Emilie Carpentier (PhD Candidate)

Emilie completed her B.Sc. (Hons) in physics at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON. She is now a PhD candidate under the supervision of Dr. Tony Mestrovic. Emilie’s PhD thesis is on four-dimensional treatment planning and four-dimensional dose calculations for dynamic tumour tracking on the Vero linear accelerator. The Vero pans and tilts the radiation beam to follow a tumour that’s subject to respiratory-induced motion (eg. liver tumours) and continuously irradiate it. Emilie’s thesis aims to improve these treatments by taking into account the beam and anatomy’s motion when creating and evaluating treatment plans.

Emilie is also conducting research under the supervision of Dr. Cheryl Duzenli. This work focusses on measuring skin dose for patients undergoing breast radiotherapy that use the CARA (Carbon-fiber Adjustable Reusable Accessory), a novel breast positioning device developed by members of BC Cancer. Emilie has developed a film dosimetry procedure to measure the dose to skin in contact with the CARA in the inframammary fold. This dosimetric information was used to test the safety of the CARA device during its development. It was also correlated with patients’ skin reactions to work towards developing a dose-area metric predictive of moist desquamation on the breast surface.

Affiliations

PhD Candidate: UBC Department of Physics and Astronomy

Graduate Researcher: BC Cancer - Vancouver

Member: AAPM Students and Trainees Subcommittee

Publications

Google Scholar Publication List

Recent Awards

UBC Four Year Fellowship (4YF)

President’s Academic Excellence Initiative PhD Award

1^st place and People’s Choice Award – UBC’s Three Minute Thesis (3MT) finals