Yao Ding, Ph.D.
Department of Radiation Physics, Division of Radiation Oncology
Present Title & Affiliation
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Physics - Patient Care, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
2012 | University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA, PHD, Radiological Sciences |
2001 | Tsinghua University, Beijing, CHN, MS, Physics |
Board Certifications
2022 | The American Board of Radiology |
2019 | The American Board of Medical Physics |
Experience & Service
Academic Appointments
Instructor, Department of Radiation Physics - Research, Division of Radiation Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 2019 - 2022
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Articles
- El-Habashy DM, Wahid KA, He R, McDonald B, Mulder SJ, Ding Y, Salzillo T, Lai SY, Christodouleas J, Dresner A, Wang J, Naser MA, Fuller CD, Mohamed ASR, Joint Head and Neck Radiation Therapy-MRI Development Cooperative. Dataset of weekly intra-treatment diffusion weighted imaging in head and neck cancer patients treated with MR-Linac. Sci Data 11(1):487, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38734679.
- Wang L, Ding Y, Bruno TL, Stafford RJ, Lin E, Bathala TK, Sanders JW, Ning MS, Ma J, Klopp AH, Venkatesan A, Wang J, Martirosyan KS, Frank SJ. A Novel Positive-Contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging Line Marker for High-Dose-Rate (HDR) MRI-Assisted Radiosurgery (MARS). Cancers (Basel) 16(10), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38792000.
- Chen X, Zhao Y, Court LE, Wang H, Pan T, Phan J, Wang X, Ding Y, Yang J. SC-GAN: Structure-completion generative adversarial network for synthetic CT generation from MR images with truncated anatomy. Comput Med Imaging Graph 113:102353, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 38387114.
- Joint Head and Neck Radiotherapy-MRI Development Cooperative, Salzillo TC, Dresner MA, Way A, Wahid KA, McDonald BA, Mulder S, Naser MA, He R, Ding Y, Yoder A, Ahmed S, Corrigan KL, Manzar GS, Andring L, Pinnix C, Stafford RJ, Mohamed ASR, Christodouleas J, Wang J, Fuller CD. Development and implementation of optimized endogenous contrast sequences for delineation in adaptive radiotherapy on a 1.5T MR-linear-accelerator: a prospective R-IDEAL stage 0-2a quantitative/qualitative evaluation of in vivo site-specific quality-assurance using a 3D T2 fat-suppressed platform for head and neck cancer. J Med Imaging (Bellingham) 10(6):065501, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37937259.
- El-Habashy DM, Wahid KA, Renjie H, McDonald B, Mulder SJ, Ding Y, Salzillo T, Stephen L, Christodouleas J, Dresner A, Wang J, Naser MA, Fuller CD, Mohamed ASR. Weekly Intra-Treatment Diffusion Weighted Imaging Dataset for Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing MR-linac Treatment. medRxiv, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37645931.
- 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.
- Joint Head and Neck Radiotherapy-MRI Development Cooperative, Mohamed ASR, Abusaif A, He R, Wahid KA, Salama V, Youssef S, McDonald BA, Naser M, Ding Y, Salzillo TC, AboBakr MA, Wang J, Lai SY, Fuller CD. Prospective validation of diffusion-weighted MRI as a biomarker of tumor response and oncologic outcomes in head and neck cancer: Results from an observational biomarker pre-qualification study. Radiother Oncol 183:109641, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 36990394.
- 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. medRxiv, 2023. e-Pub 2023. PMID: 37205359.
- Naser MA, Wahid KA, Ahmed S, Salama V, Dede C, Edwards BW, Lin R, McDonald B, Salzillo TC, He R, Ding Y, Abdelaal MA, Thill D, O'Connell N, Willcut V, Christodouleas JP, Lai SY, Fuller CD, Mohamed ASR. Quality assurance assessment of intra-acquisition diffusion-weighted and T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging registration and contour propagation for head and neck cancer radiotherapy. Med Phys 50(4):2089-2099, 2023. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36519973.
- Ng SP, Cardenas CE, Bahig H, Elgohari B, Wang J, Johnson JM, Moreno AC, Shah SJ, Garden AS, Phan J, Gunn GB, Frank SJ, Ding Y, Na L, Yuan Y, Urbauer D, Mohamed ASR, Rosenthal DI, Morrison WH, MacManus MP, Fuller CD. Changes in Apparent Diffusion Coefficient (ADC) in Serial Weekly MRI during Radiotherapy in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer: Results from the PREDICT-HN Study. Curr Oncol 29(9):6303-6313, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 36135064.
- Yan Y, Yang J, Li Y, Ding Y, Kadbi M, Wang J. Impact of geometric distortion on dose deviation for photon and proton treatment plans. J Appl Clin Med Phys 23(3):e13517, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 35106908.
- Tian M, Watanabe Y, Kang KW, Murakami K, Chiti A, Carrio I, Civelek AC, Feng J, Zhu Y, Zhou R, Wu S, Zhu J, Ding Y, Zhang K, Zhang H, Molecular Imaging-based Precision Medicine Task Group of A3 (China-Japan-Korea) Foresight Program. International consensus on the use of [18F]-FDG PET/CT in pediatric patients affected by epilepsy. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48(12):3827-3834, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34453559.
- Wahid KA, He R, McDonald BA, Anderson BM, Salzillo T, Mulder S, Wang J, Sharafi CS, McCoy LA, Naser MA, Ahmed S, Sanders KL, Mohamed ASR, Ding Y, Wang J, Hutcheson K, Lai SY, Fuller CD, van Dijk LV. Intensity standardization methods in magnetic resonance imaging of head and neck cancer. Phys Imaging Radiat Oncol 20:88-93, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34849414.
- Wang J, Salzillo T, Jiang Y, Mackeyev Y, David Fuller C, Chung C, Choi S, Hughes N, Ding Y, Yang J, Vedam S, Krishnan S. Stability of MRI contrast agents in high-energy radiation of a 1.5T MR-Linac. Radiother Oncol 161:55-64, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34089753.
- Sun M, Wang Y, Zheng C, Wei Y, Hou J, Zhang P, He W, Lv X, Ding Y, Liang H, Hon CC, Chen X, Xu H, Chen Y. Systematic functional interrogation of human pseudogenes using CRISPRi. Genome Biol 22(1):240, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34425866.
- Zhang Q, Liao Y, Wang X, Zhang T, Feng J, Deng J, Shi K, Chen L, Feng L, Ma M, Xue L, Hou H, Dou X, Yu C, Ren L, Ding Y, Chen Y, Wu S, Chen Z, Zhang H, Zhuo C, Tian M. A deep learning framework for 18F-FDG PET imaging diagnosis in pediatric patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 48(8):2476-2485, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33420912.
- 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 Radiation Therapy 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.
- Xuan L, Liao W, Wang M, Zhou H, Ding Y, Yan F, Liu J, Tang H, Xi F. Integration of vertically-ordered mesoporous silica-nanochannel film with electro-activated glassy carbon electrode for improved electroanalysis in complex samples. Talanta 225:122066, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33592785.
- Lee J, Steinmann A, Ding Y, Lee H, Owens C, Wang J, Yang J, Followill D, Ger R, MacKin D, Court LE. Radiomics feature robustness as measured using an MRI phantom. Sci Rep 11(1):3973, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33597610.
- Johnson JM, Mohamed ASR, Ding Y, Wang J, Lai SY, Fuller CD, Shah R, Butler RT, Weber RS. Ultra-small superparamagnetic iron oxide (USPIO) magnetic resonance imaging in benign mixed tumor of the parotid gland. Clin Case Rep 9(1):123-127, 2021. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33489146.
- Chen C, Xie JJ, Ding F, Jiang YS, Jin B, Wang S, Ding Y, Li H, Jiang B, Zhu JM, Ding MP, Chen Z, Wu ZY, Zhang BR, Hsu YC, Lai HY, Wang S. 7T MRI with post-processing for the presurgical evaluation of pharmacoresistant focal epilepsy. Ther Adv Neurol Disord 14:17562864211021181, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34163537.
- Cohen JP, Beaubrun A, Ding Y, Wade RL, Hines DM. Estimation of the Incremental Cumulative Cost of HIV Compared with a Non-HIV Population. Pharmacoecon Open 4(4):687-696, 2020. PMID: 32219732.
- Joint Head and Neck Radiation Therapy-MRI Development Cooperative, Mohamed ASR, He R, Ding Y, Wang J, Fahim J, Elgohari B, Elhalawani H, Kim AD, Ahmed H, Garcia JA, Johnson JM, Stafford RJ, Bankson JA, Chambers MS, Sandulache VC, Fuller CD, Lai SY. Quantitative Dynamic Contrast-Enhanced MRI Identifies Radiation-Induced Vascular Damage in Patients With Advanced Osteoradionecrosis: Results of a Prospective Study. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 108(5):1319-1328, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32712257.
- Berkovich R, Fox E, Okai A, Ding Y, Gorritz M, Bartolome L, Wade RL, Su W, Johnson KM, Russo P. Identifying disability level in multiple sclerosis patients in a U.S.-based health plan claims database. J Med Econ:1. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33297816.
- Porter J, Ding Y, Hale SJM, Perrins RD, Robinson A, Mazanetz MP, Wu Y, Ma Y, Conlon K, Coulter T. A highly potent maytansinoid analogue and its use as a cytotoxic therapeutic agent in gold nanoparticles for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 30(24):127634, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33148516.
- Foster SA, Chen CC, Ding Y, Mason O, McGuiness CB, Morrow P, Ye W, Wade RL, Smith TR, Joshi S. Economic burden and risk factors of migraine disease progression in the US: a retrospective analysis of a commercial payer database. J Med Econ 23(11):1356-1364, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32845189.
- Hill SC, Miller GE, Ding Y. Net Spending On Retail Specialty Drugs Grew Rapidly, Especially For Private Insurance And Medicare Part D. Health Aff (Millwood) 39(11):1970-1976, 2020. PMID: 33136501.
- Ding Y, Bai YL, Dai JG, Shi CJ. An Investigation of Softening Laws and Fracture Toughness of Slag-Based Geopolymer Concrete and Mortar. Materials (Basel) 13(22), 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 33213059.
- Xu L, Liu X, Peng F, Zhang W, Zheng L, Ding Y, Gu T, Lv K, Wang J, Ortinau L, Hu T, Shi X, Shi G, Shang G, Sun S, Iwawaki T, Ji Y, Li W, Rosen JM, Zhang XH, Park D, Adoro S, Catic A, Tong W, Qi L, Nakada D, Chen X. Protein quality control through endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation maintains haematopoietic stem cell identity and niche interactions. Nat Cell Biol 22(10):1162-1169, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32958856.
- Ren Y, Ding Y, Meng F, Jiang L, Li H, Huang J, Yu P, Qiu Z. Quantification of CYP2E1 in rat liver by UPLC-MS/MS-based targeted proteomics assay: a novel approach for enzyme activity assessment. Anal Bioanal Chem 412(22):5409-5418, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32588109.
- Han EY, Diagaradjane P, Luo D, Ding Y, Kalaitzakis G, Zoros E, Zourari K, Boursianis T, Pappas E, Wen Z, Wang J, Briere TM. Validation of PTV margin for Gamma Knife Icon frameless treatment using a PseudoPatient® Prime anthropomorphic phantom. J Appl Clin Med Phys 21(9):278-285, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32786141.
- Teague WG, Iqbal A, Ding Y, Chipps BE, Zazzali JL. The Added Burden of Allergen Sensitization Among Children with Severe or Poorly Controlled Asthma. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32949810.
- Slagowski JM, Ding Y, Aima M, Wen Z, Fuller CD, Chung C, Debnam JM, Hwang KP, Kadbi M, Szklaruk J, Wang J. A modular phantom and software to characterize 3D geometric distortion in MRI. Phys Med Biol 65(19):195008, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32531763.
- McCulloch MM, Cazoulat G, Ford AC, Elgohari B, Bahig H, Kim AD, Elhalawani H, He R, Wang J, Ding Y, Mohamed AS, Polan DF, King JB, Peterson CB, Ohrt AN, Fuller CD, Lai SY, Brock KK. Biomechanical modeling of radiation dose-induced volumetric changes of the parotid glands for deformable image registration. Phys Med Biol 65(16):165017, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32320955.
- Wang B, Wang J, Cen Z, Wei W, Xie F, Chen Y, Sun H, Hu Y, Yang D, Lou Y, Chen X, Ouyang Z, Chen S, Wang H, Wang L, Wang S, Qiu X, Ding Y, Yin H, Wu S, Zhang B, Zang YF, Luo W. Altered Cerebello-Motor Network in Familial Cortical Myoclonic Tremor With Epilepsy Type 1. Mov Disord 35(6):1012-1020, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32129927.
- Ding Y, Yuan Z, Liu P, Cai K, Liu R. Fabrication of strontium-incorporated protein supramolecular nanofilm on titanium substrates for promoting osteogenesis. Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl 111:110851, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32279772.
- Cardenas CE, Mohamed ASR, Yang J, Gooding M, Veeraraghavan H, Kalpathy-Cramer J, Ng SP, Ding Y, Wang J, Lai SY, Fuller CD, Sharp G. Head and neck cancer patient images for determining auto-segmentation accuracy in T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging through expert manual segmentations. Med Phys 47(5):2317-2322, 2020. PMID: 32418343.
- Wang J, Song X, Zhang D, Chen X, Li X, Sun Y, Li C, Song Y, Ding Y, Ren R, Harrington EH, Hu LA, Zhong W, Xu C, Huang X, Wang HW, Ma Y. Cryo-EM structures of PAC1 receptor reveal ligand binding mechanism. Cell Res 30(5):436-445, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32047270.
- Wang J, Song X, Zhang D, Chen X, Li X, Sun Y, Li C, Song Y, Ding Y, Ren R, Harrington EH, Hu LA, Zhong W, Xu C, Huang X, Wang HW, Ma Y. Author Correction: Cryo-EM structures of PAC1 receptor reveal ligand binding mechanism. Cell Res 30(5):455, 2020. PMID: 32203135.
- Lv X, Dobrolecki LE, Ding Y, Rosen JM, Lewis MT, Chen X. Orthotopic Transplantation of Breast Tumors as Preclinical Models for Breast Cancer. J Vis Exp(159), 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32478757.
- Ding Y, Hao Y, Yuan Z, Tao B, Chen M, Lin C, Liu P, Cai K. A dual-functional implant with an enzyme-responsive effect for bacterial infection therapy and tissue regeneration. Biomater Sci 8(7):1840-1854, 2020. PMID: 31967110.
- He R, Ding Y, Mohamed ASR, Ng SP, Ger RB, Elhalawani H, Elgohari BA, Young KH, Hutcheson KA, Fuller CD, Lai SY. Simultaneously spatial and temporal Higher-Order Total Variations for noise suppression and motion reduction in DCE and IVIM. Proc SPIE Int Soc Opt Eng 11313, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32753776.
- Elhalawani H, Awan MJ, Ding Y, Mohamed ASR, Elsayes AK, Abu-Gheida I, Wang J, Hazle J, Gunn GB, Lai SY, Frank SJ, Ginsberg LE, Rosenthal DI, Fuller CD. Data from a terminated study on iron oxide nanoparticle magnetic resonance imaging for head and neck tumors. Sci Data 7(1):63, 2020. e-Pub 2020. PMID: 32081849.
- 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.
- Ding Y, Mason RP, McColl RW, Yuan Q, Hallac RR, Sims RD, Weatherall PT. Simultaneous measurement of tissue oxygen level-dependent (TOLD) and blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) effects in abdominal tissue oxygenation level studies. J Magn Reson Imaging 38(5):1230-6, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 23749420.
- Geethanath S, Baek HM, Ganji SK, Ding Y, Maher EA, Sims RD, Choi C, Lewis MA, Kodibagkar VD. Compressive sensing could accelerate 1H MR metabolic imaging in the clinic. Radiology 262(3):985-94, 2012. PMID: 22357898.
Other Articles
- Chopra N, Briere TM, Krafft S, Ding Y, Yang J, Han EY Commissioning Klarity System on Elekta Unity System for Spine SBRT. 65th AAPM Annual Meeting and Exhibition, 2023.
Patient Reviews
CV information above last modified May 26, 2024