Lesley graduated with a Ph.D. in July 2005. Her research involved the use of Monte Carlo techniques to study a variety of correction factors used in current dosimetry protocols. This included the development of a new user-code for the EGSnrc system, CSnrc, that improves the efficiency of certain calculations. She obtained a B.Sc. in physics from McGill University (1999) and an M.Sc. in medical physics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (2001). After a residency at the Ottawa Hospital Regional Cancer Centre, she became a clinical medical physicist at the same institution in Jan 2007.
Dan's Ph.D. investigated various fundamentals of ion chamber dosimetry via a combination of computational and experimental techniques. One of his projects involved investigating problems with the use of the standard temperature-pressure correction factor with low-energy x-rays and one of the resulting papers won the AAPM's Farrington Daniels award for the best dosimetry paper of the year. His work also testing the limits of Spencer-Attix cavity theory. He obtained a degree in chemistry at Lakehead University in 2004. After sumbitting his PhD thesis he entered the Physics Residency program at the Ottawa Hospitasl Regional Cancer Clinic.
Palani was a visiting scientist from the Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) in Mumbai, India. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow here at Carleton from April 2004 to Mar. 2006. His projects included
- Monte Carlo modelling of the response to the NRC 90Sr/90Y primary beta standard using BEAMnrc/EGSnrc code system (Development of an efficient MC model to benchmark the experimental response)
- Evaluation of various correction factors for the primary beta standard using the above model. This included development of a Bragg-Gray stopping-power ratio option in the SPRRZnrc code.
Randy completed a H.B.Sc. degree in physics in 2004 at the University of Waterloo. During that time he worked in various Co-op placements doing everything from navigating satellites for Telesat in Ottawa to modelling the EM properties of MRI head coils at Robarts Research Institute in London, ON. He completed his M.Sc. degree in medical physics at Carleton in 2006 and continued to work for the group remotely from his home in Waterloo until Sept 2008. His research focused primarily on topics related to his M.Sc. thesis, which includes Monte Carlo simulations of brachytherapy treatments.
After receiving her PhD in string theory from Waterloo University while working at the Perimeter Institute, Rowan joined the group in 2007. Her work focused on applying the prototype BrachyDose code to applications related to eye-plaque therapy, developing the code further and on some fundamental dosimetry problems. In Sept 2010 she joined the Faculty of Carleton University.
Lilie was a Ph.D. student whose project was to study the ion chamber correction factors in dosimetry protocols by Monte Carlo simulation. The research involved the improvements of an EGSnrc user code specially developed for the correction factor calculations. He obtained an M.Sc. in medical physics from Laurentian University in 2005. He took up a PDF at M D Anderson Cancer Center in 2009
Zdenko obtained an M.Sc. in the medical physics program after his thesis defence in April 2006 of his project on the Monte Carlo modelling of medical linear accelerators. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Sarajevo in Yugoslavia, and worked in Canada as a software designer in the automation and telecommunication industries for 11 years. Currently, he is working at Bubble Technolgy Industries in Deep River, Ontario.
Gultekin works at Celal Bayar University in Manisa, Turkey. He worked with the group at Carleton from Dec 2003 to March 2004, for two weeks in July 2004, and for a one year visit that ended in September, 2006. Collaboration with him continues. His major research interests included
- Further development of his Multi-geometry package for the EGSnrc system
- Application of this package to dose calculations for brachytherapy treatment of prostate cancer.
Guoming was a visiting research fellow in the lab. He obtained his Ph.D degree in physics at Nanjing University in China and worked in the area of computaional physics and chemistry. He worked in several universities in the US and Germany, doing simulations on the structures of proteins and nanomaterials before working here at Carleton University. He worked on Monte Carlo simulations and dosimetry in flattening filter free linac beams. He is currently a PDF in Munich.