CATCH-22

EXCEL

2012-02-15T17:41:00.003-05:00

I am sure I only know the skin of this technology.

However, I have been really amazed.
It's quite incredible how the modern software engineering has been put together. It makes so easier to do such a complex job. With ODBC and ADO, you can use Excel and VBA to get lots of things from the SQL server bypassing Mosaiq client. That means you can do your own query and batch process certain information.

Yabee~~

First of May

2012-02-07T14:44:00.002-05:00

It is a song by Bee Gees.

When I was small, and Christmas trees were tall...

yabee~

Future Treatment Planning

2012-02-01T10:01:00.002-05:00

Again,
Only people get older, nothing new.
yabee...

Bundle Me!

2012-01-17T17:41:00.003-05:00

Don't go somewhere without it.

With it, you can go anywhere.

Yabee!

Draft for the future of RADONC

2012-01-13T18:54:00.002-05:00

This is how we roll in the future.

Nothing changes, only getting older.

yabee...

ROLLING

2012-01-09T14:49:00.001-05:00

Baby Alice can roll now.

She keeps rolling and rolling.

yabee~

2-ISO SRS

2012-01-05T13:37:00.002-05:00

When two lesions come too close, it's not easy to do a plan with 2 isocenters.

no yabee...

HOT and COLD

2012-01-03T13:46:00.002-05:00

It's so cold outside.

So, we cranked the heater up so much last night.
Of course, it got so hot and Alice almost got toasted.
no yabee...

We're Sorry...

2011-12-29T17:01:00.002-05:00

We are really sorry.

Please don't be mad, please...

TIME WRAPPING

2011-12-28T14:24:00.001-05:00

Maybe we should just move on to the next level.

Be a sitter!

Killing Machine

2011-12-27T16:54:00.000-05:00

Aaaaaaaaa-Daaaaaaaa!

yabee~

Happy Holidays 2012

2011-12-21T15:35:00.001-05:00

We wish you a wonderful holiday!!

Yabee~

DEFENDER

2011-12-13T15:27:00.003-05:00

Measuring pacemaker dose again.

Not very exciting.

yabee...

SRS BOX

2011-11-29T18:03:00.002-05:00

I've added some more features for the Virtual Novalis.

The SRS box with overlay is included now. The clearance check will be more accurate for the cranial SRS patients with the overlay printout. Also, some more detail is added underneath the SRS couch mount. This also will improve the accuracy.

Yabee~

Field-in-Field

2011-11-21T12:58:00.003-05:00

There must be a better way to do Field-in-Field breast plans.

More analytically and systematically.

Coming soon...

THE EASY WAY

2011-11-18T15:01:00.003-05:00

We should choose the easy way out.

Shouldn't we?

DIGGING

2011-11-08T17:26:00.003-05:00

Digging into it.

To a better world~~

Chin Strap

2011-10-11T15:31:00.003-04:00

Let's dance!

Dance for the chin strap.

I DON'T CARE

2011-06-16T10:43:00.001-04:00

I don't care.

I just want my money to grow.

I don't care~

TWO THIRD

2011-05-17T14:11:00.003-04:00

We may end up doing photon/electron mixed for stinum.

one third of photon and two third of electron.

...

MATCHING

2011-05-16T16:38:00.002-04:00

I don't like electron-photon field matching.

Not at all!

No yessssssssss.

YOUNG APPRENTICE

2011-05-12T12:34:00.001-04:00

[hissing...]

Yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
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IANY

2011-04-22T16:12:00.004-04:00

Hello! This is Alice!

By the way, we beat the Donkey Kong!! Finally~~

Yabee~

Bubi Bubi~

2011-03-14T00:01:00.001-04:00

Hello, there!!

Yabee~~~

HAPPY HOLIDAY 2010

2010-12-23T09:39:00.001-05:00

I wish everybody here a wonderful holiday!

Yabee~

COBALT-60

2010-12-07T12:51:00.002-05:00

Cobalt-60 might be coming back!

The QA should be much easier.
No more fancy thyratron, klystron, and magentron.

But, we may lose our jobs.
Oh, no!!!

PROSTATE IMPLANT

2010-11-16T14:43:00.002-05:00

Hope it works!!!

By the way, it's not for your prostate. It's for your presentation!!

Yabee~

SITTING

2010-11-15T14:09:00.002-05:00

Have you been sitting the whole day?

It's time to stand up and take a walk.

I'm so sleepy...

ANDROID

2010-11-08T23:42:00.002-05:00

Finally, we've switched to smart phones.

It does almost everything and it is quite incredible.
Except the battery life, there is still one thing which is undesirable.
It doesn't come with the function to kill Apple.
I hope the next version will have the function and I will call it - Droid Wonderful!

yabee~

RIDDLE

2010-11-08T14:22:00.001-05:00

Life is a riddle.

I don't know where to go, can't do it alone.
I've tried and I don't know why.

=_=

A NEW THING

2010-11-03T11:51:00.004-04:00

It's time to learn something "new".

Maybe it is not so new to people out there.

yabee...

ASTRO WEEK

2010-11-02T14:44:00.003-04:00

This week is the ASTRO week and it's supposed to be pretty quiet.

There is not much to do. We all enjoy this a lot. :D

By the way, one of my most talented friends - Markus will have his solo exhibition - Everyday Practice of Art - soon. The detail info can be found in the following link. If you guys have time, please GO. It will be fun!!

Yabee~

VOILA

2010-10-21T00:44:00.002-04:00

Why?

Why so busy?

yabee...

ARE YOU DONE YET?

2010-10-19T23:39:00.003-04:00

It's pretty much the end of a year.

I believe most of us are enjoying the best part of this job - the annual QA. Since the 142 came out, there are more tests can bring us more joy. How can you not love this job more? >_<

Luckily, mine is almost done.

yabee~

ARRRGHHH!

2010-10-10T22:07:00.004-04:00

It's really frustrating to lose.

The only thing I can do now is to get back in shape and prepare for the next game.

no yabee...

PROBLEMS

2010-10-04T22:33:00.004-04:00

Problems are like those zombies in Resident Evil.

They just keep coming and never stop. The only way to get out of the situation is to make critical hits - attacking the enemy's critical point to cause the maximum damage. This is what I have learned from killing zombies. I'm going to apply this to my work, accurately and precisely.

I hope it will spare me more time to do some research and kill more zombies.
yabee~

RANK S

2010-09-30T02:04:00.004-04:00

Finally, all chapters have been cleared.

It's time to move on, to the darkside.

yabee~

KILLING

2010-09-28T22:30:00.003-04:00

We're quite busy recently.

We got to help those people in Raccoon City. More correctly, we got to kill them all.

yabee~

SPARING

2010-09-25T14:56:00.001-04:00

Beyond IMRT, RapidArc, and even IMPT,

Is there any better way to spare normal tissue for external beam radiation therpay?

yabee...

WEEKEND MOVES

2010-09-24T17:01:00.003-04:00

Heeeeeeeh, it's Friday~

Wish everybody has a nice weekend!!

Note: These are two of the best dance moves, according to science.

yabee~

A NEW FRIEND

2010-09-22T22:40:00.003-04:00

After endless beeping and a little flood,

our new machine has been up and running for 2 weeks. It works pretty well so far. I hope it can keep going like this, at least, on each day I have to early cover.

yabee~

MID-AUTUMN FESTIVAL

2010-09-22T08:23:00.002-04:00

It's the mid-autumn festival!

Now it is more like the BBQ festival. I miss that we used to have BBQ parties at Bro Long's place. It was so much fun!!

By the way, thanks Fire to remind me the day!

yabee~~

THE BLACK EYE

2010-09-20T00:52:00.002-04:00

You can always get something from the Sunday football games.

This week, we got a win and I got a black eye.

yabee...

A GROUP

2010-09-17T17:25:00.002-04:00

I'm freaking out. Where am I now?

Upside down
I can't stop it now
Can't stop me now
Oooh I, I'll get by
I, I'll survive~

COMING HOME

2010-09-14T18:48:00.000-04:00

I'm coming home...

to do my homework!

yabee~

BLUE JACUZZI

2010-09-01T09:37:00.002-04:00

One day, when I get my own house,

I am going to make my jacuzzi looks like this.

Yabee~

BUSY IN AUGUST

2010-08-31T16:23:00.002-04:00

Too busy in August...

Not good, not good.

AAPM2010

2010-08-02T13:55:00.008-04:00

It has been two weeks since got back from Philly.

This is not a museum. This is the hotel I stayed - The Ritz.

It's pretty fancy, especially the lobby.

Of course, we went to Pat's several times.

Like it goes, Don't eat a mistake. So I didn't go to the other one. :D

There is also a funny sign on the streets.

It's very cute!

By the way, the NYTimes journalist was also there. He gave a 20-minute talk.
He said many good things about physicists. I guess it's because there were too many physicists there and He was afraid of getting beat up by us.

Overall, this was a good meeting. The only reason doesn't make it a perfect meeting is without Cindy.

yabee...

SILENT HILL

2010-07-07T11:32:00.003-04:00

Have you ever seen this movie?

It is how the hallways look like in my building.

It reminds this movie. Very scary...

yabee~

SUMMON

2010-06-28T17:15:00.003-04:00

I summon thee.

Here I summon thee to be well within Varian's acceptance tolerance.
Give us no trouble in the future. Let us enjoy accepting, commissioning, and all the QAs.

yabee~

Now it is wrapped in a big plastic bag and naked...

TOKYO SONATA

2010-06-23T13:20:00.002-04:00

It's a movie.

After watching this movie, I am grateful that I still have a job. It's wonderful to have to wake up early and stay late at night.

If I am the boss, I will have a copy for all my employees. They will love me from the bottom of their heart!!

If you are the one who always complain about your job, you definitely need to see this movie. You won't complain any more. Trust me.

yabee...

LET'S PLAY!

2010-06-02T14:56:00.004-04:00

Go! Go! Go!

This reminds me our baseball team in high school. It was a lot of fun, especially, those broken windows.

Yabee~

HOW MANY QA?

2010-05-06T16:38:00.002-04:00

How many QA do you have?

How many QA?

How many?

yabee...

DOSE PAINTING

2010-05-03T22:15:00.005-04:00

Whoever came up this name is brilliant.

It sounds like we're doing some art works.
Let's us be proud. We are the artists who paint with those little guys whom got the motors shoved from behind.

I love treatment planning.

yabee...

La Barbe Bleue

2010-04-28T09:56:00.008-04:00

Please do not enter that room. Otherwise,

you will...

.
.
.

You will see a lot of lead.

yabee...

DON'T TELL ME

2010-04-23T00:20:00.002-04:00

Don't tell me you didn't miss him at all...

Not even a little bit?

Come on...

WONDERLAND

2010-04-19T21:42:00.002-04:00

You've got a very important date...

with ME!!!

yabee~

YO YO YO~

2010-04-14T19:06:00.001-04:00

HEY~~

What's up, yo?

CUSTOM BOLUS

2010-04-07T14:23:00.005-04:00

Dear Team:

Are you tired of counting the total length slice by slice to cut custom bolus?

There is an alternative way to do it.

Now you can unwrap the planning bolus and map it into a 2-D plane. Then you can use this printout to cut your custom bolus.

The system contains two major parts: deriving bolus 3D surface from TPS (now only Eclipse available) and unwrapping the 3D surface into 2D plane.

1. Deriving bolus 3D surface (OO_Extract_Bolus_V3.pro)
It requires the following 2 files,
(1 )Eclipse structures DICOM export file (bolus data)
(2) Eclipse plan DICOM export file (isocenter information)

2. Unwrapping bolus 3D surface into 2D plane (OO_manual_unwrapping.pro)

Then users can cut the custom bolus according to the above printout.

I hope this will save some of your precious time.

Yabee~

A LONG JOURNEY

2010-03-26T15:33:00.003-04:00

It's a long journey.

Finally, we are back...

Yabee~

B B Bi B B Biiiiii~

2010-01-12T11:01:00.001-05:00

Yabee...

ROAD TEST

2010-01-06T15:35:00.002-05:00

I took the road test this morning and I passed!!

Yabee!!

I wanna thank Nancy and Cheche.
Without your help, I won't be able to make it.

Thank you!!!!!!

By the way, your car is really cool...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

2009-12-31T15:10:00.002-05:00

I wish everyone will have a lot of 20s and 10s in 2010.

Happy New Year!!!

Yabee~~

A BEAUTIFUL NIGHT

2009-12-31T13:14:00.003-05:00

The foods are fantastic!!

It's beyond my capability to describe them.

The only thing I can do is to draw the other characters with us that night.

Thank you again!!!

JINGLE ALL THE WAY

2009-12-25T19:48:00.001-05:00

Jingle bells, Jingle bells~

Yabee~~

WE WISH YOU A MERRY CHRISTMAS

2009-12-23T12:04:00.002-05:00

Happy Holidays!!!

Yabee~~~

DIRECTION

2009-12-13T12:15:00.002-05:00

Is this the direction I should go?

If it is, let's go!

yabee~

AN IDEA

2009-11-28T11:38:00.003-05:00

Are you tired of routing the cable underneath the door during the annual QA water tank measurement?

Here comes a new way to do it.

Yes, just stay in the room while the beam is on.

No more cable routing and arm chopping accidents.

Yabee~

CLOUDY

2009-11-19T22:18:00.002-05:00

So many things happened recently.

It's really tough for everybody.

Hang on there. We will get over this.

There will be sunshine again.

SOON!!

A MISSING MONTH

2009-11-18T18:50:00.002-05:00

Not a single article was posted in the past month.

There is no excuse for my laziness. I apologize it.

What I have been doing? Pretty much the same.

Working hard and trying to make my wife loves me more. :D

Oh, I did a cranial-spinal case.
It's quite exciting and I learned a lot.

Thanks for giving me this opportunity and it went smoothly.

Love you all~~

B-B-B-B-B-B-B....

2009-09-28T17:17:00.004-04:00

Do you almost forget being a medical physicist?

This guy should be able to remind you.

There will be endless b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b-b sound in October.

yabee...

WO-LA-LA

2009-09-15T10:09:00.001-04:00

yabee...

PACEMAKER

2009-09-09T17:35:00.002-04:00

Dear Lord,

Please make that pacemaker stronger.
Make it can tolerate much more dose.
Go through the whole treatment without any problem.

Amen.

HELLOMOTOR

2009-09-04T16:19:00.002-04:00

Wahaa!!

It's a long weekend!

See you~~~~~~

NEW FILM

2009-09-03T15:18:00.003-04:00

Something new is always fun.

We're always having fun.

yabee...

THE ROUTER

2009-09-01T14:31:00.003-04:00

I don't know whether you guys have the same problem or not - The DICOM server error.

We just need to power cycle the router. The problem is fixed.

Isn't it sweet!?

Or we shouldn't have this problem at all??

yabee...

MACHINE

2009-08-31T18:01:00.004-04:00

I know you are working very hard.

Please keep going~~

Don't stop...

ISOCENTER

2009-08-28T15:27:00.002-04:00

There are still a lot to learn.

I love this job!!

yabee...

REFRESH

2009-08-25T11:28:00.002-04:00

After working in this field for a few years, it's time to stop to think what I have learned and what I should do next.

hmm....

I know. It's time to move on.

yabee...

THE FLOOD

2009-08-19T13:16:00.003-04:00

Once in a while, I spill water on my desk.

Every time it happens, my desktop becomes much cleaner.

My desktop is very clean right now.

yabee...

G VOICE

2009-08-14T15:45:00.003-04:00

There is a better way to reach me!

Do you guys notice that there is a new widget "Call Me" on left column of this web page. Yes, it is the Google Voice widget. You guys can reach me via my Google Voice number. Just click that widget and put in your number (currently only US number available). Then the Google Voice will connect me and you.

Isn't it cool?

It's awesome!!

SIMPLE

2009-08-14T00:34:00.002-04:00

Sometimes I should not think too much.

It only makes the situation more complicated. It doesn't do anything good.

I should just keep it simple and enjoy it.

yabee...

SCHEDULE

2009-08-11T17:56:00.003-04:00

It's been a while I left this blog alone.

There are too many things happened in the past months.
I need to schedule some time to update it more often.
I miss the time I used to update the blog during the working hours.
It's wonderful~~

yabee....

FRIDAY FRIDAY

2009-07-17T13:30:00.001-04:00

This is the best day of the week.

It's a dancing ion chamber, not the thing you guys think.

Dirty minds....

yabee~

TUESDAY TUESDAY

2009-07-14T12:04:00.002-04:00

My thumbs are so sore.

Too much action last night. You know.

yabee...

MONDAY MONDAY

2009-07-13T12:17:00.003-04:00

Just couldn't get myself to start to work...

This happens almost every Monday.

yabee...

FIREWORKS

2009-07-10T15:21:00.004-04:00

These were taken on July 4 this year.

We watched the fireworks through the window.

Aren't they nice?

Yabee~~

MY TRANSFORMERS

2009-07-09T23:44:00.001-04:00

Finally...

Here I come~~~``

yabee...

JULY 4

2009-07-04T22:34:00.003-04:00

This is my 5th July 4 in United States.

Time does fly.

yabee...

DIY?!

2009-07-02T11:35:00.004-04:00

Haven't done this for a while...

No! It's not like what you are thinking!

Dirty mind....

I am talking about my homemade messenger bag.

Yabee~~

ON A BOAT

2009-06-30T13:44:00.001-04:00

On a boat~ On a boat~

I'M ON A FREAKING BOAT!!

LEARNING

2009-06-29T13:39:00.002-04:00

So many things to learn.

yabee~

ONE BY ONE

2009-06-18T14:38:00.004-04:00

There are too many things going on.

We got to resolve them one by one.

yabee...

Some candies for you~

C808

2009-06-10T18:01:00.001-04:00

Heeeeeeeeeeeh~

YABEE!!

A028

2009-06-09T08:42:00.000-04:00

Dan. Dan. Dan...

Yabee~~~

WE ARE BACK!

2009-06-08T01:13:00.001-04:00

Finally, the mind exhausting exam is finished.

Got to get back to the normal life.

Update the blog more frequently and excite our life.

yabee~

YES, SIR!

2009-06-06T16:57:00.004-04:00

hmm...

y-a-b-e-e....

MONDAY NIGHT JAZZ

2009-06-02T12:28:00.002-04:00

We went to a concert last night.

Our friend - Dr Forsythe (who is sitting in the middle of the picture) was playing the saxophone. Although i couldn't tell how good he is professionally, I like his play a lot. It pushes away those freaking exam things from my mind at least for an hour.

yabee...

Mei-Mei

2009-05-18T00:26:00.001-04:00

Don't be afraid.

I'm going to take care of you.

Good care of you.

Heeeeeeeeeeeeh~

NINJA

2009-05-12T18:22:00.002-04:00

Woo-hoo~

yabee~