Aiping Ding | Scholars@Duke

Aiping Ding
Radiation Physicist

Current Research Interests

Imaging informatics, Large-scale data analysis and multi-dimensional visualization, machine/deep learning in CT imaging, and PACS-EHR integration

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Radiation Physicist, Radiology, Clinical Science Departments

Contact Information

2424 Erwin Road, Suite 302 (DUMC 2731), Durham, NC 27705
aiping.ding@duke.edu +1 919 684 7891

Recognition
In the News
- APR 13, 2012 U.S. News
  
  CT Scans Deliver More Radiation to Obese People
- APR 11, 2012 Medical Physicis Website-IPO
  
  Phantoms assess CT dose to obese patients
- APR 7, 2012 HuffPost
  
  Fat People Get More Radiation From X-Rays, Study Shows
- APR 6, 2012 The Institute of Physics
  
  Researchers assess radiation exposure in obese patients
- DEC 20, 2011 The Wall Street Journal
  
  Scientists Find Safer Ways To Test Medical Procedures
Awards & Honors
Publications & Artistic Works
Selected Publications
- Conference Papers
  - Ding, A, Smith, T, Abadi, E, Ria, F, Wilson, J, and Samei, E. "Robustness and Accuracy of An Automated Solution for Measuring Image Noise, Spatial Resolution, Contrast, and Dose in Clinical CT Images: Efforts Towards Patient-Specific Quantifications of CT Image Quality and Radiation Dose." The American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting. Denver (CO). July 30, 2017 - August 3, 2017. American Association of Physicists in Medicine, June 30, 2017.
  - Smith, T, Abadi, E, Ding, A, Ria, F, and samei, E. "Image Quality Monitoring: Variability in Contrast Enhancement Across a Clinical Population." The American Association of Physicists in Medicine annual meeting. Denver (CO). July 30, 2017 - August 3, 2017. American Association of Physicists in Medicine, June 30, 2017.
  - Bednarz, B, Chen, G, Paganetti, H, Han, B, Ding, A, and Xu, XG. "COMPARISON OF PARTICLE-TRACKING FEATURES IN GEANT4 AND MCNPX CODES FOR APPLICATIONS IN MAPPING OF PROTON RANGE UNCERTAINTY." July 2011. Full Text
- Journal Articles
  - Han, B, Ding, A, Lu, M, and Xing, L. "Pixel response-based EPID dosimetry for patient specific QA." Journal of applied clinical medical physics 18, no. 1 (January 2017): 9-17. Full Text
  - Ding, A, Gao, Y, Liu, H, Caracappa, PF, Long, DJ, Bolch, WE, Liu, B, and Xu, XG. "VirtualDose: a software for reporting organ doses from CT for adult and pediatric patients." Physics in medicine and biology 60, no. 14 (July 2, 2015): 5601-5625. Full Text
  - Ding, A, Xing, L, and Han, B. "Development of an accurate EPID-based output measurement and dosimetric verification tool for electron beam therapy." Medical physics 42, no. 7 (July 2015): 4190-4198. Full Text
  - Liu, H, Gao, Y, Ding, A, Caracappa, PF, and Xu, XG. "The profound effects of patient arm positioning on organ doses from CT procedures calculated using Monte Carlo simulations and deformable phantoms." Radiation protection dosimetry 164, no. 3 (April 2015): 368-375. Full Text
  - Chen, X, Bush, K, Ding, A, and Xing, L. "Independent calculation of monitor units for VMAT and SPORT." Medical physics 42, no. 2 (February 2015): 918-924. (letter) Full Text
  - Vazquez, JA, Ding, A, Haley, T, Caracappa, PF, and Xu, XG. "A dose-reconstruction study of the 1997 Sarov criticality accident using animated dosimetry techniques." Health physics 106, no. 5 (May 2014): 571-582. Full Text
  - Liu, T, Ding, A, and Xu, X. "SU-E-T-493: Accelerated Monte Carlo Methods for Photon Dosimetry Using a Dual-GPU System and CUDA." Medical physics 39, no. 6Part17 (June 2012): 3818-. Full Text
  - Ding, A, Mille, MM, Liu, T, Caracappa, PF, and Xu, XG. "Extension of RPI-adult male and female computational phantoms to obese patients and a Monte Carlo study of the effect on CT imaging dose." Physics in medicine and biology 57, no. 9 (May 2012): 2441-2459. Full Text
  - Ding, A, Gu, J, Trofimov, AV, and Xu, XG. "Monte Carlo calculation of imaging doses from diagnostic multidetector CT and kilovoltage cone-beam CT as part of prostate cancer treatment plans." Medical physics 37, no. 12 (December 2010): 6199-6204. Full Text
  - Ding, A, Zhang, D, and Xu, XG. "Training software using virtual-reality technology and pre-calculated effective dose data." Health physics 96, no. 5 (May 2009): 594-601. Full Text

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In the News

Awards & Honors

Selected Publications

Conference Papers

Journal Articles