Xin A. Wang, Ph.D., DABR
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Professor, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Section Chief - HLMS, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Associate Faculty Member, The University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Science at Houston, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
1997 | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, MS, Computer Science (Double Degree) |
1997 | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, PHD, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics |
1994 | University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA, MS, Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics |
1990 | Nankai University, Tianjing, CHN, BS, Physics |
Postgraduate Training
2008-2010 | Clinical Residency, Medical Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
2007-2008 | Research Fellowship, Medical Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX |
Board Certifications
2011 | The American Board of Radiology - Therapeutic Radiological Physics |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Associate Professor, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2017 - 2023
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2010 - 2017
Resident, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2008 - 2010
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2007 - 2008
Teaching Assistant, Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1996 - 1997
Research Assistant, Department of Nuclear Engineering and Engineering Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, 1991 - 1996
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Member, Radiation Oncology Emergency Ride-Out Team, Houston, TX, 2018 - Present
Senior System Analyst/Developer, WEA Trust, Madison, WI, 2000 - 2007
Senior Consultant, 7th Generation Information System, Madison, WI, 1998 - 2000
Software Engineer, Motorola, Arlington Heights, IL, 1997 - 1998
Institutional Committee Activities
Member, Faculty Recruiting Committee for GI service, Department of Radiation Physics, 2019 - Present
Member, Quality Care Committee - Radiation Oncology, 2018 - 2019
Member, MDACC CFA Service Excellence Working Group, 2016 - 2016
Senator (elected), Faculty Senate, 2015 - 2018
Member, Medical Physics Resident Steering Committee, Department of Radiation Physics, 2015 - Present
Member, Faculty Effort Guidelines and Grants Support Task force, Division of Radiation Oncology, 2015 - 2016
Honors & Awards
2007 | Honorary Fellow, University of Wisconsin - Madison |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Joint Head and Neck Radiation Therapy-MRI Development Cooperative, MR-Linac Consortium Head and Neck Tumor Site Group, El-Habashy DM, Wahid KA, He R, McDonald B, Rigert J, Mulder SJ, Lim TY, Wang X, Yang J, Ding Y, Naser MA, Ng SP, Bahig H, Salzillo TC, Preston KE, Abobakr M, Shehata MA, Elkhouly EA, Alagizy HA, Hegazy AH, Mohammadseid M, Terhaard C, Philippens M, Rosenthal DI, Wang J, Lai SY, Dresner A, Christodouleas JC, Mohamed ASR, Fuller CD. Longitudinal diffusion and volumetric kinetics of head and neck cancer magnetic resonance on a 1.5T MR-Linear accelerator hybrid system: A prospective R-IDEAL Stage 2a imaging biomarker characterization/ pre-qualification study. Clin. Transl. Radiat 42, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
- Zhao Y, Chen X, McDonald B, Yu C, Mohamed ASR, Fuller CD, Court LE, Pan T, Wang H, Wang X, Phan J, Yang J. A transformer-based hierarchical registration framework for multimodality deformable image registration. Comput Med Imaging Graph 108:102286, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37625307.
- Contrera KJ, Phan J, Waguespack SG, Aldehaim M, Wang X, Lim TY, Roberts DB, Fuller CD, Spiotto MT, Raza SM, DeMonte F, Hanna EY, Su SY. Prevalence of pituitary hormone dysfunction following radiotherapy for sinonasal and nasopharyngeal malignancies. Head Neck. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37534890.
- Zhao Y, Wang H, Yu C, Court LE, Wang X, Wang Q, Pan T, Ding Y, Phan J, Yang J. Compensation cycle consistent generative adversarial networks (Comp-GAN) for synthetic CT generation from MR scans with truncated anatomy. Med Phys 50(7):4399-4414, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36698291.
- Zhao Z, Frank SJ, Ning J, Zhao J, Jiang X, Wang XA, Schefler AC, Hanna E, Moreno A, Gunn B, Ferrarotto R, Esmaeli B. Visual outcome and ocular complications in patients with lacrimal gland carcinoma after eye-sparing surgery and adjuvant radiation therapy. Br J Ophthalmol. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36229179.
- Diao K, Nguyen TP, Moreno AC, Reddy JP, Garden AS, Wang CH, Tung S, Wang C, Wang XA, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Frank SJ, Morrison WH, Shah SJ, Lee A, Spiotto MT, Su SY, Ferrarotto R, Phan J. Stereotactic body ablative radiotherapy for reirradiation of small volume head and neck cancers is associated with prolonged survival: Large, single-institution, modern cohort study. Head Neck 43(11):3331-3344, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34269492.
- 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.
- Lim TY, Mirkovic D, Wang X, Tailor R. Devices for dosimetric measurements and quality assurance of the Xstrahl 300 orthovoltage unit. J Appl Clin Med Phys 22(4):151-157, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33733608.
- Christopherson KM, Gunther JR, Fang P, Peterson SL, Roach KE, Wong PF, Mirkovic D, Lim TY, Wang H, Wang XA, Wang C, Garcia J, Dabaja BS, Pinnix CC. Decreased heart dose with deep inspiration breath hold for the treatment of gastric lymphoma with IMRT. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol 24:79-82, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32642563.
- Luo D, Han EY, Wen Z, Mackin DS, Krafft SP, Li J, Wang X, Briere TM. Use of uniform shots for robust planning of mask-based treatment in Gamma Knife Icon. Phys Med 73:135-157, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32361402.
- Boyce-Fappiano D, Gjyshi O, Pezzi TA, Allen PK, Solimman M, Taku N, Bernstein MB, Cabanillas ME, Amini B, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Wang XA, Briere TM, Yeboa DN, Bishop AJ, Li J, Ghia AJ. Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Metastatic Thyroid Cancer: A Single Institution Experience. J Neurosurg Spine:1-9. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32059183.
- Zhang S, Yang R, Wang X. Dosimetric quality and delivery efficiency of robotic radiosurgery for brain metastases: Comparison with C-arm linear accelerator based plans. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(11):104-110, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31580532.
- Ning MS, Deegan BJ, Ho JC, Chapman BV, Bishop AJ, Allen PK, Tannir NM, Amini B, Briere TM, Wang XA, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Brown PD, Li J, Ghia AJ. Low incidence of late failure and toxicity after spine stereotactic radiosurgery: Secondary analysis of phase I/II trials with long-term follow-up. Radiother Oncol 138:80-85, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31252298.
- Wang X, Yang J, Zhao Z, Luo D, Court L, Zhang Y, Weksberg D, Brown PD, Li J, Ghia AJ. Dosimetric impact of esophagus motion in single fraction spine stereotactic body radiotherapy. Phys Med Biol 64(11):115010, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 31018191.
- Shane Mesko , Brian J. Deegan, Neil M. D'Souza, Amol J. Ghia, Bhavana V. Chapman, Behrang Amini, Mary Frances McAleer, Xin A. Wang, Paul D. Brown, Claudio E. Tatsui, Laurence Rhines, Jing Li. Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Metastatic Pheochromocytoma. Cureus, 2019. e-Pub 2019.
- Han EY, Wang H, Luo D, Li J, Wang X. Dosimetric comparison of fractionated radiosurgery plans using frameless Gamma Knife ICON and CyberKnife systems with linear accelerator-based radiosurgery plans for multiple large brain metastases. J Neurosurg:1-7. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30952125.
- Farooqi A, Bishop AJ, Narang S, Allen PK, Li J, McAleer MF, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Amini B, Wang XA, Ghia AJ. Outcomes After Hypofractionated Dose-Escalation using a Simultaneous Integrated Boost Technique for Treatment of Spine Metastases Not Amenable to Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Pract Radiat Oncol 9(2):e142-e148, 2019. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30385151.
- Bernard V, Bishop AJ, Allen PK, Amini B, Wang XA, Li J, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Heterogeneity in treatment response of spine metastases to spine stereotactic radiosurgery within "radiosensitive" subtypes. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 99(5):1207-1215, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 29029886.
- Zijian Zhang, Jinzhong Yang, Angela Ho, Wen Jiang, Xin Wang, Paul D Brown, Nandita Guha-Thakurta, Sherise D Ferguson, Xenia Fave, Lifei Zhang, Dennis Mackin, Laurence E Court, Jing Li. A Predictive Model for Distinguishing Radiation Necrosis from Tumor Progression after Gamma Knife Radiosurgery based on Radiomic Features from MR Images. Eur Radiol 28(6), 2017.
- An Y, Jiang W, Kim BYS, Qian JM, Tang C, Fang P, Logan J, D'Souza NM, Haydu LE, Wang XA, Hess KR, Kluger H, Glitza IC, Mahajan A, Welsh JW, Lin SH, Yu JB, Davies MA, Hwu P, Sulman EP, Brown PD, Chiang VLS, Li J. Stereotactic radiosurgery of early melanoma brain metastases after initiation of anti-CTLA-4 treatment is associated with improved intracranial control. Radiother Oncol 125(1):80-88, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28916225.
- Bishop AJ, Tao R, Guadagnolo BA, Allen PK, Rebueno NC, Wang XA, Amini B, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Li J, Chang EL, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Metastatic Sarcoma: Patterns of Failure and Radiation Treatment Volume Considerations. J Neurosurg Spine 27(3):303-311, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28644075.
- Wang X, Zhao Z, Luo D, Yang JN, Yang J, Chang EL, Brown PD, Li J, McAleer MF, Ghia AJ. Submillimeter alignment of more than three contiguous vertebrae in spinal SRS/SBRT with 6-degree couch. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(5):225-236, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28786235.
- Ingram WS, Yang J, Wendt R, Beadle BM, Rao A, Wang XA, Court LE. The influence of non-rigid anatomy and patient positioning on endoscopy-CT image registration in the head and neck. Med Phys 44(8):4159-4168, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28513864.
- Ingram WS, Yang J, Beadle BM, Wendt R, Rao A, Wang XA, Court LE. The feasibility of endoscopy-CT image registration in the head and neck without prospective endoscope tracking. PLoS One 12(5):e0177886, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28542331.
- Wang X, Ghia AJ, Zhao Z, Yang J, Luo D, Briere TM, Pino R, Li J, McAleer MF, Weksberg DC, Chang EL, Brown PD, Yang JN. Prospective Evaluation of Target Motion and Dosimetric Changes with Respiration in Spinal SBRT Utilizing 4-D CT. J Radiosurg SBRT 4(3):191-201, 2016.
- Bernstein MB, Chang EL, Amini B, Pan H, Cabanillas M, Wang XA, Allen PK, Rhines LD, Tatsui C, Li J, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Patients with Metastatic Thyroid Cancer - Secondary analysis of Phase I/II trials. Thyroid 26(9):1269-75, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27334245.
- Ho JC, Tang C, Deegan BJ, Allen PK, Jonasch E, Amini B, Wang XA, Li J, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. The Use of Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery For Oligometastatic Disease. J Neurosurg Spine 25(2):1-9, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27035507.
- Tao R, Bishop AJ, Brownlee Z, Allen PK, Settle SH, Chang EL, Wang X, Amini B, Tannir NM, Tatsui C, Rhines LD, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy for Spinal Metastases in the Postoperative Setting: A Secondary Analysis of Mature Phase 1-2 Trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 95(5):1405-13, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27209509.
- Wang H, Wang C, Tung S, Dimmitt AW, Wong PF, Edson MA, Garden AS, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD, Gunn GB, Takiar V, Wang XA, Luo D, Yang JN, Wong J, Phan J. Improved setup and positioning accuracy using a three-point customized cushion/mask/bite-block immobilization system for stereotactic reirradiation of head and neck cancer. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(3):6038, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27167275.
- Wang X, Poenisch F, Sahoo N, Zhu RX, Lii M, Gillin MT, Li J, Grosshans D. Spot Scanning Proton Therapy Minimizes Neutron Dose in the Setting of Radiation Therapy Administered During Pregnancy: A Real Case Study. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(5), 2016. e-Pub 2016.
- Weksberg DC, Yang JN, Tam AL, Li J, Wang XA, Zhao Z, McRae SE, Settle SH, Rhines LD, Chang EL, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Prospective validation of treatment accuracy using implanted fiducial markers for spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy. J Radiosurg SBRT 4(1):7-14, 2016. PMID: 29296421.
- Grossberg A, Zhao Z, Walker G, Tsai J, Wang X, Lang F, Phan J, Ghia A, McGovern S, Mahajan A, Brown P, McAleer MF, Li J. Dose painting with Gamma Knife: Two techniques for delivering different doses to areas of recurrent or residual tumor after resection of brain metastases. Pract Radiat Oncol 5(6):390-7, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26412338.
- Bishop AJ, Tao R, Rebueno NC, Christensen EN, Allen PK, Wang XA, Amini B, Tannir NM, Tatsui CE, Rhines LD, Li J, Chang EL, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Outcomes for Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy and an Analysis of Predictors of Local Recurrence. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 92(5):1016-26, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26025777.
- Pan HY, Allen PK, Wang XS, Chang EL, Rhines LD, Tatsui CE, Amini B, Wang XA, Tannir NM, Brown PD, Ghia AJ. Incidence and Predictive Factors of Pain Flare After Spine Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy: Secondary Analysis of Phase 1/2 Trials. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 90(4):870-6, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 25227497.
- Wang X, Yang JN, Li X, Tailor R, Vassilliev O, Brown P, Rhines L, Chang E. Effect of spine hardware on small spinal stereotactic radiosurgery dosimetry. Phys Med Biol 58(19):6733-47, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24018829.
- Huang JY, Followill DS, Wang XA, Kry SF. Accuracy and sources of error of out-of field dose calculations by a commercial treatment planning system for intensity-modulated radiation therapy treatments. J Appl Clin Med Phys 14(2):4139, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23470942.
- Wang X, Sahoo N, Zhu RX, Zullo JR, Gillin MT. Measurement of neutron dose equivalent and its dependence on beam configuration for a passive scattering proton delivery system. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 76(5):1563-1570, 2010. e-Pub 2010. PMID: 20097484.
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Abstracts
- Jinzhong Yang, PhD, Tze Yee Lim, PhD, Paige L. Nitsch, MS, Jihong Wang, PhD, Xin Wang, PhD, Rajat J. Kudchadker, PhD, Peter Balter, PhD and Mary K. Martel, PhD. Development of an MR-Linac Physics Training and Privileging Program. Med Phys, 2023.
- Travis C. Salzillo, PhD, Neil Hughes, MBA, Sastry Vedam, PhD, Tze Yee Lim, PhD, Xin Wang, PhD, He C. Wang, PhD, Mustefa Mohammedsaid, Clifton Fuller, Jihong Wang, PhD and Jinzhong Yang, PhD. Clinical Development of CT Simulations for MR-Linac Patients without the Use of a CT Table Overlay. Med Phys, 2023.
- Yao Zhao, Xin Wang, PhD, Cenji Yu, Jack Phan, MD, Xinru Chen, Skylar Gay, Kai Huang, Laurence Edward Court, PhD, Tinsu Pan, PhD, He C. Wang, PhD and Jinzhong Yang, PhD. Auto-Segmentation of Gross Tumor Volumes from Multi-Modality Images for Head and Neck Cancers. Med Phys, 2023.
- Dong Joo Rhee, PhD, Alexandra Olivia Leone, MBS, Jean Gema-De La Vega, Callistus M. Nguyen, PhD, Laurence Edward Court, PhD, Xin Wang, PhD, Dershan Luo, PhD, Eun Young Han, PhD, Tucker J. Netherton, DMP, Kelli McSpidden, Anna Lee, MD, Adam S Garden, MD, David I Rosenthal, MD, Jack Phan, MD and He C. Wang, PhD. Rule-Based Autoplanning for Skull Base Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Med Phys, 2023.
- He C. Wang, PhD, Dong Joo Rhee, PhD, Song Gao, PhD, Peter Balter, PhD, Jack Phan, MD, Anna Lee, MD, Sara L. Thrower, PhD, Scott LaNeave, David Ellison, Erin Schipull, Ryan Hurtt, Tucker J. Netherton, DMP, Tze Yee Lim, PhD, Dragan Mirkovic, Dershan Luo, PhD, Congjun Wang, PhD, Ramesh C. Tailor, PhD, Pei-Fong Wong, MS and Xin Wang, PhD. Comparison of Flattening Filter Free (FFF) and Flattening Filter (FF) Photon Beam VMAT Plans for Head and Neck Stereotactic Radiotherapy. Med Phys, 2023.
- He Wang, Tze Yee Lim, Jinzhong Yang, Clifton Fuller, Xin Wang. Optimizing Radiation Treatment for Head and Neck Cancer with Adapt-to-Shape Planning on a 1.5 Tesla MR-Linac. ASTRO, 2022.
- He Wang, Eun Young Han, Jack Phan, Tze Yee Lim, Jinzhong Yang, Mary Pham, Xin Wang. Feasibility of Stereotactic Radiotherapy for Base of Tongue Cancers On the MR-Linac. Med Phys, 2022.
- H. Wang, X. Chen, Y. Zhao, X. Wang, E. Han, T. Lim, Z. Yu, S. Prajapati, J. Yang. Evaluation of Delivered Dose Using Synthetic CT for MR-Guided and CT-Guided Radiotherapy. Med Phys, 2022.
- S Prajapati, Z Yu, Y Zhao, T Lim, H Wang, X Wang, B Lee, P Castillo, A Sobremonte, A Farooqi, D Mitra, R Kudchadker, C Tang, J Yang. Quantifying Setup Uncertainties in Treating Intramuscular Metastases with Image-Guided Radiation Therapy. Med Phys, 2022.
- Y Zhao, X Chen, C Yu, L Court, B McDonald, T Pan, H Wang, X Wang, J Phan, J Yang. Automated Deformable Registration Using Patch-Based ViT-Morph for MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy. Med Phys, 2022.
- X Chen, Y Zhao, L Court, H Wang, T Pan, J Phan, X Wang, J Yang. Synthetic CT Generation From Truncated MRI Using a Modified CycleGAN Model. Med Phys, 2022.
- He (Catherine) Wang, Kevin Diao, Christopher Goodman, Xin Wang, Jack Phan. SBRT for recurrent skull base malignancies. ISRS, 2022.
- Xin Wang, Congjun Wang, He Wang, Dershan Luo, Weiliang Du, Jack Phan. Increasing complexity of HN SBRT plans from neck to base of skull. ISRS, 2022.
- A. C. Moreno, X. A. Wang, A. S. Mohamed, H. Wang, C. Wang, S. Tung, J. Yang, J. Reddy, A. Lee1, M. Spiotto1, C. D. Fuller1, G. B. Gunn1, S. J. Frank, D. I. Rosenthal, W. H. Morrison, A. S. Garden, and J. Phan. Patterns of Failure After SBRT Reirradiation for Recurrent Head and Neck Cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2021.
- Y Zhao, L Court, C Yu, C Cardenas, H Wang, X Wang, J Phan, J Yang. Generative Adversarial Networks for Synthetic CT Generation From MR Scans with Truncated Anatomy. Med Phys, 2021.
- He Wang, Jinzhong Yang, Jack Phan, Eun Young Han, Tze Lim, Pam Castillo, Xin Wang. Feasibility study of skull base stereotactic radiotherapy on Elekta MR-Linac. Med Phys, 2021.
- Shirley Yu Su, Jack Phan, Xin Wang, Tze Yee Lim, Mohammed Aldehaim. Pituitary Dysfunction Following Radiotherapy for Sinonasal and Nasopharyngeal Malignancies. AHNS, 2020.
- Xin Wang, Mariam Sulieman, Edith Mejia, Samuel Montemayor, Bethany Kramer, Catherine Wang, Dershan Luo, Jack Phan. Magnitude and predictor of complex SBRT planning dose uncertainties. GAP, 2020.
- X Wang, A Sobremonte, H Wang, S Vedam, J Phan, J Yang. Preliminary Feasibility Study of Head Neck SBRT On MR-Linac. Med Phys, 2020.
- R Mumme, C Nguyen, A Olanrewaju, P Castillo, J Wang, X Wang, C Cardenas, L Court, M Martel, J Yang. Variable Margin Expansion to Account for MR Image Distortion in Treatment Planning. Med Phys, 2020.
- T Lim, X Wang, J Yang. Scoring Contour Agreement Using a Beta Distribution Model. Med Phys, 2020.
- H Wang, L Court, R Mumme, C Nguyen, S Beddar, X Wang, C Wang, S Tung, M Martel, A Moreno, J Reddy, A Garden, D Rosenthal, J Phan. An External Beam Radiation Oncology Treatment Plan Library (ROTPL) for Head and Neck Cancer. Med Phys, 2020.
- Bhavana V. Chapman, Anussara Prayongrat, Jonathan G. Thomas, Stephen R. Grant, Shane Mesko, Xin A. Wang, Jing Li, Claudio E. Tatsui, Laurence D. Rhines, Andrew J. Bishop, Amol J. Ghia. Salvage reirradiation for spinal metastases following local failure after stereotactic radiosurgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2019.
- David R Boyce,etc.. Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Metastatic Thyroid Cancer: A Single Institution Experience. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2019.
- X Wang, G Zhao , J Yang , M Salehpour. A Method to Evaluate the Symmetry Change From Baseline for a Medical Linear Accelerator. Med Phys, 2019.
- X Wang , C Cardenas , L Court , M Martel , J Yang , C Nguyen , M Amirmazaheri , A Ghia , C Cardenas. Leveraging Fully-Convolutional Neural Networks to Automatically Delineate Clinical Target Volumes for Spinal Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Med Phys, 2019.
- Dershan Luo, Eun Han, Xin Wang, Tina M Briere. Use of non-composite shots for robust planning in Gamma Knife Icon mask-based treatment. ISRS, 2019.
- Shane Mesko, Brian J Deegan, Neil M D’Souza, Amol J Ghia, Mary Frances McAleer, Xin A Wang, Paul D Brown, Jing Li. Spine stereotactic radiosurgery in the treatment of metastatic pheochromocytoma: an updated case series. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys, 2018.
- X Wang, G Zhao, J Sutton, J Li, A Ghia, M McAleer. Feasibility and advantage of using single isocenter to treat two targets separated by one vertebra in spinal SBRT. GAP, 2018.
- X Wang, G Zhao, J Sutton, A Ghia, J Li, M McAleer. Potential of Treating Multiple Targets with a Single Isocenter in Spinal SRS/SBRT. Med Phys, 2018.
- E Han, G Kim, X Wang, D Yeboa, H Lee, S Svensson, T Briere. E2E Test of Automatic Plan Optimization Using RayStation Scripting for Hypo-Fractionated Multi-Metastatic Brain SRT. Med Phys, 2018.
- Anita Mahajan, Xin Wang, Salmaan Ahmed, Mary Fran Mcaleer, Jeffrey S Weinberg, Jing Li, Paul D Brown, Sujit S Prabhu, Frederick F Lang, Susan L McGovern, Ian Mccutcheon, Erik Sulman, Amy Heimberger, Sherise Ferguson, Amol Ghia, Nandita Guha-Thakurta, Raymond Sawaya, Ganesh Rao. Local Recurrence Pattern of Patients Enrolled on a Randomized Study of Post-Operative Stereotactic Radiosurgery vs Observation for Completely Resected Brain Metastasis. Neuro-Oncology, 2017.
- William Ingram, Jinzhong Yang, Jimmy Qiu, Robert Weersink, Beth Beadle, Richard Wendt, Arvind Rao, Xin Wang, Laurence Edward Court. Mapping Endoscope Images to CT: Methods and Uncertainties. Med Phys, 2017.
- X Wang, H Wang, D Luo, T Briere, E Han, Z Wen, G Zhao, J Yang, J Li, M McAleer, A Bishop, A Ghia. Using Customized Headrest to Increase the Reproducibility of C-Spine Curvature in Spinal SBRT. Med Phys, 2017.
- Zhifei Wen, Xin Wang, Dershan Luo, Eun Young Han, Tina Briere, James Yang. Small Field Spine Radiosurgery IMRT QA with Octavius 4D: Chamber Comparison and Beam Model Assessment. Med Phys, 2017.
- He Wang, Lifei Zhang, Jack Phan, Xin Wang. Evaluation of Skull Base Rotation and C-Spine Displacement in Three Head and Neck Immobilization Techniques Using KV Portal Images. Med Phys, 2017.
- Dershan Luo, Xin Wang, Eun Young Han, Zhifei Wen,Tina Briere, James Yang, Tinsu Pan. Comparison of Conventional CT and Duel Energy CT On Metal Artifact Reduction for the Pacemaker Patients in Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. Med Phys, 2017.
- Xin Wang, Ganesh Rao, Jing Li, Mary McAleer, Susan McGovern, Amol Ghia, Erik Sulman, Paul Brown, Sherise Ferguson, Amy Heimberger, Frederick Lang, Ian McCutcheon, Suihit Prabhu, Raymond Sawaya, Jeffrey Weinberg, Salmaan Weinberg, Dershan Luo, Anita, Mahajan. Pattern of Failure after Resection and Post-Operative Radiosurgery to the Surgical Cavity. ISRS, 2017.
- Dershan Luo, Jing Li, Xin Wang, Eun Young Han, Catherina Wang, Tinsu Pan. Metal artifact reduction with Dual Energy CT for Gamma Knife Radiosurgery in pacemaker patients. ISRS, 2017.
- George Zhao, Xin Wang, Jinzhong Yang, Amol Ghia and James Yang. Residual Errors of the ExacTrac X-Ray 6 Degree-of-freedom IGRT system for spine SBRT. ISRS, 2017.
- Jinzhong Yang, Zijian Zhang, Wen Jiang, Xin Wang, Paul D. Brown, Nandita Guha-Thakurta, Sherise D Ferguson, Xenia Fave, Lifei Zhang, Dennis Mackin, Laurence E. Court, and Jing Li. Delta radiomic features from MR images for distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumor progression after Gamma Knife radiosurgery. ISRS, 2017.
- Z Zhang, A Ho, X Wang, P Brown, N Guha-Thakurta, S Ferguson, X Fave, L Zhang, D Mackin, L Court, J Li, J Yang. A Prediction Model for Distinguishing Radiation Necrosis From Tumor Progression After Gamma Knife Radiosurgery Based On Radiomics Features From MR Images. Med Phys 43:3750, 2016.
- D Robertson, Z Zhao, X Wang , J Yang. Increased Skin Dose in Supine Craniospinal Irradiation Due to Carbon Fiber Couch and Vacuum Bag Immobilization Device. Med Phys 43:3581, 2016.
- X Wang, Z Zhao, J Yang , J Yang , M McAleer , P Brown , J Li , A Ghia. Sub Millimeter Accurate Setup of More Than Three Vertebrae in Spinal SBRT with 6D Couch. Med Phys 43:3611, 2016.
- J Yang, Z Zhao, J Yang, Y Zhang, LE Court, J Li, PD Brown, A Ghia, X Wang. Dosimetric Impact of Esophagus Motion in Spine Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Med Phys 43:3436, 2016.
- BJ Deegan, JC Ho, PK Allena, E Jonasch, B Amini, XA Wang, CE Tatsui, LD Rhines, J Li, PD Brown, AJ Ghia. Toxicity Profile of Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery amongst Long-Term Survivors. ASTRO, 2016.
- Z Zhao, P Fang, J Yang, N Guha, M McAleer, X Wang, S Ferguson, P Brown, J Li. Local control of peripherally located single brain metastases utilizing the “bubble” skull scaling instrument in SRS treatment planning. LGKS 2016, 2016.
- Z Zhao, J Yang, X Wang, D Luo, TM Briere, MF McAleer, J Li, P Brown, A Ghia. Evaluation of Intrafraction Motion in 1000 Fractions of Spine Stereotactic Radiation Therapy. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 93(3):E607-E608, 2015.
- X Wang, J Yang, Z Zhao, J Yang, T Briere, R Pino, J Li, MF McAleer, D Weksberg, PD Brown, A Ghia. Prospective evaluation of target motion and dosimetric changes with respiration in spine SBRT using 4D-CT. ISRS, 2015.
- JN Yang, Z Zhao, X Wang, A Ghia, J Li, J Phan, S Ferguson, PD Brown. Imaging Assessment Of Patient Positioning Reproducibity Using A Relocatable Frame For Hypofractionated Gamma Knife Radiosurgery. ISRS, 2015.
- G Walker, Z Zhao, J Tsai, X Wang, G Lang, A Mahajan, P Brown, MF McAleer, J Li. “Dose Painting” With Gamma Knife: Two Techniques For Delivering Different Doses To Areas Of Recurrent Or Residual Tumor After Resection Of Brain Metastases. ISRS, 2015.
- R Tao, EN Christensen, TJ Yang, PL Grossman, PD Brown, SH Settle, EL Chang, Amit KG, X Wang, LD Rhines, AJ Ghia. Prospective Evaluation of Stereotactic Radiosurgery for Spinal Metastases in the Postoperative Setting. ONCOLOGY ARS 2014, 2014.
- R Pino, F Therriault-Proulx, X Wang, J Yang, S Beddar. TrueBeam Small Field Dosimetry Using Commerical Plastic Scintillation and Other Stereotatic Detectors. Med Phys 41:323, 2014.
- H Pan, PK Allen, XS Wang, EL Chang, LD Rhines, CE Tatsui, B Amini, XA Wang, N Tannir, PD Brown, AJ Ghia. Incidence and Predictive Factors of Pain Flare After Spine Stereotactic Radiosurgery. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 90(1):S124-S125, 2014.
- X Wang, Z Zhao, H Wang, J Yang. ExacTrac Setup Uncertainties in Intracranial and HN patients comparison with CT-on-rail. Med Phys 40:151, 2013.
- DC Weksberg, JN Yang, AL Tam, MF McAleer, J Li, AJ Ghia, XA Wang, SE McRae, SH Settle, LD Rhines, EL Chang, PD Brown. A prospective study using implanted fiducial markers to assess treatment accuracy in spinal stereotactic body radiation therapy. ONCOLOGY ARS 2013, 2013.
- J Yang, X Wang, Z Zhao, P Brown. Spine Radiosurgery Image Giudance Using ExacTrac and CT_on_rails. Med Phys 39:3799, 2012.
- X Wang, Z Zhao, W Du, X Li, J Yang. Reliability Study of ExacTrac- System Image Isocenter Using An On-Demand QA Procedure. Med Phys 39:3663, 2012.
- Z Zhao, X Wang, J Yang. A Dosimetric Comparison of Gamma Knife Plans with Measurement Based and Image Based Skull Definitions. Med Phys 39:38.7, 2012.
- X Li, W Cao, X Wang, Y Li, X Zhu, N Sahoo, M Gillin, G Lim, X Zhang. Deliverable Optimization Incorporating Monitor Unit Constraints for Intensity Modulated Proton Therapy Treatment Planning. Med Phys 39:3982, 2012.
- X Wang, J Yang, X Li, L Rhines, E Chang. Effect of Spine Hardware On Intensity Modulated Spinal Sterotactic Radiosurgery Treatment Planning. Med Phys 38, 2011.
- X Wang, R Tailor, J Yang, L Court, H Chung, M Vicic, L Dong. Accurate Small MLC Field and Penumbra Modeling and Its Clinical Impact. Med Phys 38:3693, 2011.
- X Wang, J Yang, R Taylor, S Kry, O Vassiliev. Effect of Titantium Rod on Small Spinal Stereotactic Radiosurgery (SSRS) Dosimetry. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 78:S799, 2010.
- X Wang, N Sahoo, XR Zhu, X Ding, B Arjomandy, G Ciangaru, MT Gillin. Study of Field Size Factors for Passively Scattered Proton Therapy Beams. Med Phys 36:2582, 2009.
- G Ibbott, M Heard, X Wang, MT Gillin, B Taylor, J Stafford. Evaluation of Gel Dosimeters in Proton Beams. PTCOG, 2008.
- X Wang, M Gillin. Experimental Study of Neutron Dose Equivalent in a Proton Treatment Facility. Med Phys 35:2982, 2008.
- X Wang, MT Gillin, N Sahoo. Neutron Dose Equivalent Measurement for Typical Cranial and Spinal Treatments at MD Anderson Proton Treatement Center. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 72:S144-145, 2008.
Grant & Contract Support
Title: | The Optimization of MRI Image Alignment for Spinal SBRT Treatment |
Funding Source: | Elekta |
Role: | Co-Principal Investigator |
Title: | Development and validation of a multi-atlas based autosegmentation tool for CTV delineation and standardization in spine stereotactic radiosurgery |
Funding Source: | Department of Radiation Physics Internal Grant |
Role: | Principal Investigator |
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