Kira Grogg, Ph.D.


Instructor in Investigation
Gordon Center for Medical Imaging, Mass General Research Institute
Instructor in Radiology
Harvard Medical School
head and neck neoplasms; monte carlo method; nuclear medicine; patient positioning; positron-emission tomography; proton therapy; proton therapy physics; scattering radiation I am an Instructor/Associate Investigator with the El Fakhri Lab, part of the Gordon Center for Medical Imaging at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). I am involved in a project for monitoring radiotherapy with positron emission tomography (PET). More info about my research can be found here.  I also cover clinical physics quality control for PET, Nuclear Medicine, and Nuclear Cardiology at MGH.

 Dose (a) and MC-PET (b) distributions for patient A and profiles along the white lines (c). Endpoints for MC-PET and dose are indicated with vertical lines.
Range comparison visualization: Dose (a) and simulated-PET (b) distributions for an example patient and profiles along the white lines (c). Endpoints for sim-PET and dose are indicated with vertical lines.

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