Professor Emily Heath

About Dr. Emily Heath

I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. My area of research is improving radiation therapy for treatment of cancer.  

Research Areas

• Monte Carlo simulations of radiation therapy delivery
• Modeling impact of anatomical changes during radiation therapy
• Robust treatment plan optimization

News

• Congratulations to Victoria Howard on successfully defending her MSc thesis  'Developing a robust thermal calibration methodology for pyroelectric dosimeters'.

Graduate Students

Current students

• Alex Demelo (MSc). Project title: Monte Carlo modeling of an electronic portal imaging detector (EPID) (co-supervised with Bryan Muir and James Renaud, National Research Council) 
• Meaghen Shiha (PhD). Project title: Modeling dosimetric impact of patient motion in hypo-fractionated radiation therapy. (co-supervised with Eric Vandervoort, Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre)

Past students

• Victoria Howard (MSc). Thesis title: Development of a robust thermal calibration method for pyroelectric calorimeters. Present position: PhD student.
• Meaghen Shiha (MSc). Thesis title: 4D Monte Carlo based patient dose reconstruction incorporating surface motion measurements. Present position: PhD student. link to thesis
• Eric Christiansen (PhD). Thesis title: A framework for the robust delivery of respiratory motion adaptive arc radiotherapy. Present position: Medical Physicist (MCCPM), Corner Brook. link to thesis
• Luke McCooeye (MSc). Thesis title: Dynamic model-based dose calculations of permanent implant prostate brachytherapy.  link to thesis
• Sara Gholampourkashi (PhD). Thesis title: Experimental verification of 4D Monte Carlo simulations of dose delivery to moving and deforming anatomies. Present position: Medical Physicist (MCCPM), Ottawa Hospital Cancer Center. link to thesis

Publications

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