Nicolas Ploquin

Medical Physicist, FCCPM

Division of Medical Physics

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Department of Oncology

Residency Program Director

Tom Baker Cancer Center

B.Sc.

Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, 2001

M.A, Physics

Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 2003

Ph.D, Medical Physics

University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, 2007

Contact information

Phone

Office: (403)-521-3749

Location

Foothills Medical Centre : Tom Baker Cancer CentreCCB-10

Courses

MDPH 625- Radiation Oncology Physics II


Research and Teaching

Research Interests

  • Stereotactic Radiosurgery
  • Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy
  • Small Field Dosimetry
  • Motion management in SBRT treatments
  • Economic Evaluation of Radiation Technologies and Techniques
  • Global Oncology 

Publications

 (2018-2022):

Auto-delineation framework for the focal liver reaction observed in post Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Primovist® MRI scans.
Kuznetsova S, Grendarova P, Sinha R, Ploquin N, Thind K.
Med Dosim. 2022 Spring;47(1)(2022)

Fast stereotactic radiosurgery planning using patient-specific beam angle optimization and automation.
Mann T, Thind K, Ploquin N.
Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol. 2022 Feb 26;21:90-95.(2022)

High replication stress and limited Rad51-mediated DNA repair capacity, but not oxidative stress, underlie oligodendrocyte precursor cell radiosensitivity.
Berger N, Brownlee P, Chen M, Morrison H, Osz K, Ploquin N, Chan J, Goodarzi A.
NAR Cancer. 2022 Apr 12;4(2):zcac012.(2022)

Investigating diffusion patterns of brain metastases pre- and post-stereotactic radiosurgery: a feasibility study.
Madamesila J, Ploquin N, Faruqi S, Tchistiakova E.
Biomed Phys Eng Express. 2021 Sep 3;7(6) (2021)

Direct visualization and correlation of liver stereotactic body radiation therapy treatment delivery accuracy with interfractional motion.
Kuznetsova S, Sinha R, Thind K, Ploquin N.
J Appl Clin Med Phys. 2021 Aug;22(8):129-138. (2021)

A high-throughput alpha particle irradiation system for monitoring DNA damage repair, genome instability and screening in human cell and yeast model systems.
Stanley FKT, Berger ND, Pearson DD, Danforth JM, Morrison H, Johnston JE, Warnock TS, Brenner DR, Chan JA, Pierce G, Cobb JA, Ploquin NP, Goodarzi AA
Nucleic Acids Res. 2020 Nov 4;48(19):e111 (2020)

Review of Stereotactic Arrhythmia Radioablation Therapy for Cardiac Tachydysrhythmias.
Chiu MH, Mitchell LB, Ploquin N, Faruqi S, Kuriachan VP.
CJC Open. 2020 Nov 13;3(3):236-247. (2020)

Structure guided deformable image registration for treatment planning CT and post stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) Primovist® (Gd‐EOB‐DTPA) enhanced MRI.
S. Kuznetsova, P. Grendarova, S. Roy, R. Sinha, K. Thind, N. Ploquin
J Appl Clin Med Phys 2019; 20: 109-118.(2019)

Development and clinical implementation of eclipse scripting based automated patient‐specific collision avoidance software.
T. Mann, N. Ploquin, W. Gill, K. Thind
J Appl Clin Med Phys 2019; 20:9: 12–19 (2019)

Dosimetric and radiobiological impact of abdominal compression on adjacent gastro-intestinal critical structures for patients treated with upper and mid-abdominal stereotactic body radiotherapy.
S. Roy, S. Kuznetsova, K. Thind, P. Grendarova, N. Ploquin, R. S. Sinha
J Radiosurg SBRT. 2019;6(2):139-151 (2019)

Multimodality image fusion of the liver using structure-guided deformable image registration in Velocity AI - What is the preferred approach?
S. Kuznetsova, P. Grendarova, E. Hubley, N. Ploquin, K. Thind
In: Lhotska L., Sukupova L., Lacković I., Ibbott G. (eds) World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2018. IFMBE Proceedings, vol 68/1. Springer, Singapore (2018)