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Medical Physics

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Medical Physics is offered to students who have undergraduate training in physics, engineering, computer science, or related physical sciences who would like to establish a career in medical physics research or clinical service. Students in medical physics experience a wide spectrum of training activities to complement their research, including coursework in radiological physics, imaging, anatomy and physiology, seminars, journal clubs, and clinical rotations.


Degree Plan


Research Topics

The research focus of Medical Physics is the development of cutting-edge imaging and therapeutic tools to help cancer radiotherapy treatment. Examples include:

    • Medical image reconstruction and application in radiotherapy
    • Radiotherapy treatment planning and adaptive replanning
    • Deep learning and Artificial Intelligence for radiotherapy
    • High-performance computing for radiotherapy, such as Monte Carlo radiation transport simulation
    • Modeling of organ motions and development of motion management strategies
    • Development of advanced clinical and preclinical imaging and therapeutic approaches
    • Modeling radiobiological phenomena and understanding the mechanisms

Accreditation

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The Medical Physics track is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Medical Physics Education Programs (CAMPEP), which recognizes that our training has met CAMPEP requirements. This is required for students who would like to establish a career in clinical medical physics. The accreditation allows graduates to apply for CAMPEP-accredited residency training and pursue board certification from the American Board of Radiology.

Director

You Zhang, Ph.D.
You Zhang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: 3D/4D CT/CBCT reconstruction and analysis, 4D MRI reconstruction, artificial intelligence and automation in radiation therapy, biomechanical modeling and finite element analysis, deformable registration and its application in image-guided radiation therapy, radiotherapy dose calculation and plan optimization

Faculty

Jie Deng, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: MR medical physics, adaptive radiotherapy, imaging, deep learning, MRI, radiology, NMR, pattern recognition, neuroradiology, AI, artificial intelligence, oncology

Jie Deng, Ph.D.
Steve Jiang, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: Cloud and GPU-based high-performance computing in medical physics and imaging; automatic radiotherapy treatment planning; adaptive radiotherapy; image-guided radiotherapy; low-dose and dynamic-cone-beam CT

Steve Jiang, Ph.D.
Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: Adaptive radiation therapy; treatment-plan optimization; radiation-dose calculations

Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.
Dan Nguyen, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Radiation therapy treatment planning, optimization techniques and algorithms, artificial intelligence technology development and applications
Dan Nguyen, Ph.D.
Hao Peng, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: Proton Therapy, Artificial Intelligence, PET and PET/MRI Imaging, FLASH

Hao Peng, Ph.D.
Jing Wang, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: Tomographic image reconstruction; cone-beam computed tomography; image-guided radiation therapy; medical imaging processing

Jing Wang, Ph.D
Ken Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Biomedical optics, In Vivo cell tracking, Optical tomography-guided radiation therapy and Ultra-high dose rate irradiation

Ken Wang, Ph.D.
Daniel Yang, M.D.

Assistant Professor

Research Interests: Artificial intelligence, clinical informatics, AI applications for prostate radiotherapy, genitourinary oncology

Daniel Yang, M.D.

Associate Faculty

These faculty members do not accept graduate students. They participate in teaching, co-mentoring, exam and dissertation committees, and all other program activities.

Andrew Godley, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research Interests: Adaptive radiation therapy, MRI-based radiation therapy

Andrew Godley, Ph.D.
Gerald Greil, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: Evaluate the use of newly designed biodegradable stints to treat pulmonary artery stenosis

Gerald Greil, M.D.
Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Research Interests:Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; brachytherapy

Brian Hrycushko, Ph.D.
Mustafa Husain, M.D.

Professor

Research Interests: General psychiatry, aging and geriatric issues, new applications of lead placement in ECT and novel treatments of major depressive disorder including magnetic seizure therapy, transcranial magnetic stimulation, deep brain stimulation, and vagus nerve stimulation

Mustafa Husain, M.D.
Paul Medin, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: Tissue-response modeling in radiation therapy; stereotactic radiation therapy

Paul Medin, Ph.D.
Yulong Yan, Ph.D.

Professor

Research Interests: High-performance computing; infrastructure for radiation therapy; radiobiological effects

Yulong Yan, Ph.D.