Research

• 2022 Publications

  Solanki, A.A., Burmeister, J.W., Mak., R.H., Moran, J.M.  Looking Backwards and Forwards:  Learning from and updating the ASTRO Safety White Papers 10 years later. Pract. Rad. Onc. (2022).

   Moran, J., Bazan, J.G., Dawes, S., Napolitano, B., Redmond, K.J., Xiao, Y., Yamada, Y., Burmeister, J.  Quality and Safety Considerations in Intensity-Modulated Radiation Therapy: An ASTRO Safety White Paper Update.  Pract. Rad. Onc. (2022).

   Burmeister, J., Dominello, M.M., Soulliere, R., Baran, G., Dess, K., Loughery, B., Jang, H., Kim, S., Jelich, M., Laszewksi, P., Zelko, C., Hamel, L. A Direct Patient-Provider Relationship with the Medical Physicist Reduces Anxiety in Radiotherapy Patients.  Int. J. Radiat. Onc. Biol. Phys., https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijrobp.2022.10.011 (2022)

   Burmeister, J., Busse, N.C., Cetnar, A., Howell, R.R., Jeraj, R., Jones, A.K., King, S., Matthews, K.L., Montemayor, V.J., Newhauser, W., Rodrigues, A.E., Samei, E., Turkington, T.V., Gronberg, M., Loughery, B., Roth, A.R., Joiner, M., Jackson, E.F., Naine, P., Kim, L.  AAPM Report No. 365 (Revision of Report No. 197) Academic Program Recommendations for Graduate Degrees in Medical Physics.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 23, e13792, https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13792 (2022).

   Prisciandaro, J.I., Burmeister, J.W., DeLuca, P.M., Gerbi, B.J., Giger, M.L., Robar, J.L., Seibert, J.A.  AAPM Task Group 298: Recommendations on Certificate Program / Alternative Pathway Candidate Education and Training.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13777 (2022).

   Burmeister, J., Coffey, C. W., Hazle, J. D., Kirby, N., Kuang, Y., Lamba, M. A., Loughery, B., Papanikolaou, N.  AAPM Report 373: The Content, Structure, and Value of the Professional Doctorate in Medical Physics (DMP).  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 23, e13771, https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13771 (2022).

   Atwood, T. F., Lamichhane, N., Howell, K., Weiss, S., Bird, L., Pearson, C., Joiner, M.C., Dominello, M., and Burmeister, J.  A physicist's time is better spent in direct patient/provider interaction than in the patient's chart.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 23, e13559, https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13559 (2022).

   Guerrieri, P., Jacob, N. K., Maxim, P. G., Sawant, A., Van Nest, S. J., Mohindra, P., Dominello, M. M., Burmeister, J., and Joiner, M. C.  FLASH radiotherapy needs ongoing basic and animal research before implementing it to a large clinical scale.  J Applied Clin Med Phys. 23, e13547, https://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13547 (2022).

   Moncion, A., Wilson, M., Ma, R., Marsh, R., Burmeister, J., Dryden, D., Lack, D., Grubb, M., Mayville, A., Jursinic, P., Dess, K., Kamp, J., Young, K., Dilworth, J., Kestin, L., Jagsi, R., Mietzel, M., Vicini, F., Pierce, L., Moran, J.  Evaluation of Dose Accuracy in the Near-Surface Region for Whole Breast Irradiation Techniques in a Multi-Institutional Consortium.  Pract. Rad. Onc. 12, e317-e328 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2022.01.013 (2022).

   

• 2021 Publications

  Ahmed, S., Bossenberger, T., Nalichowski, A., Bredfeldt, J.S., Bartlett, S., Bertone, K., Dominello, M., Dziemianowicz, M., Komajda, M., Makrigiorgos, G.M., Marcus, K., Ng, K., Thomas, M., Burmeister, J.  A Bi-Institutional Multi-Disciplinary Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) for a Co-60 Based Total Body Irradiation Technique, Radiation Oncology, 16:224, https://doi.org/10.1186/s13014-021-01894-3 (2021).

   Jaworski, E., Yin, H., Griffith, K., Pandya, R., Mancini, B., Jolly, S., Boike, T., Moran, J., Dominello, M., Wilson, M., Parker, J., Burmeister, J., Fraser, C., Miller, L., Baldwin, K., Meitzel, M., Grubb, M., Kendrick, D., Spratt, D., Hayman, J.  Contemporary practice patterns for palliative radiotherapy of bone metastases: Impact of a quality improvement project on extended fractionation.  Pract. Rad. Onc. 11, e498-e505, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.prro.2021.05.002 (2021).

   Padilla, L., Burmeister, J., Burnett, O.L., Covington, E., Den, R.B., Dominello, M.M., Du, K.L., Galavis, P.E., Junell, S., Kahn, J., Kishore, M., Mooney, K., Mukhopadhyay, N.D., Studenski, M.T., Yechieli, R.L., Fields, E.C.  Interprofessional Image Verification Workshop for Physician and Physics Residents: A Multi-Institutional Experience.  Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol. 111, 1058-1065 (2021).

   Culcasi, R., Baran, G., Dominello, M., Burmeister, J.  Stereotactic Radiosurgery Commissioning and QA Test Cases - a TG-119 Approach for Stereotactic Radiosurgery.  Med. Phys. https://doi.org/10.1002/mp.15087 (2021).

   Baran, G., Dominello, M., Bossenberger, T., Paximadis, P., Burmeister, J.  MVCT vs. kV-CBCT for Targets Subject to Respiratory Motion: A Phantom Study.  J Applied Clin Med Phys. 22, 143-152, http://doi.org/10.1002/acm2.13356 (2021).

   Pearlman, R., Hanna, R., Burmeister, J., Abrams, J., Dominello, M.  Adverse Effects of Total Body Irradiation: A Two Decade Single Institution Analysis.  Adv. Rad Onc. 6, 100723 (2021).

   Hendrickson, K., Juang, T.., Rodrigues, A., Burmeister, J., The MedPhys Match Survey: Search Criteria and Advice for Programs and Applicants.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 22:5, 150-167 (2021).

   Loughery, B., Chan, D., Burmeister, J., Dominello, M.  Development of an in vivo technique for dose verification at the prone breast board / skin interface.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 22:4, 202-206 (2021).

   Dziemianowicz, M., Burmeister, J., Dominello, M.  Examining the Financial Impact of Altered Fractionation in Breast Cancer: An Analysis Using Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing.  Pract. Rad. Onc., 11, 245-251 (2021).

• 2020 Publications

  Ahmad, A., Santanam, L., Solanki, A., Padilla, L., Vlashi, E., Guerrieri, P., Dominello, M., Burmeister, J., and Joiner, M.  Peer review in radiation oncology is more effective today than 20 years ago.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 21:11, 7-13 (2020).

  Turchan, W.T., Aryu, R., Hight, R., Al-Hallaq, H., Dominello, M., Joyce, D., McCabe, B., McCall, A., Perevalova, E., Stepaniak, C., Yenice, K., Burmeister, J., Golden, D.W.  Physician Review of Image Registration and Normal Structure Delineation: A Potential Quality and Safety Gap.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 21:11, 80-87 (2020).

  Jagsi, R., Griffith, K.A., Vicini, F., Boike, T., Burmeister, J., Dominello, M., Grills, I., Hayman, J., Moran, J., Paximadis, P., Radawski, J., Walker, E., Pierce, L.  Towards improving patients’ experiences of acute toxicity from breast radiotherapy:  insights from the analysis of patient-reported outcomes in a large multicenter cohort.  J Clin Onc, DOI: 10.1200/JCO.20.01703, PMID: 32986529 (2020).

  Burmeister, J., Dominello, M., Tracey, M., Kacin, S., Joiner, M.  Final Report from IBPRO: Impact of Multidisciplinary Collaboration on Research in Radiation Oncology.  Rad. Res., 194, 188-190 (2020).

  Green, M., Van Nest, S., Soisson, E., Huber, K., Liao, Y., McBride, W., Dominello, M., Burmeister, J., Joiner, M.  We should treat all cancer patients with hypofraction.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 21:6, 7-14 (2020).

  Shaikh, M.Y., Joiner, M.C., Nalichowski, A., Kumaraswamy, L.K., Burmeister, J. Evaluating the dosimetric impact of manufacturing variations for the INTRABEAM X-ray source.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 21:3, 20-31 (2020).

  Shaikh, M., Nalichowski, A., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J.    Dosimetric evaluation of the INTRABEAM® system for breast intraoperative radiotherapy: A single institution experience.  Med. Dos., 45, e1-e6 (2020).

  Howell, K., Matuszak, M., Maitz, C., Eisaman, S., Padilla, L., Brown, S., Joiner, M., Dominello, M., Burmeister, J.  In the future, at least 20% of NIH funding for radiotherapy research should be allocated to non-oncologic applications.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 21:2, 7-13 (2020).

  Wu, S., Sath, C., Schuster, J., Dominello, M., Burmeister, J., Golden, D., Braunstein, S.  Targeted needs assessment of dosimetry and treatment planning education for United States radiation oncology residents.  Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol., 106, 677-682 (2020).

  Shaikh, M.Y., Burmeister, J., Scott, R., Kumaraswamy, L.K., Nalichowski, A., Joiner, M.C. Dosimetric evaluation of incorporating the revised V4.0 calibration protocol for intraoperative breast radiotherapy with the INTRABEAM system.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 21:2, 50-59 (2020).

  Burmeister, J., Buatti, J., Jimenez, R., Marcrom, S., Olivier, K., Price, M., Wallner, P.  Exam Preparation and Performance Reporting Changes for the American Board of Radiology Radiation Oncology Physics Examination: Results from the ASTRO Workgroup.  Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol., 106, 43-44 (2020).

  Burmeister, J., Dominello, M.  Radiation Oncology Resident Didactic Education in Medical Physics: Evaluating Residents, Educators, and the Process.  Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol., 106, 45-46 (2020).

  Sheng Chang, Gang Liu, Lewei Zhao, Joshua Dilworth, Weili Zheng, Saada Jawad, Di Yan, Peter Chen, Craig Stevens, Peyman Kabolizadeh, Xiaoqiang Li, Xuanfeng Ding*, Feasibility study:  Spot-scanning Proton Arc therapy (SPArc) for left-sided breast irradiation. Radiation Oncology 2020

  Gang Liu, Xiaoqiang Li*, Lewei Zhao, Weili Zheng, An Qin, Di Yan, Craig Stevens, Peyman Kabolizadeh, Xuanfeng Ding*, A novel energy layer sequence optimization algorithm for efficient spot-scanning arc therapy delivery. Acta Oncologica, Published online: 18 May 2020

  Gang Liu, Xiaoqiang Li, An Qin, Weili Zheng, Di Yan, Sheng Zhang ,  Craig Stevens, Peyman Kabolizadeh, Xuanfeng Ding* , Improve the dosimetric outcome in bilateral head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment using spot- Scanning Proton Arc (SPArc) therapy: a feasibility study, Radiat Oncol. 2020; 15: 21.

  Muzik O, Baajour S, Bressler S, Diwadkar VA. Directional Interactions Between Constituents of the Human Large-Scale Thermoregulatory Network. Brain Topogr. 2020 Jul;33(4):489-503.

  Shiyam Sundar LK, Muzik O, Rischka L, Hahn A, Lanzenberger R, Hienert M, Klebermass EM, Bauer M, Rausch I, Pataraia E, Traub-Weidinger T, Beyer T. Promise of Fully Integrated PET/MRI: Noninvasive Clinical Quantification of Cerebral Glucose Metabolism. J Nucl Med. 2020 Feb;61(2):276-284.

  John F, Muzik O, Mittal S, Juhász C. Fluorine-18-Labeled PET Radiotracers for Imaging Tryptophan Uptake and Metabolism: a Systematic Review. Mol Imaging Biol. 2020 Aug;22(4):805-819.

  Traub-Weidinger T, Muzik O, Sundar LKS, Aull-Watschinger S, Beyer T, Hacker M, Hahn A, Kasprian G, Klebermass EM, Lanzenberger R, Mitterhauser M, Pilz M, Rausch I, Rischka L, Wadsak W, Pataraia E. Utility of Absolute Quantification in Non-lesional Extratemporal Lobe Epilepsy Using FDG PET/MR Imaging. Front Neurol. 2020 Jan 31;11:54. 

  Shiyam Sundar LK, Baajour S, Beyer T, Lanzenberger R, Traub-Weidinger T, Rausch I, Pataraia E, Hahn A, 

  Rischka L, Hienert M, Klebermass EM, Muzik O. Fully Integrated PET/MR Imaging for the Assessment of the Relationship Between Functional Connectivity and Glucose Metabolic Rate. Front Neurosci. 2020 Mar 25;14:252. 

  Jacob S Parzen, Hong Ye, Gary Gustafson, Di Yan , Alvaro Martinez, Evelyn Sebastian, Amy Limbacher, Daniel J Krauss: Rates of rectal toxicity in patients treated with high dose rate brachytherapy as monotherapy compared to dose-escalated external beam radiation therapy for localized prostate cancer. Radiotherapy & Oncology 2020. 147:123-9 

  Gang Liu, Xiaoqaing Li, Lewei Zhao, Weili Zheng, An Qin, Sheng Zhang, Craig Stevens, Di Yan, Peyman Kabolizadeh, Xuanfeng Ding, A novel energy sequence optimization algorithm for efficient spot-scanning arc (SPArc) treatment delivery. Acta Oncologica 2020. DOI: 10.1080/0284186X.2020.1765415 

  Gan Liu Xiaoqiang Li, AQin Weili Zheng Di Yan, ShengZhang, Craig Stevens, PeymanKabolizadeh,  X Ding:Improve the dosimetric outcome in bilateral head and neck cancer (HNC) treatment using Spot Scanning Proton Arc (SPArc) therapy: a feasibility study. Radiation Oncology 2020. Doi:10.1186/s13014-020-1476-9 

  Di Yan, Shupeng Chen, Daniel J Krauss, Peter Chen, Rohan Deraniyagala, Hong Ye, George Wilson: Inter-/intra-tumoral Variations of Tumor Baseline Metabolic Activity and Dose Response: Impact on Tumor Control and Treatment Dose Prescription. Radiotherapy & Oncology 2020. 15(21):235-242 

  Shupeng Chen, Di Yan, An Qin, Piotr Maniawski, Daniel J. Krauss, George D. Wilson: Effect of Uncertainties in Quantitative ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT Imaging and Processing on Intratumoral Dose Response Assessment. Medical Physics 2020. 47(11):5681-92, Doi: 10.1002/mp.14482 

  Sheng Chang, Gang Liu, Lewei Zhao, Joshua Dilworth, Weili Zheng, Saada Jawad, Di Yan, Peter Chen, Craig Stevens, Peyman Kabolizadeh, Xiaoqiang Li, Xuanfeng Ding: Feasibility study: Spot-scanning Proton Arc therapy (SPArc) for left-sided breast irradiation. Radiation Oncology 2020. DOI: 10.1186/s13014-020-01676-3 

  Michael Snyder, Jessica Vadas, John Musselwhite, Robert Halford, George Wilson, Craig Stevens, Di Yan: Technical Note: FLASH Radiotherapy Monitor Chamber Signal Conditioning. Medical Physics 2020, Dec 9. doi: 10.1002/mp.14650. 

• 2019 Publications
  • Blakely, E., Faddegon, B., Tinkle, C., Bloch, C., Dominello, M., Griffin, R., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J.  The United States needs at least one carbon ion facility.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 20:11, 6-13 (2019).
  • Grassberger, C., Huber, K., Jacob, N., Green, M., Mahler, P., Prisciandaro, J., Dominello, M., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J.  The single most important factor in determining the future of SBRT is immune response.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 20:10, 6-12 (2019).
  • Baran, G., Burmeister, J., Paximadis, P., Bossenberger, T., Halford, R., Masi, K., Nalichowski, A., Miller, S., Vaishampayan, N., Zaki, M., Iannotti, K., Komajda, M., Mathews, K., Qasim, E., Sullivan, S., Beydoun, H., Dominello, M. Imaging as Part of a Quality Assurance Program: Predictors of Inter-observer Variability for Pretreatment Image Registration for Lung SBRT.  Tech. in Cancer Res. and Treat. 18, 1-9 (2019).
  • Basij, M., Helmi, H., Alshahrani, S., Burton, T., Burmeister, J., Yan, Y., Mehrmohammadi, M., Dominello, M., Winer, I.  Miniaturized Phased-Array Ultrasound and Photoacoustic Endoscopic Imaging System.  Photoacoustics, 15, 1-8 (2019).
  • Kim, L., Markovina, S., Van Nest, S., Eisaman, S., Santanam, L., Sullivan, J., Dominello, M., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J.  Equipment development is stifling innovation in radiation oncology.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 209, 6-11 (2019).
  • Carrier, F., Liao, Y., Mendenhall, N., Guerrieri, P., Todor, D., Ahmad, A., Dominello, M., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J.  I Would Treat Prostate Cancer with Proton Therapy.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 207, 7-14 (2019).
  • Soisson, E., Guerrieri, P., Balasubramanian, S., Ahamad, A., Moran, J.M., Joiner, M. C., Dominello, M., Burmeister, J. All head and neck cancer patients with intact tumors/nodes should have scheduled adaptive replanning performed at least once during the course of radiotherapy.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 205, 7-11 (2019).
  • Mohindra, P., Sawant, A., Griffin, R. J., Lamicchane, N., Vlashi, E., Xu-Welliver, M., Dominello, M., Joiner, M. C., Burmeister, J. I Would Treat All Early-Stage NSCLC Patients With SBRT.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 203, 7-13 (2019).
  • Braunstein, S., Wang, L., Newhauser, W. Tenenholz, T., Rong, Y., van der Kogel, A., Dominello, M., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J. The United States Should Build Additional Proton Therapy Facilities.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 202, 7-12 (2019).
  • Burmeister J, Robinette N, Dominello M. Interactions of Radiation and Tissue (2019). RSNA/AAPM Online Physics Modules. 2nd Edition. Released January 9, 2019
  • E Carver, C Liu, W Zong, Z Dai, J Snyder, J Lee, N. Wen, "Automatic Brain Tumor Segmentation and Overall Survival Prediction using Machine Learning Algorithms", BrainLes 2018, LNCS, 2019
  • John F, Muzik O, Mittal S, Juhász C.Fluorine-18-Labeled PET Radiotracers for Imaging Tryptophan Uptake and Metabolism: a Systematic Review. Mol Imaging Biol. 2019 Sep 11

   

• 2018 Publications
  • Burmeister, J.  Tracey, M., Kacin, S., Dominello, M., Joiner, M.  The Synergy between Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics: In reply to Malicki.  Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol., 102, 1592-1593 (2018).
  • Burmeister, J.  Tracey, M., Kacin, S., Dominello, M., Joiner, M.  Improving Research in Radiation Oncology through Interdisciplinary Collaboration.  Rad. Res., 190, 1-3 (2018).
  • Tracey, M., Kacin, S., Joiner, M., Burmeister, J.  A Collaborative Educational Intervention Integrating Biology and Physics in Radiation Oncology: A Design Research Case Study.  Contemp. Educ. Tech., 9(2), 186-205 (2018).
  • Burmeister, J., Nalichowski, A., Snyder, M., Halford, R., *Baran, G., *Loughery, B., Hammoud, A., Rakowski, J., Bossenberger, T. Commissioning of a Dedicated Commercial Co-60 Total Body Irradiation Unit.  J Applied Clin Med Phys., 19, 131-141 (2018).
  • Sundar LK, Muzik O, Rischka L, Hahn A, Rausch I, Lanzenberger R, Hienert M, Klebermass EM, Füchsel FG, Hacker M, Pilz M, Pataraia E, Traub-Weidinger T, Beyer T. Towards quantitative [18F]FDG-PET/MRI of the brain: Automated MR-driven calculation of an image-derived input function for the non-invasive determination of cerebral glucose metabolic rates. J Cereb Blood Flow Metab. 2018 May 23: 271-278
  • Muzik O, Diwadkar VA. Hierarchical control systems for the regulation of physiological homeostasis and affect: Can their interactions modulate mood and anhedonia? Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2019 Oct; 105: 251-261.
  • Burmeister, J.  Tracey, M., Kacin, S., Dominello, M., Joiner, M.  …Of Radiation Oncology, Biology, and Physics.  Int. J. Radiat. Oncol. Biol., 100, 1289-1290 (2018).
  • Peng F, Xie F, Muzik O. Alteration of Copper Fluxes in Brain Aging: A Longitudinal Study in Rodent Using 64CuCl2-PET/CT. Aging Dis. 2018 Feb 1; 9(1): 109-118