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William Y. Song, PhD

Assistant Professor
Faculty member, Division of Technology and Medical Research
Faculty member, Center for Advanced Radiotherapy Technologies (CART)
Department of Radiation Oncology
University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

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

Tel: 858-246-0886
Fax: 858-822-5568
Email: wysong@ucsd.edu

 

 

Education and Training

1996 – 2001

B.Sc., Honors Physics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

2001 – 2003  M.Sc., Medical Physics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2003 – 2006    Ph.D., Medical Physics, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
2006 – 2008    Residency (CAMPEP-accredited), University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Areas of Interest

Image-Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT)
Adaptive Radiation Therapy (ART)
Stereotactic Radiation Surgery (SRS)
Radiation Biology Modeling/Optimization

Recent Publications

Kamath, S., Song, W., Chvetsov, A., Ozawa, S., Lu, H., Samant, S., Liu, C., Li, J., Palta, J. An image quality comparison study between XVIÒ and OBIÒ CBCT systems. Med Phys (in revision 2008).

Song, W., Kamath, S., Ozawa, S., Alani, S., Chvetsov, A., Bhandare, N., Palta, J., Liu, C., Li, J. A dose comparison study between XVIÒ and OBIÒ CBCT systems. Med Phys 2008;35:480-486.

Song, W., Wong, E., Bauman, G., Battista, J., Van Dyk, J. Dosimetric evaluation of daily rigid and non-rigid geometric correction strategies during on-line image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) of prostate cancer. Med Phys 2007;34:352-365.

Song, W., Chiu, B., Bauman, G., Rodrigues, G., Lock, M., Ash, R., Lewis, C., Fenster, A., Battista, J., Van Dyk, J. Prostate contouring uncertainty in mega-voltage computed tomography (MVCT) images acquired with a helical tomotherapy unit during image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT). Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006;65:595-607.

Song, W., Schaly, B., Bauman, G., Battista, J. and Van Dyk, J. Evaluation of image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) technologies and their impact on the outcome of hypofractionated prostate cancer treatments: a radiobiological analysis. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2006;64:289-300.

Ploquin, N., Song, W., Lau, H. and Dunscombe, P. Intensity modulated radiation therapy for oropharyngeal cancer: the sensitivity of plan objectives and constraints to set-up uncertainty. Phys Med Biol 2005;50:3515-3533.

Schaly, B., Bauman, G., Song, W., Battista, J. and Van Dyk, J. Dosimetric impact of image-guided 3-D conformal radiation therapy of prostate cancer. Phys Med Biol 2005;50:3083-3101.

Song, W., Schaly, B., Bauman, G., Battista, J. and Van Dyk, J. Image-guided adaptive radiation therapy (IGART): Radiobiological and dose escalation considerations for localized carcinoma of the prostate. Med Phys 2005;32:2193-2203.

Song, W., Battista, J. and Van Dyk, J. Limitations of a convolution method for modeling geometric uncertainties in radiotherapy: the radiobiological dose-per-fraction effect. Med Phys 2004;31:3034-3045.

Song, W., and Dunscombe, P. EUD based margin selection in the presence of set-up uncertainties. Med Phys 2004;31:849-859.

 

 

 


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