Tucker Netherton, PhD,DMP
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2021 | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, USA, PHD, Medical Physics |
| 2016 | Vanderbilt Scholl of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA, DMP, Medical Physics |
| 2014 | Vanderbilt Scholl of Medicine, NASHVILLE, TN, USA, MS, Medical Physics |
| 2012 | University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA, BS, Physics |
Board Certifications
| 2018 | American Board of Radiology Radiological Physics Part III |
| 2016 | American Board of Radiology Radiological Physics Part II |
| 2014 | American Board of Radiology Radiological Physics Part I |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Associate Faculty, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX, 2022 - Present
Institutional Committee Activities
Radiation Physics Faculty Research Laision, The Clinical Research Council, 2021 - Present
Member, Radiation Physics Automation Committee, 2021 - Present
Honors & Awards
| 2022 | NIH Mentored Researcher Loan Repayment Program Awardee |
| 2021 | Young Investigator: AAPM Southwest Chapter 2021, AAPM Southwest Chapter |
| 2020 | Mentorship Program, MICCAI 2020 Mentorship Program |
| 2020 | Fellowship, Larry Deaven PhD Fellowship in Biomedical Sciences |
| 2020 | AAPM Grand Challenge: Open Knowledge-Based Planning Challenge, AAPM |
| 2020 | Endowed Scholarship, Fadine J. Roquemore Endowed Scholarship |
| 2019 | Education Representative, GSBS Medical Physics Student Council |
| 2018 | GSBS Student Science Writing Winner, UT MD Anderson |
| 2018 | Young Investigator Presentation Winner, AAPM Southwest Chapter |
Professional Memberships
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Netherton, T.J., Nguyen, C., Cardenas, C.E., Chung, C., Klopp, A.H., Colbert, L.E., Rhee, D.J., Peterson, C.B., Howell, R., Balter, P., Court, L.E. An Automated Treatment Planning Framework for Spinal Radiation Therapy and Vertebral-Level Second Check. International Journal of Radiation Oncology *Biology* Physics 114(3):pp 516-528, 2022.
- Yu, C., Anakwenze, C.P., Zhao, Y., Martin, R.M., Ludmir, E.B., S.Niedzielski, J., Qureshi, A., Das, P., Holliday, E.B., Raldow, A.C., Nguyen, C.M., Mumme, R.P., Netherton, T.J., Rhee, D.J., Gay, S.S., Yang, J., Court, L.E., Cardenas, C.E.. Multi-organ segmentation of abdominal structures from non-contrast and contrast enhanced CT images. Scientific Reports 12(19093), 2022.
- Babier, A., Mahmood, R., Zhang, B., Alves, V.G.L., Barragán-Montero, A.M., Beaudry, J., Cardenas, C.E., Chang, Y., Chen, Z., Chun, J., Diaz, K., David Eraso, H., Faustmann, E., Gaj, S., Gay, S., Gronberg, M., Guo, B., He, J., Heilemann, G., Hira, S., Huang, Y., Ji, F., Jiang, D., Carlo Jimenez Giraldo, J., Lee, H., Lian, J., Liu, S., Liu, K.-C., Marrugo, J., Miki, K., Nakamura, K., Netherton, T., Nguyen, D., Nourzadeh, H., Osman, A.F.I., Peng, Z., Darío Quinto Muñoz, J., Ramsl, C., Joo Rhee, D., David Rodriguez, J., Shan, H., Siebers, J.V., Soomro, M.H., Sun, K., Usuga Hoyos, A., Valderrama, C., Verbeek, R., Wang, E., Willems, S., Wu, Q., Xu, X., Yang, S., Yuan, L., Zhu, S., Zimmermann, L., Moore, K.L., Purdie, T.G., McNiven, A.L., Chan, T.C.Y.. OpenKBP-Opt: an international and reproducible evaluation of 76 knowledge-based planning pipelines. Physics in Medicine & Biology 67(18), 2022.
- Rhee, D.J., Jhingran, A., Huang, K., Netherton, T.J., Fakie, N., White, I., Sherriff, A., Cardenas, C.E., Zhang, L., Prajapati, S., Kry, S.F., Beadle, B.M., Shaw, W., O’Reilly, F., Parkes, J., Burger, H., Trauernicht, C., Simonds, H., Court, L.E.. Clinical acceptability of fully automated external beam radiotherapy for cervical cancer with three different beam delivery techniques. Medical Physics 49(9):pp 5742-5751, 2022.
- 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.
- Sekuboyina A, Husseini ME, Bayat A, Löffler M, Liebl H, Li H, Tetteh G, Kukacka J, Payer C, Štern D, Urschler M, Chen M, Cheng D, Lessmann N, Hu Y, Wang T, Yang D, Xu D, Ambellan F, Amiranashvili T, Ehlke M, Lamecker H, Lehnert S, Lirio M, Olaguer NP, Ramm H, Sahu M, Tack A, Zachow S, Jiang T, Ma X, Angerman C, Wang X, Brown K, Kirszenberg A, Puybareau É, Chen D, Bai Y, Rapazzo BH, Yeah T, Zhang A, Xu S, Hou F, He Z, Zeng C, Xiangshang Z, Liming X, Netherton TJ, Mumme RP, Court LE, Huang Z, He C, Wang LW, Ling SH, Hu?nh LD, Boutry N, Jakubicek R, Chmelik J, Mulay S, Sivaprakasam M, Paetzold JC, Shit S, Ezhov I, Wiestler B, Glocker B, Valentinitsch A, Rempfler M, Menze BH, Kirschke JS. VerSe: A Vertebrae labelling and segmentation benchmark for multi-detector CT images. Med Image Anal 73:102166, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34340104.
- Gronberg MP, Gay SS, Netherton TJ, Rhee DJ, Court LE, Cardenas CE. Technical Note: Dose prediction for head and neck radiotherapy using a three-dimensional dense dilated U-net architecture. Med Phys 48(9):5567-5573, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34157138.
- 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.
- 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.
- Hernandez S, Sjogreen C, Gay SS, Nguyen C, Netherton T, Olanrewaju A, Zhang LJ, Rhee DJ, Méndez JD, Court LE, Cardenas CE. Development and dosimetric assessment of an automatic dental artifact classification tool to guide artifact management techniques in a fully automated treatment planning workflow. Comput Med Imaging Graph 90:101907, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33845433.
- Cardenas CE, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Skinner HD, Yang J, Rhee DJ, McCarroll RE, Netherton TJ, Gay SS, Zhang L, Court LE. Generating High-Quality Lymph Node Clinical Target Volumes for Head and Neck Cancer Radiation Therapy Using a Fully Automated Deep Learning-Based Approach. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 109(3):801-812, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33068690.
- Rhee DJ, Jhingran A, Rigaud B, Netherton T, Cardenas CE, Zhang L, Vedam S, Kry S, Brock KK, Shaw W, O'Reilly F, Parkes J, Burger H, Fakie N, Trauernicht C, Simonds H, Court LE. Automatic contouring system for cervical cancer using convolutional neural networks. Med Phys 47(11):5648-5658, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32964477.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 KD, Ger RB, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Owens CA, Anderson BM, Lee J, Rhee DJ, Edward SS, Gay SS, He Y, David SD, Yang J, Nitsch PL, Balter PA, Urbauer DL, Peterson CB, Court LE, Dube S. A snapshot of medical physics practice patterns. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(6):306-315, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30272385.
- 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 19(5):375-382, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30016578.
- Riley C, Cox C, Graham S, Havran H, Kramer B, Netherton T, Peterson C, Williamson T, Court L. Varian Halcyon dosimetric comparison for multiarc VMAT prostate and head-and-neck cancers. Med Dosim. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 30197035.
- 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.
- 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.
- Rubinstein AE, Ingram WS, Anderson BM, Gay SS, Fave XJ, Ger RB, McCarroll RE, Owens CA, Netherton TJ, Kisling KD, Court LE, Yang J, Li Y, Lee J, Mackin DS, Cardenas CE. Cost-effective immobilization for whole brain radiation therapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 18(4):116-122, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28585732.
- Wang M, Fang C, Yao DX, Tan G, Harriger LW, Song Y, Netherton T, Zhang C, Wang M, Stone MB, Tian W, Hu J, Dai P. Spin waves and magnetic exchange interactions in insulating Rb(0.89)Fe(1.58)Se(2). Nat Commun 2:580, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 22146399.
Invited Articles
- Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Rhee DJ, Court LE, Beadle BM. The Emergence of Artificial Intelligence within Radiation Oncology Treatment Planning. Oncology 99(2):124-134, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33352552.
Book Chapters
- Ger, R.B., Netherton, T.J., Rhee, D.J., Court, L.E., Yang, J., Cardenas, C.E. Auto-contouring for Image-Guidance and Treatment Planning. In: Machine and Deep Learning in Oncology, Medical Physics and Radiology. Springer International Publishing: USA, pp 231-293, 2022.
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CV information above last modified August 28, 2024