Dr. Mike Sattarivand, FCCPM, DABR, PEng, CRPA(R)

Education

• MSc (Western University)
• PhD (University of Toronto)
• Residency in oncology medical physics (Cancer Care Manitoba)

Research interests

• Image Guided Radiation Therapy
• Dual Energy x-ray Imaging

Academic interests

• Medical Imaging Physics (x-ray imaging, Linear system theory, CT, CBCT)
• Radiation Safety and Protection

Administrative roles

• Radiation Safety Officer (RSO), Department of Medical Physics

Awards and honours

• Springboard Innovation Mobilization Program Proof of Concept, Patent, & Legal Award, Springboard Atlantic Inc., $35,000, 2021
• Springboard Innovation Mobilization Program Patent & Legal Award, Springboard Atlantic Inc., $15,000, 2021
• ACOA - Atlantic Innovation Fund – Co-PI, $3.3M, Nova Scotia Health Authority, 2017
• Medical Physics Teacher of the Year, Dep. of Radiation Oncology, Dalhousie University, 2015
• Brainlab Research Funding, Munich, Germany, $35K, 2014

Recent publications

• R. Abeywardhana, A. Spurway, M. Sattarivand, Estimation of patient-size dependent imaging dose for stereoscopic/monoscopic real-time kV image guidance in lung and prostate SBRT, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol 68(9), 0950002, 2023.
• Romadanov, R. Abeywardhana, M. Sattarivand, Adaptive dual-energy algorithm based on pre-calibrated weighting factors for chest radiography, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol 67(9), 095011, 2022.
• Romadanov, M. Sattarivand, Adaptive noise reduction for dual-energy x-ray imaging based on spatial variations in beam attenuation, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol 65(24), 245023, 2020.
• S. Darvish-Molla, A. Spurway, M. Sattarivand, Comprehensive Characterization of ExacTrac Stereoscopic Image Guidance System using Monte Carlo and Spektr Simulations, Physics in Medicine and Biology, Vol 65(24), 245029, 2020.
• S. Darvish-Molla, M. Reno, M. Sattarivand, Patient Specific Pixel-based Weighting Factor Dual-Energy X-ray Imaging System, Medical Physics, Vol 46(2), pp 528-543, 2019.
• W. Bowman, J. Robar, M. Sattarivand, Optimizing Dual-Energy X-ray Parameters for the ExacTrac Clinical Stereoscopic Imaging System to Enhance Soft-tissue imaging, Medical Physics, Vol. 44(3), pp. 823-831, 2017.

Other interests and achievements

• M. Sattarivand and I. Romadanov, Adaptive Dual-Energy X-ray Imaging Using Pre-Calibrated Weighting Factors, US Provisional Patent Application No. 63/151552, Feb 2021.
• M. Sattarivand and M. Reno, Methods and Apparatus for Dual-Energy X-ray Imaging, US Patent Application No. 17/252682, Published Sept 2021.