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Shirin Abbasinejad Enger

Title: 
Dr
Academic title(s): 

Director, Medical Physics Unit;

Graduate Program Director, Medical Physics;
Canada Research Chair in Medical Physics;
Co-Director, FRQS Experimental Therapeutics Axes;
Associate Professor, Gerald Bronfman Department of Oncology;
Associate Member, Department of Physics, Department of Biomedical Engineering
۲ݮƵ University;
Investigator - Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research;
Associate Academic Member, Mila - Quebec AI Institute
Shirin Abbasinejad Enger
Contact Information
Email address: 
shirin.enger [at] mcgill.ca
Address: 

Cedars Cancer Centre, Medical Physics, DS1.9347
۲ݮƵ University Health Centre - Glen Site
1001 boul. Décarie
Montréal, QC H4A 3J1

&

SMBD-Jewish General Hospital

Segal Cancer Centre, Radiation Oncology Department, G18.126

3755 chemin de la Côte Ste-Catherine

Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2

Phone: 
(514) 934-1934 x45302
Group: 
Associate Professor
Degree(s): 

BSc, Physics (Uppsala '02)

MSc, Medical Physics (Uppsala '02)

PhD, Medical Radiation Physics (Uppsala '09)

Postdoctoral Fellowship, (Laval '11)

Location: 
Glen Hospital
Graduate supervision: 

Current research trainees supervision (@ September 2024):

4 Postdoctoral Fellows, 11 PhD students, 6 MSc students, 6 Honours research students.

Current research: 

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Areas of interest: 

Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medical Physics and Oncology, Monte Carlo based Dose Planning Systems, Dose Optimization Techniques, Radiation Dosimetry, Radiotherapy, Brachytherapy, Detector Development, Radiation Protection, Theranostics.

Selected publications: 
  1. Ahn H*, Carroll L*, Hopewell R, Tsai IH, Jolly D, Massarweh G, Enger SA. Development of small, cost-efficient scintillating fiber detectors for automated synthesis of positron emission tomography radiopharmaceuticals, Medical Physics (In Press)

  2. Robitaille M*, Ménard C, Famulari G, Béliveau-Nadeau D, Enger SA. 169Yb- based high dose rate intensity modulated brachytherapy for focal treatment of prostate cancer, Brachytherapy,2024, ISSN 1538-4721, (In Press)

  3. Dumancic M*, Enger SA. Pioneering women in nuclear and radiation sciences. Radiother Oncol. 2024 Aug;197:110374

  4. Kim TP*, Enger SA. Characterizing the voxel-based approaches in radioembolization dosimetry with reDoseMC. Med Phys. 2024 Jun;51(6):4007- 4027

  5. Jafarzadeh H*, Antaki M, Mao X, Duclos M, Maleki F, Enger SA. Penalty weight tuning in high dose rate brachytherapy using multi-objective Bayesian optimization. Phys Med Biol. 2024 May 21;69(11)

  6. Diaz-Martinez VD*, Cyr M*, Devic S, Tomic N, Lewis DF, Enger SA. Investigation of dosimetric characteristics of radiochromic film in response to alpha particles emitted from Americium-241. Med Phys. 2024 May 20

  7. Rodrigues-Machado FC*, Janitz E, Bernard S, Bekerat H, McEwen M, Renaud J, Enger SA, Childress L, Sankey JC. Radiation hardness of open Fabry-Pérot microcavities. Opt Express. 2024 May 6;32(10):17189-17196 (Editor’s pick)

  8. Kalinowski J*, Enger SA. RapidBrachyTG43: A Geant4-based TG-43 parameter and dose calculation module for brachytherapy dosimetry. Med Phys. 2024 May;51(5):3746-3757

  9. Quetin S*, Bahoric B, Maleki F, Enger SA. Deep learning for high-resolution dose prediction in high dose rate brachytherapy for breast cancer treatment. Phys Med Biol. 2024 Apr 30;69(10)

  10. Berumen F*, Ouellet S, Enger SA, Beaulieu L. Aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty extraction of patient-specific deep learning-based dose predictions in LDR prostate brachytherapy. Phys Med Biol. 2024 Apr 9;69(8)

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