Michael S. Patterson Publication Impact Prize

This prize was introduced in 2016 and is awarded for a scientific paper written by a COMP member that has had a tremendous impact on the field of medical physics. Peer-reviewed papers published in any scientific journal in the last ten years are considered and the work must have been performed mainly at a Canadian institution. Publication must represent a significant advance in medical physics. The winner is the eligible paper that has received the most citations in the Web of Science maintained by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) including citations from all data bases.

2020 Michael S. Patterson Publication Impact Prize Winners

Authors:

Carmen Popescu
IA Olivotto
Wayne Beckham
William Ansbacher
S Zavgorodni
R Shaffer
ES Wai
Karl Otto

Pictured: Carmen Popescu

 Title:  Volumetric modulated arc therapy improves dosimetry and reduces treatment time compared to conventional intensity-mod ulated radiotherapy for locoregional radiotherapy of left-sided breast cancer and internal mammary nodes

Past Winners

2019

 Gino Fallone, Brad Murray, Satyapal Rathee, Teo Stanescu, Stephen Stecie, Sandra Vidakovic, Emanuel Blosser, D Tymofichuk
"First MR images obtained during megavoltage photon irradiation from a prototype integrated linac-MR system"

2018

David Jaffray, PhD, ABMP, FCOMP and Monique Van Prooijen, PhD, MCCPM Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
Co-authors: Devika Chithrani, Salomeh Jelveh, Farid Jalali, Christine Allen, Robert G. Bristow, Richard Peter Hill
"Gold nanoparticles as radiation sensitizers in cancer therapy"

2017

Alex Vitkin, Co-Authors Adrian Mariampillai, Beau A Standish, Eduardo H Moriyama, Mamta Khurana, Nigel R Munce, Michael K.K. Leung, James Jiang, Alex Cable, Brian C. Wilson, Victor X. D. Yang
"Speckle variance detection of microvasculature using swept-source optical coherence tomography"

2016

Karl Otto
"Volumetric modulated arc therapy: IMRT in a single gantry arc"