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Russell J. Hamilton,
Ph.D., DABMP, Associate Professor
Head of Physics
Section
Dr. Hamilton’s
objective is excellence in clinical service, education, and
research. His clinical focus
is in improving patient care by
incorporating technological innovations into routine radiation
therapy clinical practice.
Dr. Hamilton
considers the education of future generations to be of paramount
importance. He provides classroom instruction at undergraduate,
graduate, and medical
resident levels and practical clinical
training for physicists and dosimetrists. Undergraduates,
graduates, and postdoctoral associates have participated in his
research projects.
Dr. Hamilton’s
general research interest is in the application of mathematical
methods to problems in radiation therapy. His is currently
investigating phenomenological modeling
of radiotherapy toxicity, iterative reconstruction algorithms for
optimizing intensity modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), using
functional imaging (PET or SPECT) data in radiotherapy planning,
incorporating biologically based objectives in IMRT optimization,
and exploring methods to monitor and control patient motion during
radiotherapy delivery.
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Vincent A. Bourke, Ph.D.
Clinical Physicist Associate
Dr. Bourke
is a first year clinical physics resident, and is working
towards ABR certification in Therapeutic Radiological Physics.
His research background is in MR reporter molecules for dynamic
assessment of tumor oxygenation, novel fiber optic oxygen
sensors, and quantitative histochemical analysis of hematopoetic
stem cells within the marrow cavities of human cancellous
bone for
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Thomas C.
Cetas, Ph.D.,
Professor Emertius
Dr. Cetas is
certified by the American Board of Medical Physics. He
performs general therapeutic radiological physics services and has
special interests in dose measurements, beam targeting, and
brachytherapy.
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Lars A. Ewell, Ph.D.,
Assistant Professor
Dr. Ewell’s interests span clinical, research, and teaching.
Regarding the clinic,
he is committed to incorporating the latest technical advances so as
to provide patients with the best options for disease treatment. Most
recently, he has been involved with the implementation of a new
treatment planning system, Pinnacle.
Regarding research, he
is interested in scattering corrections to therapy and imaging
radiation beams and the use of Monte Carlo simulations to aid in such
corrections.
Regarding teaching, he
realizes the importance of diffusing knowledge. He enjoys teaching
medical physics to radiation therapists, medical residents and other
interested parties.
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Si Young Jang, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor,
Associate Faculty Member
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Assistant Professor
Dr.
Watchman is a board eligible medical physicist whose primary
responsibilities include research into methods to improve
patient treatment. He is involved in image guided therapy
research using the Novalis system. Other research interests
include multi-modality imaging methods for the assessment of
treatment efficacy, molecular radiotherapy, radiation dosimetry
and target localization.
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| Physics Links:
1. American College of Medical
Physics:
http://www.acmp.org
2. American Board of Medical Physics:
http://www.acmp.org/abmp/index.html
3. American Institute of Physics:
http://www.aip.org/
4. American Association of Physicists in Medicine:
http://www.aapm.org |
