Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira (8B15-6A04-1C9F)

Curriculum Vitae

Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira

Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira. Completed the Doutoramento in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2019/04/04 by Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico and Licenciatura in Physics (Física Tecnológica) in 1995/10/20 by Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências. Is Medical Physics Expert in Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Protection Advisor (RPA) in Fundação Champalimaud. Published 5 articles in journals. Has 2 book(s). Participated in 2 event(s). Co-supervised 1 PhD thesis(es). Co-supervised 13 MSc dissertation(s). Works in the area(s) of Medical and Health Sciences with emphasis on Other Medical Sciences. In his curriculum Ciência Vitae the most frequent terms in the context of scientific, technological and artistic-cultural output are: Radiotherapy; Nuclear Medicine; Radiopharmacology; Dosimetry; Internal dosimetry; Medical image processing; .

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Paulo Miguel dos Santos Ferreira

Citation names

Ferreira, Paulo
Ferreira, P.

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 8B15-6A04-1C9F
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-6632-5161
Researcher Id: AAH-1592-2020
Scopus Author Id: 55932126000

Email addresses

paulo.ferreira@fundacaochampalimaud.pt (Professional)

Telephones

Mobile phone

(351) 966057199 (Professional)

Addresses

Fundação Champalimaud, Av. Brasília, Lisboa, 1400-038, Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://fchampalimaud.org/ (Professional)
https://fchampalimaud.org/clinical_services/nuclear-medicine (Professional)
https://www.fchampalimaud.org/research/groups/durval-costa (Professional)
https://www.fchampalimaud.org/clinical_services/radiotherapy (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Medical and Health Sciences - Other Medical Sciences

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)	Proficiency (C2)	Advanced (C1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2011/10/01 - 2019/04/04 Concluded	Electrical and Computer Engineering (Doutoramento) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal "Voxel-Based Dosimetry Using Multimodal Images For Patient-Specific Liver Radioembolization With Yttrium-90 Charged Glass Microspheres" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	Distinção por unanimidade
1990/02/15 - 1995/10/20 Concluded	Physics (Física Tecnológica) (Licenciatura) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal "Dosimetria das radiações ionizantes em radioterapia" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	13

Affiliation

Teaching in Higher Education

	Category Host institution	Employer
2006 - 2021	Invited Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
1996 - 2006	Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher)	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
	Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal

Other Careers

	Category Host institution	Employer
2006/09/15 - 2012/02/15	Assessor (Técnico Superior de Saúde)	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
2000/08/15 - 2006/09/15	Assistente Principal (Técnico Superior de Saúde - Física Hospitalar)	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
1998/02/16 - 2000/08/15	Estagiário (3º e 4º Ano) (Técnico Superior de Saúde - Física Hospitalar)	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
1995/10/09 - 1998/02/16	Estagiário (1º e 2º Ano) (Técnico Superior de Saúde - Física Hospitalar)	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal
	Instituto Português de Oncologia de Lisboa Francisco Gentil EPE, Portugal

Others

	Category Host institution	Employer
2012/06/01 - Current	Medical Physics Expert in Radiotherapy and Nuclear Medicine, Radiation Protection Advisor (RPA)	Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal
	Fundação Champalimaud, Portugal

Outputs

Publications

Book	Demino, L.; Ferreira, P.; Oliveira, F.P.M.; Costa, D.C.. The importance of SPECT imaging attenuation correction during treatment planning for⁹⁰Y-labeled glass microspheres liver radioembolization. 2018. 10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_29 Ferreira, P.; Parafita, R.; Girão, P.S.; Correia, P.L.; Costa, D.C.. Radioembolization with⁹⁰Y-labeled glass microspheres: Analytical methods for patient-personalized voxel-based dosimetry. 2018. 10.1007/978-3-319-68195-5_20
Conference abstract	Costa, M.; Parafita, R.; Canudo, A.; Capacho, A.; Silva, F.; Delgado, H.; Correia, J.; et al. Corresponding author: Costa, M... "A radiation exposure comparison between manual and automated setups during GALLIUM-68 peptide labelling". Vienna, 2023. Ribeiro, Maria Inês; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Cruz, João; Costa, Durval C.; Corresponding author: Ribeiro, Maria Inês.. "Comparison of Two 90 Y-charged Glass Microspheres Liver Radioembolisation Dosimetry Methods: Voxel S-values and Monte Carlo -GATE". Virtual, 2021. Morgado, Joana; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Di Maria, Salvatore; Vigário, Ricardo; Costa, Durval C.. "Voxel-wise Dosimetry of [ 68 Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 and Comparison With the Literature". Virtual, 2021. Rodrigues, Cristiana; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Silva, Ângelo; Peralta, Luis; Costa, Durval C.; Rodrigues, C.; et al.. "Comparison of Voxel S-values and Monte Carlo Simulation in [ 177 Lu]Lu-DOTA-TATE Quantification for Patient-Specific Dosimetry". Virtual, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-021-05547-1 Costa, M.; Silva, M.; Parafita, R.; Canudo, A.; Freitas, B.; Delgado, H.; Correia, J. M.; et al. Corresponding author: Costa, M... "Comparative Study of PET injectors in the routine practice of Nuclear Medicine". (Virtual), 2020. Rodrigues, Cristiana; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Silva, Ângelo; Peralta, Luis; Costa, Durval C.; Rodrigues, C.; et al. Corresponding author: Rodrigues, C... "177Lu-DOTATATE Quantification for Patient Personalised Dosimetry in Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumours". (Virtual), 2020. Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Rosa, Luís; Oliveira, Carla; Parafita, Rui; Canudo, Ana; Correia, Paulo Lobato; Girão, Pedro S.; Campos Costa, Durval. "Otimização automática da dosimetria específica do doente submetido a radioembolização com microesferas de vidro marcadas com Y-90". Lisboa, 2017. Demino, Laura; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Campos Costa, Durval. "Importância da correção para a atenuação das imagens de SPECT/99mTc-MAA na dosimetria da radioembolização do fígado com microesferas de vidro com 90Y". Lisboa, 2017. Moreira, Eduardo; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco; Parafita, Rui; Canudo, Ana; Silva, Mariana; Oliveira, Carla; Rosa, Luís; Campos Costa, Durval. "Quantificação da distribuição de ítrio-90 com PET na avaliação pós radioembolização hepática". Lisboa, 2017.
Conference paper	Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco P. M.; Parafita, Rui; Girão, Pedro S.; Correia, Paulo L.; Pares, Oriol; Costa, Durval C.; Corresponding author: Ferreira, Paulo.. "Voxel-Based Computational Tools Help Liver Dosimetry Calculations of Multiple (External and Internal) Radiation Therapies". 2019. 10.1007/978-3-030-32040-9_22 Ferreira, P.; Parafita, R.; Canudo, A.; Oliveira, C.; Rosa, L.; Correia, P.L.; Girao, P.S.; Costa, D.C.. "Gamma-index and dose-volume histograms (based on voxel dosimetry) to evaluate the predictive power of^99mTc-MAA SPECT maps in comparison with post-radioembolization⁹⁰Y PET maps". 2017. 10.1109/ENBENG.2017.7889428
Journal article	Borbinha, Jorge; Ferreira, Paulo; Costa, Durval; Vaz, Pedro; Di Maria, Salvatore. "Targeted radionuclide therapy directed to the tumor phenotypes: A dosimetric approach using MC simulations". Applied Radiation and Isotopes 192 (2023): 110569-110569. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110569. 10.1016/j.apradiso.2022.110569 Paulo Ferreira; Oliveira, Francisco P M; Rui Parafita; Paulo Lobato Correia; Pedro Silva Girão; Durval C. Costa. "An Optimized Methodology for Patient-Specific Therapeutic Activity Administration in Liver Radioembolization". Applied Sciences (2022): https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/22/11669. 10.3390/app122211669 Ferreira, P.; Oliveira, F. P. M.; Parafita, R.; Girao, P. S.; Correia, P. L.; Pares, O.; Costa, D. C.. "Voxel-based Dosimetry in the Liver: Yttrium-90 Microspheres Radioembolization After SBRT". European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2019): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/28054807/. Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco P. M.; Parafita, Rui; Girao, Pedro S.; Correia, Paulo L.; Costa, Durval C.. "Patient-specific gamma-index analysis to evaluate Tc-99m-MAA as a predictor for Y-90 glass microspheres liver radioembolisation dosimetry". Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (2019): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/15480695/. 10.1080/21681163.2018.1501768 Demino, Laura; Ferreira, Paulo; Oliveira, Francisco P. M.; Costa, Durval C.. "Comparison of the Y-90-labelled glass microspheres liver radioembolisation dosimetry with the estimated dosimetry obtained from pre-treatment Tc-99m-MAA SPECT images reconstructed with and without attenuation correction". Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization (2019): https://publons.com/wos-op/publon/15765863/. 10.1080/21681163.2018.1542348

Activities

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2024/11/26 - Current	Comparison of voxel-wise absorbed dose distributions derived from 177Lu-PSMA activity recovered by two SPECT reconstruction methods: OSEM and Astonish Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2024/10/29 - Current	Personalized Dosimetry in Radionuclide Therapy: SPECT Simulations with Monte Carlo-SIMIND Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
2024/09/01 - Current	Development of a GATE model for three-dimensional dosimetric estimates of a PET/CT system Co-supervisor	Engenharia Física Tecnológica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2022/12/19 - Current	Distribuição de dose absorvida na radioembolização de tumores no fígado com ítrio-90 derivada de imagem PET versus distribuição teórica: um estudo usando simulação Monte Carlo-GATE Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2021/09 - Current	Radiation Dosimetry and Radiobiological Effectiveness Issues in Personalized Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Co-supervisor	Engenharia Física Tecnológica (PhD) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
2017 - Current	Dosimetria e calibração baseadas em voxels de imagens de SPECT e PET, na radioembolização do fígado com microesferas de vidro carregadas com Ítrio-90 Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade Católica Portuguesa Centro Regional do Porto, Portugal
2023/01/17 - 2024/05/17	Monte Carlo simulation of SPECT images for assessment of 90Y microspheres distribution after radioembolization Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/12 - 2022/12/05	Avaliação do potencial das redes neuronais convolucionais no diagnóstico diferencial da doença de Parkinson com base em imagem molecular Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa, Portugal
2021/12/15 - 2022/11/03	Implementation and optimization of personalized dosimetry during targeted radionuclide therapy Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2022	Comparison of Two 90Y-Charged Glass Microspheres liver Radioembolization Dosimetry Methods: S-Values and Monte Carlo-Gate Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021 - 2021	Comparison of Two 177Lu-DOTATATE Quantification Methods for Patient Personalized Dosimetry in Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumors Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica e Biofísica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2019 - 2020	Absorbed dose maps of patients submitted to 68Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2019 - 2020	Mapas de dose absorvida em doentes submetidos a PET/CT com 18FDG Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2016 - 2017	Attenuation Correction of 99mTc-MAASPECT Images for 90Y-labeled Glass Microspheres Liver Radioembolization Co-supervisor	Engenharia Biomédica (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/07/17 - 2025/07/17	Good Clinical Practice (ICH GCP E6R3) Training for Site Personnel v1.0, 01Jun2025. Other
2025/02/13 - 2025/02/15	EFOMP School for Medical Physics Experts in Radionuclide Internal Dosimetry Meeting	Radionuclide Internal Dosimetry European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics, Netherlands

Jury of academic degree

	Topic Role	Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization
2024/12/04	Redução da Dose Através da Melhoriada Qualidade da Imagem emCintigrafia Pediátrica (Thesis) Main arguer	Marta Sofia Rocha Arsénio (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/11/03	Implementation and Optimization of Personalized Dosimetry During Targeted Radionuclide Therapy Supervisor	Ana Mara Duarte Fonseca (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/07/18	Primeira experiência de dosimetria in-vivo com EPID baseada em DVH em tratamentos de Radioterapia Hipofracionada (Thesis) Main arguer	Ariana Micaela Almeida Rocha (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal
2022/01/12	Comparison of Two 90Y-Charged Glass Microspheres liver Radioembolization Dosimetry Methods: S-Values and Monte Carlo-Gate Supervisor	Maria Inês da Graça Jorge da Silva Ribeiro (Master) Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2021/11/10	Comparison of Two 177Lu-DOTATATE Quantification Methods for Patient Personalized Dosimetry in Therapy of Neuroendocrine Tumors Supervisor	Cristiana Magalhães Correia Rodrigues (Master) Universidade de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2020/12/22	Avaliação da qualidade de cálculos dosimétricos em doentes com cancro da próstata submetidos a RapidArc (Thesis) Main arguer	Paulo Jorge Ruivo Fernandes (Master) Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde de Lisboa, Portugal

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2020 - 2020	European Journal of Radiology (0720-048X)	Elsevier

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2024/10/21 - Current	Associação Portuguesa dos Físicos Médicos (apFisMed)	Associado efetivo
2020 - Current	European Association of Nuclear Medicine	Ordinary member

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2025/02/27 - Current	EFOMP Special Interest Group for radionuclide internal dosimetry (SIG_FRID): The objective of the SIG_FRID is to establish a network of medical physicists working in radionuclide dosimetry Member	European Federation of Organisations for Medical Physics, Netherlands