Carleton med phys grad students win 1st and 3rd place at the COMP Young Investigator Symposium

Congratulations to Victoria Howard (MSc student) and Mehan Haidari (PhD student) on their 1st and 3rd place wins in the Young Investigators competition at the 2024 Canadian Organization of Medical Physics (COMP) annual scientific meeting in Regina!

Victoria's presentation "A step toward clinical translation: Developing a robust thermal calibration methodology for pyroelectric dosimeters" with co-authors James Renaud (NRC), Emily Heath (Carleton) and Bryan Muir (NRC) won 1^st place while Mehan's presentation "A deep learning pipeline for real-time conformal palliative radiotherapy of spine metastases" with co-authors Dal Granville and Elsayed Ali (Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre) took the 3^rd place award.