1998 Sylvia Fedoruk Prize

The 1998 award is presented to:

Robin G. Kelly, Kevin J. Jordan, and Jerry J. Battista
"Optical CT reconstruction of 3D dose distributions using the ferrous-benzoic-xylenol (FBX) gel dosimeter"
Med. Phys. 25(9) 1741-1750 (1998).

"The authors present a novel application of laser CT scanning to readout radiation patterns recorded in a gel volume by 3D conformal radiotherapy techniques. This article is well written and showed an impressive attention to detail on the experimental methodology. It builds upon previous original work presented at conferences by the authors, and it substantially adds to the science of optical CT scanning. The technique competes well with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) dosimetry techniques and it will be applicable to the quality assurance of new 3D methods of treatment planning and radiation delivery to cancer patients."


Runners-up in the 1998 competition are:

Dave Rogers
"A new approach to electron-beam reference dosimetry"
Med. Phys. 25(3) 310-320 (1998).

Robert LeClair and Paul Johns
"A semi-analytical model to investigate the potential applications of x-ray scatter imaging"
Med. Phys. 25(6) 1008-1020 (1998).