Tze Yee Lim, PhD
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
Dual/Joint/Adjunct Appointment
Associate Member, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
| 2016 | University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA, PHD, Medical Physics |
| 2011 | Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, USA, BS, Physics (Minor: Mathematics) |
Postgraduate Training
| 2016-2018 | Clinical Residency, Therapeutic Medical Physics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA |
Board Certifications
| 2019 | American Board of Radiology |
Experience & Service
Administrative Appointments/Responsibilities
Head-and-Neck MR-linac Program Physics Lead, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2020 - Present
Total Body Irradiation Program Physics Lead, Department of Radiation Physics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2019 - Present
Other Appointments/Responsibilities
Member, American Association of Physicists in Medicine Task Group 379, Alexandria, VA, 2022 - Present
Chief Physics Resident, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, 2017 - 2018
Institutional Committee Activities
Senator, Faculty Senate, 2020 - 2023
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- Parsons D, Lim TY, Teruel JR, Galavis P, Agostinelli S, Liang J, Mancosu P, Cherpak A, Stanley DN, Ahn KH, Guo B, Gonzalez Y, Burmeister J, Wong JYC, Gu X, Kim GG. Considerations for intensity modulated total body or total marrow and lymphoid irradiation. Clin Transl Radiat Oncol 43:100674, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37753462.
- 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 45(10):2525-2532, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37534890.
- Gronberg MP, Beadle BM, Garden AS, Skinner H, Gay S, Netherton T, Cao W, Cardenas CE, Chung C, Fuentes DT, Fuller CD, Howell RM, Jhingran A, Lim TY, Marquez B, Mumme R, Olanrewaju AM, Peterson CB, Vazquez I, Whitaker TJ, Wooten Z, Yang M, Court LE. Deep Learning–Based Dose Prediction for Automated, Individualized Quality Assurance of Head and Neck Radiation Therapy Plans. Practical Radiation Oncology, 2023.
- 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.
- Lim TY, Gillespie E, Murphy J, Moore KL. Clinically Oriented Contour Evaluation Using Dosimetric Indices Generated From Automated Knowledge-Based Planning. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 103(5):1251-1260, 2019. PMID: 30508619.
- Lim TY, Dragojevic I, Hoffman D, Flores-Martinez E, Kim GY. Characterization of the HalcyonTM multileaf collimator system. J Appl Clin Med Phys 20(4):106-114. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30889312.
- Lloyd SAM, Lim TY, Fave X, Flores-Martinez E, Atwood TF, Moiseenko V. TG-51 reference dosimetry for the Halcyon™: A clinical experience. J Appl Clin Med Phys 19(4):98-102, 2018. e-Pub 2018. PMID: 29785729.
- Lim TY, Kudchadker RJ, Wang J, Stafford RJ, MacLellan C, Rao A, Ibbott GS, Frank SJ. Effect of pulse sequence parameter selection on signal strength in positive-contrast MRI markers for MRI-based prostate postimplant assessment. Med Phys 43(7):4312, 2016. PMID: 27370146.
- Lim TY, Kudchadker RJ, Wang J, Bathala T, Szklaruk J, Pugh TJ, Mahmood U, Ibbott GS, Frank SJ. Development of a magnetic resonance imaging protocol to visualize encapsulated contrast agent markers in prostate brachytherapy recipients: initial patient experience. J Contemp Brachytherapy 8(3):235-42, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 27504133.
- Dhanesar SK, Lim TY, Du W, Bruno TL, Frank SJ, Kudchadker RJ. Evaluation of the MIM Symphony treatment planning system for low-dose-rate- prostate brachytherapy. J Appl Clin Med Phys 16(5):62–75, 2015. e-Pub 2015. PMID: 26699290.
- Lim TY, Stafford RJ, Kudchadker RJ, Sankaranarayanapillai M, Ibbott G, Rao A, Martirosyan KS, Frank SJ. MRI characterization of cobalt dichloride-N-acetyl cysteine (C4) contrast agent marker for prostate brachytherapy. Phys Med Biol 59(10):2505-16, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24778352.
- Chen X, Hu X, Lim TY, Shen X, Park EK, Rosen GL. Exploiting the functional and taxonomic structure of genomic data by probabilistic topic modeling. IEEE/ACM Trans Comput Biol Bioinform 9(4):980-91, 2012. PMID: 21844637.
- Rosen GL, Lim TY. NBC update: The addition of viral and fungal databases to the Naïve Bayes classification tool. BMC Res Notes 5(81), 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22293603.
- Gronberg M, Netherton T, Beadle B, Cao W, Cardenas C, Chung C, Fuller CD, Garcia J, Hancock D, Howell RM, Jhingran A, Lee A, Lim TY, Moreno AC, Olanrewaju N, Peterson C, Whitaker TJ, Court LE. Radiotherapy Plan Quality Assessment: Current Tools and Future Directions. African Journal of Medical Physics.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified August 30, 2024