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Steve B. Jiang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor with tenure
Executive Director, Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of California, San Diego

Moores Cancer Center, Rm 3334
3855 Health Sciences Dr. #0843
La Jolla, CA 92093-0843

Tel: (858)822-5129
Fax: (858)822-6078
E-mail: sbjiang@ucsd.edu

 

Education and Training

1995 - 1998 Ph.D. in Medical Physics, Dept. of Radiation Therapy, Medical College of Ohio
1998 - 2000  Postdoctoral Fellow, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Stanford University School of Medicine

Positions

10/2000-2/2007 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Radiation Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School
3/2007-present Associate Professor (with tenure), Dept. of Radiation Oncology, University of California, San Diego

Areas of Interest

Image guided radiation therapy
Adaptive radiation therapy
Treatment optimization
Monte Carlo simulation
Patient safety

Recent Honors

2004-present Fellow, The Institute of Physics, England
2006

Senior author of an article being chosen as one of the 25 best articles of the year published by Physics in Medicine and Biology

2007

Senior author of an article being chosen as one of the 30 best articles of the year published by Physics in Medicine and Biology

2008

Senior author of three papers ranked among top 10 most highly cited papers published in Physicist in Medicine and Biology in the past 5 years (2003 -2007)

2008 Visiting Professor, Medical Physics Graduate Program, University of Chicago

Editorial Boards

2004-2009 International Advisory Board, Physics in Medicine Biology
2008- Editorial Board, Journal of Biomedicine and Biotechnology
2010- Editorial Board, Physics Medicine Biology
2010- Associate Editor, Medical Physics

 

Recent Publications

LI Cervino, S Gupta, MA Rose, C Yashar, and SB Jiang, Using surface imaging and visual coaching to improve the reproducibility and stability of deep-inspiration breath hold for left-breast-cancer radiotherapy, Phys Med Biol. 54(22): 6853-6865, 2009.

C Men, X Gu, DJ Choi, A Majumdar, Z Zheng, K Mueller, and SB Jiang, GPU-based ultrafast IMRT plan optimization, Phys Med Biol. 54(21):6565-6573, 2009.

X Gu, DJ Choi, C Men, H Pan, A Majumdar, and SB Jiang, GPU-based ultra-fast dose calculation using a finite pencil beam model, Phys Med Biol. 54(20):6287-6297, 2009.

R Li, JH Lewis, LI Cerviño, and SB Jiang, A feasibility study of markerless fluoroscopic gating for lung cancer radiotherapy using 4DCT templates, Phys. Med. Biol. 54(20): N489-N500, 2009.

X Tang, T Lin, and SB Jiang, A feasibility study of treatment verification using EPID cine images for hypofractionated lung radiotherapy, Phys Med Biol 54(18): S1-S8, 2009.

J Xu, N Papanikolaou, C Shi, and SB Jiang, Synchronized moving aperture radiation therapy (SMART): superimposing tumor motion on IMRT MLC leaf sequences under realistic delivery conditions, Phys Med Biol. 54(16):4993-5007, 2009.

R Li, JH Lewis, LI Cerviño, and SB Jiang [senior author], 4D CT sorting based on patient internal anatomy, Phys Med Biol. 54(15):4821-33, 2009.

LI Cervino, AK Chao, A Sandhu, and SB Jiang, The diaphragm as an anatomic surrogate for lung tumor motion, Phys Med Biol 54(11): 3529-3541, 2009.

T Lin, R Li, X Tang, JG Dy, and SB Jiang, Markerless gating for lung cancer radiotherapy based on machine learning techniques, Phys Med Biol 54(6): 1555-1563, 2009.

T Lin, LI Cervino, X Tang, N Vasconcelos, and SB Jiang, Fluoroscopic tumor tracking for image-guided lung cancer radiotherapy, Phys Med Biol 54(4): 981-992, 2009.

JH Lewis and SB Jiang, A theoretical model for respiratory motion artifacts in free breathing CT scans, Phys Med Biol. 54 (3): 745–755, 2009. 2008

Q Xu, RJ Hamilton, RA Schowengerdt, B Alexander and SB Jiang, Lung Tumor Tracking in Fluoroscopic Video Based on Optical Flow, Medical Physics 35(12):5351-9, 2008.

H Wu, Q Zhao, RI Berbeco, S Nishioka, H Shirato, SB Jiang, Gating based on internal/external signals with dynamic correlation updates, Phys Med Biol. 53(24):7137-7150, 2008.

Y Cui, JG Dy, B Alexander, SB Jiang, Fluoroscopic gating without implanted fiducial markers for lung cancer radiotherapy based on support vector machines, Phys Med Biol. 53(16):N315-27, 2008.

J Gu, B Bednarz, XG Xu, SB Jiang, Assessment of patient organ doses and effective doses using the VIP-Man adult male phantom for selected cone-beam CT imaging procedures during image guided radiation therapy, Radiat Prot Dosimetry 131(4):431-43, 2008.

SB Jiang, J Wolfgang, and GS Mageras, Quality assurance challenges for motion-adaptive radiation therapy: gating, breath holding, and four-dimensional computed tomography, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(1 Suppl): S103-7, 2008.

V Boldea, GC Sharp, SB Jiang, D Sarrut, 4D-CT lung motion estimation with deformable registration: quantification of motion nonlinearity and hysteresis, Med Phys. 35(3):1008-18, 2008.

DP Gierga, M Riboldi, JC Turcotte, GC Sharp, SB Jiang, AG Taghian, GT Chen, Comparison of Target Registration Errors for Multiple Image-Guided Techniques in Accelerated Partial Breast Irradiation, Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys. 70(4):1239-46, 2008.

F Azmandian, D Kaeli, JG Dy, E Hutchinson, M Ancukiewicz, A Niemierko, and SB Jiang, Towards the development of an error checker for radiotherapy treatment plans: a preliminary study, Phys. Med. Biol. 52(21):6511-6524, 2007.

Y Cui, JG Dy, GC Sharp, B Alexander, and SB Jiang, Multiple template-based fluoroscopic tracking of lung tumor mass without implanted fiducial markers, Phys Med Biol. 52(20):6229-6242, 2007.

D Ionascu, SB Jiang, Seiko Nishioka, Hiroki Shirato, and Ross I. Berbeco, Internal-external correlation investigations of respiratory induced motion of lung tumors, Med. Phys. 34(10):3893-3903, 2007.

E Kanoulas, JA Aslam, GC Sharp, RI Berbeco, S Nishioka, H Shirato, and SB Jiang, Derivation of the tumor position from external respiratory surrogates with periodical updating of the internal/external correlation, Phys Med Biol. 52(17):5443-55456, 2007.

Q Xu, RJ Hamilton, RA Schowengerdt, and SB Jiang, A deformable lung tumor tracking method in fluoroscopic video using active shape models: a feasibility study, Phys Med Biol. 52(17):5277-5293, 2007.

H Wu, GC Sharp, Q Zhao, H Shirato, and SB Jiang, Statistical analysis and correlation discovery of tumor respiratory motion, Phys Med Biol. 52(16):4761-74, 2007.

XL Tang, GC Sharp, and SB Jiang, Fluoroscopic tracking of multiple implanted fiducial markers using multiple object tracking, Phys Med Biol 52(14): 4081-4098, 2007.

GC Sharp, HM Lu, A Trofimov, X Tang, SB Jiang, J Turcotte, DP Gierga, GT Chen, and TS Hong, Assessing residual motion for gated proton-beam radiotherapy, J Radiat Res (Tokyo) 48 Suppl A:A55-9, 2007. 

Y Cui, Dy JG, GC Sharp, B Alexander, SB Jiang, Robust fluoroscopic respiratory gating for lung cancer radiotherapy without implanted fiducial markers, Phys Med Biol 52(3): 741-55, 2007.

RI Berbeco, S Nishioka, H Shirato, and SB Jiang, Residual motion of lung tumors in end-of-inhale respiratory gated radiotherapy based on external surrogates, Med Phys 33(11): 4149-4156, 2006.

PJ Keall, GS Mageras, JM Balter, RS  Emery, KM Forster, SB Jiang, JM Kapatoes, DA Low, MJ Murphy, BR Murray, CR Ramsey, MB Van Herk, SS Vedam, JW Wong, and E Yorke, The management of respiratory motion in radiation oncology report of AAPM Task Group 76, Med Phys 33(10): 3874-900, 2006.

RI Berbeco, CJ Pope, and SB Jiang, Measurement of the Interplay Effect between Organ Motion and the MLC Motion in Lung IMRT Treatment using EDR2 Films, Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics 7(4)33-42, 2006.

S Flampouri, SB Jiang, G Sharp, J Wolfgang, A Patel, and N Choi. Estimation of the delivered patient dose in lung IMRT treatment based on deformable registration of 4D-CT data and Monte Carlo simulations, Phys Med Biol. 51(11): 2763-2779, 2006.

P Giraud, E Yorke, SB Jiang, L Simon, K Rosenzweig, G Mageras, Reduction of organ motion effects in IMRT and conformal 3D radiation delivery by using gating and tracking techniques, Cancer/Radiothérapie, 10:269-282, 2006.
SB Jiang, Radiotherapy of Mobile Tumors, Semin Radiat Oncol, 16(4)239-248, 2006.

K Aljarrah, GC Sharp, T Neicu, and SB Jiang, Determination of the Initial Beam Parameters in Monte Carlo Linac Simulation, Med Phys, 33(4):850-858, 2006.

SB Jiang, GC Sharp, T Neicu, RI Berbeco, S Flampouri, and T Bortfeld, On Dose Distribution Comparison, Phys Med Biol. 51(4):759-776, 2006.

T Neicu, R Berbeco, J Wolfgang, and SB Jiang, Synchronized Moving Aperture Radiation Therapy (SMART): Improvement of Breathing Pattern Reproducibility Using Respiratory Coaching, Phys Med Biol. 51(3):617-636, 2006.

SB Jiang, Technical Aspects of Image-Guided Respiration-Gated Radiation Therapy, Medical Dosimetry, 31(2):141-151, 2006.

 

 


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