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For Potential Donors

We want to thank all of you for the time and energy you give to our research program.  Without you and participants like you all over the country, the progress of the research in the field would move at a much slower pace.  Unfortunately, the cost of this research is high.  The Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies graciously welcomes monetary donations of any size. The donation will be used to support various research positions at CART. The donation will also be used to support CART research by purchasing equipment.

Please contact Dr. Steve B. Jiang at (858)822-5129 or sbjiang@ucsd.edu if you are interested in making a contribution.

2007 AAPM Salary Survey

AAPM salary survey for 2007 is out. Interested person can click on this link.

The Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’ 08)

Dr. Steve Jiang, together with Dr. Martin Murphy at Virginia Commonwealth University, is organizing a special session on Applications of Machine Learning in Radiotherapy for the Seventh International Conference on Machine Learning and Applications (ICMLA’ 08), which will be held in December 11-13, 2008, San Diego, California. Dr. Jiang is also the Local Arrangements Chair for the conference. Machine Learning has been increasingly used in radiotherapy to help accurately localize the tumors in images, precisely target the radiation to the tumors, analyze treatment outcomes, and improve treatment quality and patient safety, etc.

Highlights of 2007 in Physics in Medicine and Biology

An article of Drs. Tang and Jiang has been selected as one of 30 articles that highlight the very best research published in Physics in Medicine and Biology in 2007. According to the journal, "Articles were selected for their presentation of outstanding new research, receipt of the highest praise from our international referees, and the highest number of downloads from the journal Website." Dr. Tang is the first author and Dr. Jiang is the senior author of the article that describes research on tumor motion tracking.

Highlights of 2006 in Physics in Medicine and Biology

An article of Dr. Jiang has been selected as one of 25 articles that highlight the very best research published in Physics in Medicine and Biology in 2006. According to the journal, "Articles were selected for their presentation of outstanding new research, receipt of the highest praise from our international referees, and the highest number of downloads from the journal Website." Dr. Jiang is the senior author of the article that describes research on patient breath coaching.

Student Apprenticeship Pogram (SAP)

CART offers internships to UCSD undergraduates preferably with upper division standing (more than 90 units completed), through the UCSD Health Sciences Student Apprenticeship Program. Internships are on an unpaid, volunteer basis, but the option of completing an internship for academic credit is also available through the Academic Internship Program. The interns will work closely with researchers at CART on various technical and clinical research projects in the field of image guided radiation therapy. It is expected that through this program the interns will receive some basic training in technical and clinical research in addition to getting familiar with patient care and clinical research environment. Fore more information, please look at our advertisement (INTERNSHIP #699443).

New Proton/Particle Treatment and Research Center at UCSD

UCSD just annouced to develop a proton/particle treatment and research center. This center, which may cost more than $100 million, will provide CART an unique platform for cancer radiotherapy research. According to Dr. Arno J. Mundt, professor and chair of the UCSD Department of Radiation Oncology, "the center will be both a treatment and research facility, focusing not only on state-of-the-art treatment but also the development of novel approaches to improve the efficacy of this leading edge therapy. The center will be a major resource for scientists and engineers within UCSD and for the biomedical research community at large. In addition, plans for the research program will include the study and therapeutic application of other particles with similar properties". See UCSD News Release and Channel 10 News for more information.

Amateur Medical Physicist Find A Way to Burn Salt Water

John Kanzius, retired TV station owner and broadcast engineer, was looking for physics/engineering solutions for curing cancer, similar to what we do at CART. His idea is to heat up and kill cancer cells by injecting nano-particals into a cancer patient and expose the patient to radio waves. Accidentally, he discovered that as long as the salt water was exposed to the radio frequencies, it would burn. The discovery has scientists excited by the prospect of using seawater, the most abundant resource on earth, as a fuel. Watch this TV news.