M.S./Ph.D. Program Alumni
| Master of Science | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Alumnus/a | Thesis/Dissertation | Advisor |
| 1977 | Amparo Marles | CE and Cl Dependence on the Chamber Wall Material as a Function of Beam Energy | Peter R. Almond |
| 1986 | Steven M. Kirsner | Advanced Radiation Therapy Techniques for Retinoblastoma | Kenneth R. Hogstrom |
| 1991 | Allen D. Green | Modeling of Dual Foil Scattering Systems for Clinical Electron Beams | Kenneth R. Hogstrom |
| 1995 | Usman Qazi | Evaluation of a Quadruple Energy Window Scatter Subtraction Algorithm for Anger Camera Imaging | Daniel J. Macey |
| 1996 | Robin Kendall | Dose-Escalation Potential of Intensity-Modulated Conformal Therapy for Lung Cancer | Isaac I. Rosen |
| 1998 | Robert Boyd | The Effect of Using an Initial Polyenergetic Spectrum with the Electron Pencil-Beam Redefinition Algorithm | Kenneth R. Hogstrom |
| 1998 | Nicholas Zacharopoulos | MR Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Normal Human Brian with Selective Tissue Suppression | Ponnada A. Narayana |
| 1999 | Shannon Bragg-Sitton | Assessment of the Reliability and Reproducibility of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Selected Cognitive Tasks | Ed Jackson |
| 2000 | Kent Gifford | Verification of a Commercial Radiation Treatment Planning System | George Starkschall |
| 2001 | Brent Parker | Quantification of Uncertainties for PTV Margin Determination in Conformal Stereotactic Radiotherapy of Intracranial Lesions | Almon Shiu |
| Theodore Steger, III | Implementation and Verification of Techniques for Real-Time Analysis and Clinical Distribution of Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Data | Ed Jackson | |
| 2002 | Aziz Poonawalla | Technical Development and Optimization of Clinical Magnetic Resonance Tractography | X. Joe Zhou |
2003 | Rebecca Milman Marsh | Measuring Cell Volume Fraction with High-Resolution Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging | X. Joe Zhou |
| Stephen Kry | Secondary Dose Equivalent From IMRT Treatments | Mohammad Salehpour | |
| 2004 | Michael J. Price | Modification of the Pencil-Beam Redefinition Algorithm to Predict Central-Axis Percent Depth Dose for Rectangular Fields | Kenneth Hogstrom |
| 2005 | Robert A. Rodgers | Electron Conformal Radiotherapy for Post-Mastectomy Irradiation: A Bolus-Free, Multi-Energy, Multi-Segmented Field Algorithm | John A. Antolak |
| Jason Shoales | Development of an Independent Audit Device for Remote Verification of 4D Radiotherapy | David Followill | |
| Malcolm Heard | Characterizing Dose Distribution of Brachytherapy Sources Using Normoxic Gel | Geoffrey S. Ibbott | |
| Jonas Fontenot | Dose Per Monitor Unit Determination for Proton Therapy Treatment Portals With and Without the Range Compensator | Wayne Newhauser | |
| 2006 | Adam Melancon | The Dosimetric Impact of Infrafractional Motion on IMRT Treatment of Prostate Cancer | Lei Dong |
| Dustin Ragan | Partial Fourier Image Reconstruction for Efficient Water and Fat Separation in MR | Jingfei Ma | |
| 2007 | Whitney Bivens Warren | Evaluation of Bang Polymer Gel Dosimeters in Proton Beams | Geoffrey S. Ibbott |
| Richard Castillo | CT-Based Pulmonary Compliance Imaging in Rodents | Thomas Guerrero | |
| William Michael Bradley | Partial Volume Correction of Lung Nodules Using PET/CT | Osama Mawlawi | |
| 2008 | Jaclyn Homnick | Evaluation of Aluminum Oxide (Al2O3:C) Optically Stimulated Luminescence (OSL) Dosimeters as a Potential Alternative to Thermoluminescent Dosimeters (TLDs) for Remote Dosimetry Services | Geoffrey S. Ibbott |
| 2013 | Luke Hunter | Radionics of NSCLC: Quantitative CT Imagine Feature Characterization and Tumor Shrinkage Prediction | Laurence Court |
| Ph.D. | |||
| Year | Alumnus/a | Thesis/Dissertation | Advisor |
| 1978 | Chien-hua Chu | A Clinical Liquid Ionization Chamber for Mixed Neuton Field Dosimetry | Walter Grant, III |
| James Marbach | Optimization Parameters for Field Flatness and Central-Axis-Depth-Dose for Use in Design of Therapy Electron Beam Generators | Peter R. Almond | |
| 1979 | Carlos DeAlmeida | Energy and Spectrum Measurements of High Energy Electrons, Using a Cerenkov Detector | Peter Almond |
| 1980 | Thomas Kirby | Origin of Residual Potential In Amorphous Selenium Photoreceptors | Alfonso Zermeno |
| 1981 | Amparo Marles | Comparison of Measurement of Absorbed Dose to Water Using A Water Calorimeter and Ionization Chambers of Clinical Radiotherapy Photon Electron Beams | Peter Almond |
| 1982 | Jose Bencomo | Study of the Effects of Total Modulation Transfer Function Changes On Observer Performance Using Clinical Mammograms | Dennis Johnston |
| 1984 | Benjamin R. Archer | A Laplace Transform Pair Model to Determine Bremsstrahlung Spectra From Attenuation Data | Peter Almond |
| 1985 | D.E. Mellenberg | Measurement of Tumor Blood Flow Following Neutron Irradiation | Kenneth R. Hogstrom |
| 1987 | Patrick M. Stafford | Nuclear Track Detector Material as a Fast Neutron Microdosimeter | Peter Almond (Dennis Johnston) |
| 1988 | Almon S. Shiu | Three-Dimension Electron Beam Dose Calculations | Kenneth R. Hogstrom |
| 1989 | John D. Hazle | In Vivo Magnetic Resonance Studies of Experimental Liver Disease: Carbon Tetrachloride Hepatatoxicity and Alcohol Induced Fatty Liver In Rat | Ponnada Narayana |
| 1990 | Edward Jackson | A Dual Resonance, Image-Guided Volume Localization Technique for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy | Ponnada Narayana |
| 1991 | Michael F. Moyers | A Convolution Model for Energy Transport in a Therapeutic Fast Neutron Beam | John L. Horton |
| 1993 | John E. Bayouth | Dosimetric Evaluation of Bone Marrow Ablation Using Radionuclide Therapy | Daniel J. Macey |
| 1994 | Huan Bosco Giap | Development of a SPECT-Based Three Dimensional Treatment Planner for Radionuclide Therapy With Iodine-131 | Daniel J. Macey |
| 1995 | James Falconer | Quantitative MRI of Spinal Cord Injury in a Rat Model: Correlative Studies | Ponnada Narayana |
| Lei Dong | Development of Automated Image Analysis Tools for Verification of Radiotherapy Field Accuracy With an Electronic Portal Imaging Device | Art Boyer | |
| 2000 | Steven McCullough | A Novel Treatment Planning Methology for High Dose 166Ho-DOTMP Marrow Ablation Therapy in Patients with Multiple Myeloma | Richard Wendt |
| 2001 | Robert Boyd | Pencil-Beam Redefinition Algorithm Dose Calculations for Electron Therapy Treatment Planning | Kenneth Hogstrom |
| 2002 | Roger Jason Stafford | Fast Magnetic Resonance Temperature Imaging for Focused Ultrasound Thermal Therapy | John Hazle |
| 2003 | Peter Balter | Imaging Properties of Scanning Equalization Digital Radiography: A Simulation Study | William Hanson |
| 2004 | Brent C. Parker | Verification of Intensity Modulated Stereotactic Radiotherapy Using Monte Carlo Calculations and EPID Disometry | Almon Shiu |
| Kent A. Gifford | A 3-D CT Assisted Monte Carlo Evaluation of Intracavitary Implants | John Horton | |
| Nathan Childress | The Design and Evaluation of a 2D Verification System for Intensity Modulated Radiotherapy | Isaac Rosen | |
| Theodore Steger | Investigation of Arterial Spin Labeling MRI for Quantitative Cerebral Blood Flow Measurement | Ed Jackson | |
| 2005 | Aziz Poonawalla | Multiple Gradient Echo Propeller (MGREP) Technical Development and Potential Applications | X. Joe Zhou |
| Dawn Cavanaugh | Assessment of Cone Beam Computed Tomography Techniques for Imaging Lung Damage in Mice in vivo | Dianna Cody | |
| 2006 | Nicholas Koch | Monte Carlo and Analytical Dose Calculations for Ocular Proton Therapy | Wayne Newhauser |
| Jennifer O'Daniel | Image-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Prostate and Head-and-Neck Cancers | Lei Dong | |
| 2007 | Stephen Kry | The Development and Validation of a Monte Carlo Model for Calculating the Out-of-Field Dose from Radiotherapy Treatments | Mohammad Salehpour |
| Rebecca Marsh | Measuring Treatment Response in Irradiated Murine Tumors with Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging | John Hazle | |
| Christopher Nelson | Reduction of Tumor Motion and Setup Uncertainties in the Radiation Therapy of Lung Tumors | George Starkschall | |
| Pai-Chun Melinda Chi | Thoracic Cancer Imaging with PET/CT in Radiation Oncology | Tinsu Pan | |
| 2008 | Jonas Fontenot | Proton Therapy Versus Intensity Modulated X-ray Therapy in the Treatment of Prostate Cancer: Estimating Secondary Cancer Risks | Wayne Neuhauser |
| Rebecca Weinberg | Electron Intensity Modulation for Mixed-Beam Radiation Therapy with an X-ray Multi-Leaf Collimator | John Antolak | |
| Michael J. Price | The Imaging and Dosimetric Capabilities of a CT/MR Suitable Anatomically Adaptive, Shielded Intracavitary Brachytherapy Applicator for the Treatment of Cervical Cancer | Firas Mourtada | |
| Venkata Kishore Mogatadakala | In Vivo Diffusion Tensor Imaging of Rat Spinal Cord with a Phased Array Coil at 7T | Ponnada Narayana | |
| 2009 | Malcolm Heard | Identification and Characterization of an Optimal Three-Dimensional Dosimetry System for Remote Auditing by the RPC | Geoffrey Ibbott |
| 2010 | Dustin Ragan | Measurements of the Vascular Input Function in Mice for DCE-MRI | Jim Bankson |
| Scott Davidson | Benchmarking and Implementation of a New Independent Monte Carlo Dose Calculation Quality Assurance Audit Tool for Clinical Trials | David Followill | |
| Adam Melancon | Range Adaptive Proton Therapy for Prostate Cancer | Lei Dong | |
| Adam Riegel | Thoracic Radiotherapy Treatment Planning with Cine PET/CT | Tinsu Pan | |
| Blake Cannon | Improving Quantitative Treatment Response Monitoring with Deformable Image Registration | Lei Dong | |
| Brian Taylor | Dynamic Chemical Shift Imaging for Usage-Guided Thermal Therapy | R. Jason Stafford | |
| 2011 | Ming Yang | Dual Energy Computed Tomography for Proton Therapy Treatment Planning | Lei Dong |
| Rui Zhang | Quantitative Comparison of Late Effects Following Photon Versus Proton External-Beam Radiation Therapies: Toward an Evidence-Based Approach for Selecting a Treatment Modality | Wayne Newhauser | |
| Yoshi Tsunashimo | Verification of Clinical Implementation of Respiratory-Gated Beam Delivery Technique with Synchrotron-Based Proton Irradiation. | Lei Dong | |
| 2012 | Cheuk Kai Hui | Improved Techniques for Acquisition and Analysis of Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Detecting Vascular Permeability in the Central Nervous System. | Ponnada Narayana |
| Vaibhar Juneja | Novel Phantoms and Post-Processing for Diffusion Spectrum Imaging. | Ponnada Narayana | |
| Sarah Scarboro | Understanding the influence of Photon Energy on 6 mv Non-Reference Dosimetry Using TLD and OSLD | Stephen Kry | |
| Chad Bircher | Design, Calibration and Evaluation of Depth-of-Interaction-Capable PET Detector Modules | Yiping Shao | |
| Moiz Ahmad | Design and Optimization of Four-Dimensional Cone-Beam Computed Tomography in Image-Guided Radiation Therapy | Tinsu Pan | |
| Peter Park | Development of Bean-Specific Planning Target Volume and Robust Plan Analysis Tool for Proton Therapy | X. Joe Zhou | |
| 2013 | Zhiqian "Henry" Yu | Improving Cervical Cancer Nodal Boost Radiation Therapy by Quantifying Uncertainties and Exploring Advanced Radiation Therapy Modalities | Rajat Kudchadker |
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