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Dershan Luo

Present Title & Affiliation

Primary Appointment

Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX

Education & Training

Degree-Granting Education

1991 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, PHD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
1985 National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, MS, Electrical Engineering
1983 National Tsing-Hua University, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan, BS, Electrical Engineering

Selected Publications

Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
1. Chi PC, Mawlawi O, Luo D, Liao Z, Macapinlac HA, Pan T. Effects of respiration-averaged computed tomography on positron emission tomography/computed tomography quantification and its potential impact on gross tumor volume delineation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(3):890-9, 7/1/2008. PMID: 18514781.
2. Hart JP, McCurdy MR, Ezhil M, Wei W, Khan M, Luo D, Munden RF, Johnson VE, Guerrero TM. Radiation pneumonitis: correlation of toxicity with pulmonary metabolic radiation response. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(4):967-71, 7/15/2008. e-Pub 5/19/2008. PMID: 18495373.
3. Liu HH, Balter P, Tutt T, Choi B, Zhang J, Wang C, Chi M, Luo D, Pan T, Hunjan S, Starkschall G, Rosen I, Prado K, Liao Z, Chang J, Komaki R, Cox JD, Mohan R, Dong L. Assessing Respiration-Induced Tumor Motion and Internal Target Volume Using Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography for Radiotherapy of Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 68(2)(2):531-540, 6/2007. PMID: 17398035.
4. Chi PM, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh SA, Erdi YE, Balter PA, Luo D, Mohan R, Pan T. Design of respiration averaged CT for attenuation correction of the PET data from PET/CT. Med Phys 34(6):2039-2047, 6/2007. PMID: 17654907.
5. Starkschall G, Desai N, Balter P, Prado K, Luo D, Cody D, Pan T. Quantitative assessment of four-dimensional computed tomography image acquisition quality. J Appl Clin Med Phys 8(3):2362, 2007. PMID: 17712299.
6. Pan T, Mawlawi O, Luo D, Liu HH, Chi PC, Mar MV, Gladish G, Truong M, Erasmus J, Jr, Liao Z, Macapinlac HA. Attenuation correction of PET cardiac data with low-dose average CT in PET/CT. Med Phys 33(10):3931-3938, 10/2006. PMID: 17089855.
7. Chi PC, Balter P, Luo D, Mohan R, Pan T. Relation of external surface to internal tumor motion studied with cine CT. Med Phys 33(9):3116-3123, 9/2006. PMID: 17022203.
8. Pan T, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh SA, Erdi YE, Luo D, Liu HH, Castillo R, Mohan R, Liao Z, Macapinlac HA. Attenuation correction of PET images with respiration-averaged CT images in PET/CT. J Nucl Med 46(9):1481-1487, 9/2005. PMID: 16157531.
9. Pan TS, Luo DS, Kohli V, King MA. Influence of OSEM, elliptical orbits and background activity on SPECT 3D resolution recovery. Phys Med Biol 42:2517-29, 12/1997. PMID: 9434304.
10. King MA, Pan TS, Luo DS. An Investigation of Aliasing with Gaussian Diffusion Modeling of SPECT System Spatial Resolution. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 44:1375-80, 6/1997.
11. Luo D-S, King MA, Morgan HT, Pan T-S, Xia W, Pretorius PH, Case JA. Investigations into Possible Causes of Hot Inferior Wall Artifacts in Attenuation Corrected Cardiac Perfusion Images. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 44:1146-53, 6/1997.
12. Xia W, Glick SJ, Pan TS, Soares EJ, Luo D-S. Region of Interest Evaluation of SPECT Image Reconstruction Methods Using a Realistic Brain Phantom. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 44:1336-41, 6/1997.
13. Pan TS, King MA, Luo DS, Dahlberg ST, Villegas BJ. Estimation of attenuation maps from scatter and photopeak window single photon-emission computed tomographic images of technetium 99m-labeled sestamibi. J Nucl Cardiol 4:42-51, 1997. PMID: 9138839.
14. Luo DS, King MA, Pan T-S, Xia W. Evaluation of the Effects of Patient Arm Attenuation in SPECT Cardiac Perfusion Imaging. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 43:3291-99, 12/1996.
15. Pretorius PH, King MA, Glick SJ, Pan TS, Luo DS. Reducing the Effect of Non-Stationary Resolution on Activity Quantitation with the Frequency Distance Relationship in SPECT. IEEE Trans Nuclear Science 43:3335-41, 12/1996.
16. Luo DS, Yagle AE. A Kalman Filtering Approach to Stochastic Global and Region-of-Interest Tomography. IEEE Trans. Image Proc. 5:471-9, 3/1996.
17. King MA, Luo D, Dahlberg ST, Villegas BJ, Penney BC, Morgan HT. Transmission imaging of large attenuators using a slant hole collimator on a three-headed SPECT system. Medical Physics 23:263-72, 2/1996. PMID: 8668108.
18. Case JA, Pan TS, King MA, Luo DS, Penney BC, Rabin MSZ. Reduction of Truncation Artifacts in Fan Beam Transmission Imaging Using a Spatially Varying Gamma Prior. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 42:2260-65, 12/1995.
19. Pan TS, King MA, Penney BC, Rajeevan N, Luo DS, Case JA. Reduction of Truncation Artifacts in Fan Beam Transmission by Using Parallel Beam Emission Data. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 42:1310-20, 8/1995.
20. Glick SJ, deVries DJ, Luo DS, King MA. Distance-Dependent Restoration Filtering of Dual Photopeak Window Scatter Compensated SPECT Images. IEEE Trans. Nuclear Science 41:2787-92, 12/1994.

Last updated: 2/25/2010