Publications
Symposia Proceedings
Abstracts
1. Siebers. J.V., DeLuca,
P.M. Jr., Awschalom, M., and Coutrakon,
G., "Performance of a Prototype Range Ionization Chamber Bombarded by 160 MeV Protons", Works in Progress Poster MPWP9.7, World
Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, 30th Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, August 6-13 1988, San
Antonio, Texas.
2. Siebers, J.V., DeLuca,
P.M. Jr., Awschalom, M., Coutrakon,
G., and Gall, K., "Shielding Parameters for a 250 MeV
Proton Therapy Accelerator", Works in Progress Talk 1123, 75th Annual Meeting
of the Radiological Society of North America, November 1989, Chicago, Illinois.
3. Siebers, J.V., "Protons in
Radiation Therapy", Indiana University Department of Nuclear Physics Seminar,
4. Siebers, J.V., and DeLuca, P.M. Jr., "Shielding for 230~MeV proton beams", XIIIth Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting, November
1990,
5. Siebers, J.V., Miller, D.M., Moyers, M.F., Sardesai, M., Chan,
L., and Sun, S.X., "Commissioning Studies for the Horizontal Beamline at Loma Linda", XIVth
Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting,
6. Miller, D.M., Moyers,
M.F., and Siebers, J.V., "Proton beam deliveries: A challenge with many
solutions", 33rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in
Medicine,
7. Siebers, J., Miller, D.M., Moyers, M.F., Sun, S.X., Sardesai,
M., and Chan, L., "Commissioning Results for the Loma Linda Proton Therapy
Facility Isocentric Gantry", 33rd Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Works in Progress WP2-9,
July 21-25, 1991, San Francisco, California.
8. Dicello, J.F., Divadeenam,
M., Wasiolek, M., Archambeau,
J.O., Slater, J.M., Miller, D.M., Archambeau, M.H., Coutrakon, G.B., Moyers, M.F.,
Siebers, J.V., Young, P.E., and Robertson, J.B., "Quality Assurance for the
Loma Linda Proton Therapy Facility: Microdosimetry",
33rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, July
21-25, 1991, San Francisco, California. Med Phys, 18 624, 1991.
9. Slater, J., Slater, J., Miller, D.,
Siebers, J., and Moyers, M., "The clinical
indications for proton beam therapy", The Fourth Workshop on Heavy Charged
Particles in Biology and Medicine in conjunction with the XVth
Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting, September 23-25, 1991, Darmstadt,
Germany.
10. Siebers, J.V., DeLuca,
P.M. Jr., Pearson, D.W., and Coutrakon, G.,
"Measurement of Neutron Dose Equivalent and Penetration in Concrete for 230 MeV Proton Bombardment of Al, Fe, and Pb
Targets", Seventh Symposium on Neutron Dosimetry,
11. Siebers, J.V., and Miller, D.W.,
"Routine Quality Assurance for at Proton Radiation Therapy Facility". XVIth Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting, March 30,31, 1992,
12. Moyers, M.F., Miller, D.W., Siebers,
J.V., Galindo, R., Ruotolo, D., Bobrow,
D., and Liu. P., "Commissioning of Site Specific Treatment Planning Tools", XVIth Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting, March 30,31, 1992,
13. Miller, D.W., Siebers, J.V., Moyers, M.F., Coutrakon, G.B., Sardesai, M., Chan, L., and Sun, S., "Commissioning and
Operation of the Loma Linda Proton Therapy Facility", 34th Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
14. Moyers, M.F., Sardesai,
M., Lui,P., Siebers, J.V., and Miller, D.W.,
"Penumbra Characteristics of 155 to 250 MeV
Clinical Proton Beams", 34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physicists in Medicine, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Med Phys, 19 829, 1992.
15. Moyers, M.F., Miller, D.W., Siebers,
J.V., Galindo, R., Sun, S., Sardesai, M., and Chan,
L., "Water equivalence of various materials for 155 to 250 MeV protons",
34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
16. Siebers, J.V., Miller, D.W.,
"Passive Scattering System Design Optimization for Proton Radiation Therapy",
34th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
17. Siebers, J.V., "Monte Carlo
Techniques for Proton Radiation Therapy Facilities", Simulating Accelerator
Radiation Environments Workshop,
18. Robertson, J.B., Eaddy, J.M., Glisson, W.C., Archambeau, J.O., Coutrakon, G.B., Miller, D.W., Moyers, M.F., Siebers, J.V., Slater, J.M., and Dicello, J.F., "Quality Assurance for the Loma Linda Proton Therapy Facility: In Vitro Determinators", 41st Annual Meeting of the Radiation Research Society, March 20-25, 1993, Dallas, Texas.
19. Moyers, M.F., Siebers, J.V., Blair, M.,
Thomas, R., and Miller, D.,
"A Continuously Variable Thickness Scatterer for Proton Beams Using Self-Compensating Dual Linear Wedges",
35th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
20. Siebers, J.V., Vatnitsky,
S., and Miller, D.W., "Intercomparison of Dosimetry
Techniques for Protons", XIXth Proton Therapy
Cooperative Group Meeting,
21. Siebers, J.V., and Vatnitsky, S.M., "Absolute dose determinations using water calorimetry and deduction of the w value in a high energy
proton beam", 36th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in
Medicine, Anaheim, California. Med Phys, 21 896, 1994.
22. Siebers, J.V., and Gavron, A., "
23. Vatnitsky, S.M., Siebers, J.V., and Miller,
D.W., "Experimental verification of the beam quality correction factor kq using water calorimeter", 36th Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
24. Vatnitsky, S.M. and Siebers, J.V., "Comparison
of water calorimeter with reference ionization chamber dosimetry in high-energy
photon and proton beams", Presented at the National Physical Laboratory Calorimetry Workshop,
25. Moyers, M.F., Vatnitsky,
S.M., and Siebers, J.V., "Paired gas flow ionization measurements in proton
beams", XXIst Proton Therapy Cooperative Group
Meeting,
26. Siebers, J.V., Vatnitsky,
S.M., Miller, D.W., and Moyers, M.F., "Deduction of
the air w-value in proton beams", XXIst Proton
Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting,
27. Vatnitsky, S.M., Siebers, J.V., and Miller,
D.W., "Absorbed dose to water calibration for proton beams", XXIst Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting,
28. Vatnitsky, S.M., Moyers,
M.F., Siebers, J.V., and Miller, D.W.,
"Determination of the air w-value in proton beams using ionization chambers with gas flow capability",
37th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Boston,
Massachusetts. Med Phys, 22 942, 1995.
29. Hartmann Siantar,
C.L., Chandler, W.P., Chadwick, M.B., Blann, H.M.,
Cox, L.J., Resler, D.A., Rathkopf,
J.A., Mackie, T.R., Siebers, J.V., Ross, M.A., DeLuca,
P.M. Jr., Weaver, K.A., and White, R.M., "Dose distributions calculated with
the PEREGRINE all-particle Monte Carlo Code (abstract)", 37th Annual Meeting of
the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts. Med Phys, 22 994, 1995.
30. Siebers, J.V., "Monte Carlo derived
proton energy distributions", Paper PA-M-02-T presented at the 37th Annual
Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Boston,
Massachusetts.
31. Miller, D., Vatnitsky,
S., Siebers, J., and Moyers, M., "A convolution model
for photon beam treatment planning dosimetry", Paper PA-M-03-T presented at the
37th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine,
Boston, Massachusetts.
32. Beddar, A.S., Siebers, J.V., "Application
of miniature plastic scintillation detectors to proton therapy beam dosimetry",
3rd European Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ESTRO), Biennial
meeting on physics in clinical radiotherapy, Italy, October 1995.
Radiother. Oncol., 37 S44, 1995.
33. Siebers, J.V., and Traynor, M.M., "Modeling of proton treatment nozzles with
the LAHET Monte Carlo code", XXIVth Proton Therapy
Cooperative Group Meeting,
34. Cox, L.J., Hartmann-Siantar, C.L., Schach von Wittenau, A.E., Siebers, J.V., and Traynor,
M.M., "Characterization of particle therapy radiation sources for use with
PEREGRINE, the all particle Monte Carlo dose calculation code", XXIVth Proton Therapy Cooperative Group Meeting, April
24-26, 1996, Detroit, Michigan.
35. Siebers, J.V., Vatnitsky, S.M., Traynor, M.M., Miller, D.W., Moyers,
M.F., and Schulte, R., "A proton stereotactic radiosurgery system for the treatment of small lesions",
PO-C-05 presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the American Association of
Physicists in Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
36. Cox, L.J., Chadwick, M.B., Siebers,
J.V., Traynor, M.M., Miller, D.W., Chandler, W.P., Rathkopf, J.A., and Hartmann-Siantar,
C.L, "Proton dose distributions calculated with the PEREGRINE all particle
Monte Carlo code", WE-C2-07 presented at the 38th Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
37. Siebers, J., and Symons, J., "
38. Siebers, J., Libby, B., and Mohan,
R., "TRUST, BUT VERIFY: Comparison of MCNP and BEAM Monte Carlo codes for
generation of phase space distributions", WE-C1-05 presented at the 40th Annual Meeting of the American
Association of Physicists in Medicine, San Antonio, Texas 1998. Med Phys, 25 7,
1998 p A143
39. Libby, B., Siebers, J., Mohan, R.,
"Systematic analysis of Monte Carlo generated phase space descriptions of
medical linear accelerators", PO-94 presented at the 40th Annual Meeting
of the American Association of
Physicists in Medicine, San Antonio, Texas 1998.
40. Arnfield M R, Wu Q, Siebers J, and Mohan R,
"Dosimetric aspects of dynamic multileaf collimation
for intensity modulated radiotherapy (abstract)", Int. J. Rad.
Oncol. Biol. Phys. 45 3, Suppl. 248. 1999.
41. Keall P J, Siebers J V, Libby B, Mohan
R, and Jeraj R, "The Effect of Monte Carlo Noise on
Radiotherapy Treatment Plan Evaluation (abstract)", 41st Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 1999
Med Phys 26 1149.
42. Libby B, Keall
P, Siebers J, Zwicker R, and Mohan R, "A Monte Carlo
study of dynamic IMRT dosimetry with electronic portal imaging detectors (abstract)", 41st Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 1999
Med Phys 26 1162.
43. Siebers J, Keall
P, and Mohan R, "Converting Absorbed Dose to Medium to Absorbed Dose to Water for
Monte Carlo Based Dose Calculations (abstract)", 41st Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 1999
Med Phys 26 1165.
44. Keall P J, Siebers J V, Libby B, and
Mohan R, "Commissioning Procedures for
Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Algorithms (abstract)", 41st Annual Meeting of the
American Association of Physicists in Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee 1999
Med Phys 26 1193.
45. Keall P J, Siebers J V, and Mohan R,
"Converting Absorbed Dose to Medium to Absorbed Dose to Water for Monte Carlo
Based Dose Calculations", 3rd Transport Theory Workshop, (Indianapolis, IN)
1999.
46. Keall PJ, Siebers JV, Mohan R. The
impact of
47. Siebers JV, Keall
PJ, Arnfield M, Kim JO, Mohan R. Dynamic-MLC modeling
for Monte Carlo dose calculations. In: Schlegel W, Bortfeld
T, eds. XIII International
Conference on the Use of Computers in Radiation Therapy.
48. Siebers J V, Keall
P J, and Mohan R. The impact of Monte Carlo dose calculations on intensity
modulated radiation therapy In: Proccedings for MC
2000: Advanced Monte Carlo on Radiation Physics, Particle Transport Simulation
and Applications, Lisbon, Portugal (October 23-26, 2000).
49. Libby B, Keall
P J, Siebers J V, Zwicker R, and Mohan R, Use of the
Monte Carlo method to predict images in electronic portal imaging detectors for
treatment verification, 6th International Workshop on Electronic Portal Imaging
EPI2K, (Brussels, Belgium) 2000, 55
50. Mohan R, Keall
P, Kim J, Lauterbach M, Siebers J, and Wu Q 2000 Dose
calculations for intensity-modulated radiotherapy, 5th International Symposium
on 3D Conformal Radiation Therapy and Brachytherapy,
(New York) 203-207
51. Keall P J, Siebers J V, and Mohan R
2000 The effect of
52. Kim J, Siebers J, Keall P, Arnfield M, and Mohan R,
Modeling Transmission and Scatter Characteristics of MLCs,
in World Congress on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (
53. Siebers J V, Keall
P J, Kim J, and Mohan R 2000 Dynamic IMRT Monte Carlo dose calculation, in
World Congress on Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics (
54. Siebers J, Lauterbach
M, Tong S, Wu Q, and Mohan R 2001 Reducing dose calculation time for accurate
iterative IMRT planning (abstract), Med Phys 28 1308
55. Lauterbach M, Siebers J, Mohan R, and Wu Q
2001 IMRT optimization based on deliverable intensities (abstract), Med Phys
28 1204
56. Keall P J, Arnfield
M R, Arthur D W, Lloyd R, Lauterbach M H, Siebers J
V, Wu Q, and Mohan R 2001 An IMRT technique to reduce the heart and lung dose
for early stage breast cancer, ASTRO 2001, (San Francisco, California) 247-248
57. Kim, J., Siebers, J., and Keall, P., "Dosimetric Verification of IMRT Fields Using An
Amorphous Silicon Flat Panel Imager and
58. Mohan, R., Liu, H., Dong, L., Wu,
Q., and Siebers, J., "Objective Functions, Dose Calculations and Other Aspects
of IMRT", Med Phys 29 1301.
59. Siebers, J.V., "Monte Carlo for
Radiation Therapy Dose Calculations", Med Phys 29 1303.
60. Siebers, J.V., Keall,
P.J., Kim, J., and Mohan, R., "A Multi-Leaf Collimator Model for Accurate IMRT
Monte Carlo Dose Calculation", Med Phys 29 1316.
61. George, R., Keall,
P., Kini, V., Vedam, S.,
Siebers, J., Wu, Q., Lauterbach, M., Arthur, D., and
Mohan, R., "Quantifying the Effect of Intrafraction
Motion During Breast IMRT Planning and Delivery",
Med Phys 29 1347.
62. Siebers, J., P. Keall,
J. O. Kim, R. Jeraj, M. Lauterbach,
R. Mohan, and Q. Wu 2002 Monte Carlo-based deliverable IMRT optimization, 44th
Annual meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology,
(New Orleans, Louisiana)
63. Beckham, W. B., P. Keall, and J. Siebers 2002 A fluence convolution method to
calculate radiation therapy dose distributions that incorporate random set-up
error, Engineering and Physical Sciences in Medicine, (Rotorua,
New Zealand)
64. Keall P.J., Siebers J.V., Kim J.O., Todor D.A., and Mohan R. 2002 Computing IMRT Patient
Transit Images Using Monte Carlo, EPI2K2 Conference, (Vancouver)
65. Keall P.J., Siebers J., Joshi S., and
Mohan R. 2003
66. Keall P.J., Todor
D., Kini V., Vedam S., Bartee C., Siebers J., and Mohan R. 2003 On the use of
EPID-based implanted marker tracking for 4D radiotherapy, Med Phys 30 1383,.
67. Sakthi N, Siebers J, Keall
P, Kim J O, Wu Y, and Wu Q 2003 Monte Carlo-based dosimetry of H&N patients
treated with SIB-IMRT, Int J Radiat
Oncol Biol Phys 57 S209
68. I El Naqa,
I Kawrakow, M Fippel, J V
Siebers, P E Lindsay, M V Wickerhauser, M Vicic, K Zakarian, N Kauffmann
and J O Deasy A comparison of Monte Carlo dose calculation denoising
techniques, International workshop on current topics in Monte Carlo treatment
planning, May 3-5, 2004
69. Keall PJ, Todor
AD, Siebers JV, Mohan R. EPID-based 4D Radiotherapy with Implanted Markers:
Lung and Prostate Applications. Electronic Portal Imaging EPI2004.
70. Cho BC, Kang SK, Park HC, Bae H, Kim J, Siebers J, Keall
PJ. Application of
71. Dogan N, Siebers J, Keall
P, Wu Y, Lerma F, Sakthi N,
Wiu Q, Schmidt-Ullrich R.
Improving IMRT dose accuracy via deliverable Monte Carlo optimization for the
treatment of head and neck cancer patients. Radiotherapy and Oncology 2004;73:S174-175.
72. Deasy J, El Naqa
I, Kawrakow I, Siebers J, Wickerhauser
M, Vicic M, and Fippel M
2004 Improvements in Monte Carlo Denoising Based on
Batching, Med Phys 31 1731
73. Fix M, Keall
P, Libby B, Mohan R, and Siebers J 2004 Monte Carlo Source Model for
Megavoltage Photon-Beam Radiotherapy: Photon Source Characteristics, Med Phys
31 1904
74. Liu H, Wang X, Dong L, Vassiliev O, Siebers J, and Mohan R 2004 Dosimetry
Verification for IMRT of Thoracic Cancers Using Experimental and Monte Carlo
Approached, Med Phys 31 1822
75. Wijesooriya K, Bartee
C, Siebers J, Vedam S, and Keall
P 2004 Determination of Maximum Leaf Velocity and Acceleration of Dynamic Multi-Leaf Collimator: Implications for 4D Radiotherapy, Med Phys 31 1716
76. Lauve A, Siebers J, Crimaldi
A, Hagan M, Keall P. Adaptive Set-up Correction (ASC)
to account for set-up errors in prostate radiotherapy. Int
J Rad Oncol Biol Phys 2004;60:S332.
77. Crimaldi A, Siebers J, Keall
P, Murphy M, Hagan M. The effect of random setup errors on prostate intensity
modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) plans. Int J Rad Oncol Biol
Phys 2004;60:S334.
78. Keall P, Wijesooriya
K, Vedam S, George R, Todor
D, Murphy M, Siebers J, Williamson J, Mohan R. A Four-dimensional controller
for DMLC-based tumor tracking. Int J Rad Oncol Biol
Phys 2004;60:S338.
79. Dogan, N., Siebers, JV, Keall, PJ, and
80. Ali I, Benedict S, Lerma F, Dogan N, and Siebers J
2005 Multi-Leaf-Collimator Quality Assurance Using the Electronic Portal
Imaging Device, Med Phys 32 2168
81. Chetty I and Siebers J 2005
82. Dogan N, Siebers J, and Keall P 2005 Comparison of Absorbed Dose-To-Medium and
Absorbed-Dose-To-Water for (head and Neck and Prostate) IMRT Treatment Plans,
Med Phys 32 2011
83. Fix M, Keall
P, and Siebers J 2005 Dosimetric Properties of Scattered Photon Subsources Within a Source Model for Different Initial
Electron Energies, Med Phys 32 2012
84. George R, Ramakrishnan
V, Siebers J, Chung T D, and Keall P 2005
Investigation of Variables Affecting Residual Motion for Respiratory Gated
Radiotherapy, Med Phys 32 2124
85. Keall P, Lauve
A, Hagan M, and Siebers J 2005 The Dosimetric Stability of the Prostate and
Critical Structures in the Presence of Internal Motion for an Adaptive
Correction Strategy, Med Phys 32 2115
86. Le Y, Chibani
O, Todor D, J S, and Williamson J 2005 An Integrated
CT-Based Monte Carlo Dose-Evaluation System for Brachytherapy
and Its Application t Permanent Prostate Implant Postprocedure
Dosimetric Analysis, Med Phys 32 2068
87. Li W, Moore J, and Siebers J 2005
Using Fluence-Separation to Account for Energy Spectra Dependence in Computing
Dosimetric ASi EPID Images for IMRT Fields, Medical
Physics 32 2090
88. Mihaylov I, Lerma
F, and Siebers J 2005a Comparison of
89. Mihaylov I, Lerma
F, and Siebers J 2005b An Investigation On the Impact of Incident Fluence
Prediction On the Computed Doses, Med Phys 32 2112
90. Siebers J, Murphy M, and Fix M 2005
Improved Dose Accuracy for On-Line Adaptive Radiation Therapy Using Deformable
Dose Registration, Med Phys 32 1934
91. Jang S, Liu H, Siebers J, Mohan R.
SU-DD-A1-02: Variations of Energy Spectra and Water-To-Material Stopping-Power
Ratios in Three-Dimensional Conformal and IMRT Photon Fields. Med Phys
2006;33(6):1985.
92. Murphy M, Lu L, Crimaldi
A, Cuttino L, Shield C, Keall
P, et al. SU-EE-A4-05: Effects of Cone-Beam CT Noise and Cupping Artifacts On
Deformable Image Registration. Med Phys 2006;33(6):1996.
93. Lu L, Cuttino
L, Barani I, Song S, Fatyga
M, Murphy M, et al. SU-FF-J-85: Inter-Observer Variation In The Planning Of
Head/Neck Radiotherapy. Med Phys 2006;33(6):2040.
94. Mihaylov I, Siebers J. SU-FF-T-20: A Method
for Evaluation of the Dose Prediction and Optimization Convergence Errors.
Med Phys 2006;33(6):2054.
95. Li W, Siebers J, Kawrakow I. MO-D-224A-06: Fast Monte Carlo-Based
Computation of ASi-EPID Dose Images for IMRT
Treatment Field Through Phantom. Med Phys 2006;33(6):2168.
96. Chetty I, Siebers J. TU-A-230A-01:
97. Gordon J, Crimaldi
A, Siebers J. TU-C-ValB-01: Evaluation of Clinical Margins Via Simulation of
Patient Setup Errors in 27 Prostate IMRT Plans. Med Phys 2006;33(6):2187.
98. Siebers J,
99. Dogan N, Mihaylov
I, Wu Y, Keall P, Siebers J.
WE-D-224A-08:
100.
Lu
L., Barani I. J., Cuttino
L., Dogan N., Du W., Fatyga M., Siebers J. V., Song S., Wu Y., Murphy M. J.
Dosimetric Consequences of Inter-observer Planning Variability for Head/Neck
Radiotherapy.
International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics
November 2006, 66, (3-Supplement):
S449-S450.
101.
Zhong
H., Siebers J., Quantitative evaluation of deformable image registration, Proc.
IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, 724-727,
102. Siebers JV, Gordon JJ. IMRT Optimization Using Dosimetric Margins to Ensure Target Coverage. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 2007;69:693-693.
103. Gordon JJ, Siebers JV. MO-D-M100J-04: Exploiting Dosimetric Margins to Reduce IMRT Treated Volumes. Med Phys 2007;34:2523.
104.
Siebers JV. The effect of statistical noise on
IMRT plan quality and convergence for MC-based and MC-correction—based
optimized treatment plans. In: Seuntjens J, Verhaegen F, editors. Third McGill Workshop on
105. Zhong H, Weiss E, Siebers J. TU-C-M100F-07: Detecting Dose Reconstruction Errors. Med Phys 2007;34:2549.
106. Fatyga M, Williamson J, Dogan N, Todor D, Siebers J, George R, Hagan M, Barani I. TH-C-M100F-08: HDR Brachytherapy and Online Image-Guided Adaptive IMRT for Dose Escalation in Prostate Cancer: Comparison of Brachytherapy and IMRT Boosts. Med Phys 2007;34:2632.