Dr. Emily Heath
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Carleton University
Professor Emily Heath
Associate Professor in the Department of Physics
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About Dr. Emily Heath
I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. I received my PhD in Physics from McGill University. After a postdoc at the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ) in Heidelberg, Germany I spent four years as an Assistant Professor in the Physics Department at Ryerson University.
News
- PhD student Meaghen Shiha is presenting 'An investigation into the benefit of using a higher threshold of correctible rotations in Cyberknife treatments' at the 2023 COMP-CARO Joint Scientific Meeting in Montreal
- September 2023: My latest paper is available online here
Research Areas
- Monte Carlo simulations of radiation therapy delivery
- Modeling impact of anatomical changes during radiation therapy
- Robust treatment plan optimization
Graduate Students
Current students
- Victoria Howard (MSc). Project title: Development of a pyroelectric calorimeter.
- Meaghen Shiha (PhD). Project title: Modeling dosimetric impact of patient motion in hypo-fractionated radiation therapy.
Past students
- 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