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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 Victoria on winning the COMP 2024 Young Investigator Symposium! Victoria's talk 'A step towards clinical translation: Developing a robust thermal calibration methodology for pyroelectric dosimeters' took first place in the student competition.
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)
- Victoria Howard (MSc). Project title: Development of a pyroelectric calorimeter. (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
- 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