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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Tânia Filipa Sobrinho dos Santos

Citation names

  • Santos, Tania

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
4C18-EB69-41F5
ORCID iD
0000-0002-5325-3090

Email addresses

  • 4119@ipocoimbra.min-saude.pt (Professional)
Education
Degree Classification
2016/10 - 2021/04/28
Concluded
 Physics Engineering (Doctor of Philosophy)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2010/09 - 2015/06
Concluded
 Biomedical Engineering (Master)
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Affiliation

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/12/23 - Current Medical Physicist Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2015/06 - 2016/06 Internship International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
2014/07 - 2014/09 Summer Internship Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2013/07 - 2013/09 Summer Internship Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2016/10 - 2020/09 IMRT national audit - application of IAEA methodology and extension to new technologies
Bolsa SFRH/BD/118929/2016
PhD Student Fellow
Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal

Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Contract

Designation Funders
2018/07/01 - 2021/12/31 Abordagens Computacionais para Planeamento de Tratamentos de Radioterapia de Excelência Computational Approaches for Radiotherapy Planning of Excellence
PTDC/CCI-INF/28030/2017
Researcher
Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Santos, Tania. "SP-0239 Following TRS 483: reference and relative dosimetry in Tomotherapy". 2019.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(19)30659-0
  2. Santos, Tania. "OC-0607 IAEA supported national ‘end-to-end’ IMRT audit in Portugal". 2019.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(19)31027-8
Conference poster
  1. Lopes, Maria do Carmo; Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Capela, Miguel. "Independent verification of the pre-installed beam model in helical tomotherapy". Paper presented in International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO-3), 2021.
  2. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Mateus, Josefina; Capela, Miguel; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "PO1175: Texture analysis of Tomotherapy planned sinograms to assess plans modulation". Paper presented in ESTRO2020, 2020.
    10.1016/S0167-8140(21)01793-X
  3. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "PO1801: A new standardized global plan complexity score indicator". Paper presented in ESTRO2020, 2020.
    10.1016/S0167-8140(21)01819-3
  4. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Capela, Miguel; Mateus, Josefina; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "Influence of film dosimetry protocols on IMRT audit results". Paper presented in International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance Medical Radiation Dosimetry (IDOS2019), 2019.
  5. Kazantsev, Pavel; Wesolowska, Paulina; Gershkevitsh, Eduard; Lopes, Maria do Carmo; Santos, Tania; Pesznyakd, Csilla; Melles-Bencsik, Barbara; et al. "The IAEA end-to-end on-site IMRT audit methodology: First national implementation results". Paper presented in International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance in Medical Radiation Dosimetry (IDOS2019), 2019.
  6. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Mateus, Josefina; Capela, Miguel; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "EP-1747: From pre-treatment verification towards invivo dosimetry in TomoTherapy". Paper presented in ESTRO 36, 2017.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(17)32110-2
  7. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Mateus, Josefina; Capela, Miguel; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "EP-1751: A comparison of tools for Delivery Quality Assurance in TomoTherapy". Paper presented in ESTRO 36, 2017.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(17)32114-x
  8. Kazantsev, Pavel; Wesolowska, Paulina; Santos, Tania; Szegedi, Domonkos; Izewska, Joanna. "Experimental determination of the standard IAEA holder correction factor for RPLD postal dose audit applications". Paper presented in 8th Alpe-Adria Medical Physics Meeting, 2017.
  9. Almady, Balazs; Wesolowska, Paulina; Santos, Tania (4C18-EB69-41F5); Izewska, Joanna. "EP-1511: Gamma analysis: testing scanners and software tools". Paper presented in ESTRO 35, 2016.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(16)32761-x
  10. Izewska, Joanna; Coffey, Mary; Scalliet, Pierre; Zubizarreta, Eduardo; Santos, Tania; Vouldis,Ioannis; Dunscombe, Peter. "EP-1944: Lessons from the findings of 31 QUATRO audits in Europe". Paper presented in ESTRO 35, 2016.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(16)33195-4
  11. Santos, Tania; Wesolowska, Paulina; Izewska, Joanna. "Determination of selected parameters of RPL dosimetry system for the use in high energy photon dosimetry audits for radiotherapy". Paper presented in 7th Alpe-Adria Medical Physics Meeting, 2016.
  12. Wesolowska, Paulina; Cole, Andrew; Santos, Tania; Bokulic, Tomislav; Izewska, Joanna. "Characterization of three solid state dosimetry systems for use in high energy photon dosimetry audits in radiotherapy". Paper presented in 18th International Conference on Solid State Dosimetry, 2016.
  13. Santos, Tania; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "EP-1632: Definition and evaluation of a template to speed up radiosurgery treatment planning of acoustic neurinomas". Paper presented in 3rd ESTRO Forum, 2015.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(15)41624-x
  14. Ferreira, Brigida da Costa; Marques, Rui Vale; Khouri, Leila; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "EP-1116: Assessment and topographic characterization of local-regional recurrences in head and neck tumours". Paper presented in ESTRO 33, 2014.
    10.1016/s0167-8140(15)31234-2
Journal article
  1. Tahmasbi, Marziyeh; Capela, Miguel; Santos, Tania; Mateus, Josefina; Ventura, Tiago; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "Particular issues to be considered in small field dosimetry for TrueBeam STx commissioning". Applied Radiation and Isotopes 202 (2023): 111066. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.111066.
    10.1016/j.apradiso.2023.111066
  2. Santos, Tania. "A review on radiochromic film dosimetry for dose verification in high energy photon beams". Radiation Physics and Chemistry 179 (2021): 109217-109217.
    10.1016/j.radphyschem.2020.109217
  3. Tania Santos; Tiago Ventura; Miguel Capela; Josefina Mateus; Maria do Carmo Lopes. "A protocol for absolute dose verification of SBRT/SRS treatment plans using Gafchromic™ EBT-XD films". Physica Medica (2021): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejmp.2021.01.082.
    10.1016/j.ejmp.2021.01.082
  4. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "Evaluation of the complexity of treatment plans from a national IMRT/VMAT audit - Towards a plan complexity score". Physica Medica 70 (2020): 75-84.
    10.1016/j.ejmp.2020.01.015
  5. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Mateus, Josefina; Capela, Miguel; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "On the complexity of helical tomotherapy treatment plans". Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 21 (2020): 107-118.
    10.1002/acm2.12895
  6. Lopes, Maria do Carmo; Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Capela, Miguel. "Application of the TRS 483 code of practice for reference and relative dosimetry in tomotherapy". Medical Physics 46 12 (2019): 5799-5806.
    10.1002/mp.13855
  7. Santos, Tania; Lopes, Maria do Carmo; Gershkevitsh, Eduard; Vinagre, Filipa; Faria, David; Carita, Liliana; Pontes, Miguel; et al. "IMRT national audit in Portugal". Physica Medica 65 (2019): 128-136.
    10.1016/j.ejmp.2019.08.013
  8. Izewska, Joanna; Coffey, Mary; Scalliet, Pierre; Zubizarreta, Eduardo; Santos, Tania; Vouldis, Ioannis; Dunscombe, Pierre. "Improving the quality of radiation oncology: 10 years’ experience of QUATRO audits in the IAEA Europe Region". Radiotherapy and Oncology 126 2 (2018): 183-190.
    10.1016/j.radonc.2017.09.011
  9. Wesolowska, Paulina Elzbieta; Cole, Andrew; Santos, Tania; Bokulic, Tomislav; Kazantsev, Pavel; Izewska, Joanna. "Characterization of three solid state dosimetry systems for use in high energy photon dosimetry audits in radiotherapy". Radiation Measurements 106 (2017): 556-562.
    10.1016/j.radmeas.2017.04.017
  10. Santos, Tania; Ventura, Tiago; Capela, Miguel; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "Dosimetric Study on the Consequences of Replacing the mMLC Collimator Used for Intracranial SRS by an Integrated MLC-160". International Journal of Cancer and Clinical Research 3 064 (2016): 1-5.
    10.23937/2378-3419/3/4/1064
  11. Ferreira, Brigida da Costa; Marques, Rui Vale; Khouri, Leila; Santos, Tania; Sá-Couto, Pedro; Lopes, Maria do Carmo. "Assessment and topographic characterization of locoregional recurrences in head and neck tumours". Radiation Oncology 10 41 (2015): 1-9.
    10.1186/s13014-015-0345-4
Magazine article
  1. Lopes, Maria do Carmo; Santos, Tania. "Dosimetry audits – the Portuguese experience", IAEA SSDL Newsletter, 2019, https://www.iaea.org/publications/13563/ssdl-newsletter-issue-no-70-june-2019.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/02/18 Characterization of helical tomotherapy plans complexity International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology (ICARO-3)
International Atomic Energy Agency (online)
2019/06/20 IMRT audit in Portugal: results of an IAEA national supported project International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance Medical Radiation Dosimetry (IDOS2019)
International Atomic Energy Agency (Viena, Austria)
2019/04/29 OC-0607: IAEA supported national end-to-end IMRT audit in Portugal ESTRO 38
ESTRO (Milão, Italy)
2019/04 SP-0239 Following TRS 483: reference and relative dosimetry in Tomotherapy ESTRO 38
ESTRO (Milan, Italy)
2019/03/09 IAEA supported national IMRT audit – results presentation and discussion Workshop final: IAEA supported national IMRT audit
Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil, EPE (Coimbra, Portugal)
2018/03/10 IAEA supported national IMRT audit – the methodology Workshop: IAEA supported national IMRT audit
Instituto Portugues de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil, EPE (Coimbra, Portugal)
2017/11/07 Auditoria Nacional de IMRT Encontro Nacional de Física Médica
Divisão de Física Médica - Sociedade Portuguesa de Física (Coimbra, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/03/09 - 2019/03/09 Final workshop: IAEA supported National IMRT Audit (2019/03/09 - 2019/03/09)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2018/03/10 - 2018/03/10 IAEA supported National IMRT Audit (2018/03/10 - 2018/03/10)
Workshop (Member of the Organising Committee)
 Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2021/02/16 - 2021/02/19 International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology
Conference
 International Conference on Advances in Radiation Oncology
International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
2020/10/08 - 2020/10/08 UT Austin Portugal Program, Masterclass IV: The Challenges of Proton Therapy in Cancer Treatment
Workshop
 UT Austin Portugal Program, Masterclass IV: The Challenges of Proton Therapy in Cancer Treatment
University of Texas at Austin, United States
2019/12/12 - 2019/12/13 New Challenges in Medical Physics
Conference
 New Challenges in Medical Physics
University of Texas at Austin, United States
2019/11/08 - 2019/11/09 Portuguese School of Medical Physics Course
Workshop
 Machine Learning, Big data and Automation in Radiotherapy
Universidade de Coimbra Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores de Coimbra, Portugal

Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2019/06/18 - 2019/06/21 International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance in Medical Radiation Dosimetry (IDOS 2019)
Conference
 International Symposium on Standards, Applications and Quality Assurance in Medical Radiation Dosimetry (IDOS 2019)
International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
2019/04/26 - 2019/04/30 ESTRO 38
Congress
 ESTRO 38
European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium
2019/04/26 - 2019/04/26 ESTRO Physics pre-meeting course: Machine learning for physicists
Workshop
 ESTRO Physics pre-meeting course: Machine learning for physicists
European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium
2018/04/20 - 2018/04/24 ESTRO 37
Congress
 ESTRO 37
European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium
2017/11/08 - 2017/11/12 IAEA RER6033 Regional Workshop on QUATRO-Physics
Workshop
 IAEA RER6033 Regional Workshop on QUATRO-Physics
International Atomic Energy Agency, Austria
2017/11/06 - 2017/11/07 Encontro Nacional de Física Médica (FISMED 2017)
Conference
 Encontro Nacional de Física Médica FISMED 2017
Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal
2017/11/06 - 2017/11/06 EPFM2017/PSMP2017 Course – “Magnetic Resonance Imaging"
Workshop
 EPFM2017/PSMP2017 Course – “Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Sociedade Portuguesa de Física, Portugal
2017/05/05 - 2017/05/09 ESTRO 36
Congress
 ESTRO 36
European SocieTy for Radiotherapy and Oncology, Belgium
2013/03/14 - 2013/03/17 VII Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Students Meeting
Meeting
 VII Portuguese Biomedical Engineering Students Meeting
2013/02/20 - 2013/02/23 3rd Portuguese BioEngineering Meeting
Conference
 3rd Portuguese BioEngineering Meeting
Distinctions

Award

2015 3% Best Students
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
2014 3% Best Students
Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal