Zhiqian H. Yu, Ph.D., DABR

Peer-Reviewed Articles

1. Gay SS, Gronberg MP, Mumme R, Beadle BM, Jhingran A, Lim TY, Yu ZH, Chung C, Khan M, Pinnix C, Shete S, Parker B, Netherton TJ, Cardenas CE, Court LE. Intentional creation of suboptimal, realistic dose distributions. J Appl Clin Med Phys 26(11):e70305, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 41144809.
2. Rajan SS, Ning MS, Jacobson M, Simiele SJ, Bruno T, Kouzy R, Yoshida-Court K, Cisneros-Napravnik T, Yu H, Stafford J, Kim Y, Mathew G, Cordova RA, Domingo M, Jhingran A, Lin LL, Joyner M, Sims TT, Colbert L, Venkatesan AM, Klopp A. Iterative intraoperative 3T MRI (iMRI)-guided brachytherapy: A prospective study on enhancing implantation precision and dosimetric gains in advanced gynecologic cancers. Brachytherapy, 2025. e-Pub 2025. PMID: 40816920.
3. Zhao Y, Cozma A, Ding Y, Perles LA, Reiazi R, Chen X, Kang A, Prajapati S, Yu H, Subashi ED, Brock K, Wang J, Beddar S, Lee B, Mohammedsaid M, Cooper S, Westley R, Tree A, Mohamad O, Hassanzadeh C, Mok H, Choi S, Tang C, Yang J. Upper Urinary Tract Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy Using a 1.5 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging-Guided Linear Accelerator: Workflow and Physics Considerations. Cancers (Basel) 16(23), 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39682173.
4. Shanker MD, Yu ZH, Yang J, Matin S, Campbell MT, Msaouel P, Tannir N, Prajapati S, Ding Y, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Tang C. MR-Linac-guided stereotactic radiotherapy for CT-indiscernible intravascular renal cell carcinoma tumours. BJUI Compass 5(10):913-915, 2024. e-Pub 2024. PMID: 39416759.
5. Lakomy DS, Wu J, Chapman BV, Yu ZH, Lee B, Klopp AH, Jhingran A, Eifel PJ, Lin LL. Use of Specific Duodenal Dose Constraints During Treatment Planning Reduces Toxicity After Definitive Paraaortic Radiation Therapy for Cervical Cancer. Pract Radiat Oncol 12(3):e207-e215, 2022. e-Pub 2022. PMID: 34958984.
6. Tang C, Msaouel P, Hara K, Choi H, Le V, Shah AY, Wang J, Jonasch E, Choi S, Nguyen QN, Das P, Prajapati S, Yu Z, Khan K, Powell S, Murthy R, Sircar K, Tannir NM. Definitive radiotherapy in lieu of systemic therapy for oligometastatic renal cell carcinoma: a single-arm, single-centre, feasibility, phase 2 trial. Lancet Oncol 22(12):1732-1739, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 34717797.
7. Rigaud B, Anderson BM, Yu ZH, Gobeli M, Cazoulat G, Söderberg J, Samuelsson E, Lidberg D, Ward C, Taku N, Cardenas C, Rhee DJ, Venkatesan AM, Peterson CB, Court L, Svensson S, Löfman F, Klopp AH, Brock KK. Automatic segmentation using deep learning to enable online dose optimization during adaptive radiotherapy of cervical cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys S0360-3016(20):34484-34489, 2021. e-Pub 2021. PMID: 33181248.
8. Hanania AN, Myers P, Yoder AK, Bulut A, Yu ZH, Eraj S, Bowers J, Bonnen MD, Echeverria A, Hall TR, Anderson ML, Ludwig M. Inversely and adaptively planned interstitial brachytherapy: A single implant approach. Gynecol Oncol 152(2):353-360, 2019. e-Pub 2019. PMID: 30449720.
9. Parikh AM, Coletta AM, Yu ZH, Rauch GM, Cheung JP, Court LE, Klopp AH. Development and validation of a rapid and robust method to determine visceral adipose tissue volume using computed tomography images. PLoS One 12(8):e0183515, 2017. e-Pub 2017. PMID: 28859115.
10. Yu ZH, Kudchadker R, Dong L, Zhang Y, Court LE, Mourtada F, Yock A, Tucker SL, Yang J. Learning anatomy changes from patient populations to create artificial CT images for voxel-level validation of deformable image registration. J Appl Clin Med Phys 17(1):246-258, 2016. e-Pub 2016. PMID: 26894362.
11. Christensen EN, Yu HZ, Klopp AH, Tsai JC, Lawyer AA, Court LE, Eifel PJ. Variable impact of intracavitary brachytherapy fractionation schedule on biologically effective dose to organs at risk in patients with cervical cancer. Brachytherapy 13(3):240-249, 2014. e-Pub 2014. PMID: 24188993.
12. Klopp AH, Mourtada F, Yu ZH, Beadle BM, Munsell MF, Jhingran A, Eifel PJ. Pilot study of a computed tomography-compatible shielded intracavitary brachytherapy applicator for treatment of cervical cancer. Pract Radiat Oncol 3(2):115-123, 2013. e-Pub 2013. PMID: 24674314.
13. Yu ZH, Lin SH, Balter P, Zhang L, Dong L. A comparison of tumor motion characteristics between early stage and locally advanced stage lung cancers. Radiother Oncol 104(1):33-38, 2012. e-Pub 2012. PMID: 22677039.
14. Ikushima H, Balter P, Komaki R, Hunjun S, Bucci MK, Liao Z, McAleer MF, Yu ZH, Zhang Y, Chang JY, Dong L. Daily alignment results of in-room computed tomography-guided stereotactic body radiation therapy for lung cancer. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 79(2):473-480, 2011. e-Pub 2011. PMID: 20399032.
15. Kudchadker RJ, Lee AK, Yu ZH, Johnson JL, Zhang L, Zhang Y, Amos RA, Nakanishi H, Ochiai A, Dong L. Effectiveness of using fewer implanted fiducial markers for prostate target alignment. Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 74(4):1283-1289, 2009. e-Pub 2009. PMID: 19427750.
16. Zhao KL, Liao Z, Bucci MK, Komaki R, Cox JD, Yu ZH, Zhang L, Mohan R, Dong L. Evaluation of respiratory-induced target motion for esophageal tumors at the gastroesophageal junction. Radiother Oncol 84(3):283-289, 2007. e-Pub 2007. PMID: 17716759.

Professional Educational Materials

1. Shelton J, Yu ZH, Clark H. Clinical insights: Lithotomy patient transfer optimized for MR-guided radiotherapy. Siemens Healthineers, 2025.

Abstracts

1. Escobar AM, Fahmy SM, Little ML, Pineda YL, Saeed Z, Syed HM, Thang SH, Spicer C, Simmons LA, Myers PA, Yu ZH. Comparison of normal tissue toxicity and target coverage robustness of two simultaneous integrated boost planning techniques for cervical cancer patients with positive lymph nodes. AAMD 50th Annual Meeting, 2025. e-Pub 2025.
2. Zhao Y, Perles, Reizai R, Chen X, Prajapati S, Subashi E, Mohammedsaid M, Yu ZH, Brock Kk, Wang J, Mohamad O, Hassanzadeh C, Choi S, Mok H, Tang C, Ding Y. Respiratory Motion Management Using Compression Belt for MR-Guided Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy of Kidney Cancer. 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
3. Vijayan S, Prajapati S, Yu ZH, Kathriarachchi VW, Granger BK, Kudchadker R, Kim Y, Nelson CL. Commissioning of 3D Ring Applicator Model Source Path for Gynecological High-Dose-Rate Brachytherapy. 66th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
4. Yu ZH, Li Y, Crabtree K, Gee W, Amin M, Lin L. Advanced Treatment Planning Techniques to Improve IMPT Plan Robustness Level for GYN Cancer Patients. 62nd Annual Conference of the Particle Therapy Cooperative Group, 2024. e-Pub 2024.
5. El Basha MD, Olanrewaju A, Fuentes D, Poenisch F, Frank S, Nguyen Q, Pollard-Larkin J, Yu ZH, Cardenas C, Nguyen C, Shah SJ, Aggarwal A, Tang C, Sosa AJ, Court LE. A Flexible End-to-End Radiotherapy Treatment Planning Pipeline for Prostate Cancer. 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
6. Jacobsen MC, Jones AK, Yu ZH, Emfinger A, Estis MA, Burt P, Piercy B, Siewerdsen JH, Klopp AH. Evaluation of Metal Artifact Reduction Strategies for Mobile Computed Tomography in Gynecologic Brachytherapy. 65th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
7. Shanker MD, Yu ZH, Yang J, Matin S, Campbell MT, Msaouel P, Tannir N, Prajapati S, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Tang C. MR-Linac guided motion-adaptive stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of CT-indiscernible intravascular renal cell carcinoma tumors. 18th Elekta MR Linac Consortium Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
8. Shanker MD, Yu ZH, Yang J, Matin S, Campbell MT, Msaouel P, Tannir N, Prajapati S, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Tang C. MR-Linac guided motion-adaptive stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of CT-indiscernible intravascular renal cell carcinoma tumors. 105th American Radium Society Annual Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
9. Shanker MD, Yu ZH, Yang J, Matin S, Campbell MT, Msaouel P, Tannir N, Prajapati S, Lee B, Sobremonte A, Tang C. MR-Linac guided motion-adaptive stereotactic radiotherapy for the treatment of CT-indiscernible intravascular renal cell carcinoma tumors. Radiosurgery Society 2023 Scientific Meeting, 2023. e-Pub 2023.
10. Ko R, Yu ZH, Prajapati S, Lee B, Albert R, Daniel A, Nguyen QN, Choi S, Msaouel P, Kudchadker R, Gomez D, Tang C. Neuromuscular Toxicity and Dose-volume Relationships Following SBRT for Bone Oligometastases: Post-hoc Analysis of Two Ongoing Clinical Trials. ASTRO 64th Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
11. Wang H, Chen X, Zhao Y, Wang X, Han E, Lim T, Yu ZH, Prajapati S, Yang J. Evaluation of Delivered Dose Using Synthetic CT for MR-Guided and CT-Guided Radiotherapy. 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
12. Prajapati S, Yu ZH, Zhao Y, Lim T, Wang H, Wang X, Lee B, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Farooqi A, Mitra D, Kudchadker R, Tang C, Yang J. Quantifying Setup Uncertainties in Treating Intramuscular Metastases with Image-Guided Radiation Therapy. 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
13. El Basha M, Nguyen Q, Fuentes D, Pollard-Larkin J, Poenisch F, Yu Z, Frank S, Cardenas C, Nguyen C, Olanrewaju A, Tang C, Aggarwal A, Shah S, Court L. Automated Pipeline for Prostate Auto-Contouring and VMAT Planning. 64th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
14. Palomeque C, Basyouni S, Gee W, Wazir H, Sutton J, Hancock D, Spicer C, Dehghanpour M, Yu Z. Evaluation of Different GYN Pelvic Nodal Boost Planning Strategies to Determine the Optimal Planning and Treatment Approach. American Association of Medical Dosimetrists 2022 Annual Meeting, 2022. e-Pub 2022.
15. El Basha M, Fuentes D, Pollard-Larkin J, Poenisch F, Yu Z, Frank S, Tang C, Aggarwal A, Court L, Cardenas C. Automatic Segmentation and Physician Review of Intact and Post-Operative Prostate Radiotherapy Contours. 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
16. Prajapati S, Zhao Y, Tang C, Yu Z, Lee B, Castillo P, Sobremonte A, Kudchadker R, Yang J. Comparison of CT-Guided and MR-Guided Adaptive Radiotherapy for Intramuscular Metastasis. 63rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine, 2021. e-Pub 2021.
17. Hanania A, Yoder A, Myers P, Bulut A, Yu ZH, Eraj S, Bonnen M, Echeverria A, Ludwig M. A Single Institution Experience of Image-Guided High-Dose Rate Interstitial Brachytherapy in the Definitive Setting for Locally Advanced Cervical Cancer. 2018 American Brachytherapy Society Annual Meeting 17(4S):S123-S124, 2018. e-Pub 2018.
18. Yang K, Yu ZH, Chen H, Mortada F. Determining VMAT Machine Limitations of An Elekta Linear Accelerator with Agility MLC for Accurate Modeling in RayStation and Robust Delivery. 57th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine 42(6,Part15):3390, 2015. e-Pub 2015.
19. Yu ZH, Andreou K, Yang J, Mourtada F. Auto-Segmentation Strategies for Treatment Targets and Critical Organs of H&N Cancer Patients. 56th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physicists in Medicine 41(6,Part10):211, 2014. e-Pub 2014.