Assistant Professor and Senior Clinical and Research Physicist

Specialties

• Project funded by an NIH grant, “Research Center for Emerging Technologies,” Multi-Leaf Collimator Simulation, Dynamic projection device for patient simulation in 3D CT-based virtual treatment simulation
• Designing and implementing computerized software in the fields of radiology, radiation oncology and urology.
• Modeling and optimization of dosimetry of brachytherapy sources.
• 3D dosimetry of multi-leaf collimator systems.
• Mathematical modeling of radiation energy deposition.
• Computer automation of delivery and verification systems.
• Computer-based virtual simulation and treatment.
• Founder and President of Deflection Inc., which manufactured a complete system for prostate implant and 3D reconstruction and virtual simulation of ultrasound acquired images.
• Vice President of Precision Therapy (a division of Elekta AB), which has developed novel algorithms and new system implementation for the late treatment planning system offered by Elekta.
• Mathematical and numerical modeling of systems which arise in biological systems. Nonlinear dynamics. Scientific visualization. Electromagnetic field-matter interaction. Electromagnetic signal propagation in nonlinear and dispersive media such as biological medium. Computer science.
• Medical Informatics. Web-based-distributed computational systems. Distributed 3D treatment planning systems. Real-time ultrasound based brachytherapy implant systems. Ultrasound-based biopsy techniques using real-time 3D reconstruction and image enhancement systems. Mathematical and computer modeling of techniques for conformal therapy and 3D treatment planning and delivery in radiation oncology therapy. Computer based real-time patient virtual simulation and planning. Image processing and image registration of portal images for verification of dynamical conformal treatment delivery.

Educational Background

• PhD, Physics of Thermo-Nuclear Fusion and Electrical and Computer Engineering , University of Wisconsin, Madison
• MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Professional Societies and Committees

• American Physical Society
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematicians ( SIAM )
• American Association of Physicists in Medicine

Honors and Awards

• National Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellow-ship, Goddard Space Flight Center , NASA.

Patents and Copyrights

• Holder of copyrights for a comprehensive Multi-Leaf Collimator Simulation (MLC_Sim) computer system for 3-D treatment planning, intensity modulation, dose calculation, dynamic treatment delivery and verification
• An articulated dynamic projection device for patient simulation in 3-D CT based virtual treatment simulation, patent pending

Publications available through PubMed