Archana Gautam, MS, DABR
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology - Clinical
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Senior Medical Physicist, Department of Radiation Physics - Pt Care, Department of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Sr. Medical Physicist, Radiation Physics - Patient Care, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| University of Allahabad, Allahabad, IN, Physics, Mathematics, Electronics & Computers, B.S | |
| University of Allahabad, Allahabad, IN, Specialization X-rays & Crystallography, MS | |
| University of Mumbai, Mumbai, IN, Radiological Physics, Post Graduate Diploma |
Postgraduate Training
| 2014-null | Trainee, Raysearch Training for Raysearch Proton Planning System, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas |
| 2009-null | Trainee, Varian Training for Eclipse Proton Planning, Varian Training Center, Las Vegas, NV |
| 2009-null | Trainee, Physics Techniques in Proton Radiotherapy, Procure Training Center, Bloomington, IN |
| 2000-2002 | Postgraduate Fellow, Radiological Physics, University of Mumbai, University of Mumbai |
Licenses & Certifications
| 2014 | Medical Physicist License |
| 2012 | American Board of Radiology in Therapy Physics |
| 2012 | Qualified Radiation Oncologist Physicist |
| 2006 | Biopharma Lab Technology Certificate |
Experience & Service
Faculty Academic Appointments
Medical Physicist, Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Indiana University Health Proton Therapy Center, Bloomington, IN, 2012 - 2014
Jr. Medical Physicist, Indiana University of Health Proton Therapy Center, Bloomington, IN, 2009 - 2012
Safety and Health Specialist, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, 2007 - 2008
Clinical Medical Physicist/Deputy RSO, Kamala Nehru Memorial Regional Cancer Center, Allahabad, 2002 - 2005
Extramural Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Duke University Radiation Safety and Medical Physics Committee, Duke University, 2007 - Present
Member, Duke University Radiation Safety Committee Meeting, Duke University, 2007 - Present
Member, Medical Physics & Radiation Safety-Road Map for the Next Decade, SGPGI, 2002 - Present
Editorial Activities
Member, Journal of Medical Physics, 2014 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2000 - Present | Gold Medal in MSc. Physics |
Selected Presentations & Talks
International Presentations
- 2008. Packard Auto Gamma Counting System. Poster, US.
- 2002. Physics of CT & MRI and Its Application in Radiotherapy Planning. Poster, IN.
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Song, B, Whitaker, TJ, Gautam, A, Olberg, S, Choi, BS, Lee, SU, Jeong, JH, Kim, J, Liang, X, Tan, J, Lu, B, Yaddanapudi, S, Furutani, KM, Beltran, C, Park, JC. Redundancy-weighted FDK reconstruction for dual-detector combined-scanning CBCT. Medical physics 52(8), 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40781831.
Other Articles
- Gautam A, Sahoo N, Poenisch F, Williamson T, Zhang X, Li Y, Li H, Wu R, Gillin MT, Grosshans DR, Zhu XR Treatment Planning Strategies to Mitigate the Relative Biolgical Effectiveness Uncertainty in Proton Therapy for Targets in the Brain. Int Journal Particle Therapy 6(3):35 -109, 2020.
- Gautam A, Darne CD, Robertson DG, Alsanea F, Guan F, Pan T, Grosshans DR, Beddar S A Proton Radiography System Design Using a Liquid Scintillator Detector. International Journal of Radiation Oncology Biology Physics 105(1):E716 - E717, 2019.
- Gautam A, Sahoo N, Poenisch F, Zhang X, Li Y, Lii MF, Li H, Wu R, Gillin M, Zhu XR 3D treatment planning system—Varian Eclipse for proton therapy planning:. Med Dosimetry 43(2):103 - 105, 2018.
- Gautam A, Li H, Wu R, Poenisch F, Zhang L, Palmer M, 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. Journal of Medical Physics 43:3451, 2016.
- Gautam A, Akino Y, Coutinho L, Würfel J, Das IJ haracterization of a new commercial single crystal diamond detector for photon- and proton-beam dosimetry, 2015. PMID: 4628217.
- Gautam A, Frank S, Garden A, Anderson M, Rosenthal D, Morrison W, Gunn B, Fuller C, Phan J, Zhang X, Poenisch F, Wu R, Li H, Sahoo N, Gillin M, Zhu Z Is MFO-IMPT Robust Enough for the Treatment of Head and Neck Tumors? A 2-Year Outcome Analysis Following Proton Therapy On the First 50 Oropharynx Patients at the MD Anderson Cancer Center. Journal of Medical Physics 42:3457, 2015.
- Gautam A, Sheng K, Peng D, Cheng CW, Ruan D, Low D, Cao M, Lee SP, Kupelian P Evolution of Ipsilateral Head and Neck Radiotherapy. Current Cancer Therapy Reviews, 2014.
- Gautam A, Akino Y, Coutinhol L, Wurfel J, Das IJ Characterization of a new commercial single crystal diamond detector for radiation dosimetry. Journal of Radiation Research, 2014.
- Gautam A, Moskvin V, Lasley FD, Ray FL, Cheng C, Das IJ, Buchsbaum JC Acute skin toxicity associated with proton beam therapy in spine and brain patients. Journal of Radiation Oncology, 2013.
- Gautam A, Moskvin V, Ray GL, Lasley FD, Cheng C, Buchsbaum JC Skin reaction for spine and brain patients at a health proton therapy center: A retrospective study and physics consideration. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology, Physics 84(3):S56, 2012.
- Gautam A, Crew JB, James JA, Thornton AF, Sullivan M, Tasson A, Wolanski M Dosimetric comparison of uniform scanning proton therapy, helical tomotherapy, and volumetric modulated arc therapy in the treatment of bilateral orbital lymphoma. Journal of Radiation Oncology 78(3):S806 - S807, 2010.
- Gautam A, Cheng CW, Wolanski M, Zhao Q, Fanelli L, Pack D, Das IJ Dosimetric characteristics of a single use MOSFET dosimeter for in vivo dosimetry in proton therapy. Journal Medical Physics 37(8):4266 - 4273, 2010. PMID: 20879587.
- Gautam A, Das I, Cao M, Srivastava S, Change C, Li M, Desosiers C, Johnstone P Volume variability in Treatment Planning Systems. Journal of Medical Physics 37:3321, 2010.
- Gautam A, Srivastava S, Das I, Cheng C Impact of quality of triaxial cable on radiation dose measurement. Journal of Medical Physics 37:3321, 2010.
- Gautam A, Singh A, Mishar SP, Paul B, Ghosh R, Mishra BK, Gupta V 3D Radiotherapy planning of tumor of thorax region with support of CT Scan & Portals Placement. Journal of Medical Physics 28:157, 2003.
Abstracts
- Sahoo N, Gautam A, Poenisch F, Williamson T, Zhang X, Li Y, Li H, Wu R, Gillin, Grosshans, Zhu Z. Treatment Planning Strategies to Mitigate the Range and RBE Uncertainties in Proton Therapy for Targets in the Brain. Med Phys 46(6):E443 - E443, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Gautam A, McGovern S, Zhu X, Sahoo N. Determination of the Water Equivalent Thickness of Strata XRT Gel and Evaluation of the Dosimetric Effect of Its Application On the Skin of Proton Therapy Patients. Med Phys 46(6):E542 - E542, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Lassen-Ramshad Y, Williamson T, Seiersen K, Traberg-Hansen A, Safwat A, Vestergaard A, Grosshans D, Gautam AS. Proton and Photon Salvage Craniospinal Radiotherapy, a Comparison of the intracranial Partof the two Treatment Modalities: BiGART2019. 18th Acta Oncologica Conference, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Sahoo N, Poenisch F, Zhang X, Li Y, Lii M, Li H, Gautam AS, Wu R, Gillin M, Zhu XR. 3D treatment planning system-Varian Eclipse for proton therapy planning. Med Dosim 43(2):184-194, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29753334.
- Khuntia N, Gautam A, Zhang X, Zhu X, Gillin M, Sahoo N. Effect of variable RBE on the distal range of the passive scattering proton beams. Medical Physics 44(6):2851, 2017. e-Pub 2017.
- Yuting L, Poenisch F, Anand A, Shen J, Bues M, Gautam AS, Zhu X, Gillin M, Sahoo N. Determination of Pion of ion chambers used for reference dosimetry of passively scattered and spot scanned proton beams produced by the synchrotron of Hitachi ProBeat machine. ICMP Bangkok, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Li Y, Gautam AS, Kerr M, Martin C, Poenisch F, Zhang X, Li H, Wu R, Zhu X, Gillin M, Sahoo N. Study of Dosimetry Accuracy of Small Passively Scattered Proton Beam Fields. 58th AAPM Annual Meeting, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Li Y, Poenisch F, Anand A, Shen J, Bues M, Gautam A, Zhu X, Gillin M, Sahoo N. Determination of Pion of ion chambers used for reference dosimetry of passively scattered and spot scanned proton beams produced by the synchrotron of Hitachi ProBeat machine. Med Phys International Journal 4(2):187, 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Das IJ, Simoneaux V, Allgower C, Gautam AS, Johnson PAS. Imaging Dose in Proton Beam Therapy. PTCOG -53, Shanghai, China, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Das IJ, Akino Y, Reed R, Gautam AS, Wurfel J. Characteristics of a Commercial Micro-Diamond Detector for Proton Beam Dosimetry. PTCOG-53, Shanghai, China, 2014. e-Pub 2014.
- Sheng K, Dong P, Gautam AS, C-W C, Ruan D, Low D, Cao M, Lee S, Kupelian. Evaluating Head-and-Neck 4pi Non-Coplanar Plans from the Perspective of Proton Therapy. 55th AAPM Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, 2013. e-Pub 2013.
- Moskvin V, Lasley FD, Ray GL, Gautam AS, C-W C, Indra JD, Buchsbaum JC. Acute Skin Reaction in Proton Beam Therapy of Spine and Brain Patients. 2012 ASTRO Annual Meeting, 2012. e-Pub 2012.
- Gautam AS, Srivastava S, Fanelli L, Das IJ, Cheng CW. Impact of Quality of Triaxial Cable on Radiation Dose Measurement in Proton Beam. 2011 AAPM Annual Meeting, 2011. e-Pub 2011.
- Das IJ, Fanelli L, Gautam AS, Zhano L, Wolanski M, Allgower C, Cheng CW, Johnson PAS. Surface Dose in Proton Beam Therapy. PTCOG 49th Annual Meeting, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Srivastava S, Das I, Gautam AS, Cheng C. Impact of Quality of Triaxial Cable on Radiation Dose Measurement. AAPM 2010 Annual Meeting, 2010. e-Pub 2010.
- Wolanski M, C-W C, Gautam AS, Das IJ. Characterization of the OneDose MOSFET System in In-Vivo Dosimetry in Proton Therapy. PTCOG 48th Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group Meeting 2009, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
- Das IJ, Fanelli L, Somers M, Wolanski M, Cheng CW, Gautam AS DesRosiers S, Johnson P. Low-Z in Homogeneity Correction in Proton Beam Therapy. PTCOG 48th Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group Meeting, 2009. e-Pub 2009.
Book Chapters
- Gautam A, Wu R, Zhu XR, Poenisch F. Immobilization and Simulation, Proton therapy indications, techniques, and outcomes:. elsevier.com, 2020.
- Gautam A, Sahoo N, Poenisch F, Zhu XR, Li H, Zhang X, Wu R, Beddar S, Gillin MT. In-vivo Dosimetry for Proton Therapy in: Principles and Practice of Proton Beam Therapy. Medical Physics, 2015.
Patient Reviews
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