centennial Fellowship at the Max Planck Institut fur
biophysikalische Chemie in Gottingen, Germany. In late 1971 he returned to
the Ontario Cancer Institute as a Scientist in the Physics Division, where
he remained until 1990. He is presently Senior Scientist and Director of
Imaging Research at Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre.
He is a Professor at the University of Toronto in the Department of
Medical Biophysics, cross-appointed to Physics and Medical Imaging. He has
published over 120 papers, mainly on MRI techniques and their applications
in biophysics and medicine. His current research focuses on the use of MRI
for interventional procedures, particularly for thermal
therapies.
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 Heang-Ping Chan,
Ph.D.
Heang-Ping Chan received her Ph.D. degree in Medical
Physics at the University of Chicago in 1981. Her early research
concentrated on the investigation of the properties of scattered
radiation, the performance of antiscatter grids, and the energy responses
of x-ray detectors. She later extended her interests to the development of
imaging techniques in mammography and chest radiography. She began
research in digital image processing in 1983 and CAD in 1985. Her
interests in mammography and CAD continue throughout her career. Her
recent research includes the development of stereomammography technique,
development of CAD systems for breast cancer detection in mammography,
ultrasonography, and digital tomosynthesis mammography, and development of
CAD systems for lung cancer and pulmonary embolism detection. Her research
has been supported by the American Cancer Society, the Whitaker
Foundation, the NIH and the USAMRMC. She has published over 90 articles in
peer-reviewed journals.
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 Jerome G. Dare,
Ph.D.
Dr. Jerome G. Dare received his Ph.D. from Ohio State
University in 1986. Jerry is currently retired from his position at Ohio
State University as Professor Emeritus in the Department of Radiology. Of
significance to AAPM is his contribution to the educational and
professional aspects of our Society. He has served as a member of many
committees in all aspects - professional, educational, and scientific - of
the AAPM. In addition, he has been an exemplary and active medical physics
representative with ACR, SNM, and HPS. He was an advisor to the State of
Ohio regarding various medical and health physics issues. Jerry continues
to contribute to the AAPM in his retirement as current chairman of the
History Committee and his appointment as Associate AAPM Historian for
Photography.
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 Dick J. Drost,
Ph.D.
Dick Drost received his PhD degree in Medical Biophysics
from the University of Toronto in 1983 and joined the department of
Radiology and Nuclear Medicine at St. Joseph's Health Centre, a teaching
hospital with the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario. He is
currently a professor in the same department as well as the departments of
Medical Biophysics and Psychiatry. His research interests include the
application of in vivo magnetic resonance spectroscopy in mental health,
with more than 48 peer reviewed publications. He has served on the AAPM MR
committee including task groups on MR spectroscopy, MR safety, and MR
acceptance testing.
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 Marc Edwards,
Ph.D.
Dr. Marc Edwards received his B.S. in physics from UCLA
in 1970. At the Univ. of Colo., he received an M.S. in nuclear physics and
a Ph.D. in Medical Physics. Dr. Edwards joined the faculty of the
Radiology Dept of the Univ. of Missouri in 1976. He received ABR
certification in Diag. and Ther. Physics in 1980. At MU he taught
radiology residents, and helped establish the Medical Physics graduate
program. He directed and/or helped direct 15 medical physics grad
students. Dr. Edwards has published 18 peer reviewed articles, 6 book
chapters and co-edited one book. Since leaving academia, Dr. Edwards has
been involved in clinical radiation oncology physics, but, through joint
appointments, has continued to teach residents, technologists and
dosimetrists. He has served the AAPM and ACR through participation in
committees on education and training. He has been active in NCRP
committees and has been an NCRP Council Member. Dr. Edwards also enjoys
contributing to the ABR as an oral examiner.
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 B. Gino
Fallone, Ph.D.
B. Gino Fallone has a PhD (Physics, McGill, 1983) under
E.B. Podgorsak. He is certified by the CCPM (Fellow) and the ABMP. He was
Assistant Professor (1985-88) at MD Anderson Cancer Center. He was
Associate Professor at McGill from 1988-99. From 1999 until present, he is
Professor and Director of the Medical Physics Division (Dept. of
Oncology), Professor, Physics Dept. at the University of Alberta (UofA),
and the Director, Medical Physics Department, Cross Cancer Institute. He
developed and is Director of the Medical Physics Graduate Prg. at the UofA
that has been accredited by CAMPEP. He is the recipient of over $30M in
grants as PI, has directly supervised over 20 graduate students and
co-supervised many others, has over 120 peer-reviewed papers and
proceedings, 116 abstracts, 68 posters and 154 presentations, and several
patents. He has served as Secretary and Chair of COMP, and on the Board
and Chief Examiner of the CCPM, and Associate Editor of Medical
Physics.
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 Mitchell M.
Goodsitt, Ph.D.
Mitch Goodsitt received his Ph.D. degree in Medical
Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1982. From 1982-1986, he was
an Assistant in Physics at MGH in Boston. From 1986-1992 he was an
Assistant Professor at the University of Washington. Since 1992, he has
been an Associate/Full Professor of Radiological Sciences at the
University of Michigan. His research interests include the development of
1) a 3-D model for generating the texture in ultrasound images, 2) a
dual-energy QCT method for estimating bone and fat content, 3) a virtual
3-D cursor for measuring distances in stereo mammograms, 4) automated spot
mammography, and 5) combined x-ray and ultrasound imaging of the breast.
He has co-authored 65 peer-reviewed papers. He was the first author of the
AAPM Ultrasound Task Group No. 1 report on ultrasound quality control. He
was the co-director of the scientific programs at the 1996 and 1997 AAPM
meetings. He is certified in Diagnostic Radiologic Physics by the
ABR.
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 Edward F.
Jackson, Ph.D.
Edward Jackson received his BS and MS degrees from Auburn
University and his PhD degree from The University of Texas Graduate School
of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS). Dr. Jackson has served as member or chair
of several AAPM committees and task groups, serves as Chair of the ACR MR
Physics Subcommittee, and is a member of the CAMPEP Graduate Education
Program Review Committee. He is board certified by the ABR in Diagnostic
Physics and by the ABMP in MRI Physics. Dr. Jackson has served as a
frequent lecturer and/or co-director of continuing education or refresher
courses for the AAPM, RSNA, and ACR. He is currently Deputy Director of
the Graduate Medical Physics Program at the University of Texas GSBS and
Deputy Chair ad interim of the Department of Imaging Physics at M.D.
Anderson Cancer Center. He has served as PI or Co-PI for 16 grants and/or
contracts in the past five years, and has authored or co-authored more
than 50 peer-reviewed manuscripts, review articles, and book chapters.
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 Ponnunni K.
Kartha, M.S.
Ponnunni Kartha received his MSc from the University of
Kerala, India and became a medical physicist in 1961 at the Cancer
Institute there. He was awarded an International Fellowship to attend the
University of Wisconsin under Professor Cameron (1964-65). He joined Rush
University as the first fulltime therapy physicist in 1970 and has been an
Associate Professor at Rush University since 1975. He has obtained ABR
certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics (1975), ABMP
certification (1991) and ACR. He has trained over 25 graduate students in
clinical therapy dosimetry and practices. Dr. Kartha has been very active
in the ACR, including site visiting more than 50 radiation oncology
practices for ACR accreditation in the last 12 years. He has pioneered
research in set-up accuracy for patients treated with Cobalt-60 and linear
accelerators, is the co-author of 38 publications, and has authored the
book "DOSIMETRY WORK BOOK",one of the original practical guide for monitor
unit calculations.
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 Daniel A. Low,
Ph.D.
Daniel Low received his Ph.D. in Experimental
Intermediate Nuclear Physics from Indiana University in 1988. He was a
postdoctoral fellow in radiation therapy physics at M.D. Anderson Cancer
Center from 1988-1990, where he worked with Dr. Starkschall on the
computer optimization and fabrication of electron bolus. Dr. Low joined
Washington University at the Mallickrodt Institute of Radiology in the
Division, later Department of Radiation Oncology as a clinical medical
physicist, where he is now an Associate Professor with tenure. He is board
certified by the American Board of Medical Physics and the American Board
of Radiology in Radiation Oncology Physics. Dr. Low has served in many
capacities in the American AAPM Radiation Therapy Committee and IMRT
Subcommittee. Dr. Low has published 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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 Marlene H.P.
McKetty, Ph.D.
Marlene H. McKetty, Ph.D. received her B.S. degree in
Zoology and Chemistry from the University of the W.I.; M.S. & Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Florida in Medical Physics. On graduating,
she worked at Mt. Sinai Hospital Department of Radiation Therapy in New
York and now at Howard University Hospital Department of Radiology where
she is the chief physicist and Assistant Professor. She is certified by
the ABR in Therapeutic Radiological Physics and Diagnostic Radiological
Physics and certified by the ABMP in Diagnostic Imaging Physics. She
chairs the Radiation Safety Committee at Howard University and has served
as the RSO for the institution. She is active professionally in the ACR
serving on several committees and is currently on the CAMPEP Board of
Directors as a representative of ACR. She continues to serve on several
AAPM committees and task groups. Her research interest is in breast cancer
detection and treatment especially in the African-American
population.
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 Charles E. Metz,
Ph.D.
Charles E. Metz earned his B.A. in physics from Bowdoin College in 1964
and his Ph.D. in radiological physics from the University of Pennsylvania
in 1969. Joining the Department of Radiology at The University of Chicago
as Instructor immediately thereafter, Dr. Metz was promoted to Assistant
Professor in 1971, to Associate Professor in 1976 and to Professor in
1980. His research interests include image reconstruction from projections
and the development of methodology for objective evaluation of diagnostic
performance, with particular emphasis on receiver operating characteristic
(ROC) analysis. Dr. Metz is the author or a co-author of more than 200
scientific publications, and ROC software developed by his group is now
used by more than 6000 laboratories around the world. In 1995 Dr. Metz
received the first annual Kurt Rossmann Award for Excellence in Teaching
by vote of students in The University of Chicago's Graduate Programs in
Medical Physics.
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 Douglas R.
Shearer, Ph.D.
Douglas Shearer was born in Australia and brought up in
Glasgow, Scotland where he obtained a B.Sc in Natural Philosophy. After 2
years of global hitch hiking and another 2 as apprentice Medical Physicist
in Birmingham, England, Doug obtained MSc and PhD degrees in Radiation
Physics from London University under Professor Josef Rotblat. Following
another 2 years in Rochester, England as the medical physicist he and his
wife sailed a small boat from England to Cleveland to take up a position
at Lutheran Medical Center as the Hospital Physicist. In 1976 Colin Orton
invited him to join the Medical Physics group at Rhode Island Hospital
where he remains to this day-escaping only once every 2 years for a
single-handed sailboat trip to Bermuda. One day he hopes to just keep
going. He has been involved in more than a dozen AAPM related committees
and activities, including terms on the AAPM Board and Science Council. His
professional achievements include more than forty scientific publications
in peer-reviewed journals and five books.
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 John W. Wong,
Ph.D.
Dr. Wong received his Ph.D. from the University of
Toronto in 1982. He is director of clinical physics and technical services
at William Beaumont Hospital. Before that, he was an associate professor
of radiation physics at Washington University. He is active in the
hospital's mentoring program for radiation oncology residents, fellows and
graduate students. As a clinician and researcher, Dr. Wong is dedicated to
improving therapy and outcome for patients with cancer. For the past two
decades, he has been active in the development of treatment planning and
imaging tools. Dr. Wong authored more than 200 scientific journal
articles, book chapters, and abstracts. Dr. Wong is a former member of the
NCI's Radiation Study Section and has an active research program supported
by outside funding. In 2001, he received the George Eddelstyn Medal from
the United Kingdom's Royal College of Radiology.
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| AAPM Honorary
Memberships |
 Mark Carol,
M.D. Mark Carol, a graduate of Amherst College, received his
M.D. with distinction in research from the University of Rochester in 1978
and completed a residency in neurosurgery at the University of Maryland.
After a number of years spent in clinical practice, Mark went on to found
several medical device companies, including NOMOS, where he developed
technology related to stereotactic surgery, holography-based image guided
surgery, inverse treatment planning, intensity modulation radiation
therapy, and image guided radiation therapy. Most recently he was the
founder and CTO of the DxTx Corporation, a company that developed novel
approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of early stage lung cancer. He
currently is the CEO and founder of Enki, Inc., an early stage startup
company focused on novel approaches to the delivery of radiation therapy
for benign and malignant disease. Mark has published extensively in the
fields of radiation therapy and neurosurgery and holds patents in
radiation therapy, neurosurgery, and cardiology. He is married to Dr.
Andrea Pirzkall, a radiation oncologist who has played a major role in
defining the use of magnetic resonance image spectroscopy in treatment
planning for brain tumors, and has a one year old son named
Joseph. |
 Paul C.
Lauterbur, Ph.D. Professor Paul C. Lauterbur received his B.S. degree from
Case Institute of Technology in 1951 and a Ph.D. from the University of
Pittsburgh in 1962. In 1985 he joined the faculty at University of
Illinois. He is the Center for Advanced Study Professor of Chemistry,
Biophysics and Computational Biology and Bioengineering, the Distinguished
University Professor of Medical Information Sciences, and Professor,
Beckman Institute. His research interests are in chemistry, especially its
role in the origin of life. Dr. Lauterbur has received numerous awards
including Eduard Rhein Foundation Technology Award, APS Prize in
Biological Physics, Albert Lasker Clinical Research Award, Member,
National Academy of Sciences, National Medal of Science, NAS Award for
Chemistry in Service to Society, and the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or
Medicine (for seminal discoveries concerning the use of magnetic resonance
to visualize different structures).
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Farrington Daniels Award
The Farrington Daniels Award for the best paper on Radiation
Dosimetry published in Medical Physics in 2003 is presented to:
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Brad J. Warkentin
Stephen
Steciw |
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Satyapal Rathee
B. Gino
Fallone |
for their paper entitled "Dosimetric IMRT verification
with a flat-panel EPID," Medical Physics 30 (12) / 3143 - 3155,
2003. |
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Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award
The Sylvia Sorkin Greenfield Award for the best paper
(other than Radiation Dosimetry) published in Medical Physics for
2003 is presented to: |
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Tao Wu
Alexander Stewart
Martin
Stanton
Thomas McCauley
Walter Phillips
Daniel Kopans |
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Richard Moore
Jeffrey
Eberhard
Beale Opsahl-Ong
Loren Niklason
Mark
Williams |
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ffor their paper entitled, “Tomographic mammography
using a limited number of low-dose cone-beam projection images,”
Medical Physics 30 (3) 2003, pp. 365 - 380. |
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Congratulations to all of the Award
Winners! |
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