Peter A. Balter, M.S., Ph.D., DABR
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Service Chief, Infrastructure, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2003 | University of Texas Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, TX, USA, PHD, Medical Physics |
1995 | University of Texas Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Houston, TX, USA, MS, Medical Physics |
1992 | University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, USA, BS, Mathematics and Physics |
Postgraduate Training
2005-2005 | MTMI Hands-on Multi-Slice CT Workshop for Physicists, Medical Technology Management Institute, Houston, TX |
2005-2005 | Stereotatic Body Radiation Therapy: State of the Science, University of Texas Southwest Cancer Center, Dallas, TX |
1999-1999 | First International Workshop on Radiotherapy Gel Dosimetry (DOSGEL), LUND University, Malmö University Hospital, Lexington, KY |
1999-1999 | 3-D Conformal Radiation Therapy and Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy in the New Millennium, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
1998-1998 | 3-D Radiation Treatment Planning and Conformal Therapy Workshop, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC |
1998-1998 | Radiation Therapy Physics, AAPM, San Antonio, TX |
1995-1995 | UCLA Fifth Annual Workshop on Minimally Invasive Therapy of The Brain, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
1994-1994 | Dosimetry of High Energy Electron and X-Ray Therapy Machines, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
1993-1993 | External Beam Dosimetry - Principles and Calibrations, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
1993-1993 | External Beam, Interstitial, and Intracavitary Dosimetry: Basic Methods of Calculation, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
Board Certifications
1999 | American Board of Radiology (ABR), Therapeutic Radiological Physics |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Co-Chair, New Technology Committee, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2019 - Present
Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Patient Care Informatics Committee (PCI), 2022 - Present
Co-Chair, Radiation Oncology Informatics Committee, 2022 - Present
Member, Institutional Medical Device Committee (IMDC), 2022 - Present
Member, Radiation Oncology Informatics Committee, 2018 - Present
Honors & Awards
2016 | Fellow, American Association of Physicist in Medicine |
2013 | Department of Radiation Physics Outstanding Achievement Award, UT MD Anderson - Radiation Physics |
2011 | 2011 Outstanding Educator Award, UT MD Anderson - School of Health Professions |
2008 | Department of Radiation Physics Outstanding Achievement Award, UT MD Anderson - Radiation Physics |
2007 | Chairman's Award for Meritorious Service to the Department, the Division, and the Institution and for Innovation and Creativity, UT MD Anderson - Radiation Physics |
1992 | Kappa MU Epsilon |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- He Y, Cazoulat G, Wu C, Svensson S, Almodovar-Abreu L, Rigaud B, McCollum E, Peterson C, Wooten Z, Rhee DJ, Balter P, Pollard-Larkin J, Cardenas C, Court L, Liao Z, Mohan R, Brock K. Quantifying the Effect of 4-Dimensional Computed Tomography-Based Deformable Dose Accumulation on Representing Radiation Damage for Patients with Locally Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with Standard-Fractionated Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 118(1):231-241, 2024. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37552151.
- Insley B, Bartkoski D, Balter P, Prajapati S, Tailor R, Salehpour M, Jaffray D. Proof-of-concept for a thin conical X-ray target optimized for intensity and directionality for use in a carbon nanotube-based compact X-ray tube. Med Phys 51(1):447-463, 2024. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37947472.
- Chen X, Mumme RP, Corrigan KL, Mukai-Sasaki Y, Koutroumpakis E, Palaskas NL, Nguyen CM, Zhao Y, Huang K, Yu C, Xu T, Daniel A, Balter PA, Zhang X, Niedzielski JS, Shete SS, Deswal A, Court LE, Liao Z, Yang J. Deep learning-based automatic segmentation of cardiac substructures for lung cancers. Radiother Oncol 191:110061. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 38122850.
- Mayo CS, Feng MU, Brock KK, Kudner R, Balter P, Buchsbaum JC, Caissie A, Covington E, Daugherty EC, Dekker AL, Fuller CD, Hallstrom AL, Hong DS, Hong JC, Kamran SC, Katsoulakis E, Kildea J, Krauze AV, Kruse JJ, McNutt T, Mierzwa M, Moreno A, Palta JR, Popple R, Purdie TG, Richardson S, Sharp GC, Satomi S, Tarbox LR, Venkatesan AM, Witztum A, Woods KE, Yao Y, Farahani K, Aneja S, Gabriel PE, Hadjiiski L, Ruan D, Siewerdsen JH, Bratt S, Casagni M, Chen S, Christodouleas JC, DiDonato A, Hayman J, Kapoor R, Kravitz S, Sebastian S, Von Siebenthal M, Bosch W, Hurkmans C, Yom SS, Xiao Y. Operational Ontology for Oncology (O3) - A Professional Society Based, Multi-Stakeholder, Consensus Driven Informatics Standard Supporting Clinical and Research use of "Real -World" Data from Patients Treated for Cancer: Operational Ontology for Radiation Oncology. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 117(3):533-550, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37244628.
- Chang JY, Lin SH, Dong W, Liao Z, Gandhi SJ, Gay CM, Zhang J, Chun SG, Elamin YY, Fossella FV, Blumenschein G, Cascone T, Le X, Pozadzides JV, Tsao A, Verma V, Welsh JW, Chen AB, Altan M, Mehran RJ, Vaporciyan AA, Swisher SG, Balter PA, Fujimoto J, Wistuba II, Feng L, Lee JJ, Heymach JV. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy with or without immunotherapy for early-stage or isolated lung parenchymal recurrent node-negative non-small-cell lung cancer: an open-label, randomised, phase 2 trial. Lancet 402(10405):871-881, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37478883.
- Gao S, Nelson C, Wang C, Kathriarachchi V, Choi M, Saxena R, Kendall R, Balter P. Quantification of the role of lead foil in flattening filter free beam reference dosimetry. J Appl Clin Med Phys 24(4):e13960, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36913192.
- He Y, Anderson BM, Cazoulat G, Rigaud B, Almodovar-Abreu L, Pollard-Larkin J, Balter P, Liao Z, Mohan R, Odisio B, Svensson S, Brock KK. Optimization of mesh generation for geometric accuracy, robustness, and efficiency of biomechanical-model-based deformable image registration. Med Phys 50(1):323-329, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35978544.
- Caissie A, Mierzwa M, Fuller CD, Rajaraman M, Lin A, MacDonald A, Popple R, Xiao Y, VanDijk L, Balter P, Fong H, Xu H, Kovoor M, Lee J, Rao A, Martel M, Thompson R, Merz B, Yao J, Mayo C. Head and Neck Radiation Therapy Patterns of Practice Variability Identified as a Challenge to Real-World Big Data: Results From the Learning from Analysis of Multicentre Big Data Aggregation (LAMBDA) Consortium. Adv Radiat Oncol 8(1):100925, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36711064.
- Netherton TJ, Nguyen C, Cardenas CE, Chung C, Klopp AH, Colbert LE, Rhee DJ, Peterson CB, Howell R, Balter P, Court LE. An automated treatment planning framework for spinal radiotherapy and vertebral level second check. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 114(3):516-528, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35787928.
- Gao S, Muruganandham M, Du W, Ohrt J, Kudchadker RJ, Balter PA. Adding customized electron energy beams to TrueBeam linear accelerators. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(7):e13633, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35533212.
- Gupta AC, Owens CA, Shrestha S, Lee C, Smith SA, Weathers RE, Netherton T, Balter PA, Kry SF, Followill DS, Griffin KT, Long JP, Armstrong GT, Howell RM. Body Region-Specific 3D Age-Scaling Functions for Scaling Whole-Body Computed Tomography Anatomy for Pediatric Late Effects Studies. Biomed Phys Eng Express 8(2), 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34874300.
- Nealon KA, Balter PA, Douglas RJ, Fullen DK, Nitsch PL, Olanrewaju AM, Soliman M, Court LE. Using Failure Mode and Effects Analysis to Evaluate Risk in the Clinical Adoption of Automated Contouring and Treatment Planning Tools. Pract Radiat Oncol 12(4):e344-e353, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35305941.
- Seyedin SN, Bassalow R, Mawlawi OR, Turner LM, Patel RR, Mazin SR, Oderinde OM, Voronenko Y, Wages CA, Olcott PD, Chang JY, Balter PA, Welsh JW. The potential of biology-guided radiation therapy in thoracic cancer: A preliminary treatment planning study. Front Oncol 12:921473, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36313653.
- McCulloch MM, Cazoulat G, Svensson S, Gryshkevych S, Rigaud B, Anderson BM, Kirimli E, De B, Mathew RT, Zaid M, Elganainy D, Peterson CB, Balter P, Koay EJ, Brock KK. Leveraging deep learning-based segmentation and contours-driven deformable registration for dose accumulation in abdominal structures. Front Oncol 12:1015608, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36408172.
- Frigo SP, Ohrt J, Suh Y, Balter P. Interinstitutional beam model portability study in a mixed vendor environment. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(12):37-50, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34643323.
- Chang JY, Mehran RJ, Feng L, Verma V, Liao Z, Welsh JW, Lin SH, O'Reilly MS, Jeter MD, Balter PA, McRae SE, Berry D, Heymach JV, Roth JA, STARS Lung Cancer Trials Group. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for operable stage I non-small-cell lung cancer (revised STARS): long-term results of a single-arm, prospective trial with prespecified comparison to surgery. Lancet Oncol 22(10):1448-1457, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34529930.
- Han EY, Cardenas CE, Nguyen C, Hancock D, Xiao Y, Mumme R, Court LE, Rhee DJ, Netherton TJ, Li J, Yeboa DN, Wang C, Briere TM, Balter P, Martel MK, Wen Z. Clinical implementation of automated treatment planning for whole-brain radiotherapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(9):94-102, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34250715.
- He Y, Cazoulat G, Wu C, Peterson C, McCulloch M, Anderson B, Pollard-Larkin J, Balter P, Liao Z, Mohan R, Brock K. Geometric and dosimetric accuracy of deformable image registration between average-intensity images for 4DCT-based adaptive radiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(8):156-167, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34310827.
- Pollard-Larkin JM, Briere TM, Kudchadker RJ, Sadagopan R, Nitsch PL, Wang XA, Salehpour M, Wang J, Vedam S, Nelson CL, Sahoo N, Zhu XR, Court LE, Balter PA, Robinson IJ, Yang J, Howell RM, Followill DS, Kry S, Beddar SA, Martel MK. Our Experience Leading a Large Medical Physics Practice During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Adv Radiat Oncol 6(4):100683, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33824935.
- Gao S, Chetvertkov MA, Cai B, Dwivedi A, Mihailidis D, Ray X, Netherton T, Court LE, Simon WE, Balter PA. Beam energy metrics for the acceptance and quality assurance of Halcyon linear accelerator. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(7):121-127, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34042271.
- Siochi RA, Balter P, Bloch CD, Santanam L, Blodgett K, Curran BH, Engelsman M, Feng W, Mechalakos J, Pavord D, Simon T, Sutlief S, Zhu XR. Report of Task Group 201 of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine: Quality Management of External Beam Therapy Data Transfer. Med Phys 48(6):e86-e114, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33780010.
- McDonald BA, Vedam S, Yang J, Wang J, Castillo P, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Ahmed S, Ding Y, Mohamed ASR, Balter P, Hughes N, Thorwarth D, Nachbar M, Philippens MEP, Terhaard CHJ, Zips D, Böke S, Awan MJ, Christodouleas J, Fuller CD, MR-Linac Consortium Head and Neck Tumor Site Group. Initial Feasibility and Clinical Implementation of Daily MR-guided Adaptive Head and Neck Cancer Radiotherapy on a 1.5T MR-Linac System: Prospective R-IDEAL 2a/2b Systematic Clinical Evaluation of Technical Innovation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(5):1606-1618, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33340604.
- Zhang Y, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter P, Dong L, Yang J. Tissue-specific deformable image registration using a spatial-contextual filter. Comput Med Imaging Graph 88:101849, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33412481.
- Patel RR, Verma V, Barsoumian HB, Ning MS, Chun SG, Tang C, Chang JY, Lee PP, Gandhi S, Balter P, Dunn JD, Chen D, Puebla-Osorio N, Cortez MA, Welsh JW. Use of Multi-Site Radiation Therapy for Systemic Disease Control. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(2):352-364, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32798606.
- Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Cardenas CE, Chung C, Klopp AH, Peterson CB, Howell RM, Balter PA, Court LE. Evaluation of a multiview architecture for automatic vertebral labeling of palliative radiotherapy simulation CT images. Med Phys 47(11):5592-5608, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33459402.
- Gupta AC, Shrestha S, Owens CA, Smith SA, Qiao Y, Weathers RE, Balter PA, Kry SF, Howell RM. Development of an age-scalable 3D computational phantom in DICOM standard for late effects studies of childhood cancer survivors. Biomed Phys Eng Express 6(6), 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 34584772.
- Kisling K, Cardenas C, Anderson BM, Zhang L, Jhingran A, Simonds H, Balter P, Howell RM, Schmeler K, Beadle BM, Court L. Automatic Verification of Beam Apertures for Cervical Cancer Radiation Therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 10(5):e415-e424, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32450365.
- Edward SS, C Glenn M, Peterson CB, Balter PA, Pollard-Larkin JM, Howell RM, S Followill D, Kry SF. Dose calculation errors as a component of failing IROC lung and spine phantom irradiations. Med Phys 47(9):4502-4508, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32452027.
- Pasalic D, Lu Y, Betancourt-Cuellar SL, Taku N, Mesko SM, Bagley AF, Chance WW, Allen PK, Tang C, Antonoff MB, Balter PA, Mehran RJ, Welsh JW, Liao Z, Gomez D, Erasmus JJ, Nguyen QN. Stereotactic ablative radiation therapy for pulmonary metastases: Improving overall survival and identifying subgroups at high risk of local failure. Radiother Oncol 145:178-185, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32044530.
- Kry SF, Feygelman V, Balter P, Knöös T, Charlie Ma CM, Snyder M, Tonner B, Vassiliev ON. AAPM Task Group 329: Reference dose specification for dose calculations: Dose-to-water or dose-to-muscle?. Med Phys 47(3):e52-e64, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 31883390.
- Gao S, Chetvertkov MA, Simon WE, Sadeghi A, Balter PA. Monitoring linear accelerators electron beam energy constancy with a 2D ionization chamber array and double-wedge phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys 21(1):18-25, 2020. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31633877.
- Gao S, Netherton T, Chetvertkov MA, Li Y, Court LE, Simon WE, Shi J, Balter PA. Acceptance and verification of the Halcyon-Eclipse linear accelerator-treatment planning system without 3D water scanning system. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(10):111-117, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31553525.
- Netherton T, Li Y, Gao S, Klopp A, Balter P, Court LE, Scheuermann R, Kennedy C, Dong L, Metz J, Mihailidis D, Ling C, Young Lee M, Constantin M, Thompson S, Kauppinen J, Uusitalo P. Experience in commissioning the halcyon linac. Med Phys 46(10):4304-4313, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31310678.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Shaitelman SF, Anderson D, Thebe T, Yang J, Balter PA, Howell RM, Jhingran A, Schmeler K, Simonds H, du Toit M, Trauernicht C, Burger H, Botha K, Joubert N, Beadle BM, Court L. Automated treatment planning of postmastectomy radiotherapy. Med Phys 46(9):3767-3775, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31077593.
- Gay SS, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Ger RB, Balter PA, Dong L, Mihailidis D, Court LE. Dosimetric impact and detectability of multi-leaf collimator positioning errors on Varian Halcyon. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(8):47-55, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31294923.
- Kisling K, Johnson JL, Simonds H, Zhang L, Jhingran A, Beadle BM, Burger H, du Toit M, Joubert N, Makufa R, Shaw W, Trauernicht C, Balter P, Howell RM, Schmeler K, Court L. A risk assessment of automated treatment planning and recommendations for clinical deployment. Med Phys 46(6):2567-2574, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31002389.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang Z, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. Technical Note: Density correction to improve CT number mapping in thoracic deformable image registration. Med Phys 46(5):2330-2336, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30896047.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Simonds H, Fakie N, Yang J, McCarroll R, Balter P, Burger H, Bogler O, Howell R, Schmeler K, Mejia M, Beadle BM, Jhingran A, Court L. Fully Automatic Treatment Planning for External-Beam Radiation Therapy of Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer: A Tool for Low-Resource Clinics. J Glob Oncol 5:1-9, 2019. PMID: 30629457.
- Viswanath P, Peng S, Singh R, Kingsley C, Balter PA, Johnson FM. A Novel Method for Quantifying Total Thoracic Tumor Burden in Mice. Neoplasia 20(10):975-984. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30157470.
- Nantavithya C, Gomez DR, Wei X, Komaki R, Liao Z, Lin SH, Jeter M, Nguyen QN, Li H, Zhang X, Poenisch F, Zhu XR, Balter PA, Feng L, Choi NC, Mohan R, Chang JY. Phase 2 Study of Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and Stereotactic Body Proton Therapy for High-Risk, Medically Inoperable, Early-Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 101(3):558-563, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29680255.
- McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Balter PA, Burger H, Cardenas CE, Dalvie S, Followill DS, Kisling KD, Mejia M, Naidoo K, Nelson CL, Peterson CB, Vorster K, Wetter J, Zhang L, Court LE, Yang J. Retrospective Validation and Clinical Implementation of Automated Contouring of Organs at Risk in the Head and Neck: A Step Toward Automated Radiation Treatment Planning for Low- and Middle-Income Countries. J Glob Oncol(4):1-11, 2018. PMID: 30110221.
- Li Y, Netherton T, Nitsch PL, Gao S, Klopp AH, Balter PA, Court LE. Independent validation of machine performance check for the Halcyon and TrueBeam linacs for daily quality assurance. J Appl Clin Med Phys. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30016578.
- Netherton T, Li Y, Nitsch P, Shaitelman S, Balter P, Gao S, Klopp A, Muruganandham M, Court L. Interplay effect on a 6-MV flattening-filter-free linear accelerator with high dose rate and fast multi-leaf collimator motion treating breast and lung phantoms. Med Phys 45(6):2369-2376, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29611210.
- Court L, Wang H, Aten D, Brown D, MacGregor H, du Toit M, Chi M, Gao S, Yock A, Aristophanous M, Balter P. Illustrated instructions for mechanical quality assurance of a medical linear accelerator. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(3):355-359, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29500846.
- Li Y, Netherton T, Nitsch PL, Balter PA, Gao S, Klopp AH, Court LE. Normal tissue doses from MV image-guided radiation therapy (IGRT) using orthogonal MV and MV-CBCT. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(3):52-57, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29500856.
- Gao S, Balter PA, Tran B, Rose M, Simon WE. Quantification of beam steering with an ionization chamber array. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(3):168-176, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29577578.
- Craft DF, Kry SF, Balter P, Salehpour M, Woodward W, Howell RM. Material matters: Analysis of density uncertainty in 3D printing and its consequences for radiation oncology. Med Phys 45(4):1614-1621, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29493803.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Beddar S, Ibbott G, Wen Z, Court LE, Hwang KP, Kadbi M, Krishnan S, Fuller CD, Frank SJ, Yang J, Balter P, Kudchadker RJ, Wang J. A methodology to investigate the impact of image distortions on the radiation dose when using magnetic resonance images for planning. Phys Med Biol 63(8):085005, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29528037.
- Court LE, Kisling K, McCarroll R, Zhang L, Yang J, Simonds H, du Toit M, Trauernicht C, Burger H, Parkes J, Mejia M, Bojador M, Balter P, Branco D, Steinmann A, Baltz G, Gay S, Anderson B, Cardenas C, Jhingran A, Shaitelman S, Bogler O, Schmeller K, Followill D, Howell R, Nelson C, Peterson C, Beadle B. Radiation Planning Assistant - A Streamlined, Fully Automated Radiotherapy Treatment Planning System. J Vis Exp(134), 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29708544.
- Wang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Dong L, Balter PA, Court LE, Yang J. Technical Note: Solving the "Chinese postman problem" for effective contour deformation. Med Phys 45(2):767-772, 2018. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29178498.
- Faught JT, Balter PA, Johnson JL, Kry SF, Court LE, Stingo FC, Followill DS. An FMEA evaluation of intensity modulated radiation therapy dose delivery failures at tolerance criteria levels. Med Phys 44(11):5575-5583, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28862765.
- Xu C, Xi M, Komaki R, Balter PA, Huang M, Hobbs BP, Wang L, Lin SH. Dosimetric and clinical outcomes after volumetric modulated arc therapy for carcinoma of the thoracic esophagus. Adv Radiat Oncol 2(3):325-332, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29114599.
- Sun B, Brooks ED, Komaki R, Liao Z, Jeter M, McAleer M, Balter PA, Welsh JD, O'Reilly M, Gomez D, Hahn SM, Sepesi B, Rice DC, Heymach JV, Chang JY. Long-Term Outcomes of Salvage Stereotactic Ablative Radiotherapy for Isolated Lung Recurrence of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: A Phase II Clinical Trial. J Thorac Oncol 12(6):983-992, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28259750.
- Chance WW, Nguyen QN, Mehran R, Welsh JW, Gomez DR, Balter P, Komaki R, Liao Z, Chang JY. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for adrenal gland metastases: factors influencing outcomes, patterns of failure, and dosimetric thresholds for toxicity. Pract Radiat Oncol 7(3):e195-e203, 2017. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27743801.
- Smith K, Balter P, Duhon J, White GA, Vassy DL, Miller RA, Serago CF, Fairobent LA. AAPM Medical Physics Practice Guideline 8.a.: Linear accelerator performance tests. J Appl Clin Med Phys. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28548315.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Balter P, Gomez D, Followill D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Liao Z, Mohan R, Court L. Delta-radiomics features for the prediction of patient outcomes in non-small cell lung cancer. Sci Rep 7(1):588, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28373718.
- Sun B, Brooks ED, Komaki RU, Liao Z, Jeter MD, McAleer MF, Allen PK, Balter PA, Welsh JD, O'Reilly MS, Gomez D, Hahn SM, Roth JA, Mehran RJ, Heymach JV, Chang JY. 7-year follow-up after stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for patients with stage I non-small cell lung cancer: Results of a phase 2 clinical trial. Cancer. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28346656.
- McCarroll RE, Beadle BM, Fullen D, Balter PA, Followill DS, Stingo FC, Yang J, Court LE. Reproducibility of patient setup in the seated treatment position: A novel treatment chair design. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(1):223-229, 2017. PMID: 28291911.
- Gao S, Balter PA, Rose M, Simon WE. A comparison of methods for monitoring photon beam energy constancy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(6):242-253, 2016. PMID: 28297295.
- Fave X, Zhang FL, Yang JZ, Mackin D, Balter P, Gomez D, Followill D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Court LE. Impact of image preprocessing on the volume dependence and prognostic potential of radiomics features in non-small cell lung cancer. Translational Cancer Research 5(4):349-363, 2016.
- Zhao L, Zhou S, Balter P, Shen C, Gomez DR, Welsh JD, Lin SH, Chang JY. Planning Target Volume D95 and Mean Dose Should Be Considered for Optimal Local Control for Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 95(4):1226-35, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27209498.
- Khader J, Al-Mousa A, Hijla FA, Al-Heet S, Rashdan I, Balter P, Chang J, Wadi-Ramahi S. Requirements and Implementation of a Lung SBRT Program in a Developing Country: Benefits of International Cooperation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 95(4):1236-8, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27354130.
- Fave X, Mackin D, Yang J, Zhang J, Fried D, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones AK, Stingo F, Fontenot J, Court L. Can radiomics features be reproducibly measured from CBCT images for patients with non-small cell lung cancer?. Med Phys 42(12):6784-6797, 2015. PMID: 26632036.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter PA, Dong L. Erratum: "Modeling respiratory motion for reducing motion artifacts in 4D CT images. Med Phys 42(11):6768, 2015. PMID: 26520766.
- Sturgeon JD, Cox JA, Mayo LL, Gunn GB, Zhang L, Balter PA, Dong L, Awan M, Kocak-Uzel E, Mohamed AS, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Improved human observer performance in digital reconstructed radiograph verification in head and neck cancer radiotherapy. Int J Comput Assist Radiol Surg 10(10):1667-1673, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25477277.
- Ding Y, Mohamed AS, Yang J, Colen RR, Frank SJ, Wang J, Wassal EY, Wang W, Kantor ME, Balter PA, Rosenthal DI, Lai SY, Hazle JD, Fuller CD. Prospective observer and software-based assessment of magnetic resonance imaging quality in head and neck cancer: Should standard positioning and immobilization be required for radiation therapy applications?. Pract Radiat Oncol 5(4):e299-308, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25544553.
- Chang JY, Senan S, Paul MA, Mehran RJ, Louie AV, Balter P, Groen HJ, McRae SE, Widder J, Feng L, van den Borne BE, Munsell MF, Hurkmans C, Berry DA, van Werkhoven E, Kresl JJ, Dingemans AM, Dawood O, Haasbeek CJ, Carpenter LS, De Jaeger K, Komaki R, Slotman BJ, Smit EF, Roth JA. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy versus lobectomy for operable stage I non-small-cell lung cancer: a pooled analysis of two randomised trials. Lancet Oncol 16(6):630-7, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25981812.
- Balter P, Ficociello LH, Taylor PB, Usvyat L, Sawin DA, Mullon C, Diaz-Buxo J, Zabetakis P. A year-long quality improvement project on fluid management using blood volume monitoring during hemodialysis. Curr Med Res Opin:1-9. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25942380.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Gao S, Balter PA, Dong L. Digital reconstruction of high-quality daily 4D cone-beam CT images using prior knowledge of anatomy and respiratory motion. Comput Med Imaging Graph 40:30-8, 2015. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25467806.
- Huang JY, Kerns JR, Nute JL, Liu X, Balter PA, Stingo FC, Followill DS, Mirkovic D, Howell RM, Kry SF. An evaluation of three commercially available metal artifact reduction methods for CT imaging. Phys Med Biol 60(3):1047-67, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 25585685.
- Castillo SJ, Castillo R, Castillo E, Pan T, Ibbott G, Balter P, Hobbs B, Guerrero T. Evaluation of 4D CT acquisition methods designed to reduce artifacts. J Appl Clin Med Phys 16(2):4949, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26103169.
- McKenzie EM, Balter PA, Stingo FC, Jones J, Followill DS, Kry SF. Toward optimizing patient-specific IMRT QA techniques in the accurate detection of dosimetrically acceptable and unacceptable patient plans. Med Phys 41(12):121702, 2014. PMID: 25471949.
- Popple RA, Balter PA, Orton CG. Point/Counterpoint. Because of the advantages of rotational techniques, conventional IMRT will soon become obsolete. Med Phys 41(10):100601, 2014. PMID: 25281937.
- Li Q, Swanick CW, Allen PK, Gomez DR, Welsh JW, Liao Z, Balter PA, Chang JY. Stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SABR) using 70 Gy in 10 fractions for non-small cell lung cancer: exploration of clinical indications. Radiother Oncol 112(2):256-61, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25108807.
- Fave X, Yang J, Carvalho L, Martin R, Pan T, Balter P, Court L. Upright cone beam CT imaging using the onboard imager. Med Phys 41(6):061906, 2014. PMID: 24877817.
- Yang J, Woodward WA, Reed VK, Strom EA, Perkins GH, Tereffe W, Buchholz TA, Zhang L, Balter P, Court LE, Li XA, Dong L. Statistical modeling approach to quantitative analysis of interobserver variability in breast contouring. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 89(1):214-21, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24613812.
- Gao S, Du W, Balter P, Munro P, Jeung A. Evaluation of IsoCal geometric calibration system for Varian linacs equipped with on-board imager and electronic portal imaging device imaging systems. J Appl Clin Med Phys 15(3):4688, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24892342.
- Chang JY, Li QQ, Xu QY, Allen PK, Rebueno N, Gomez DR, Balter P, Komaki R, Mehran R, Swisher SG, Roth JA. Stereotactic ablative radiation therapy for centrally located early stage or isolated parenchymal recurrences of non-small cell lung cancer: how to fly in a "no fly zone". Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 88(5):1120-8, 2014. PMID: 24661665.
- Yang J, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Gunn B, Rosenthal D, Ang K, Frank S, Williamson R, Balter P, Court L, Dong L. Auto-segmentation of low-risk clinical target volume for head and neck radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 4(1):e31-7, 2014. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24621429.
- Castillo SJ, Castillo R, Balter P, Pan T, Ibbott G, Hobbs B, Yuan Y, Guerrero T. Assessment of a quantitative metric for 4D CT artifact evaluation by observer consensus. J Appl Clin Med Phys 15(3):4718, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24892346.
- McKenzie EM, Balter PA, Stingo FC, Jones J, Followill DS, Kry SF. Reproducibility in patient-specific IMRT QA. J Appl Clin Med Phys 15(3):4741, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24892350.
- Li H, Park P, Liu W, Matney J, Liao Z, Balter P, Li Y, Zhang X, Li X, Zhu XR. Patient-specific quantification of respiratory motion-induced dose uncertainty for step-and-shoot IMRT of lung cancer. Med Phys 40(12):121712, 2013. PMID: 24320498.
- Peng Y, Vedam S, Gao S, Balter P. A new respiratory monitoring and processing system based on Wii remote: Proof of principle. Med Phys 40(7):071712, 2013. PMID: 23822416.
- Gao S, Balter PA, Rose M, Simon WE. Measurement of changes in linear accelerator photon energy through flatness variation using an ion chamber array. Med Phys 40(4):042101, 2013. PMID: 23556911.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court LE, Balter PA, Dong L. Modeling respiratory motion for reducing motion artifacts in 4D CT images. Med Phys 40(4):041716, 2013. PMID: 23556886.
- Gomez DR, Tucker SL, Martel MK, Mohan R, Balter PA, Lopez Guerra JL, Liu H, Komaki R, Cox JD, Liao Z. Predictors of High-grade Esophagitis After Definitive Three-dimensional Conformal Therapy, Intensity-modulated Radiation Therapy, or Proton Beam Therapy for Non-small cell Lung Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 84(4):1010-1016, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22920974.
- Chang JY, Liu H, Balter P, Komaki R, Liao Z, Welsh J, Mehran RJ, Roth JA, Swisher SG. Clinical outcome and predictors of survival and pneumonitis after stereotactic ablative radiotherapy for Stage 1 non-small cell lung cancer. Radiat Oncol 7(1):152, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22963661.
- Zhang X, Liu H, Balter P, Allen PK, Komaki R, Pan T, Chuang HH, Chang JY. Positron emission tomography for assessing local failure after stereotactic body radiotherapy for non-small-cell lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 83(5):1558-65, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22572078.
- Yu ZH, Lin SH, Balter P, Zhang L, Dong L. A comparison of tumor motion characteristics between early stage and locally advanced stage lung cancers. Radiother Oncol 104(1):33-8, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22677039.
- Chung H, Court L, Lin SH, Kulkarni D, Balter P. Evaluation of dose variation to normal and critical structures for lung hypofractionated stereotactic body radiation therapy. Pract Radiat Oncol 2(3):e15-21, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 24674129.
- Wang J, Lin SH, Dong L, Balter P, Mohan R, Komaki R, Cox JD, Starkschall G. Quantifying the Interfractional Displacement of the Gastroesophageal Junction During Radiation Therapy for Esophageal Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 83(2):e273-80, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22440040.
- Jiang ZQ, Yang K, Komaki R, Wei X, Tucker SL, Zhuang Y, Martel MK, Vedam S, Balter P, Zhu G, Gomez D, Lu C, Mohan R, Cox JD, Liao Z. Long-Term Clinical Outcome of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy for Inoperable Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer: The MD Anderson Experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 83(1):332-9, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22079735.
- Wootton LS, Polf JC, Peterson S, Wilkinson J, Rozner MA, Balter PA, Beddar S. Proton dose perturbations caused by high-voltage leads from implanted cardioverter defibrillators. J Appl Clin Med Phys 13(4):3813, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22766952.
- Bissonnette JP, Balter PA, Dong L, Langen KM, Lovelock DM, Miften M, Moseley DJ, Pouliot J, Sonke JJ, Yoo S. Quality assurance for image-guided radiation therapy utilizing CT-based technologies: A report of the AAPM TG-179. Med Phys 39(4):1946-63, 2012. PMID: 22482616.
- Joy S, Starkschall G, Kry S, Salehpour M, White RA, Lin SH, Balter P. Dosimetric effects of jaw tracking in step-and-shoot intensity-modulated radiation therapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 13(2):3707, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22402386.
- Sutton J, Kabiru D, Neu M, Turner L, Balter P, Palmer M. Define baseline levels of segments per beam for intensity-modulated radiation therapy delivery for brain, head and neck, thoracic, abdominal, and prostate applications. Med Dosim 37(1):15-9, 2012. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21889327.
- Ahmad M, Balter P, Pan T. Four-dimensional volume-of-interest reconstruction for cone-beam computed tomography-guided radiation therapy. Med Phys 38(10):5646-56, 2011. PMID: 21992381.
- Welsh J, Thomas J, Shah D, Allen PK, Wei X, Mitchell K, Gao S, Balter P, Komaki R, Chang JY. Obesity Increases the Risk of Chest Wall Pain from Thoracic Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 81(1):91-6, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20542388.
- Peng Y, Vedam S, Chang JY, Gao S, Sadagopan R, Bues M, Balter P. Implementation of Feedback-Guided Voluntary Breath-Hold Gating for Cone Beam CT-Based Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 80(3):909-17, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 21470784.
- Ikushima H, Balter P, Komaki R, Hunjun S, Bucci MK, Liao Z, McAleer MF, Yu ZH, Zhang Y, Chang JY, Dong L. Daily alignment results of in-room computed tomography-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy for lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 79(2):473-80, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20399032.
- Starkschall G, Balter P, Britton K, McAleer MF, Cox JD, Mohan R. Interfractional reproducibility of lung tumor location using various methods of respiratory motion mitigation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 79(2):596-601, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20638189.
- Siochi RA, Balter P, Bloch CD, Santanam L, Blodgett K, Curran BH, Engelsman M, Feng W, Mechalakos J, Pavord D, Simon T, Sutlieff S, Zhu XR. A rapid communication from the AAPM Task Group 201: recommendations for the QA of external beam radiotherapy data transfer. AAPM TG 201: quality assurance of external beam radiotherapy data transfer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 12(1):3479, 2011. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21330992.
- Kelly P, Balter PA, Rebueno N, Sharp HJ, Liao Z, Komaki R, Chang JY. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Patients with Lung Cancer Previously Treated with Thoracic Radiation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78(5):1387-93, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20381271.
- Tsunashima Y, Vedam S, Dong L, Umezawa M, Balter P, Mohan R. The precision of respiratory-gated delivery of synchrotron-based pulsed beam proton therapy. Phys Med Biol 55(24):7633-47, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 21113089.
- Zamora DA, Riegel AC, Sun X, Balter P, Starkschall G, Mawlawi O, Pan T. Thoracic target volume delineation using various maximum-intensity projection computed tomography image sets for radiotherapy treatment planning. Med Phys 37(11):5811-20, 2010. PMID: 21158293.
- Buyyounouski MK, Balter P, Lewis B, D'Ambrosio DJ, Dilling TJ, Miller RC, Schefter T, Tomé W, Harris EE, Price RA, Konski AA, Wallner PE. Stereotactic body radiotherapy for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer: report of the ASTRO Emerging Technology Committee. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78(1):3-10, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20643514.
- Hunjan S, Starkschall G, Prado K, Dong L, Balter P. Lack of Correlation Between External Fiducial Positions and Internal Tumor Positions During Breath-Hold CT. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 76(5):1586-91, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20133074.
- Nelson C, Balter P, Morice RC, Bucci K, Dong L, Tucker S, Vedam S, Chang JY, Starkschall G. Evaluation of Tumor Position and PTV Margins Using Image Guidance and Respiratory Gating. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 76(5):1578-85, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20137865.
- Vinogradskiy YY, Balter P, Followill DS, Alvarez PE, White RA, Starkschall G. Comparing the accuracy of four-dimensional photon dose calculations with three-dimensional calculations using moving and deforming phantoms. Med Phys 36(11):5000-6, 2009. PMID: 19994509.
- Vinogradskiy YY, Balter P, Followill DS, Alvarez PE, White RA, Starkschall G. Verification of four-dimensional photon dose calculations. Med Phys 36(8):3438-47, 2009. PMID: 19746777.
- Briere TM, Beddar S, Balter P, Murthy R, Gupta S, Nelson C, Starkschall G, Gillin MT, Krishnan S. Respiratory gating with EPID-based verification: the MDACC experience. Phys Med Biol 54(11):3379-91, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19436104.
- Sadagopan R, Bencomo JA, Martin RL, Nilsson G, Matzen T, Balter PA. Characterization and clinical evaluation of a novel IMRT quality assurance system. J Appl Clin Med Phys 10(2):2928, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19458595.
- Vassiliev ON, Kry SF, Chang JY, Balter PA, Titt U, Mohan R. Stereotactic radiotherapy for lung cancer using a flattening filter free Clinac. J Appl Clin Med Phys 10(1):2880, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19223837.
- Ezhil M, Vedam S, Balter P, Choi B, Mirkovic D, Starkschall G, Chang JY. Determination of patient-specific internal gross tumor volumes for lung cancer using four-dimensional computer tomography. Radiat Oncol 4(4):4, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19173738.
- Giebeler A, Fontenot J, Balter P, Ciangaru G, Zhu R, Newhauser W. Dose perturbations from implanted helical gold markers in proton therapy of prostate cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 10(1):2875, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19223836.
- Siochi RA, Balter P, Bloch CD, Bushe HS, Mayo CS, Curran BH, Feng W, Kagadis GC, Kirby TH, Stern RL. Information technology resource management in radiation oncology. J Appl Clin Med Phys 10(4):3116, 2009. PMID: 19918239.
- Khan F, Bell G, Antony J, Palmer M, Balter P, Bucci K, Chapman MJ. The use of 4DCT to reduce lung dose: a dosimetric analysis. Med Dosim 34(4):273-8, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19854385.
- Chang JY, Balter PA, Dong L, Yang Q, Liao Z, Jeter M, Bucci MK, McAleer MF, Mehran RJ, Roth JA, Komaki R. Stereotactic body radiation therapy in centrally and superiorly located stage I or isolated recurrent non-small-cell lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 72(4):967-71, 2008. PMID: 18954709.
- Nelson C, Balter P, Morice RC, Choi B, Kudchadker RJ, Bucci K, Chang JY, Dong L, Tucker S, Vedam S, Briere T, Starkschall G. A technique for reducing patient setup uncertainties by aligning and verifying daily positioning of a moving tumor using implanted fiducials. J Appl Clin Med Phys 9(4):2766, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 19020478.
- Beddar AS, Briere TM, Balter P, Pan T, Tolani N, Ng C, Szklaruk J, Krishnan S. 4D-CT imaging with synchronized intravenous contrast injection to improve delineation of liver tumors for treatment planning. Radiother Oncol 87(3):445-8, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18194819.
- Hunjan S, Starkschall G, Rosen I, Prado K, Tolani N, Balter P. Comparison of breath-hold and free-breathing positions of an external fiducial by analysis of respiratory traces. J Appl Clin Med Phys 9(3):2768, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18716589.
- Ezhil M, Choi B, Starkschall G, Bucci MK, Vedam S, Balter P. Comparison of rigid and adaptive methods of propagating gross tumor volume through respiratory phases of four-dimensional computed tomography image data set. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 71(1):290-6, 2008. PMID: 18406893.
- Tsunashima Y, Vedam S, Dong L, Umezawa M, Sakae T, Bues M, Balter P, Smith A, Mohan R. Efficiency of respiratory-gated delivery of synchrotron-based pulsed proton irradiation. Phys Med Biol 53(7):1947-59, 2008. e-Pub 2008. PMID: 18364549.
- Zeng R, Fessler JA, Balter JM, Balter PA. Iterative sorting for four-dimensional CT images based on internal anatomy motion. Med Phys 35(3):917-26, 2008. PMID: 18404928.
- Chang JY, Dong L, Liu H, Starkschall G, Balter P, Mohan R, Liao Z, Cox JD, Komaki R. Image-guided radiation therapy for non-small cell lung cancer. J Thorac Oncol 3(2):177-86, 2008. PMID: 18303441.
- Yaremko BP, Guerrero TM, McAleer MF, Bucci MK, Noyola-Martinez J, Nguyen LT, Balter PA, Guerra R, Komaki R, Liao Z. Determination of respiratory motion for distal esophagus cancer using four-dimensional computed tomography. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 70(1):145-53, 2008. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17855008.
- Klopp AH, Chang JY, Tucker SL, Sulman EP, Balter PA, Liu HH, Bucci MK, Macapinlac HA, Komaki R, Cox JD. Intrathoracic patterns of failure for non-small-cell lung cancer with positron-emission tomography/computed tomography-defined target delineation. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 69(5):1409-16, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17904303.
- Krishnan S, Briere TM, Dong L, Murthy R, Ng C, Balter P, Mohan R, Gillin MT, Beddar AS. Daily targeting of liver tumors: screening patients with a mock treatment and using a combination of internal and external fiducials for image-guided respiratory-gated radiotherapy. Med Phys 34(12):4591-3, 2007. PMID: 18196785.
- Lu J, Guerrero TM, Munro P, Jeung A, Chi PC, Balter P, Zhu XR, Mohan R, Pan T. Four-dimensional cone beam CT with adaptive gantry rotation and adaptive data sampling. Med Phys 34(9):3520-9, 2007. PMID: 17926955.
- 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)(3):2362, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17712299.
- Chi PC, 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, 2007. PMID: 17654907.
- Yaremko BP, Guerrero TM, Noyola-Martinez J, Guerra R, Lege DG, Nguyen LT, Balter PA, Cox JD, Komaki R. Reduction of normal lung irradiation in locally advanced non-small-cell lung cancer patients, using ventilation images for functional avoidance. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 68(2):562-571, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17398028.
- 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):531-40, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17398035.
- Nelson C, Starkschall G, Balter P, Morice RC, Stevens CW, Chang JY. Assessment of lung tumor motion and setup uncertainties using implanted fiducials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 67(3):915-23, 2007. PMID: 17293241.
- Kang Y, Zhang X, Chang JY, Wang H, Wei X, Liao Z, Komaki R, Cox JD, Balter PA, Liu H, Zhu XR, Mohan R, Dong L. 4D Proton treatment planning strategy for mobile lung tumors. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 67(3):906-914, 2007. PMID: 17293240.
- Rosu M, Balter JM, Chetty IJ, Kessler ML, McShan DL, Balter P, Ten Haken RK. How extensive of a 4D dataset is needed to estimate cumulative dose distribution plan evaluation metrics in conformal lung therapy?. Med Phys 34(1):233-45, 2007. PMID: 17278509.
- 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):3116-23, 2006. PMID: 17022203.
- Molineu A, Followill DS, Balter PA, Hanson WF, Gillin MT, Huq MS, Eisbruch A, Ibbott GS. Design and implementation of an anthropomorphic quality assurance phantom for intensity-modulated radiation therapy for the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 63(2):577-583, 2005. PMID: 16168849.
- Fitzpatrick MJ, Starkschall G, Balter P, Antolak JA, Guerrero T, Nelson C, Keall P, Mohan R. A novel platform simulating irregular motion to enhance assessment of respiration-correlated radiation therapy procedures. J Appl Clin Med Phys 6(1):13-21, 2005. e-Pub 2005. PMID: 15770194.
- Nelson C, Starkschall G, Balter P, Fitzpatrick MJ, Antolak JA, Tolani N, Prado K. Respiration-correlated treatment delivery using feedback-guided breath hold: a technical study. Med Phys 32(1):175-181, 2005. PMID: 15719968.
- Cho SH, Lowenstein JR, Balter PA, Wells NH, Hanson WF. Comparison between TG-51 and TG-21: Calibration of photon and electron beams in water using cylindrical chambers. J Appl Clin Med Phys 1(3):108-115, 2000. PMID: 11674825.
- Henschke CI, Saint-Louis LA, Balter S, Sarkar SD, Balter P, Whalen JP. Optimizing radiologic costs in the DRG environment. Invest Radiol 25(2):194-9, 1990. PMID: 2107152.
Manuals, Teaching Aids, Other Teaching Publications
- Balter P. How to utilize the TG-51 Calibration Protocol, educational video, 2000.
Other Articles
- Chen X, Mumme R, Nguyen C, Zhao Y, Huang K, Yu C, Corrigan K, Saski Y, Koutroumpakis E, Daniel A, Balter P, Zhang X, Niedzielski J, Shete S, Court L, Liao Z, Yang J Geometric and Dosimetric Evaluation of Deep Learning Segmentation for Cardiac Substructure Delineation: A Comparative Study. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023.
- Yang J, Lim TY, Nitsch P, Wang J, Wang X, Kudchadker R, Balter P, Martel M Development of an MR-Linac Physics Training and Privileging Program. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023.
- McCollum E, Mitrou A, Robles S, Svensson S, Cazoulat G, Choi S, Balter P, Brock K Evaluating Deformable Image Registration Techniques for Dose Accumulation in Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy Treatment of Prostate Cancer. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023.
- Wang H, Rhee D, Gao S, Balter P, Phan J, Lee A, Thrower S, Laneave S, Ellison D, Schipull E, Hrutt R, Netherton T, Lim TY, Mirkovic D, Luo D, Wang C, Tailor R, Wong PF, Wang X Comparision of Flattening Filter Free (FFF) and Flattening Filter (FF) Photon Beam VMAT Plans for Head and Neck Stereotactic Radiotherapy. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023.
- ElBasha M, Baroudi H, Zhao Y, Yu C, Huang K, Gay S, Nguyen C, Daniel A, Balter P, Zhang X, Niedzielski J, Shete S, Court L, Liao Z, Yang J Comparing Pretrained and Custom-Trained Auto-Segmentation Models Using a Commercial Deep Learning Framework for Regions-of-Interest in Head and Neck, Breast and Prostate Cancer. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023.
Abstracts
- Gao S, Chetvertkov M, Cai B, Dwivedi A, Mihailidis D, Ray X, Netherton T, Simon W, Court L, Balter P. Comparison of Beam Energy Metrics for Acceptance of Halcyon Linear Accelerator. 2020 Joint AAPM|COMP Meeting, July 12-16, 2020, Virtual, 2020.
- Yang J, Sobremonte A, Vedam S, Brock K, Ohrt A, Fuller C, Choi S, Jhingran A, Castillo P, Lee B, Wang J, Hughes N, Mohammadsaid M, Balter P. Online Adaptive Planning Strategy for 1.5T MR-Linac. 2020 Joint AAPM|COMP Meeting, July 12-16, 2020, Virtual, 2020.
- He Y, Titt U, Liao Z, Pollard-Larin J, Balter P, Mohan R, Brock K. The Impact of 5D Accumulated Dose On Toxicity Predictions Compared to Planned Dose for Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Treated with IMRT and PSPT. 2020 Joint AAPM|COMP Meeting, July 12-16, 2020, Virtual, 2020.
- Gupta A, Owens C, Shrestha, Lee C, Balter P, Smith S, Weathers R, Kry S. Investigation On the Use of Our 3D Age-Scaling Functions (ASF) to Scale Whole-Body Regions to Any Arbitrary Age. 2020 Joint AAPM|COMP Meeting, July 12-16, 2020, Virtual, 2020.
- Gao S, Balter PA, Rose M, Simon WE. A comparison of methods for monitoring photon beam energy constancy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(6):6454, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27929497.
- Juneja B, Gao S, Balter P and Nitsch P. Evaluation of the Role of Varian Machine Performance Check (MPC) in Our Daily QA Routine, AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3573, 2016. PMID: 28046488.
- Pollard J, Prajapati S, Gao S, Nitsch P, Sadagopan R, Wang X and Balter P. Is the Reproducibility with Respect to Bone of Tumor Position at Simulation for Breath Hold CT Scans Correlated to the Reproducibility for Multiple Breath Hold CBCTs at Treatment in SBRT Thoracic Patients? AAPM 2016 Washington DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3673, 2016. PMID: 28046884.
- Court L, Brown D, Wang H, Maddox B, Aten D, MacGregor H, Chi P, Yock A, Gao S, Aristophanous M and Balter P. Training Monthly QA of Medical Accelerators: Illustrated Instructions for Self-Learning, AAPM 2016 Washington DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3357, 2016. PMID: 28048252.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Stingo F, Followill D, Balter P, Jones A, Gomez D. Delta-Radiomics: The Prognostic Value of Therapy-Indiced Changes in Radiomics Features for Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients, AAPM 2016, Washington DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3750, 2016. PMID: 28046545.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Yang J, Jhinghran A, Balter P, McCarroll R, Beadle B, Howell R, Schmeler K, Court L. Automating Treatment Planning for Cervical Cancer in Low- and Middle- Income Countries, AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3560, 2016. PMID: 28048573.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Beddar S, Ibbott G, Balter P, Kudchadker R, Krishnan S, Fuller C, Wang J. Dosimetric Impact of MR Image Distortion in Treatment Planning, AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3446, 2016. PMID: 28048275.
- Xue J, Park J, Kim L, Balter P, Ohrt J, Kirsner S, Wang C, Ibbott G. Validation of Treatment Planning Dose Calculations: Experience Working with MPPG 5.a., AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3744, 2016. PMID: 28047973.
- McCarroll R, Beadle B, Yang J, Zhang L, Mejia M, Kisling K, Balter P, Stingto F, Nelson C, Followill D, Court L. Fully Automatic Verification of Automatically Contoured Nornal Tissues in the Head and Neck, AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3778, 2016. PMID: 28047167.
- Li H, Wu R, Poenisch F, Zhang L, Palmer M, Gautam A, Sahoo N, Zhang X, Balter P, Gillin M, Gunn B, Frank S, Zhu X. Clinical Implementation of in Room Mobile CT for Image Guided Proton Therapy, AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3451, 2016. PMID: 28046920.
- McCarroll R, Beadle B, Fullen D, Balter P, Followill D, Stingo F, Yang J, Court L. Seated Treatment: Setup Uncertainty Comparable to Supine, AAPM 2016 Washington, DC. Medical Physics 43(6):3779, 2016. PMID: 28046567.
- Juneja B, Gao S, Balter P, Nitsch P. SU-F-T-480: Evaluation of the Role of Varian Machine Performance Check (MPC) in Our Daily QA Routine. Med Phys 43(6):3573, 2016. PMID: 28046488.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Mackin D, Stingo F, Followill D, Balter P, Jones A, Gomez D, Court L. TU-D-207B-02: Delta-Radiomics: The Prognostic Value of Therapy-Induced Changes in Radiomics Features for Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Patients. Med Phys 43(6):3750, 2016. PMID: 28046545.
- McCarroll R, Beadle B, Fullen D, Balter P, Followill D, Stingo F, Yang J, Court L. TU-H-CAMPUS-TeP1-02: Seated Treatment: Setup Uncertainty Comparable to Supine. Med Phys 43(6):3779, 2016. PMID: 28046567.
- Pollard J, Prajapati S, Gao S, Nitsch P, Sadagopan R, Wang X, Balter P. SU-G-JeP3-15: Is the Reproducibility with Respect to Bone of Tumor Position at Simulation for Breath Hold CT Scans Correlated to the Reproducibility for Multiple Breath Hold CBCTs at Treatment in SBRT Thoracic Patients?. Med Phys 43(6):3673, 2016. PMID: 28046884.
- Li H, Wu R, Poenisch F, Zhang L, Palmer M, Gautam A, Sahoo N, Zhang X, Balter P, Gillin M, Gunn B, Frank S, Zhu X. SU-F-J-188: Clinical Implementation of in Room Mobile CT for Image Guided Proton Therapy. Med Phys 43(6):3451, 2016. PMID: 28046920.
- McCarroll R, Beadle B, Yang J, Zhang L, Mejia M, Kisling K, Balter P, Stingo F, Nelson C, Followill D, Court L. TU-H-CAMPUS-JeP1-02: Fully Automatic Verification of Automatically Contoured Normal Tissues in the Head and Neck. Med Phys 43(6):3778, 2016. PMID: 28047167.
- Xue J, Park J, Kim L, Balter P, Ohrt J, Kirsner S, Wang C, Ibbott G. TU-D-201-05: Validation of Treatment Planning Dose Calculations: Experience Working with MPPG 5.a. Med Phys 43(6):3744, 2016. PMID: 28047973.
- Court L, Brown D, Wang H, Maddox B, Aten D, MacGregor H, Chi P, Yock A, Gao S, Aristophanous M, Balter P. SU-F-E-18: Training Monthly QA of Medical Accelerators: Illustrated Instructions for Self-Learning. Med Phys 43(6):3357, 2016. PMID: 28048252.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Beddar S, Ibbott G, Balter P, Kudchadker R, Krishnan S, Fuller C, Wang J. SU-F-J-168: Dosimetric Impact of MR Image Distortion in Treatment Planning. Med Phys 43(6):3446, 2016. PMID: 28048275.
- Kisling K, Zhang L, Yang J, Jhingran A, Balter P, McCarroll R, Beadle B, Howell R, Schmeler K, Court L. SU-F-T-423: Automating Treatment Planning for Cervical Cancer in Low- and Middle- Income Countries. Med Phys 43(6):3560, 2016. PMID: 28048573.
- Balter P. Radiation Therapy Databases, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3737, 2015. PMID: 26129573.
- Yang J, Balter P, Court L. Evaluation of Automatic Segmentation of Critical Structures for Head-And-Neck and Thoracic Radiotherapy Planning, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3591, 2015. PMID: 26128823.
- Gao S, Balter P, Rose M, Simon W. Qualification of a 2D Ionization Chamber Array for Beam Steering and Profile Measurement, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3484, 2015. PMID: 26128307.
- Gao S, Balter P, Wang X, Sadagopan R, Pollard J. Detection of the Photon Target Damage in Varian Linac Based On Periodical Quality Assurance Measurements, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3389, 2015. PMID: 26127913.
- Faught JT, Balter P, Johnson J, Kry S, Court L, Stingo F, Followill D. Clinical Impact of IMRT Failure Modes at or Near TG-142 Tolerance Criteria Levels, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3372, 2015. PMID: 26127844.
- Faught JT, Johnson J, Stingo F, Kry S, Court L, Balter P, Followill D. An FMEA Survey of Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy (IMRT) Step and Shoot Dose Delivery Failure Modes, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3355, 2015. PMID: 26127770.
- Lewis D, Wang X, Gao S, Nitsch P, Pollard J, Sadagopan R, Balter P. A Dosimetric Comparison of Two Treatment Setups for Lung Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT) Patients, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3336, 2015. PMID: 26127692.
- Fave X, Fried D, Zhang L, Yang J, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones A, Stingo F, Court L. Volume-Dependence of Quantitative Imaging Features From CT and CE-CT Images of NSCLC, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3321, 2015. PMID: 26127632.
- Zhou R, Yang J, Pan T, Milgrom S, Pinnix C, Shi A, Yang J, Liu Y, Nguyen Q, Gomez D, Dabaja B, Balter P, Court L, Liao Z. Atlas Development for Cardiac Automatic Contouring Using Multi-Atlas Segmentation, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3294, 2015. PMID: 26127520.
- Yang J, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Dong L, Balter P, Court L. Solving the Chinese Postman Problem for Effective Contour Deformation, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3289, 2015. PMID: 26127500.
- Nitsch P, Robertson D, Balter P. A Comparison of a 2.5MV Imaging Beam to KV and 6MV Imaging Beams, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42(6):3266, 2015. PMID: 26127405.
- Fave X, Fried D, Zhang L, Yang J, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones A, Stingo F, Court L. A Phantom Study to Assess the Variability in Radiomics Features Extracted From Cone-Beam CT Images. Medical Physics 42(6):3214, 2015. PMID: 26127193.
- Fave X, Fried D, Zhang L, Yang J, Balter P, Followill D, Gomez D, Jones A, Stingo F and Court L. A Phantom Study to Assess the Variability in Radiomics Features Extracted from Cone-Beam CT Images, AAPM 2015 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 42:3214, 2015.
- Tonigan J, Johnson J, Kry S, Balter P, Court L, Stingo F, Followill D. SU-E-T-192: FMEA Severity Scores - Do We Really Know?. Med Phys 41(6):267, 2014. PMID: 28036510.
- Castillo S, Castillo R, Castillo E, Pan T, Ibbott G, Balter P, Hobbs B, Dai J, Guerrero T. TH-E-17A-07: Improved Cine Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography (4D CT) Acquisition and Processing Method. Med Phys 41(6):573, 2014. PMID: 28036520.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Balter P, Dong L, Court L. MO-C-17A-09: Deformation Image Registration Using a Spatial-Context Regularization Filter. Med Phys 41(6):415-416, 2014. PMID: 28036809.
- Court L, Fullen D, Tharp K, Palmer J, Ungchusri G, Reyes L, Tong T, Nguyen S, Phillips T, Balter P. SU-C-19A-05: Treatment Chairs for Modern Radiation Therapy Treatments. Med Phys 41(6):93, 2014. PMID: 28036972.
- Court L, Aristophanous M, Bellezza D, Followill D, Kirsner S, Kisling K, Massingill B, Papanikolaou N, Parker B, Pidikiti R, Wong P, Zhen H, Balter P. SU-E-J-189: Credentialing of IGRT Equipment and Processes for Clinical Trials. Med Phys 41(6):200, 2014. PMID: 28037129.
- Fave X, Yang J, Balter P, Court L. SU-E-J-186: Acquiring and Assessing Upright CBCT Images for Future Treatment Planning. Med Phys 41(6):199, 2014. PMID: 28037246.
- Shepard D, Popple R, Balter P. MO-G-BRD-01: Point/Counterpoint Debate: Arc Based Techniques Will Make Conventional IMRT Obsolete. Med Phys 41(6):434, 2014. PMID: 28037304.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Fried D, Balter P, Court L. TU-A-12A-03: Monitoring Changes in Tumor Texture Features On Weekly CT and CBCT Scans of NSCLC Patients. Med Phys 41(6):450, 2014. PMID: 28037339.
- Gao S, Balter P, Rose M, Simon W. SU-E-T-359: Measurement of Various Metrics to Determine Changes in Megavoltage Photon Beam Energy. Med Phys 41(6):307, 2014. PMID: 28037428.
- Kantor M, Balter P, Ohrt J. SU-E-T-95: Delivery Time Estimator. Med Phys 41(6):244, 2014. PMID: 28037536.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Balter P, Court L. SU-F-BRF-06: Density Correction for Deformable Image Registration to Improve CT Number Mapping. Med Phys 41(6):400, 2014. PMID: 28037870.
- Hsieh M, Balter P, Beadle B, Chi P, Stingo F, Court L. SU-E-T-273: Radiation Shielding for a Fixed Horizontal-Beam Linac in a Shipping Container and a Conventional Treatment Vault. Med Phys 41(6):286, 2014. PMID: 28037910.
- McKenzie E, Balter P, Stingo F, Followill D, Jones J, Kry S. TU-C-BRE-09: Performance Comparisons of Patient Specific IMRT QA Methodologies Using ROC Analysis. Med Phys 41(6):456, 2014. PMID: 28038154.
- Yang J, Beadle B, Balter P, Court L. SU-C-18A-01: Online Atlas Selection Using 3D Gabor Features. Med Phys 41(6):100-101, 2014. PMID: 28038280.
- Shepard D, Popple R and Balter P. Point/Counterpoint Debate: Arc Based Techniques will Make Conventional IMRT Obsolete, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:434, 2014.
- Kantor M, Balter P and Ohrt J. Delivery Time Estimator, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:244, 2014.
- Yang J, Beadle B, Balter P and Court L. Online Atlas Selection using 3D Gabor Features, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:100, 2014.
- Fave X, Yang J, Balter P and Court L. Acquiring and Assessing UPright CBCT Images for Future Treatment Planning, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:199, 2014.
- Yang J, Zhang Y, Zhang L, Balter P and Court L. Density Correction for Deformable Image Registration to Improve CT Number Mapping, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:400, 2014.
- Gao S, Balter P, Rose M and Simon W. Measurement of Various Metrics to Determine Changes in Megavoltage Photon Beam Energy, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:307, 2014.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Balter P, Dong L and Court L. Deformation Image Registration using a Spatial-Context Regularization Filter, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:415, 2014.
- Fave X, Zhang L, Yang J, Fried D, Balter P and Court L. Monitoring Changes in Tumor Texture Features on Weekly CT and CBCT Scans of NSCLC Patients, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:450, 2014.
- McKenzie E, Balter P, Stingo F, Followill D, Jones J and Kry S. Performance Comparisons of Patient Specific IMRT QA Methodologies Using ROC Analysis, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:456, 2014.
- Tonigan J, Johnson J, Kry S, Balter P, Court L, Stingo F and Followill D. FMEA Severity Scores - Do We Really Know? AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:267, 2014.
- Hsieh M, Balter P, Beadle B, Chi P, Stingo F and Court L. Radiation Shielding for a Fixed Horizontal-Beam Linac in a Shipping Container and a Conventional Treatment Vault, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:286, 2014.
- Castillo S, Castillo R, Castillo E, Pan T, Ibbott G, Balter P, Hobbs B, Dai J and Guerrero T. Improved Cine Four-Dimensional Computed Tomography (4D CT) Acquisition and Processing Method, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:573, 2014.
- Court L, Fullen D, Tharp K, Palmer J, Ungchusri G, Reyes L, Tong T, Nguyen S, Phillips T and Balter P. Treatment Chairs for Modern Radiation Therapy Treatments, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:93, 2014.
- Court L, Aristophanous M, Bellezza D, Followill D, Kirsner S, Kisling K, Massingill B, Papanikolaou N, Parker B, Pidikiti R, Wong P, Zhen H and Balter P. Credentialing of IGRT Equipment and Processes for Clinical Trials, AAPM 2014 Austin, Texas. Medical Physics 41:200, 2014.
- Zhang L, Court LE, Liao Z, Li H, Mohan R, Balter PA. Large Tumor Shrinkage Is Preceded by the Appearance of a Cavity Inside the Tumor for NSCLC Patients Treated With Chemoradiation Therapy. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RADIATION ONCOLOGY BIOLOGY PHYSICS 87(2):S96, 2013.
- Sadagopan R and Balter P. Evaluation of Off-Target Isocenter Placement on Target Coverage and Critical Structure Dose, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:370, 2013.
- Tonigan J, Kry S, Balter P, Faught A and Followill D. IMRT Severity Scoring for TG-100: Do you Really Know?, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:291, 2013.
- Yang J, Beadle B, Garden A, Balter P and Court L. Atlas Ranking and Selection for Multi-Atlas Segmentation, AAPM 2013 Indiamapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:537, 2013.
- Fave X, Balter P, Martin R, Ahmad M, Pan T and Court L. Investigating the Feasibility of Vertical CBCT Imaging Using the Varian TrueBeam LINAC, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:190, 2013.
- Williamson R, Court L, Zhang L, Liao Z, Mohan R, Chen Y and Balter P. Tracking Tumor Response Over Treatment Course in IMRT and Proton Patients, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:196, 2013.
- McKenzie E, Balter P, Jones J, Followill D, Stingo F, Pulliam K and Kry S. Evaluation of the Sensitivities of Patient Specific IMRT QA Dosimeters, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:240, 2013.
- McKenzie E, Balter P, Jones J, Followill D, Stingo F adn Kry S. Reproducibility in the Field of Patient-Specific IMRT QA, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:241, 2013.
- Neihart J, Sahoo N, Balter P, Summers P, Palmer M, Kerr M and Followill D. Design and Verification of a Heterogeneous Proton Equivalent Thorax Phantom for Use in End-To0End Assessment of Pencil Beam Proton Therapy, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:421, 2013.
- Zhang L, Michel K, Yang J, Rubinstein A, Kingsley C, Delacerda J, Balter P and Court L. A Multi-Modality Image Atlas for Transforming an MR Image into a Pseudo CT Image for MRI-Based IGRT Application, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:157, 2013.
- Court L, Yang J, Fullen D, Han N, Ko J, Mason S, Nguyen K, Stein S, Fave X, Hsieh M, Kuruvila S, Hillebrandt E, Palmer J, Beadle B, Dabaja B, Skinner H, Ibbott G and Balter P. Patients Could (and Should) be Treated in An Upright Position, AAPM 2013 Indianapolis, Indiana. Medical Physics 40:287, 2013.
- Zhang Y, Yang J, Zhang L, Court L, Balter P, Dong L. Prediction of respiratory motion from single daily 3D image using prior model of motion and anatomic variations, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:4018, 2012.
- Aristophanous M, Balter P, Martel M, Murray N, Court L. LINAC commissioning measurements utilizing the cylindrical arc check phantom, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3745, 2012.
- Ohrt J, Balter P, Court L, Gillin M. IMRT QA using R&V data, treatment records, and a second treatment planning system, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3598, 2012.
- Zhang L, Court L, Balter P, Dong L. Validation of 3D Structure Projection onto 2D DRR in Commercial Treatment Planning Systems, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3664, 2012.
- Xia P and Balter P. Transitioning from 3D IMRT to 4D IMRT and Role of Image Guidance, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3963, 2012.
- Gao S, Du W and Balter P. Evaluation of IsoCal Imaging Isocenter Calibration System for Varian OBI Machines, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3604, 2012.
- Gao S, Rose M, Simon W and Balter P. Flatness as a Measure of Changes in Photon Energy for Megavoltage X-Ray Radiotherapy, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3769, 2012.
- Li H, Zhang L, Balter P, Dong L, Gillin M and Zhu X. Evaluation of Effectiveness of Immobilization Devices for Radiation Therapy with Repeated CBCT Studies, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3658, 2012.
- Tonigan J, Kry S, Summers P, Balter P, Diel T and Followell D. The Magnitude of H&N IMRT Dose Delivery Errors from Three Possible Failure Modes: Beam Quality, Symmetry, and MLC Position, AAPM 2012 Charlotte, North Carolina. Medical Physics 39:3999, 2012.
- Kulkarni DP, Chung H, Balter PA, Court LE, Dong L, Komaki R, Chang J, Lin S. Assessing the Frequency, Magnitude, and Clinical Predictors of Tumor Misalignment when Skeletal Alignment is used Alone for Radiation Treatment Setup in Lung Cancer Patients. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 81(2), 2011.
- Chung H, Lin S, Court L, Dong L, Balter P. Evaluation of Dose Variation to Normal and Critical Structures for Lung Hypo-fractionated Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3711, 2011.
- Gao S, Balter P and Pollard J. Evaluation of a Commercial QA Device for Daily Output Check for a Large Multi-Linac Institution, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3530, 2011.
- Peng Y, Vedam S and Balter P. Application of Wii REmote in Patient Respiratory Monitoring and Possible as a Patient Self Practice Tool, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3608, 2011.
- Gao S, Balter P, Ohrt J, POllard J and Chung H. Quality Assurance of Enhanced Dynamic Wedge Profiles using I"mRT MatriXX, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3527, 2011.
- Joy S, Balter P, Starkschall G, Kry S and Salehpour M. Assessment of Collimator Jaw Optimization in Reducing Normal Tissue Irradiation with Intensity Modulated Radiation Therapy, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3689, 2011.
- Quan E, Chang J, Liao Z, Xia T, Liu H, Li X, Balter P and Zhang X. Automated VMAT Treatment Planning for Stage III Lung Cancer: How Does it Compare with IMRT?, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3671, 2011.
- Chen YP, Zhang L, Liao Z, Komaki R, Cox J, Balter P, Mohan R and Dong L. Comparison of Tumor Shrinkage in Proton and Photon Therapy of Lung Cancer, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3384, 2011.
- Blatnica A, Ibbott G, Zhu X, Balter P, White R and Followill D. Modification and Implementation of the RPC Heterogeneous Thorax Phantom for Verification of Proton Therapy Treatment Procedures, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3525, 2011.
- Matney J, Bluett J, Wages C, Liu H, Chang J, Balter P, Dong L and Mohan R. Respiratory Motion Management for Early Stage Lung Tumors: Is the Advantage Greater for Protons or Photons? AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3605, 2011.
- Li X, Chang J, Liu W, Quan E, Balter P and Zhang X. Significant Improvement of Plan Quality, Delivery Efficiency and Plan Consistency by VMAT Combined with Automated Inverse Planning Algorithm for Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy in Centrally/superiorly Located Stage I Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3866, 2011.
- Tsunashima Y, Poenisch F, Li H, Zhu X, Balter P, Umezawa M, Sahoo N, Mohan R and Dong L. Dosimetric Characterization of Motion Effect in Delivering Uniform Target Dose Distribution Using Scanning Proton Beams, AAPM 2011 Vancouver, Canada. Medical Physics 38:3779, 2011.
- Zamora D, Mawlawi O, Balter P, Starkschall G, and Pan T. Evaluation of Various MIP CT Images for Target Volume Delineation, AAPM 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Medical Physics 37:3151, 2010.
- Mayo C, Balter P, Senan S and Verbakel W. Use of Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy for Intra and Extra Cranial Stereotactic Radiosurgery, AAPM 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Medical Physics 37:3333, 2010.
- Polf J, Poenisch F, Peterson S, Wilkinson J, Rozner M and Balter P. Perturbations to Proton Dose Delivery Due to High-Voltage Leads from Implanted Cardiac Devices, AAPM 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Medical Physics 37:3292, 2010.
- Tsunashima Y, Vedam S, Dong L, Zhang X, Umezawa M, Balter P and Mohan R. What is the Maximum Number of Beam Spots Deliverable within One Gating Window for Synchrotron Based Scanning Proton Beam Therapy of Lung Cancer? AAPM 2010 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Medical Physics 37:3364, 2010.
- Peng Y, Balter P, Mirkovic D and Vedam S. Real-Time Characterization of Respiratory Motion Regularity During Radiation Therapy, AAPM 2009 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 36:2503, 2009.
- Yu Z, Balter P, Zhang Y, Klopp A, Price M, Eifel P and Mourtada F. Quantification of CT Artifact Reduction of Second Generation Intracavitary Brachytherapy Applicator, AAPM 2009. Medical Physics 36:2531, 2009.
- Tsunashima Y, Vedam S, Dong L, Umezawa M, Sakae T, Smith A, Balter P and Mohan R. Precision of Respiratory-Gated Delivery of Synchrotron-Based Proton Therapy, AAPM 2009 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 36:2784, 2009.
- Peng Y, Vedam S, Gao S, Polf J, Sadagopan R and Balter P. Implementation of Feedback Guided Voluntary Breath Hold Gating for CBCT Based Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy, AAPM 2009 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 36:2654, 2009.
- Matney J, Vedam S, Dong L, Amos R, Zhu X, Balter P and Mohan R. Is Average CT a Good Estimate of Mid-Ventilation Position of Surrounding Nornmal Structures for Proton Therapy Treatment Planning of Lung Tumors? AAPM 2009 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 36:2710, 2009.
- Tsunashima Y, Vedam S, Dong L, Zhang X, Umezawa M, Smith A, Balter P and Mohan R. Efficiency of Respiratory-Gated Synchrotron Based Scanning Beam Delivery of Proton Therapy for Lung, AAPM 2009 Anaheim, California. Medical Physics 36:2550, 2009.
- O'Daniel J, Bucci MK and Balter P. Image-Guided Planning Margin Determination for Concomitant Boost Treatment of 3D-Conformal, IMRT, and Stereotactic Lung Cancer Radiotherapy, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2640, 2008.
- Chi P, Zhang L, Dong L and Balter P. Comparison of a Commercial 3D-3D Auto-Registration Tool vs. Manual Alignment to the Target, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2690, 2008.
- Pan T, Lu J, Balter P and Sun X. New Prospective Gated CBCT, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2710, 2008.
- Vinogradskiy Y, Starkschall G, Balter P and Followill D. Deformable Lung Phantom for Verification of 4D Dose Calculations, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2791, 2008.
- Kantor M, Choi B, Balter P and Starkschall G. Automatic Analysis and Presentation of DVH Data Based on Custom Constraints - A Treatment Planning Report Card, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2816, 2008.
- Kantor M, Balter P, Choi B, Baker J and Starkschall G. Collection and Development of Relational Organization of Radiation Treatment Plan Data from a Commercial Radiation Treatment Planning System, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2814, 2008.
- Choi B, Dong L, Balter P, Sun X, Pan T and Mohan R. Lung Tumor Setup using 2D-3D Registration of Respiratory-Gated Oblique X-Rays and the Planning 4D-CT, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2707, 2008.
- Briere TM, Krishnan S, Balter P, Nelson C, Starkschall G, Gillin MT and Beddar AS. Respiratory-Gated Radiation Therapy for the Liver: A 5-Patient Study, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2718, 2008.
- Giebeler A, Fontenot J, Balter P, Ciangaru G, Zhu X and Newhauser W. Dose Perturbations caused by Implanted Helical Gold Markers used in Patients Receiving Proton Radiation Therapy for Prostate Cancer, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2888, 2008.
- Ikushima H, Balter P, Chang J, Hunjan S, Sadagopan R, Yu Z, Zhang Y and Dong L. Daily Alignment Results for In-Room CT-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Lung Cancer, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2892, 2008.
- Yu Z, Liu H, Balter P, Vedam S, Hunjan S, Ikushima H, Zhang L, Mohan R and Dong L. Motion Characterization for Early Stage Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer, AAPM 2008 Houston, Texas. Medical Physics 35:2709, 2008.
- Chang JY, Balter P, Liao ZX, Bucci KM, McAleer MF, YAng QA, Dong L, Roth JA, Cox JD, Komaki R. Hypofractionated stereotactic body radiotherapy in patients with peripherally or centrally located medically inoperable stage I or isolated recurrent non-small cell lung cancer. Journal of Thoracic Oncology 2(8):S477-S477, 2007.
- Tsunashima Y, Vedam S, Dong L, Umezawa, M, Balter P, Mohan R. Determining Optimal Respiratory Gating Parameters for Passively Scattered Synchrotron Based Proton Irradiation, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2629, 2007.
- Choi B, Ezhil M, Balter P, Zhang L, Starkschall G. Generation of An ITV From a 4DCT Dataset with Automatic Rigid Image Registration, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2391, 2007.
- Balter P. Measurement of Delays Between Gating Signals and Beam-On for Imaging, Static and Dynamic Treatments, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2529, 2007.
- Balter P, Lindsay P, Kudchadker RJ, Nelson C, Briere T, Vedam S, Komaki RR, Mohan R. A Comparison of a Point Based Tool with An Image Overlay Tool for Fiducial Based Setup, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2372, 2007.
- Vassiliev O, Kry S, Chang JY, Balter P, Titt U, Mohan R. Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer Using Flattening Filter Free Accelerator, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2491, 2007.
- Sadagopan R, Balter P, Hunjan S. Prediction of Patient Treatment (couch) Coordinate Based on Treatment Planning CT Image. Therapy Physics, 2007.
- Nelson C, Balter P, Lindsay P, Briere T, Vedam S, Morice RC, Komaki RR, Starkschall G. Uncertainties in Respiratory Gating for Lung Tumors, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2368, 2007.
- Sadagopan R, BenComo Jr J, Martin R, Balter P, Vedam S, Nilsson G. Characterization, Commissioning and Evaluation of DELTA4 IMRT QA System, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2560, 2007.
- Lindsay P, Choi B, Bucci MK, Zhang L, Dong L, Kudchadker RJ, Zhu XR, Balter P. Comparison of Image Registration Tools Used for Daily KV Imaging Based Patient Set-Up, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2375, 2007.
- Lindsay P, Briere T, Balter P, Sadagopan R, Starkschall G, Zhu XR, Beddar S. Effect of Respiratory Gating On the Dose Distributions of Dynamic Wedge and IMRT Treatment Fields, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2446, 2007.
- Liu RR, Prado K, Wu R, Balter P. A CT Daily Quality Assurance On-Couch Procedure and Phantom in Radiation Oncology, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2350, 2007.
- Briere T, Krishnan S, Dong L, Balter P, Nelson C, Starkschall G, Beddar S. Tumor Motion and the Effect of Gated Set-Up on the Treatment of Liver Tumors, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2391, 2007.
- Nelson C, Balter P, Choi B, Vedam S, Lindsay P, Kudchadker RJ, Briere T, Chang JY, Morice RC, Starkschall G. Improvement in the Daily Alignment of Mobile Lung Tumors Using Implanted Fiducials, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2328, 2007.
- Sadagopan R, Balter P and Hunjan S. Prediction of Patient Treatment (couch) Coordinate Based on Treatment Planning CT Image, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2483, 2007.
- Choi B, Nelson C, Tsunashima Y and Balter P. Open Source, ImageJ Based, Web Accessible Tool for Treatment Plan Evaluation, AAPM 2007 Minneapolis, Minnesota. Medical Physics 34:2477, 2007.
- Chi P, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh SA, Erdi YE, Balter P, Luo D, Mohan R, Pan T. Design of respiration averages CT for attenuation correction of PET data on PET/CT. Houston Society for Engineering in MEdicine and Biology 2007 Meeting, Houston, TX, 2007.
- Starkschall G, Desai N, Balter P, Prado K, Luo D, Cody D, Pan T. Assessment of Four-Dimensional CT Image acquisition Quality, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 33:1986-1987, 2006.
- Kainz K, Liu H, Balter P, Titt T, Hunjan S, Prado K, Liao Z. Feasibility of a Feedback-Guided Breath-Hold Technique for Thoracic Radiation Therapy, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 33:2035, 2006.
- Briere T, Jhaveri P, Krishnan S, Crane C, Balter P, Gillin M, Mohan R, Beddar A. Breath Coaching with Visual Feedback for End-Expiratory Gated Radiotherapy, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 33:2075, 2006.
- Briere T, Krishnan S, Dong L, Balter P, Crane C, Mohan R, Gillin M, Beddar A. Respiratory Gating in the Treatment of Liver Tumors, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 33:2134, 2006.
- Choi B, Balter P, Dong L, Mohan R, Starkschall G. Open GL based 2D-3D Registration of a CT Image Dataset With OBI Images, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 32:2161, 2006.
- Zhu XR, Zhang L, Kudchadker R, Wu R, Balter P, Mohan R, Gillin M, Dong L. Clinical Implementation of Cone-Beam CT for Image-Guided Radiation Therapy, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 33:2268, 2006.
- Chi PC, Balter P, Luo D, Mohan R, Pan T. Relation of external surface to internal tumor motion studied with cine CT. Medical Physics 33(9):3116-3123, 2006. PMID: 17022203.
- Arjomandy B, Balter P, Zhang X and Chang J. Proton Lung Sterotactic Body Radiotherapy Treatment Method, AAPM 2006 Orlando, Florida. Medical Physics 33:2297, 2006.
- Chi P, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh SA, Erdi YE, Balter P, Luo D, Mohan R, Pan T. New respiration averaged CT without 4DCT for attenuation correction of the PET data on PET/CT. SNM 2006 Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 2006.
- Chi P, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh SA, Erdi YE, Balter P, Luo D, Mohan R, Pan T. New respiration averaged CT without 4DCT for attenuation correction of the PET data on PET/CT. Young Investigator Symposium 4th place in SWAAPM 2006 meeting, Baton Rouge, LA, 2006.
- Starkschall G, Fitzpatrick M, Balter P, Stevens C, Mohan R. Determination of Displacement Binning Points for Four-Dimensional CT Image Acquisition, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1922, 2005.
- Chi P, Pan T, Balter P, Luo D, Mohan R. Using CT Cine Data as an Alternative Method for Respiratory Phase Analysis and a Potential Method for Tumor Motion Study, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1927, 2005.
- Liu H, Wang X, Murshed H, Stevens C, Guerrero T, Balter P, Prado K, Liao Z, Chang J, Komaki R, Cox J, Mohan R. Clinical Implementation of IMRT for Lung Cancer, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:2102-2103, 2005.
- Kang Y, Zhang X, Wang H, Chang J, Liao Z, Komaki R, Cox J, Mohan R, Rosen I, Prado K, Balter P, Liu H, Dong L. Proton Treatment Planning for Mobile Lung Tumor, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:2144, 2005.
- Fitzpatrick MJ, Starkschall G, Balter P and Pan T. How to Explore Alternative 4D CT Image Binning, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1923, 2005.
- Shoales J, Followill D, Ibbott G, Balter P and Tolani N. Development of an Independent Audit Device for Remote Verification of 4D Radiotherapy, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:2138, 2005.
- Choi B, Balter P, Chi P, Zhang L, Dong L, Mohan R, Cox J, Komaki R and Liu H. Quantification of 4DCT Determined Lung Tumor Motion Based on Image Registration, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1926, 2005.
- Balter P, Luo D, Chi P, Choi B, Dong L, Hunjan S, Mohan R, Pan T, Zhang L and Prado K. A Comparision of 4DCT with Breath-Hold CT for Determination of Tumor Motion with Respiration, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1919, 2005.
- Liu H, Wei X, Jang S, Jauregue M, Dong L, Balter P, Luo D, Pan T, Hunjan S, Starkschall G, Rosen I, Prado K, Liao Z, Chang J, Komaki R and Mohan R. Impact of Respiratory Motion on Dose Distributions and DVHs of Thoracic Structures - Evaluation using 4DCT, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1924, 2005.
- Pan T, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh S, Erdi Y, Luo D, Liu H, Hunjan S, Balter P, Prado K, Mohan R and Macapinlac H. A New Method for Improving PET and CT Registration in the Thorax On PET/CT, AAPM 2005 Seattle, Washington. Medical Physics 32:1943, 2005.
- Alverez P, Molineu A, Hernandez N, Followill D, Balter P, Hanson W, Ibbott G. Anthropomorphic Phantoms for Quality Assurance in Radiation Therapy. Medical Physics 31:1732, 2004.
- Fitzpatrcik MJ, Starkschall G, Balter P, Pan T, Antolak J, Guerrero T, Stevens C. Quality Assurance of Four-Dimensional CT Image Acquisition. Medical Physics 31:1780, 2004.
- Hunjan S, Tolani N, Sadagopan R, Balter P, Bloch C, Prado K. Measurement of Patient Compliance During Breath-Hold Imaging for ITV Determination. Medical Physics 31:1900, 2004.
- Nelson C, Starkschall G, Antolak J, Balter P, Fitzpatrick MJ, Tolani N, Prado K. Respiratory Correlated Treatment Delivery Using Feedback-Guided Breath Hold. Medical Physics 31:1915, 2004.
- Balter P, Shaw C, Kappadath SC, Liu X, Lai CJ. Scanning Equalization Digital Radiography (SEDR)- a Study of Noise and Scanner Properties Based On Spot Collimated Images and Noise Simulation. Medical Physics 30:1390, 2003.
- Kappadath S, Shaw, C, Liu X, Lai C, Balter P, Whitman G. Dual-Energy Digital Mammography for Calcification Imaging Implementation Under Narrow-Beam Geometry. Medical Physics 30:1455, 2003.
- Shoales J, Followill D, Ibbott G, Balter P, Tolani N. Development of An Independent Audit Device for Remote Verification of 4D Radiotherapy. Medical Physics 30:2138, 2003.
- Balter P, Luo D, Chi P, Choi B, Dong L, Hunjan S, Mohan R, Pan T, Zhang L, Prado K. A Comparison of 4DCT with Breath-Hold CT for Determination of Tumor Motion with Respiration. Medical Physics 30:1919, 2003.
- Fitzpatrick M, Starkschall G, Balter P, Pan T. How to Explore Alternative 4D CT Image Binning. Medical Physics 30:1924, 2003.
- Liu H, Wei X, Jang S, Jauregui M, Dong L, Balter P, Luo D, Pan T, Hunjan S, Starkschall G, Rosen I, Prado K, Liao Z, Chang J, Komaki R, Mohan R. Impact of Respiratory Motion On Dose Distributions and DVHs of Thoracic Structures - Evaluation Using 4DCT. Medical Physics 30:1924, 2003.
- Choi B, Balter P, Chi P, Zhang L, Dong L, Mohan R, Cox J, Komaki R, Liu H. Quantification of 4DCT Determined Lung Tumor Motion Based On Image Registration. Medical Physics 30:1926, 2003.
- Pan T, Mawlawi O, Nehmeh S, Erdi y, Luo D, Liu H, Hunjan S, Balter P, Prado K, Mohan R, Macapinlac H. A New Method for Improving PET and CT Registration in the Thorax on PET/CT. Medical Physics 30:1943, 2003.
- Nelson A, Balter P, Hanson W, Ibbott G. Experience with an IMRT Head and Neck QA Phantom. Medical Physics 29:1366, 2002.
- Shaw C, Sabloff B, Liu x, Rong J, Munden R, Truong M, Gladish G, Balter P, Lai C. Scanning Exposure-Equalization Digital Radiography (SEDR)- Effects of Exposure Equalization on Lung Nodule Detection in Simulated SEDR Images. Medical Physics 29:1343, 2002.
- Balter P, Kappadath S, Liu X, Shaw C. Noise Simulation for Studying the Effects of Scanning Geometries and Equalization Schemes in Scan Exposure-Equalization Digital radiography (SEDR). Medical Physics 29:1343, 2002.
- Nelson A, Balter P, Hanson W, Ibbott G,. Use of an Amorphous Silicon Electronic Portal Imaging Device foe Dynamic Multileaf Collimator Quality Assurance. Medical Physics 29:1366, 2002.
- Balter PA, Aguirre JF, Hanson WF. Practical Considerations for the Calibration of Low Energy/Low Activity Seeds. Proceedings of the 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering TH-FXH:15, 2000.
- BenComo JA, Followill DS, Cho SH, Balter P, Tailor RC, Lowenstein JL, Hernandez N, Hanson WF. Comparison of On-site and Off-site Evaluations of Dosimetry Data. Proceedings of the 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering TU-FXH:45, 2000.
- Cho SH, Tailor RC, Balter P, Hanson WF. Determination of the Radial Dose Distribution at Proximal Distances from a High Dose Rate (HDR) 192Ir source using Radiochromic Film. Proceedings of the 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering MO-E:309-6, 2000.
- Lowenstein JR, Balter P, Followill DS, Hanson WF. Implementation of TG-51: Practical Considerations. Proceedings of the 2000 World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering TH-CXH:37, 2000.
- Balter P, Stovall M, Hanson WF. An anthropomorphic head phantom for remote monitoring of stereotactic radiosurgery at multiple institutions. Medical Physics 26:1164, 1999.
- Tailor RC, Balter P, Hanson WF. Over-estimation of Pion using the conventional Boag two-voltage technique. Medical Physics 25:A193, 1998.
- Balter P, Hanson WF, BenComo JA. The Development of A Mailable Phantom for Remote Quality Audit of Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Medical Physics 22:979, 1995.
- Stovall M, Balter P, Hanson WF, Cole A. Quality Audit Of Radiosurgery Dosimetry Using Mailed Phantoms. Medical Physics 22:1009, 1995.
- Kirby TH, Rakowski J, Umeh R, Lancaster L, Balter P. Determination of Photon Beam Parameters Required for Irregular Field Isodose Algorithms. Medical Physics 18:640, 1991.
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