Hunter Nathaniel Ratliff
Field of work
Keywords
Radiation detection, Radiation transport simulation, Data analysis
About me
I graduated with a PhD in nuclear engineering at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville in December 2018, spent two and a half years as a postdoc in the PHITS development team at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency’s Nuclear Science and Engineering Center, and am presently a postdoctoral fellow/researcher at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences.
Here at HVL, I am working on the development, analysis, and deployment of a prototype radiation detector that seeks to more precisely determine dose depositions delivered in proton radiotherapy treatments to then allow for sparing of more healthy tissue surrounding the sites receiving treatment.
At JAEA I was the lead developer of the DCHAIN-PHITS activation, buildup, burnup, and decay code which is coupled to and distributed with PHITS.
Research group at HVL
Neutron and gamma-ray imaging for real-time range verification and image guidance in particle therapy (NOVO)
More about the NOVO project and group: https://blogg.hvl.no/novo/about-novo/
My personal website: https://hratliff.com/
Research groups
Publications
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Investigating the roles of detector layout and detector resolution in sensitivity to range shifts in proton therapy using fast neutrons
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Image Reconstruction for Proton Therapy Range Verification via U-NETs
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The Backscatter Gating method for time, energy, and position resolution characterization of long form factor organic scintillators
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Characterization of organic glass scintillator bars and their potential for a hybrid neutron/gamma ray imaging system for proton radiotherapy range verification
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Recent improvements of the particle and heavy ion transport code system – PHITS version 3.33