11/15/2021
By Susan Pryputniewicz

The Biomedical Engineering and Biotechnology program invites you to attend a doctoral proposal defense by Mohammadtagi Nassehzadeh-Tabriz on “Small-Scale Dosimetry of Thyroid With Iodine-131 Using a Paired Image Radiation Transport Model: A Monte Carlo Study.”

Name: Mohammadtagi Nassehzadeh-Tabriz
Date: Monday, Nov. 29, 2021
Time: 4 to 5 p.m.
Location: This will be a virtual defense via Zoom. Those interested in attending should contact student mohammadtagi_nassehzadehtabriz@student.uml.edu and committee advisor erno_sajo@uml.edu at least 24 hours prior to the defense to request access to the meeting.

Committee Chair (Advisor): Erno Sajo, Ph.D., Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Committee Members:

  • Marian Jandel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Andrew Rogers, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell
  • Peter Bender, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Physics and Applied Physics, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Abstract:
This dissertation research project investigates a new, improved methodology for estimating internal radiation dose at the voxel level for optimum thyroid cancer treatment. A small-scale voxelized 3-D thyroid model was designed from microscopic images, and Monte Carlo simulation models were created to calculate dose factors of several different inter-organ and intra-thyroidal source-target configurations.

All interested students and faculty members are invited to attend the online defense via remote access.