Luc Beaulieu

• Centre de recherche du CHU de Québec - Université Laval
• Centre de recherche sur le cancer
• Institut Intelligence et Données

Financements des 2 dernières années

• Alexandra Alain-Beaudoin, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Armance Volta, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Audran Poher, Doctorat en physique
• Chahrazed Ghannoudi, Doctorat en physique
• Cloé Giguère, Doctorat en physique
• Elodie Moth, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Émile Tremblay-Antoine, Maîtrise en physique - avec mémoire
• Félix Bergeron, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Jonathan Breton-Aubé, Doctorat en physique
• Jonathan Breton-Aubé, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• José Angel Lesteiro Tejeda, Doctorat en physique
• Olivier Charette, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Sajjad Ahmad Khan, Doctorat en physique
• Xavier Arata, Maîtrise en physique - avec mémoire

Encadrements des 5 dernières années

• Audran Poher, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Baljeet Seniwal, Stage postdoctoral en génie des mines
• Boby Lessard, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Cédric Bélanger, Doctorat en physique
• Cloé Giguère, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Daphnée Bernier-Marceau, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Emilie Jean, Doctorat en physique
• Emily Cloutier, Doctorat en physique
• Francisco Berumen Murillo, Doctorat en physique
• Isaac Neri Gomez Sarmiento, Maîtrise en physique - avec mémoire
• Marie-Anne Lebel-Cormier, Doctorat en physique
• Mélissa Cinq-Mars, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Philippe Chatigny, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Philippe Chatigny, Doctorat en physique
• Samuel Ouellet, Maîtrise en physique - physique médicale - avec mémoire
• Yunuen Alejandra Cervantes Espinosa, Stage postdoctoral en physique

Travaux de recherche des 5 dernières années

Optimization of catheter placement for interstitial gynecological brachytherapy with centroidal Voronoi tessellation Brachytherapy, 2026. Jillian Bennett, Cédric Bélanger, Philippe Y. Chatigny, Ruiyan Ni, Luc Beaulieu, Alexandra Rink. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2026.09.006

High-performance dosimetric gel for low-dose-rate 3D-printed brachytherapy devices Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2026. Anna-Kim Péron, Theophraste Lescot, Baljeet Seniwal, Solange Landreville, Luc Beaulieu, Marc-André Fortin, Mahdokht Akbari Taemeh. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ae894a

Robust external-beam calibration of plastic scintillation detectors and uncertainty analysis for in-vivo dosimetry in HDR brachytherapy Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2026. Chahrazed Ghannoudi, Marie-Claude Lavallée, Benjamin Côté, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ae556d

A first-in-human randomized clinical trial of graphics processing units based multi-criteria optimization (gMCO) versus IPSA in high-dose-rate prostate brachytherapy Brachytherapy, 2026. F. Lacroix, E. Poulin, C. Bélanger, S. Aubin, D. Carignan, E. Vigneault, A.-G. Martin, F. Bachand, L. Beaulieu, W. Foster. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2025.11.009

Polarized Cherenkov light imaging dosimetry: the impact of source to detector distance Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2026. Audran Poher, Gérémy Michaud, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ae387a

Incidence of Lung Malignancy After Loose Brachytherapy Seed Migration Outside the Prostate: A Retrospective Cohort Study 2026. Cédric Charrois-Durand, Brandon Morales, Damien Carignan, Philippe Després, Marie-Claude Lavallée, Sylviane Aubin, Luc Beaulieu, William Foster, André-Guy Martin, Éric Vigneault. DOI 10.2139/ssrn.7322562

Development and characterization of the Hydra: a novel multi-headed, single optical channel scintillation detector Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2025. Boby Lessard, Yoan LeChasseur, Simon Lambert-Girard, François Therriault-Proulx, Luc Beaulieu, Louis Archambault. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/adee75

The use of Monte Carlo simulation techniques in brachytherapy: A comprehensive literature review Brachytherapy, 2025. Tirthraj Adhikari, Tomas Montenegro, Jae Won Jung, Courtney Oare, Gabriel Fonseca, Luc Beaulieu, Abdullah Alshreef, Clara Ferreira. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2025.02.006

A systematic characterization of plastic scintillation dosimeters response in magnetic fields: II. Monte Carlo simulations Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2025. Yunuen Cervantes, Simon Lambert-Girard, Ilias Billas, François Therriault-Proulx, Hugo Bouchard, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/add1a8

A systematic characterization of plastic scintillation dosimeters response in magnetic fields: I. Experimental measurements Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2025. Yunuen Cervantes, Simon Lambert-Girard, Ilias Billas, François Therriault-Proulx, Hugo Bouchard, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/add1a7

Radiation damage and recovery of plastic scintillators under ultra-high dose rate 200 MeV electrons at CERN CLEAR facility Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2025. Cloé Giguère, Alexander Hart, Joseph Bateman, Pierre Korysko, Wilfrid Farabolini, Yoan LeChasseur, Magdalena Bazalova-Carter, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/adc234

Impact of robust optimization on patient specific error thresholds for high dose rate prostate brachytherapy source tracking Brachytherapy, 2025. Dylan Koprivec, Cedric Belanger, Luc Beaulieu, Philippe Y. Chatigny, Anatoly Rosenfeld, Dean Cutajar, Marco Petasecca, Andrew Howie, Joseph Bucci, Joel Poder. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2024.11.012

Non-Negative Matrix Factorization Using Partial Prior Knowledge for Radiation Dosimetry IEEE Transactions on Radiation and Plasma Medical Sciences, 2025. Boby Lessard, Frédéric Marcotte, Arthur Lalonde, François Therriault-Proulx, Simon Lambert-Girard, Luc Beaulieu, Louis Archambault. DOI 10.1109/TRPMS.2024.3442773

Haralick texture feature analysis for Monte Carlo dose distributions of permanent implant prostate brachytherapy Brachytherapy, 2025. Iymad R. Mansour, Nelson Miksys, Luc Beaulieu, Éric Vigneault, Rowan M. Thomson. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2024.08.256

Plastic Scintillator Dosimetry of Ultrahigh Dose-Rate 200 MeV Electrons at CLEAR IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024. Alexander Hart, Cloé Giguère, Joseph Bateman, Pierre Korysko, Wilfrid Farabolini, Vilde Rieker, Nolan Esplen, Roberto Corsini, Manjit Dosanjh, Luc Beaulieu, Magdalena Bazalova-Carter. DOI 10.1109/JSEN.2024.3353190

Aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty extraction of patient-specific deep learning-based dose predictions in LDR prostate brachytherapy Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2024. Francisco Berumen, Samuel Ouellet, Shirin Enger, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ad3418

Establishing a fingerprinting method for fast catheter identification in HDR brachytherapy in vivo dosimetry Brachytherapy, 2024. Daline Tho, Cédric Bélanger, Erik B. Jørgensen, Jérémie Tanguay, Haydee M.L. Rosales, Sam Beddar, Jacob G. Johansen, Gustavo Kertzscher, Marie-Claude Lavallée, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2023.10.004

A Monte Carlo dose recalculation pipeline for durable datasets: an I-125 LDR prostate brachytherapy use case Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023. Samuel Ouellet, Yannick Lemaréchal, Francisco Berumen-Murillo, Marie-Claude Lavallée, Éric Vigneault, André-Guy Martin, William Foster, Rowan M Thomson, Philippe Després, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ad058b

Fast D M,M calculation in LDR brachytherapy using deep learning methods Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023. Francisco Berumen, Shirin A Enger, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/accd42

Modern Tools for Modern Brachytherapy Clinical Oncology, 2023. D. Berger, S. Van Dyk, L. Beaulieu, T. Major, T. Kron. DOI 10.1016/j.clon.2023.05.003

Validation of the TOPAS Monte Carlo toolkit for LDR brachytherapy simulations Physica Medica, 2023. Audran Poher, Francisco Berumen, Yunzhi Ma, Joseph Perl, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1016/j.ejmp.2022.102516

Real-Time Temperature Correction of Medical Range Fiber Bragg Gratings Dosimeters Sensors, 2023. Marie-Anne Lebel-Cormier, Tommy Boilard, Luc Beaulieu, Martin Bernier. DOI 10.3390/s23020886

Hybrid Cerenkov-scintillation detector validation using Monte Carlo simulations Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2023. Emilie Jean, Simon Lambert-Girard, François Therriault-Proulx, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/aca74d

Inter-observer evaluation of a GPU-based multicriteria optimization algorithm combined with plan navigation tools for HDR brachytherapy Brachytherapy, 2022. Cédric Bélanger, Éric Poulin, Sylviane Aubin, Éric Vigneault, André-Guy Martin, William Foster, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2022.04.003

On the use of polychromatic cameras for high spatial resolution spectral dose measurements Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022. E Cloutier, L Beaulieu, L Archambault. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ac6b0e

External beam irradiation angle measurement using a hybrid Cerenkov-scintillation detector Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2022. Emilie Jean, Simon Lambert-Girard, François Therriault-Proulx, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/ac6b79

Comparison of novel shielded nasopharynx applicator designs for intracavitary brachytherapy Brachytherapy, 2022. Benjamin Insley, Ken Goldberg, Luc Beaulieu, Yunzhi Ma, Stephen McKinley, I-Chow Hsu, J. Adam Cunha. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2021.12.007

Medical Range Radiation Dosimeter Based on Polymer-Embedded Fiber Bragg Gratings Sensors, 2021. Marie-Anne Lebel-Cormier, Tommy Boilard, Martin Bernier, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.3390/s21238139

Commissioning of an intra-operative US guided prostate HDR system integrating an EM tracking technology Brachytherapy, 2021. Marie-Claude Lavallée, Audrey Cantin, Fanny Monéger, Martine Lefebvre, William Foster, Eric Vigneault, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2021.05.163

Validation of the TOPAS Monte Carlo toolkit for HDR brachytherapy simulations Brachytherapy, 2021. Francisco Berumen, Yunzhi Ma, José Ramos-Méndez, Joseph Perl, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1016/j.brachy.2020.12.007

Comparative optic and dosimetric characterization of the HYPERSCINT scintillation dosimetry research platform for multipoint applications Physics in Medicine & Biology, 2021. Emilie Jean, François Therriault-Proulx, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1088/1361-6560/abf1bd

Recent Advances and Clinical Applications of Plastic Scintillators in the Field of Radiation Therapy 2021. Sam Beddar, Irwin Tendler, François Therriault-Proulx, Louis Archambault, Luc Beaulieu. DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-73488-6_12