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PHOTO: CLIFTON LI

Faculty of Science 2017 Year in Review

Canada-China
Imaging
Partnership
In early 2012, Dr. Michael Kolios received
funding from the Canadian Institutes
of Health Research (CIHR) for a CanadaChina joint research project to develop
special nanoparticles that increase the
ability of ultrasound and photoacoustic
imaging to detect and treat tumours. The
Chinese collaboration team, which has
sent five students/postdocs to Ryerson
over five years, is led by Professor Zhigang
Wang from Chongqing Medical University
and Professor Yuanyi Zheng, now at
Shanghai Jiaotong University. Ryerson
doctoral candidate Yan Jie Wang has
been involved in the collaboration from
the beginning, including travelling to
Chongqing in April 2014 to participate in
experiments and give an invited talk.
Together, the group has published four
peer-reviewed journal papers and several
conference proceedings while also
presenting their joint research at several
international conferences and symposiums.

Canada-US
Proton Therapy
Collaboration

Dr. James Gräfe

ABOVE: Dr. James Gräfe, a clinical medical physicist,
is developing innovative techniques in applied
nuclear medicine or radiation therapy through
experiment and simulation.
BELOW: Yan Jie Wang, a Biomedical Physics
PhD student, is working on specialized particles
that can be used for both imaging and therapy
in the iBEST facility at St. Michael's Hospital.

PHOTO: IAN PATTERSON

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Through our partnership
with Washington University
School of Medicine
in St. Louis, we can offer
advanced research and
learning opportunities that
enable our students to
deepen their understanding
of biomedical physics and
generate new knowledge."

Dr. James Gräfe, a clinical medical
physicist and member of the Department
of Physics, and Dr. Rao Khan, a clinical
medical physicist at the Washington
University School of Medicine in St. Louis
and adjunct professor at Ryerson, are
collaborating across borders to investigate
a new form of tumour localization during
proton therapy. "This collaboration
provides access to clinical equipment not
yet available in Canada and gives graduate
students in our Biomedical Physics
program experience at one of the top 10
radiation oncology facilities in the United
States," says Gräfe. High energy proton
therapy units are not part of current
routine clinical practice in Canada but that
may one day change, especially if local
expertise in this area develops via this
sort of collaboration. This research
is funded by NSERC and the Faculty of
Science Dean's Research Funds - Research
Tools and Instrumentation grants.



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