Reinhard Schulte, MD Professor, Radiation Medicine School of Medicine Associate Professor, Basic Sciences School of Medicine Associate Professor, Radiation Technology School of Allied Health Professions

Presentations 

  Research Presentations -- International

• Reinhard Schulte "Recent Developments in Nanodosimetry and its Application to Radiation Protection and Hadron Therapy." Invited talk. 2008 MMD/IPCT (Micro Mini Dosimetry / International Workshop on New technologies of Prostate Cancer Treatments). ( 4/2008 ) Link...

• Reinhard Schulte .  Proton beam therapy - Principles and World-Wide Development. Invited seminar talk. University of Florence, University Hospital. Florence, Italy ( 8/2007 )

• Reinhard Schulte. Imaging with Protons - Motivation and Reconstruction Challenges. Invited seminar talk. University of Florence. University Hospital. Florence, Italy. ( 8/2007 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Proton beam therapy, What have we learned in 30 years? ." Invited Symposium Session talk at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Korean Cancer Association. Seoul, Korea ( 6/2007 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Strategies for image-guided proton beam radiation therapy.." Invited Educational Session talk at the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Korean Cancer Association. Seoul, Korea ( 6/2007 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Principles of Proton CT: A Promising Image Modality." Invited talk, Image-Guided & Proton Radiotherapy, Advanced Workshop Series. University of Wollongong. Wollongong, Australia ( 3/2007 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Image-Guided Radiation Therapy with Protons, Potentials & Applications." Inivited talk. Image-Guided & Proton Radiotherapy, Advanced Workshop Series, University of Wollongong. Wollongong, Australia ( 3/2007 ) Link...

• Jongmin Cho (presenter), Reinhard Schulte,  Baldev Patyal, Richard Levy, Stanislav Vatnitsky. "Optimized Beam Configuration for Functional Proton Radiosurgery: A Dosimetric Study." World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC 2006). Seoul, Korea ( 8/2006 - 9/2006 )

• Vladimir Bashkirov (presenter), Schulte R. et al. "Ion-Counting Nanodosimeter with Particle Tracking Capabilities." 14th International Symposium on Microdosimetry. Venice, Italy ( 11/2005 )

• Guy Garty (presenter), R. Schulte et al. "First attempts at prediction of DNA strand-break yields using nanodosimetric data." 14th International Symposium on Microdosimetry. Venice, Italy ( 11/2005 )

  Research Presentations -- National

• Reinhard Schulte (invited talk). "Proton Radiosurgery - Past, Present, and Future." 4th International Meeting of the International Brain Mapping &Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society. Washington DC ( 9/2007 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Proton therapy and image guidance." Invited Seminar talk. Department of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University Cancer Center, Stanford, California ( 5/2007 )

• Reinhard Schulte. "Characterization of hadron therapy beams with nanodosimetry." 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference; Special Workshop: Innovative Techniques for Hadron Therapy. San Diego, CA ( 11/2006 ) Link...

• Reinhard Schulte. "An Update on Experimental and Simulation Studies in Proton Computed Tomography." 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference; Special Workshop: Innovative Techniques for Hadron Therapy. San Diego, CA ( 11/2006 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Proton Treatment Room Concepts for Precision and Efficiency. Technology in Cancer Research and Treatment." Fundamental Concepts of Proton Beam Therapy for a Hospital Environment. Indian Wells, CA ( 10/2006 )

• Reinhard Schulte. "Proton Radiosurgery." 3rd International Meeting of the International Brain Mapping &Intraoperative Surgical Planning Society. Clermont -Ferrand, France ( 9/2006 ) Link...

• Jongmin Cho, Reinhard W. Schulte, Baldev Patyal. "Image Characteristics of Cone-Beam Proton Computed Tomography: A Monte Carlo Study." World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering (WC 2006). Seoul, Korea ( 8/2006 - 9/2006 ) Link...

• Keith Schubert (presenter), T.S. Lee, R.W. Schulte. "Software development for correction of gradient-nonlinearity distortion in MR images." 4th International Conference on Computer Science and its Applications. San Diego, CA ( 6/2006 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Current and Future Trends in Proton Treatment of Prostate Cancer." Advanced Molecular Imaging Techniques in the Detection, Diagnosis, Therapy and Treatment Follow-Up of Prostate Cancer. Rome, Italy ( 12/2005 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "A System for Functional Proton Radiosurgery." International Brain Mapping and Intraoperative Treatment Planning Society Annual Symposium 2005. Pasadena, CA ( 11/2005 ) Link...

• Andrew Wroe (presenter), R. Schulte et al. "Preliminary investigation of microdosimetric spectra within heterogeneous structures." Radiation Research Society 52nd Annual Meeting. Denver, Co ( 10/2005 ) Link...

• Mahesh Neupane (presenter), Reinhard W. Schulte, et. al. "Orthogonal and Least-Squares Based Coordinate Transforms for Optical Alignment Verification in Radiosurgery." International Symposium on Information Technology: Coding and Computing (ITCC 2005). Las Vegas, Nevada ( 4/2005 )

• Margio C. Klock (presenter), Reinhard W. Schulte, et al. "Computed Tomography with a Low-Intensity Proton Flux: Results of a Monte Carlo Simulation Study." SPIE 49th Annual Meeting. Denver, CO ( 8/2004 )

  Research Presentations -- Regional

• Reinhard W. Schulte. Proton Radiation Guided Release of Drugs and Contrast Media from Nanostructures. Invited seminar talk for students of the Biomedical Physics Graduate Program. University of California Los Angeles, Westwood, CA ( 10/2007 )

  Poster Presentation

• Reinhard W. Schulte (presenter), Fadi Shihadeh, et al. Performance Analysis of an Optoelectronic Localization System for Monitoring Brain Lesioning with Proton Beams. American Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 49th Annual Meeting. Los Angeles, CA ( 10/2007 ) Link...

• Fadi Shihadeh, Reinhard Schulte (presenter), Keith E. Schuber, Pani Chakrapani. Performance Analysis of an Optoelectronic Localization System for Monitoring Brain Lesioning with Proton Beams. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France ( 8/2007 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte, Tom S. Lee, Keith E. Schubert. "MRI Distortion Correction for Submillimeter-Precision Functional Proton Radiosurgery." Annual Meeting of ASTRO. Philadelphia, PA ( 11/2006 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte, Andrew J. Wroe, Vladimir Bashkirov, Anatoly B. Rosenfeld. "The frequency of large ionization clusters produced by protons in the therapeutic energy range." Joint Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiation Research Society (RRS). Philadelphia, PA ( 11/2006 ) Link...

• Qing Lin, Reinhard W. Schulte, Xian Luo, Melba L. Andres, Chad R. Sila (presenter), Jerry R. Williams, James M. Slater, Daila S. Gridley. "Time-sensitive enhancement of human glioma cell killing after treatment with low-dose Adriamycin followed by Co-60 radiation." Joint Meeting of the American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO) and the Radiation Research Society (RRS). Philadelphia, PA ( 11/2006 ) Link...

• M. Petterson, N. Blumenkrantz, J. Feldt, J. Heimann, D. Lucia, A. Seiden, D. C. Williams, H. F.-W. Sadrozinski, R. Schulte, et al.. "Proton Radiography Studies for Proton CT." 2006 IEEE Nuclear Science Symposium and Medical Imaging Conference. San Diego, CA ( 10/2006 - 11/2006 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte, V. Bashkirov, B.G. Schulte, J.R .Milligan. "Complex lesion yields in plasmid DNA produced by protons in the therapeutic energy range." Radiation Research Society 52nd Annual Meeting. Denver, Co ( 10/2005 ) Link...

• Reinhard W. Schulte, Levy, R.P., Moyers, M.F., Neupane, M., Schubert, K. . "Image-Guided Alignment Verification with Submillimeter Precision for Functional Proton Radiosurgery." ASTRO 47th Annual Meeting. Denver, Co ( 10/2005 ) Link...

  Presentations given to non-academic audiences

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Translational Proton Research at LLUMC: Proton Computed Tomography."  Proton Therapy Prostate Support Group. Loma Linda University. ( 3/2008 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Proton Beam Therapy: From Radiobiological Concepts to Cure of Cancer." Proton Therapy Prostate Support Group. Loma Linda University ( 10/2007 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Advances in Image-Guided Proton Therapy." Proton Therapy Prostate Support Group. Loma Linda University ( 5/2007 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Proton Beam Therapy: From Radiobiological Concepts to Cure of Cancer." Proton Therapy Prostate Support Group. Loma Linda University ( 8/2006 ) ( 9/2006 )

• Reinhard W. Schulte. "Innovative Ideas for the Proton Treatment of Prostate Cancer." Prostate Support Group Meeting. LLUMC ( 9/2005 )