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James Renaud

Title: 
Dr
Academic title(s): 

Adjunct Professor, Department of Oncology & Medical Physics Unit, 㽶Ƶ

Assistant Research Office, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa

James Renaud
Contact Information
Email address: 
james.renaud [at] nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Address: 

National Research Council of Canada

1200 Montreal Road, Building M-58

Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6

Phone: 
(613) 993-9101
Group: 
Adjunct Professor
Degree(s): 

BSc Hons, Physics (Waterloo '10)

MSc, Medical Physics (McGill '12)

PhD, Medical Physics (McGill '16)

Current research: 

Radiation therapy physics, radiation metrology (small & non-standard fields,  hadron therapy, MRgRT), calorimetry.

Selected publications: 
  1. Szpala S, Renaud J, Muir B, Bourgouin A, Kohli K, McEwen M (2023) “Calorimeter measurements of absolute dose in aluminum, a

    surrogate of bone, to validate dose-to-medium in Acuros XB and determine the medium correction for selected detectors”, Phys.

    Med. Biol. [link]

  2. Bourgouin A, Keszti F, Schoenfeld A, Hackel T, Kozelka J, Hildreth J, Simon W, Schüller A, Seuntjens J, Kapsch R-P, Renaud J (2022)

    “The probe-format graphite calorimeter, Aerrow, for absolute dosimetry in ultra-high pulse dose rate electron beams”, Med. Phys.

    [link]

  3. Muir B, Culberson W, Davis S, Kim G-Y, Lee S-W, Lowenstein J, Renaud J, Sarfehnia A, Siebers J, Tantôt L, Tolani N (2022) “AAPM

    WGTG51 Report 374: Guidance for TG-51 reference dosimetry” Med. Phys. [Accepted] [link]

  4. Muir B, Nusrat H, Sarfehnia A, Renaud J (2022) “Monte Carlo optimization and experimental validation of a prototype ionization

    chamber for accurate magnetic resonance image guided radiation therapy (MRgRT) daily output constancy measurements in solid

    phantoms”, Med. Phys. [link]

  5. Renaud J, Muir B (2022) “Assessing the accuracy of electronic portal imaging device (EPID)-based dosimetry: II. Evaluation of a

    dosimetric uncertainty budget and development of a new film-in-EPID absorbed dose calibration methodology,”, Med. Phys. [link]

  6. Renaud J, Muir B (2021) “Assessing the accuracy of electronic portal imaging device (EPID)-based dosimetry: I. Quantities

    influencing long-term stability,”, Med. Phys. [link]

  7. Côté B*, Keszti F*, Bancheri J, Sarfehnia A, Seuntjens J, Renaud J (2021) “Quasi-adiabatic performance of a millimeter-scale

    absorbed dose graphite calorimeter in small-field megavoltage photon beams,”, Med. Phys. 48(11), 7476-7492 [link]

  8. D’Souza M, Nusrat H, Renaud J, Peterson G, Sarfehnia A (2020) “First-stage validation of a portable imageable MR-compatible

    water calorimeter” Med. Phys. [link]

  9. D’Souza M, Nusrat H, Iakovenko V, Sahgal A, Renaud J, Sarfehnia A (2019) “Water calorimetry in MR-linac: Direct measurement of

    absorbed dose and absolute determination of chamber kQ,mag,” Med. Phys. [link]

  10. Renaud J, Sarfehnia A, Bancheri J, Seuntjens J (2019) “Absolute dosimetry of a 1.5 T MR-guided accelerator-based high energy

    photon beam in water and solid phantoms using Aerrow,” Med. Phys. [link]

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