Current Duke Appointments & Affiliations
Professor of Radiation Oncology
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2021 - Present
Radiation Oncology,
Clinical Science Departments
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
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2016 - Present
Duke Cancer Institute,
Institutes and Centers
Recent Scholarly Works
Feasibility study of a machine learning inspired approach for VMAT optimization.
Journal article Med Phys · April 2026 BACKGROUND: Despite the widespread clinical adoption of volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), advances in its fundamental optimization methodology have remained relatively limited, particularly with respect to open and researcher-accessible optimization ... Full text Link to item CitePrescription tradeoff decision support for pancreas stereotactic body radiation therapy: From templates to artificial intelligence models
Journal article Radiation Medicine and Protection · April 1, 2026 Objective: To develop an artificial intelligence (AI) driven plan tradeoff decision making assistant for radiation oncologists. Methods: A user interface (UI) was developed to integrate the assistant with the treatment planning system to facilitate prescri ... Full text CiteAccuracy of Photon Dose Calculation on Photon-Counting Computed Tomography-A Comparison Study Based on Virtual Monoenergetic and Electron Density (Rho) Images for Pancreatic Cases.
Journal article Adv Radiat Oncol · February 2026 PURPOSE: Photon-counting computed tomography (PCCT) offers versatile anatomic information because of better energy discrimination and higher spatial resolution than conventional energy-integrating computed tomography (CT). With its rapid applications in di ... Full text Link to item CiteRecent Grants
AAPM/RSNA Doctoral and Masters Graduate Fellowship
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Association of Physicists in Medicine · 2023 - 20242023 AAPM/RSNA Doctoral and Masters Graduate Fellowship.
FellowshipPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by American Association of Physicists in Medicine · 2023 - 2024Hybrid virtual-MRI/CBCT: A new paradigm for image guidance in liver SBRT
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by University of Maryland, Baltimore · 2021 - 2024View All Grants
Education
Mayo Graduate School ·
1996
Ph.D.
Zhejiang University (China) ·
1990
B.S.