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c7 White Paper/technical report
93 3rd HEALTH INNOVATION CONFERENCE, April 2019, Athens, Greece.
3e RADformation BLOG: TG-203 overview
d9 Keynote Speaker: VARIAN Symposium, Antigua, Guatemala, March 10, 2025.
95 RADformation THE FOCAL SPOT interview
ae Keynote speaker invitation at the 1st Varian Users Meeting in Athens, Greece, September 22, 2022. 2 8 Title: 54 "Halcyon Clinical Development. Historical review of important milestones"
8b The American Board of Medical Physics-Board of Directors
80 IOMP-International Organization of Medical Physics, 67 Presentation of the AAPM Task Group #203: Managing RT patients with implnted cardiac devices
9f International Medical Physics Week, invited presentation-Webinar
d4 3rd HEALTH INNOVATION CONFERENCE, April 2019, Athens, Greece.
a2 3rd HEALTH INNOVATION CONFERENCE, April 2019, Athens, Greece.
48 Recorded video of 45 min presentation to the International Organization for Medical Physics, International Medical Physics Week School
73 1st Panhellenic Congree of Medical Physics, Athens Greece, September 23-25, 2022. Invited education seminar, title: "Dosimetry in FLASH (ultra-high dose rate) radiotherapy"
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93 3rd HEALTH INNOVATION CONFERENCE, April 2019, Athens, Greece.
3e RADformation BLOG: TG-203 overview
d9 Keynote Speaker: VARIAN Symposium, Antigua, Guatemala, March 10, 2025.
95 RADformation THE FOCAL SPOT interview
ae Keynote speaker invitation at the 1st Varian Users Meeting in Athens, Greece, September 22, 2022. 2 8 Title: 54 "Halcyon Clinical Development. Historical review of important milestones"
8b The American Board of Medical Physics-Board of Directors
80 IOMP-International Organization of Medical Physics, 67 Presentation of the AAPM Task Group #203: Managing RT patients with implnted cardiac devices
9f International Medical Physics Week, invited presentation-Webinar
d4 3rd HEALTH INNOVATION CONFERENCE, April 2019, Athens, Greece.
a2 3rd HEALTH INNOVATION CONFERENCE, April 2019, Athens, Greece.
48 Recorded video of 45 min presentation to the International Organization for Medical Physics, International Medical Physics Week School
73 1st Panhellenic Congree of Medical Physics, Athens Greece, September 23-25, 2022. Invited education seminar, title: "Dosimetry in FLASH (ultra-high dose rate) radiotherapy"
7d ASTRO Fellow 2024
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7a 1) CARDIAC IMPLANTED ELECTRONIC DEVICES (CIEDs) AND RADIATION: MANAGING RADIOTHERAPY PATIENTS WITH CIEDs.2a 2) CLINICAL ELECTRON BEAM THERAPY.
52 3) QUALITY ASSURANCE AND QUALITY CONTROL IN CLINICAL RADIOTHERAPY PHYSICS.
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77 DEVELOPING QUALITY CONTROL PROTOCOLS FOR DENTAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL CONE BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SYSTEMS65
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50 1) INVESTIGATING DOSIMETRY ISSUES OF FLASH BEAM DELIVERY MODES.47 2) FLASH PROTONS and GEL DOSIMETRY FOR END-to-END VERIFICATION.
59 2) CALCULATIONS OF SIZE-SPECIFIC DOSE ESTIMATES FOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNING.
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190 Miften M, Mihailidis D, Kry SF, Reft C, Esquivel C, Farr J, Followill D, Hurkmans C, Liu A, Gayou O, Gossman M, Mahesh M, Popple R, Prisciandaro J, Wilkinson J: Management of Radiotherapy Patients with Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators: A Report of the AAPM TG203# Med Phys 46(12): e757-e788, Dec 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.13838. 14
17e Miften M, Olch A, Mihailidis D, Moran J, Pawlicki T, Molineu A, Li H, Wijesooriya K, Shi J, Xia P, Papanikolaou N, Low DA: Tolerance limits and methodologies for IMRT measurement-based verification QA: Recommendations of AAPM Task Group No. 218. Med Phys 45(4): e53-e83, Apr 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.12810.
21e Wu X, Udupa JK, Tong Y, Odhner D, Pednekar GV, Simone CB 2nd, McLaughlin D, Apinorasethkul C, Apinorasethkul O, Lukens J, Mihailidis D, Shammo G, James P, Tiwari A, Wojtowicz L, Camaratta J, Torigian DA: ΑΑ-RT-A system of auto-contouring organs at risk on CT image for radiation therapy planning: Principles, design, and large-scale evaluation on the head-and-neck and thoracic cancer cases. Med Image Anal 54: 45-62, May 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.media.2019.01.008.
172 Netherton T, Li Y, Gao S, Klopp A, Balter P, Court LE, Scheuermann R, Kennedy C, Dong L, Metz J, Mihailidis D, Ling C, Young Lee M, Constantin M, Thompson S, Kauppinen J, Uusitalo P: Experience in commissioning the Halcyon linac. Med Phys 46(10): 4304-4313, Oct 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.13723.
156 Gay SS, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Ger RB, Balter PA, Dong L, Mihailidis D, Court LE: Dosimetric impact and detectability of multi-leaf collimator positioning errors on Varian Halcyon. J Appl Clin Med Phys. WILEY, 20(8): 47-55, Aug 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1002/acm2.12677.
13f Mihailidis Dimitris N: Malfunctions of implantable cardiac devices in patients receiving proton beam therapy: incidence and predictions. In regard to Gomez et al. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 88(3): 753, Mar 2014.
178 Laurence Court, Dimitris Mihailidis, Peter Balter, Chris Kennedy, Song Gao, Ryan Scheuermann, Tucker Netherton, Lei Dong, Yuting Li, James Metz: Experience and Suggestions on “Commissioning and QA Procedures” for Halcyon, v1.2. White Paper-Report. Varian's Medical Affairs 2018 Notes: White Paper.
20b Smilowitz Jennifer B, Das Indra J, Feygelman Vladimir, Fraass Benedick A, Geurts Mark, Kry Stephen F, Marshall Ingrid R, Mihailidis Dimitris N, Ouhib Zoubir, Ritter Timothy, Snyder Michael G, Fairobent Lynne, Staff AAPM: AAPM Medical Physics Practice Guideline 5.a.: Commissioning and QA of Treatment Planning Dose Calculations - Megavoltage Photon and Electron Beams. J Appl Clin Med Phys 16(5): 14-34, Sep 2015 Notes: doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v17i1.6166.
124 Faiz M Khan PhD, John P. Gibbons PhD, Dimitris Mihailidis PhD, Hassaan Alkhatib PhD : Khan's Lectures: Handbook of the Physics of Radiation Therapy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore MD. Kluwer, 2011 Notes: ISBN-13: 978-1605476810 28 ISBN-10: 1605476811.
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146 Kry SF, Alvarez P, Cygler JE, DeWerd LA, Howell RM, Meeks S, O'Daniel J, Reft C, Sawakuchi G, Yukihara EG, Mihailidis D: AAPM TG 191: Clinical use of luminescent dosimeters: TLDs and OSLDs. Med Phys 47(2): e19-e51, Feb 2020 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.13839.190 Miften M, Mihailidis D, Kry SF, Reft C, Esquivel C, Farr J, Followill D, Hurkmans C, Liu A, Gayou O, Gossman M, Mahesh M, Popple R, Prisciandaro J, Wilkinson J: Management of Radiotherapy Patients with Implanted Cardiac Pacemakers and Defibrillators: A Report of the AAPM TG203# Med Phys 46(12): e757-e788, Dec 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.13838. 14
17e Miften M, Olch A, Mihailidis D, Moran J, Pawlicki T, Molineu A, Li H, Wijesooriya K, Shi J, Xia P, Papanikolaou N, Low DA: Tolerance limits and methodologies for IMRT measurement-based verification QA: Recommendations of AAPM Task Group No. 218. Med Phys 45(4): e53-e83, Apr 2018 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.12810.
21e Wu X, Udupa JK, Tong Y, Odhner D, Pednekar GV, Simone CB 2nd, McLaughlin D, Apinorasethkul C, Apinorasethkul O, Lukens J, Mihailidis D, Shammo G, James P, Tiwari A, Wojtowicz L, Camaratta J, Torigian DA: ΑΑ-RT-A system of auto-contouring organs at risk on CT image for radiation therapy planning: Principles, design, and large-scale evaluation on the head-and-neck and thoracic cancer cases. Med Image Anal 54: 45-62, May 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1016/j.media.2019.01.008.
172 Netherton T, Li Y, Gao S, Klopp A, Balter P, Court LE, Scheuermann R, Kennedy C, Dong L, Metz J, Mihailidis D, Ling C, Young Lee M, Constantin M, Thompson S, Kauppinen J, Uusitalo P: Experience in commissioning the Halcyon linac. Med Phys 46(10): 4304-4313, Oct 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1002/mp.13723.
156 Gay SS, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Ger RB, Balter PA, Dong L, Mihailidis D, Court LE: Dosimetric impact and detectability of multi-leaf collimator positioning errors on Varian Halcyon. J Appl Clin Med Phys. WILEY, 20(8): 47-55, Aug 2019 Notes: doi: 10.1002/acm2.12677.
13f Mihailidis Dimitris N: Malfunctions of implantable cardiac devices in patients receiving proton beam therapy: incidence and predictions. In regard to Gomez et al. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics 88(3): 753, Mar 2014.
178 Laurence Court, Dimitris Mihailidis, Peter Balter, Chris Kennedy, Song Gao, Ryan Scheuermann, Tucker Netherton, Lei Dong, Yuting Li, James Metz: Experience and Suggestions on “Commissioning and QA Procedures” for Halcyon, v1.2. White Paper-Report. Varian's Medical Affairs 2018 Notes: White Paper.
20b Smilowitz Jennifer B, Das Indra J, Feygelman Vladimir, Fraass Benedick A, Geurts Mark, Kry Stephen F, Marshall Ingrid R, Mihailidis Dimitris N, Ouhib Zoubir, Ritter Timothy, Snyder Michael G, Fairobent Lynne, Staff AAPM: AAPM Medical Physics Practice Guideline 5.a.: Commissioning and QA of Treatment Planning Dose Calculations - Megavoltage Photon and Electron Beams. J Appl Clin Med Phys 16(5): 14-34, Sep 2015 Notes: doi: 10.1120/jacmp.v17i1.6166.
124 Faiz M Khan PhD, John P. Gibbons PhD, Dimitris Mihailidis PhD, Hassaan Alkhatib PhD : Khan's Lectures: Handbook of the Physics of Radiation Therapy. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore MD. Kluwer, 2011 Notes: ISBN-13: 978-1605476810 28 ISBN-10: 1605476811.
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